{"id":9290,"date":"2026-03-06T14:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T22:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/highland-secondary\/?p=9290"},"modified":"2026-03-06T14:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T22:38:15","slug":"beetlejuice-jr-district-musical-at-gp-vanier-march-10-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/highland-secondary\/beetlejuice-jr-district-musical-at-gp-vanier-march-10-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Beetlejuice Jr. &#8211; District Musical at GP Vanier March 10-14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1762\" data-end=\"1825\"><strong data-start=\"1762\" data-end=\"1825\">District Musical | March 10\u201314 | GP Vanier Secondary School<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1827\" data-end=\"2056\">The ghost-with-the-most takes centre stage in\u00a0<strong data-start=\"1873\" data-end=\"1895\">Beetlejuice Junior<\/strong>, an irreverent musical comedy adapted for schools from the Broadway hit\u00a0<strong data-start=\"1968\" data-end=\"2009\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Beetlejuice<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, inspired by Tim Burton\u2019s dearly beloved film.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2058\" data-end=\"2422\"><em data-start=\"2058\" data-end=\"2078\">Beetlejuice Junior<\/em>\u00a0tells the hauntingly comedic \u2014 and unexpectedly touching \u2014 story of Lydia Deetz, a strange and unusual teenager fascinated by the whole \u201cbeing dead thing.\u201d When Lydia moves into a new house, she quickly discovers it\u2019s already haunted by a recently deceased couple, Adam and Barbara Maitland, and a delightfully devious demon named Beetlejuice.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2424\" data-end=\"2669\">Hoping to help the Maitlands keep their home, Lydia summons Beetlejuice by calling his name three times. What follows is a whirlwind of chaos, comedy, and musical mayhem as the double-crossing specter unleashes a Netherworld full of pandemonium.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2671\" data-end=\"2995\">Hosted this year by\u00a0<strong data-start=\"2691\" data-end=\"2721\">GP Vanier Secondary School<\/strong>, the district musical showcases the creativity, talent, and dedication of student performers from across Comox Valley Schools. With dynamic songs, bold characters, and laugh-out-loud moments,\u00a0<em data-start=\"2914\" data-end=\"2934\">Beetlejuice Junior<\/em>\u00a0is a theatrical experience audiences of all ages will enjoy.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2997\" data-end=\"3089\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f5d3.svg\" alt=\"\ud83d\uddd3\" \/>\u00a0<strong data-start=\"3000\" data-end=\"3022\">Performance dates:<\/strong>\u00a0March 10\u201314<br data-start=\"3034\" data-end=\"3037\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f39f.svg\" alt=\"\ud83c\udf9f\" \/>\u00a0<strong data-start=\"3040\" data-end=\"3052\">Tickets:<\/strong>\u00a0<a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/events.sd71.bc.ca\/musical\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"3053\" data-end=\"3087\">https:\/\/events.sd71.bc.ca\/musical\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3091\" data-end=\"3167\">Tickets traditionally sell out \u2014 audiences are encouraged to purchase early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>District Musical | March 10\u201314 | GP Vanier Secondary School The ghost-with-the-most takes centre stage in\u00a0Beetlejuice Junior, an irreverent musical comedy adapted for schools from the Broadway hit\u00a0Beetlejuice, inspired by Tim Burton\u2019s dearly beloved film. Beetlejuice Junior\u00a0tells the hauntingly comedic \u2014 and unexpectedly touching \u2014 story of Lydia Deetz, a strange and unusual teenager fascinated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":9291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 08:45:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/highland-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/highland-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/highland-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/highland-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/highland-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/highland-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9293,"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/highland-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9290\/revisions\/9293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/highland-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/highland-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/highland-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/highland-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}