Students of the Sturgis Composite High School staged Million Dollar Meatballs, which is a play written by Todd Wallinger.
The play was performed for the students’ fellow school mates in an afternoon performance and an evening dessert theatre open to the public on May 15, said Megan Clancy, director.
Two bumbling jewel thieves Beans, portrayed by Peyton Secundiak, and Frankie, portrayed by Kaeleigh Folk, are on the run from the police, played by Jamie Messenger and Eloisa Vicente, after the duo had stolen seven jewels.
The duo duck into Chez Monyeu, a restaurant so bad the mice are its only repeat customers. Not only has the restaurant’s only chef just quit, but the city's most powerful restaurant critic, Cecilia Blueblood, portrayed by Sierra Meroniuk, is about to arrive.
In desperation, the restaurant owner, Sue Dujour played by Tessa Rehaluk, mistakes the thieves for famous French chefs and insists that they make their renowned million-dollar meatballs for the tough-minded critic.
Insanity ensues as the pair try to keep up the ruse while hunting for the seven priceless diamonds that they had hidden in a bottle of ketchup to hid from the police. Inevitably, they lose sight of the bottle as the restaurant owner pours all the ketchup into the meatballs: the same meatballs that were fed to the restaurant critic which she unknowingly ate.
The police discover the duo and recover only six of the diamonds and were left to wonder where the last diamond went.
Cast members were: Rhianna Olson as Olive Pitt, Tyler Antoniuk as Humphrey, Nicole Tureski as Ginger Snap, Kristiaan Rayner as Boris Stroganoff, Allison Sopel as Gordon Ramrod, Jamie Messenger as Officer Smith, Eloisa Vicente as Officer Wesson and Hannah Gerbrandt as Tammy Tonedeaf.
Brooke Olson was the prompter and Quentin Prekaski and Shanae Olson looked after the lights. Megan Clancy was the director.
