The Lightning Thief
The Percy Jackson Musical
School Matinees
Music and Lyrics by Rob Rokicki Book by Joe Tracz
Based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Rick Riordan. The musical follows Percy Jackson, a teenager who newly discovers that he is a demigod and goes on
an epic quest to find Zeus’ missing lightning bolt and prevent a war between the Greek gods. The story is based on the first of Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson & the Olympians young-adult novels that transplant Greek mythology into the present. Teen hero Percy — as in Perseus — Jackson never fit in at school, but surprise, surprise, it turns out his missing dad is actually Poseidon. After being attacked by a few monsters, he goes off to a magic training camp, where he meets a bunch of other superpowered demigod kids. As ever, the gods are really promiscuous. “Yeah, the gods are real,” as everyone sings in an opening number seemingly written to be screamed in your bedroom after you’ve been grounded, “and they have kids / and those kids have issues! Issues!”
School Matinees
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
May 9th – 12th
School Matinee Group Tickets $8
Call the Box Office for more information and to reserve your seats: (815) 244-2035
