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JCA Stages 'The Uninvited'

Starting tonight, you are invited to see Joliet Catholic Academy's fall play 'The Uninvited.'

You are cordially invited to Joliet Catholic Academy’s fall play, “The Uninvited.”

Seniors Austin Kairis (Crest Hill), Morgan Schrage (Joliet) and Kelsie Chasten (Channahon) are the lead characters in “The Uninvited,” which will run from tonight through Saturday, Nov. 17-19, at the Billie Limacher Bicentennial Park Theatre in Joliet. Showtime for each performance is 7 p.m.

Kairis and Schrage will take the stage as brother and sister Roderick and Pamela Fitzgerald, who buy an abandoned seaside house from Commander Brooke, a role being handled by Naperville’s Sam Juveland in the play directed by JCA’s International Thespian Troupe 1046 moderator Jennifer Szynal.

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“Austin and Morgan are very passion and very determined,” Szynal said. “They are leading our underclassmen by example and showing that if you give 110 percent, you will receive 110 percent back.”

In her first production, Chasten plays the part of Stella Meredith, Commander Brooke’s granddaughter, who lives with her grandfather in a nearby town but has been forbidden to enter the house she loves.

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“Kelsie is involved with dance outside of school, so she’s a performing artist and she understands the time commitment,” Szynal said. “She has stepped up. She always comes prepared and is ready to go.”

Other cast members include Alessa Smith as Miss Holloway, Joliet’s Lauren Faber as Lizzie Flynn, Joliet’s Adele Dalton as Mrs. Jessup, Wilmington’s Nick Humbles as Dr. Scott, Joliet’s Ian Rambo as Max Hillard, Joliet’s Kelsie Fenske as Wendy and Channahon’s Sam DeBenedetti as Mary Meredith.

The understudies are Channahon’s Robert Babich (Roderick Fitzgerald), Joliet’s Lizzie Minarich (Pamela Fitzgerald), Joliet’s Lucas Tyler (Commander Brooke), Bolingbrook’s Katie Rejsek (Miss Holloway), Naperville’s Theresa Gallo (Stella Meredith, Lizzie Flynn), Naperville’s Abby Corless (Mrs. Jessup), Wilmington’s Sam Ryan (Dr. Scott), Joliet’s Andrew Casey (Max Hillard), Shorewood’s Julia Malinowski (Wendy) and Plainfield’s Megan Lemke (Mary Meredith).

Forty-two students from the theatre arts program at JCA were recently inducted into the International Thespian Society and will be featured in this play. Emmy Award winner Melissa McCarthy started here.

“It really shows the fine arts and performing arts do mean something at JCA and everybody enjoys it,” Szynal said. “It’s nice to see so many people getting involved with some capacity of our play.”

Tickets for students, senior citizens and children 12-and-under are $7. Tickets for adults are $9. For more information, contact Szynal at 815-741-0500, ext. 432.

“It’s a supernatural thriller,” Szynal said of the fall play. “A brother and a sister buy a home, they discover it is being haunted by a ghost and they try to get rid of the malignant spirits.”

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