PBHS Drama Club presents Elf: The Musical

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

DAR/Samantha Tucker

The Poplar Bluff High School Drama Club is excited to present Elf: The Musical this weekend along with other festivities and a chance to help area kids. The play is based on the hit 2003 film starring Will Ferrell and tells the story of Buddy, an indomitably cheerful human raised at the North Pole who embarks on a quest to find his birth father and bring Christmas cheer back to his family. Curtains go up 7 p.m. Friday, 7 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday at the Kay Porter Theater. Tickets are $5. Santa Claus will be set up in the lobby before Friday’s show, 5:40-6:40 p.m., to hear what children want for Christmas. Senior night is Saturday after the show. Sunday night features a Letter-to-Santa writing station for kids in the lobby. Attendees are invited to bring new, packaged, unwrapped toys to the box office to benefit the Children’s Division of the Missouri Department of Social Services. More information about the show is available at on the PBHS Drama Club Facebook page.

Elves crowd around as Santa Claus (Brent Hanley) sits Buddy the Elf (Dawson Vaughan) down to tell him the truth: Buddy is not an elf, but a human who crawled into Santa's bag as a baby and was raised at the North Pole.
Santa Claus, played by Brent Hanley, laments to the loss of his Christmas mojo to Mrs. Claus, played by Maggie Jett.
Buddy is ecstatic to meet his biological father and step-family, none of whom quite know how to react. Pictured, from left, are actors Drew Noble (Michael Hobbs), Lauren Bourd (Deb), Dawson Vaughan (Buddy), Isaac Reid (Walter Hobbs) and Alyssa Roy (Emily Hobbs).
With only a snow globe from Santa and a suitcase, Buddy sets out to New York City to find his father.

Buddy (Dawson Vaughan) helps his crush, cynical Macy's employee Jovie (Emma Harris), trim a tree.
Buddy's father Walter Hobbs, played by Isaac Reid, proclaims Christmas only gets in his way.