Fairy tales come to life in Centre Stage show

The evil Witch, played by Brigid Farrell, center, with her group of gingerbread people. From left are John O’Brien, Allie Barry, Connor Barry, Ryan Coughlin, Chris Chiechi, Campion Quinn, Alex Stamboulidis and Megan Harkins.

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Rapunzel, played by Kyra Ganci-Barnes, sang to fellow princesses about being trapped in a tower.

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South Side High School Principal Dr. Carol Burris, left, and Courtney Krupa — both as Elsa — sang a duet.

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Narrators John Rigazio, left, Thomas Weiss and Kate Carrigan told the story to the audience.

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Allie Barry, left, talked with Connor Barry (The Beast) and Michael Tarantino (Prince Eric).

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Little Red Riding Hood, played by Tazhane Griffiths, at the Brull Brothers Bakery with Alex Johnson (Tommy Brull), left, Danny Collins (Jack Brull) and Connor Griffin (Martin Brull).

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Last week, students at South Side High School put on their annual Centre Stage production, filling the school’s auditorium for two straight nights.

The show, “Into the South Side Woods,” was written by Ellen White, who runs the Centre Stage program.

Centre Stage is a long-running program at South Side that pairs special needs children with buddies to conceive and perform a special musical show, filled with dancing, singing and acting. Every student gets a part in the show.

This year’s show was based off the musical “Into the Woods” and featured a plethora of fairy tale and Disney characters working together to lift a curse that was accidentally placed on an innocent baker.