It's high school musical season, and West schools have a full schedule of performances for nearly each weekend through May.
Here are this year's West musicals (in chronological order), which started last weekend with Western Beaver's performance of "Once Upon a Mattress:"
Ambridge Area, "Grease," at 7:30 p.m. today, Friday and Sunday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for students. For ticket information, call 724-266-4915.
Center Area (Central Valley), "Grease," at 7 p.m. today, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets, which are $7 for adults and $6 for students, will be sold from 1 to 3:30 p.m. daily in Room B210.
Blackhawk, "Anything Goes," 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $8 for adults and $6 for senior citizens and students.
Chartiers Valley, "Seussical," 7:30 p.m. Wednesday through March 13 in the high school auditorium. Tickets are $8.
New Brighton, "Fame," March 11-13.
Beaver County Christian School, "Oliver," March 18-20.
Carlynton, "The Wedding Singer," March 18-21.
Moon, "Footloose," March 18-21.
Riverside, "Beauty and the Beast," March 18-21.
Robinson Township Christian, "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," March 18-20.
Rochester, "Oklahoma," March 18-20.
Beaver Area, "Carnival," March 19-21.
Beaver Falls, "Cinderella," March 19-21.
Hopewell, "On the Town," March 19-21.
South Side Beaver, "Starmites," March 26-28.
Freedom Area, "Beauty and the Beast," March 26-28.
West Allegheny, "big, the musical," March 26-27. (Note: shows will be in Burgettstown Area High School because of construction). Tickets, $10 for adults and $5 for students and Gold Card members, will be sold in the temporary high school office from 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. weekdays and from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Sunday, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, 1 to 2:30 p.m. March 14, and 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. March 16 and 23.
To order tickets by mail, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope and a check payable to West Allegheny School District to: Box Office Managers, West Allegheny High School, 205 West Allegheny Road, Imperial 15126.
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, "Once on This Island," April 9-11, 16-17.
Northgate, "Bye Bye Birdie," April 10, 16-17.
Montour, "Curtains," April 15-18, 22-24.
Quigley Catholic, "Children of Eden," April 15-17.
Aliquippa, "The Wiz," April 23-25.
Bishop Canevin, "Curtains," April 28-May 1.
Langley, "Cinderella," April 29-30, May 1.
Lincoln Park Performing Arts, "Bye Bye Birdie," May 14-16, 21-23.
The 16th annual Henry Mancini Awards for Butler, Lawrence and Beaver counties is 7 p.m. May 12 at Metheny Fieldhouse, Geneva College, Beaver Falls.
The 20th annual Gene Kelly Awards for Allegheny County high schools is at 7:30 p.m. May 29 at the Benedum Center, Downtown.
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