Tag Archives: Chris Cherry

Orlando Furioso at the Greenbelt Community Center, Mar 7-14

Orlando Furioso at the Greenbelt Community Center, Mar 7-14

2026 Greenbelt Youth Musical
The School for Superheroes presents Orlando Furioso, The Musical
written and directed by Chris Cherry

Saturday, March 7, 2026, 7 pm
Sunday, March 8, 2026, 3 pm
Saturday, March 14, 2026, 2 pm and 7 pm

Location: Greenbelt Community Center Gymnasium 15 Crescent Rd.

The School For Super-Heroes Presents Orlando Furioso, The Musical is about a group of students who don’t feel like they fit in at a high school for super-powered teenagers, due to their offbeat powers. Drawing on their combined abilities, the group decides to produce the most ambitious high school musical in history, based on a rollicking 16th-century fantasy epic that puts the King Arthur legends to shame. The result surprises them all and just maybe saves the world! Who could resist a musical that combines super-powers with dashing knights, powerful wizards, and warrior damsels?

Tickets: $5; advance sales (highly recommended) at (301) 397-2208, starting February 4

Secret Circus at the Greenbelt Community Center, Mar 1-8

Secret Circus at the Greenbelt Community Center, Mar 1-8

2025 Greenbelt Youth Musical
Secret Circus
written and directed by Chris Cherry

Saturday, March 1, 2024, 7 pm
Sunday, March 2, 2024, 3 pm
Saturday, March 8, 2 pm and 7 pm

Location: Greenbelt Community Center Gymnasium 15 Crescent Rd.

As the tide of fascism rises in 1930’s Europe, a traveling circus races against time to smuggle a disabled girl named Anya to safety. With each glittering performance, the border draws nearer — and the danger grows.

Tickets: $5; advance sales (highly recommended) at (301) 397-2208, starting February 4

Buried Treasure at the Greenbelt Community Center, Mar 4-11

Buried Treasure at the Greenbelt Community Center, Mar 4-11

2024 Greenbelt Youth Musical
Buried Treasure: An Underground Musical Adventure
written and directed by Chris Cherry

Saturday, March 2, 2024, 7 pm
Sunday, March 3, 2024, 3 pm
Saturday, March 9, 2 pm and 7 pm

Location: Greenbelt Community Center Gymnasium 15 Crescent Rd.

Josh is as brave as a lion, Harriet is as wise as an owl, and Miranda is always as good as gold – or so they think, until they fall down an abandoned mineshaft into a realm beneath the world we know. The trio’s adventure in the fabled Underworld forces them to confront their surface notions, as they delve toward a deeper understanding of courage, wisdom, and goodness. But in a realm where dragons lurk and gnomes are real, can three lost school kids break a spell of ignorance and rescue Sophia, the Underworld’s rightful queen?

Tickets: $5; advance sales at (301) 397-2208, starting February 6

The Joy Gods Return at the Greenbelt Community Center, Mar 4-11

The Joy Gods Return at the Greenbelt Community Center, Mar 4-11

2023 Greenbelt Youth Musical
The Joy Gods Return
by Chris Cherry

Saturday, March 4, 7 pm
Sunday, March 5, 3 pm
Saturday, March 11, 2 pm and 7 pm

Location: Greenbelt Community Center Gymnasium 15 Crescent Rd.

A year after 9/11, actress Felicity Knox makes a surprise appearance as Iris, the messenger goddess of joy, on the Channel Four morning news. The stunt is meant to publicize the Broadway premiere of her late husband’s retro-musical, The Joy Gods Return, but it blossoms into a campaign of joy that lifts the spirits of the entire city. New York falls in love with Iris, and so does jaded newscaster Brian Banning, whose quest for an exposé
nearly wrecks everything. The Joy Gods Return celebrates the resurgence of joy after isolation and grief. It’s about the return of laughter, music, color, glamour, life – and love. After the hiatus of the pandemic, it’s exactly the show we need.

Tickets: $5; advance sales at (301) 397-2208

Theseus and the Monster in the Maze at the Greenbelt Community Center, Mar 7-14

Theseus and the Monster in the Maze at the Greenbelt Community Center, Mar 7-14

The 2020 Greenbelt Winter Youth Musical:
The School For Super-Heroes (in exile) Returns in
Theseus and the Monster in the Maze
Written and directed by Chris Cherry
Music Director: Stephan Brodd
Production Designer: Nicole DeWald

Saturday, March 7, 2020 at 7:00pm
Sunday, March 8, 2020 at 3:00pm
Saturday, March 14, 2020 at 2:00pm and 7:00pm

Location: Greenbelt Community Center Gymnasium 15 Crescent Rd.

Description: In the boarded-up building of the now-closed School For Super-Heroes, alumni of the school’s drama club gather for a secret reunion – and a meeting of the underground Resistance to the repressive Regime. The founders of the club are missing, but they’ve left behind a tantalizing clue: It’s a partial script, telling the story of Theseus, the legendary hero and founder of democracy. Now, new leaders must step forward to lead the club and bring the script to life, mounting an audacious production that may be the last hope to reopen the realm of storytime, rescue the missing heroes, and undermine the Regime’s despotic power.

Tickets: $5; advance sales at 301-397-2208