SHOW GUIDE: Wonderland

Follow Alice in this new rock-n-roll inspired re-telling of Lewis Carroll’s classic tales Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass as she falls down the rabbit hole and ends up on a search for who she really is. Alice begins the story as a very smart, very imaginative 7-and-a-half year old who sometimes has a difficult time following the rules and behaving according to expectations. After her older sister scolds her gently and leaves on a holiday with friends, Alice encounters a strange white rabbit who leads her to the whimsical world of Wonderland. There she meets all manner of “curiouser & curiouser” characters including a meditative Caterpillar, a confusing Cheshire cat, a Mad Hatter and March Hare hosting an odd tea party, two dimwitted siblings named Tweedledum and Tweedledee, a garden full of very vain flowers, and eventually ends up in the Rose Garden of the highly volatile Red Queen. Each of these unusual encounters brings with it a different genre of music and some hard-won new self-awareness for young Alice. But when she angers the Red Queen, Alice is put on trial with many of her new acquaintances from Wonderland standing against her. Will her discoveries of who she really is aid her when, at the end of the trail, she has to face the
terrifying mysterious monster known as The Jabberwock? And will Alice ever find her way—and her voice—and she tries to return from Wonderland?

• Alice— a clever young girl with a very active imagination who sometimes has a hard time doing what’s expected of her. Her curiosity takes her on a strange, wondrous, and sometimes frightening adventure with characters and situations even she has never dreamed of.
• Lorina—Alice’s older sister who has matured way past Alice’s antics and doesn’t always have much patience with young sister’s whimsical playful notions. She leaves Alice to go on a holiday with her friends.
• White Rabbit- An energetic employee to the Red Queen who leads Alice down the rabbit hole to begin her mysterious adventure through Wonderland.
• The Caterpillar—a multi-legged meditating creature who is seeking “inner peace” but is a bit testy. He challenges Alice to learn to control her temper.
• Cheshire Cat—a mischievous and misdirecting cat who
  makes Alice’s journey more messy with his languid and loopy logic.
• The Mad Hatter & The March Hare—the strange and strident hosts of an Unbirthday Celebration whose riddles and antics defy everything Alice has been taught about how to behave at a social gathering
• Tweedledum & Tweedledee—a pair of perhaps not-very-bright siblings who meet Alice in the woods and through their odd introductions and conversational confusions make her journey through Wonderland even more confounding
• Red Queen—The Queen of Wonderland, whose temper typically gets the better of her.
• The Jabberwock—A terrifying and mysterious monster who’s voice echoes at various moments of her adventure in wonderland, and a demon that Alice will eventually, inevitably, have to face!