MOORESTOWN, NJ — The award-winning, non-profit Moorestown Theater Company (MTC) will continue its 23rd Season with its second of four 'Summer Stage' musicals, Beetlejuice JR., six times at First Methodist Church (FMC), 446 E. Camden Avenue, on these dates and times:
Tuesday, July 15 @ 7 PM
Wednesday, July 16 @ 11 AM
Wednesday, July 16 @ 7 PM
Thursday, July 17 @ 11 AM
Thursday, July 17 @ 7 PM
Friday, July 18 @ 11 AM
Reserved-Seat Tickets (in our newly-purchased black-padded chairs) are available online at www.MoorestownTheaterCompany.org for $13 per ticket until three hours before 'Curtain Time' (when we have to close down to print seating lists for that performance) or at the door one hour before each curtain time (where they are $15, so buy ahead of time!). The musical will run approximately an hour and 30 minutes, including intermission, and it is appropriate for audience members ages six and up. In fact, we encourage audience members to dress like the title character!
MTC’s 31-member Children’s Cast of 7th through 12th graders is historic in MTC’s 23-year history as there are more males than females in this production (16 to 15)! In Beetlejuice JR., the Cast will bring to life the well-known characters from Michael McDowell’s and Larry Wilson’s 1988 Geffen Company motion picture, including the title character, ‘Lydia Deetz’, ‘Charles Deetz’, ‘Adam Maitland’, ‘Barbara Maitland’, ‘Delia Schlimmer’, ‘Maxie Dean’, ‘Maxine Dean’, ‘the Sandworm’, and all of the Mourners, Cheerleaders, and ‘Beetlejuice’ Clones.
Beetlejuice JR. will be presented for the first time in Moorestown and is the 30th production, and 28th musical, that MTC is performing in its new theater home in FMC’s Fellowship Hall since November 2022. FMC has now hosted the second-most MTC productions in its 23-year history (trailing only the 78 performed at Hope Community Church). In 2024, MTC presented 66 performances of 13 productions by 526 performers, and in 23 Seasons, MTC has presented 1,095 performances of 243 productions by 10,200 performers.
The lyrics and music are by Eddie Perfect with a book by Scott Brown and Anthony King. The score includes great songs like "The Whole ‘Being Dead’ Thing”, “Dead Mom”, “Say My Name”, and from the movie, “Day-O” (The Banana Boat Song), among others.
The Production Staff for Beetlejuice JR. includes Producers Mark Morgan and Carol Ann Murray, Director Jack Morgan, Vocal Director Aren Duffy, Choreographer Emma Nasto, Costume Director Wayne Fuller, Technical Directors Zach Khanlian, and Stage Manager Gia Ioele.
MTC, which still has eight more productions in its 23rd Season this year, which are all listed on its website, has received these recent awards:
- January ’25: ‘Excellence In Dance’ Award presented to the Cast of “Alice In Wonderland JR.” at the iTheatrics Junior Theater Festival in Atlanta, GA (our first ‘Dance’ Award, and 10th overall, after seven ‘Acting’ and two ‘Music’ Awards)
- January ’25: ‘Freddie G Fellowship’ Award presented to MTC’s Founding Producing Director Mark Morgan at the iTheatrics Junior Theater Festival in Atlanta, GA
- March ’25: ‘40 Fabulous Females’ Award presented to MTC’s Founding Managing Director Carol Ann Murray by Donnelly Media at the Camden County Boat House
- June '25: 'Twink Lynch Organizational Achievement Award' presented by the American Association of Community Theater at its national Theater Festival (AACT Fest) in Des Moines, IA
- July ’25: ‘Freddie G Fellowship Award’ presented to Mark Morgan by Music Theatre International and iTheatrics in New York City, NY
Questions about Disney’s Beetlejuice JR., or about MTC in general, can be answered by calling 856 / 778-8357, or by visiting www.MoorestownTheaterCompany.org.