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Creator and Director Thomas Schultheis<\/a> (Broadway’s Grease!, Disney Imagination Campus) announced\u00a0the developmental workshop of Extracurricular, a ground-breaking immersive musical experience.<\/p>\n \ud83c\udfad NEW! Los Angeles Theatre Newsletter<\/p>\n Moving beyond the traditional proscenium, the production will take place as a site-specific event throughout the actual campus of Los Alamitos High School on June 19-20, 2026.<\/p>\n The workshop is a significant investment in professional development, bringing together rising stars and seasoned professionals to refine this innovative new work.<\/p>\n Extracurricular highlights the diverse and often unseen world of student life beyond academics. The audience begins their journey in the high school lobby for a “Back to School” event, where they are sorted into “spirit bands” as Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, or Seniors. Guided by a “Spirit Squad,” the audience follows a linear narrative that travels through the gymnasium, hallways, a rotation of classrooms, the library, and the cafeteria, before a powerful conclusion in the school’s theater.<\/p>\n The Creative Team<\/p>\n A powerhouse creative team leads the production with deep roots in professional and educational theater. This includes Thomas Schultheis<\/a> (Creator\/Director), a\u00a0Broadway veteran of Grease! and Teaching Artist at the Disneyland Resort; Elizabeth Setzer (Composer\/Lyricist), a Fulbright Scholar and CalArts MFA alumna whose work focuses on personal and collective transformation through song; Michael Warga (Producer), an MFA actor (Alabama Shakespeare Festival<\/a>) and IATSE professional whose recent credits include work with Warner Bros. and industry icons like Zendaya; and DJ Rhodes (Music Director), co-founder of Rhodes&Rhodes Productions and a veteran director and educator.<\/p>\n The workshop features cast including Erin Yoonsuh Choi (National Tour: Frozen) and William Ansel Spitz (National Tour: The Sound of Music). The ensemble includes Parker Apple, Delilah Mae Bank, AJ Buechler, Rhiannon Carlson, Valentina Crain, Isabella Domanchich, Adilynn Garcia, Lulu Grey, Lola Sofia Ivie-Valle, Aiden Khalek, Madeline Mae Lincoln, Henry Vicente Mercker, Olivia Nordstrom, Evan Pag\u00e1n, Emma Rose<\/a> Somers, Emerson Thomas-Gregory, George Vagujhelyi, and Hannah Mackenzie Wasacz.<\/p>\n There will be matinee and evening performances on Friday, June 19 and Saturday, June 20.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udfad NEW! Los Angeles Theatre Newsletter Get all the top news & discounts for Los Angeles & beyond.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-231855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}