The Historic Masonic Theatre presents the TheaterWorksUSA production of “The Lightning Thief – TYA” on Saturday, November 12, 2022, at 2:00 pm
The dynamic musical adaptation of Rick Riordan’s bestselling book, The Lightning Thief, appearing at The Historic Masonic Theatre is produced by TheatreWorksUSA and features an exciting rock score. TheatreWorksUSA is a professional, not-for-profit theatre for young and family audiences founded in 1961. The company is based out of New York City, but has touring productions that run through forty-nine states as well as parts of Canada. Plays and musicals produced by Theatreworks have reached over 90 million children, teachers and families since the company’s founding.
The Lightning Thief began as a 2005 American fantasy-adventure novel based on Greek mythology, the first young adult novel written by Rick Riordan in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. It won the Adult Library Services Association Best Books for Young Adults, among other awards.
The story: Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school…again. And that’s the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy’s Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he’s angered a few of them. Zeus’s master lightning bolt has been stolen and Percy is the prime suspect.
Now Percy has ten days to find and return Zeus’s stolen property and bring peace to a warring Mount Olympus. But to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the true thief: he must come to terms with the father who abandoned him; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend; and unravel a treachery more powerful than the gods themselves.
Author, Rick Riordan, made up stories for his son Haley, who had been diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. His son had been studying Greek mythology in second grade and asked that his father come up with bedtime stories based on Greek myths. Riordan had been a Greek mythology teacher in middle school for many years and was able to remember enough stories to please his son. Soon Riordan ran out of myths and his son requested that Riordan make new ones using the characters from Greek myths with a new twist. Riordan created the fictional character Percy Jackson and his travels across the United States to recover Zeus’ lightning bolt. After Riordan finished telling the story his son asked that his dad write a book based on Percy’s adventures, and he did.
The approximate run time for The Lightning Thief is sixty minutes and recommended ages are grades three through six.
Tickets may be purchased online at www.historicmasonictheatre.com or by calling the Theatre Box Office at 540 862 5655. For more information about November and December events at The Historic Masonic Theatre, please visit the Theatre website or Facebook page.