Audiences stepped inside a world of pure imagination as the Bolles Lower School Ponte Vedra Beach Campus debuted its production of \u201cWilly Wonka Jr.\u201d on Feb. 11 and 12 in George Hall. The two-night performance filled the space with charm, color and just enough whimsy to make those in attendance feel as if they had found their own golden ticket.<\/p>\n
Second graders opened the evening with a sweet introductory act that set the tone for the fun ahead.\u00a0Gilchrist (\u201933)\u00a0starred as Willy Wonka, with\u00a0Amelia (\u201934)\u00a0portraying Charlie and\u00a0Charlie (\u201933)\u00a0playing Grandpa Joe.<\/p>\n
The show was directed by Bolles drama and music teacher\u00a0Stacey Posick, with support from assistant director and grade five teacher\u00a0Kaki Movsovitz. Dance teacher\u00a0Hilly Amell\u00a0choreographed the production, and faculty members\u00a0Heather Hagy\u00a0and\u00a0Carolyn Houston\u00a0teamed up with Movsovitz for the art, props, costumes and production support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Audiences stepped inside a world of pure imagination as the Bolles Lower School Ponte Vedra Beach Campus debuted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-161312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-jacksonville","9":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","10":"tag-jacksonville-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}