Henryetta graduate Liz Bealko has a new musical project that will open this month at Stillwater.
She is directing and choreographing “Ride the Cyclone,” at the Jerry Davis Theatre at Oklahoma State University.
The musical is described as hilarious and outlandish and centers around six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir whose lives are cut short in a freak accident on a roller coaster.
When the six wake up in limbo, Karnak, an automaton fortune teller, invites each to tell a story to win a prize like no other — the chance to return to life.
The musical will be presented Oct. 12, 13, 15, 19, 20 and 21.
“I am excited and honored to direct and choreograph this project,” she said. She graduated from OSU and performed her last musical as a student in the Jerry Davis Theatre. “It is great to have the opportunity to work with such talented and inspiring students and I love collaborating with the incredible professors at OkState. It’s such a dream team.”
Well known locally for her work with the H-Town Theatre performances, she spent part of this past summer directing a one act play in the New York Chain Theatre One Act Festival.
Last January she was awarded the Best Director title for that same festival on a performance of “The Art of Peaking Too Soon.”