Special Youth Project

Details coming soon, but youth age 8-18, in the class of 2023 or younger are invited to audition

• Directed by Vickie Miller
• Technical director: Joy Frazier Boyle

Location: 

All Saints Lutheran Church

421 SW 19th St

Blue Springs, MO 64015

Caitlin is an 11-year-old girl on the autism spectrum. Not all things make sense to her. Emotions are mysterious and voices are almost always too loud. Suddenly, she must grapple with the unthinkable: a mass shooting has taken her brother away. He was the one person who helped her cope. Now she is alone with her grieving father and a cacophony of children at school. She struggles to understand empathy, what facial expressions mean and why a drawing might have more than one color. We see the world from Caitlin’s point of view. We struggle as she does. We also take comfort in the times when she finds a friend, draws a multicolored mockingbird and can finally cry for her brother. 

• CAITLIN: 11 years old, on the autism spectrum.  She may have a curious speech pattern, may speak too loudly, too precisely. She hardly ever looks at people and avoids physical touch. She may also have physical tics and various routinized behaviors, like sucking her sleeve, rocking, moaning, shaking her hands, and jumping in patterns
• DAD: Caitlin's father
• MRS. BROOK: Caitlin's school counselor
• MRS. JOHNSON: Caitlin's fifth-grade teacher
• MICHAEL: Caitlin's friend, first-grader. May be missing his r's
• JOSH: School bully, fifth-grader
• EMMA: a leader, fifth-grader
• BRIANNA: Pretty, trendsetter, fifth-grader
• SHANE: Energetic boy, fifth-grader
• JOSE: a follower, fifth-grader
• WILLIAM H. A boy more extreme on the autism spectrum
• FIRST-GRADERS

Sign up to let us know you are coming. Auditioners should be prepared to stay for the entire audition time.

Also, please complete the online audition form prior to the audition.  Paper copies will be available to complete if preferred.