‘Wonderland’ to open later this month at Lodge

Get ready to follow Alice down the rabbit hole! “Wonderland” is here and kids from Canyon Lake and surrounding communities are bringing on the wackiness and excitement as they gear up for the big show.

Canyon Lake Community Theatre’s all-kids production of “Wonderland” will be performed at the Lodge July 22, 23 and 24. Tickets will be available on July 18 at CLPOA Member Services or by calling the CLCT hotline at 951-821-6767.

Director Ilene Moore says “Wonderland” is an unabashedly silly adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking Glass.” With hip-hopping music, it is an upbeat, coming-of-age story that audiences of all ages will adore. Viewers will recognize some of their favorite familiar characters of Alice’s Wonderland, along with meeting dozens of new ones: a baseball team, a gospel group called The Responsibilities, a train conductor, star-struck tourists, plastic light-saber wielding knights and much more.

“Wonderland” presents an eclectic mix of music that ranges from gypsy swing to doo-wop to bluegrass, with toe-tapping musical renditions of “Jabberwocky,” “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” “Anything’s Possible,” “Step by Step” and the hysterical “I Was a Good Egg But Then I Done Went Bad,” sung by Humpty Dumpty and the Dixie Chickens!

For more information, contact Producer Heather Gotoski at 951-204-1968 or Jaimie Woodward at 951-377-6861, or email canyonlaketheatre@gmail.com.