This year’s musical draws an “un-pea-lievable” take on The Princess and the Pea story with a little BHS twist. The night of Nov. 13, the cast made a final dress rehearsal to the press before their matinee and tour the following day.

“The people that we’re working with are all great, everyone in this cast is great, they all work hard, they all get along,” said senior Joss Bathke, who plays Prince Dauntless the Drab. “We’re all pretty positive, there’s no one person that thinks they’re better than anyone else and that makes for a great show.”

The cast has been rehearsing since September and have been making immense progress since then.

“This has been a really nice cast to work with, everybody is just one big team, everybody is willing to take on any job that they need to do,” director Erin Buffum said. “I have a really great team this year too with Ms. Jacobson and Kelly and Ms. Weaver’s helping so it’s just a lot of fun, I’ve enjoyed it a lot.”

This is also the first year having a choreographer assist with the production.

“It was wonderful (having a choreographer this year) I have dance experience so I’ve done it in the past but it’s just nice to be able to delegate to somebody and Kelly and I have similar visions which is fun,” Buffum said.

The final dress rehearsal was the first in front of a few people. It was an opportunity to get the nerves out and fix any last minute details.

“Tonight my hat and cape fell off during my song and then my mic broke at the end so I couldn’t wear my cape at the ending,” said sophomore Jacob Hofman, who plays the King. “Hopefully, all the problems are figured out (opening night) and if not that’s not a huge deal.”

Getting the show ready while working out minor details will help bring a great show opening night.

“You know bringing your best every night, it’s kind of difficult so Mrs. Buffum always gives us the task of making it better as we go along so if you think you’ve given your best performance and it’s not the last night then you haven’t given your best performance,” Bathke said. “As soon as you hit that and your done then the challenge is over.”

The cast has made many great memories so far.

“All of the occasions that Joss’s pants fell below his knees and we had still gone forward and he was trying to pull them up as he was performing, that was definitely something,” said junior Zach Montgomery, who plays the Wizard.

Exchange student from Romania, Otilia Apostol, who is playing the Queen in the musical, is experiencing her first musical with a lead role.

“It was hard for me to memorize the lines,” senior Apostol said. “I think I spent hours in front of the mirror just saying my lines over and over again.”

The show went well, Buffum was glad to watch it all fall into place.

“Tonight was kind of it, like to see,” Buffum said. “We had all the pieces tonight, there’s always been something missing every night and tonight to have every single piece of everything together was really fun.”

The cast and crew are excited to be a part of the production.

“The most fun has been getting to know all of the underclassmen and everyone in the cast and just being able to spend my nights with a bunch of fun people,” said senior Megan Jardon, who plays a Lady-in-Waiting. “We have a huge cast and so to fit everyone on stage and all of the movements and our big dresses and costumes had been difficult but I think we worked well with what we were given.”

There have been many great moments throughout the production and practices.

“I think the best part has been how laid back the practices are this year and there’s not alot of drama and we aren’t really stressed,” said junior Aiden Lawrence, who plays Sir Harry. “There was one practice night where I had fill in for Kayla Mountain (one of the main roles) because she wasn’t there, I had to sing one of her songs so yeah that was pretty funny.”

There have been difficult parts to learn as well.

“The most challenging part would be whenever we do Spanish panic, that’s what we call it, it’s when we do a dancing scene with no music in it,” said sophomore Steven Simpson, who plays a Knight.

All the songs have come together with lots of practice.

“I have a song with Josie Boyle and I’m pretty excited about that because it’s just me and her, and we get to show off our voices,” Lawrence said. “At the beginning I had these harmonies in my song and that was the hardest part I could not get them down and it was really frustrating. We had like a two hour practice one night where me and Josie just tried to practice it.”