Stage Fright

Christy #10

by C. Archer (Adapter), Catherine Marshall

After Christy's students at the mission school in Cutter Gap put on a play, circumstances lead Christy to follow her own dream of acting, but mysterious incidents threaten to mar her stage debut.

Genres: Historical, Historical Fiction

113 pages, Paperback

First published March 12, 1997

Reviews

[Jesseca Wheaton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Re-reading these with my 8-year old sister. Such good memories!

[C.A. Gray · Rating 3 out of 5]

This one was such a gimmick. Christy has her class read Romeo and Juliet, and then Doctor MacNeill walks in as she is reciting Juliet's lines, as it turns out that she played Juliet on stage in high school... and it also turns out that Doctor MacNeill's aunt is the director of the Knoxville Players, who just happen to be putting on Romeo and Juliet. She comes to visit, and invites Christy to come out and be part of the show as a bit player... only of course they end up without a Juliet, forced to use Christy instead (as if she remembers all the lines from high school. I've had nightmares of exactly this scenario, where I find I'm playing the lead role in a show I was in in high school, and it's opening night, but of course I don't remember the lines.) Then for good measure, Neil goes back with them, and there's a love triangle, and a jealous stage hand tries to sabotage Christy's performance... it doesn't fit the Cutter Gap story at all. It takes the same characters, but it reads like fan fiction. The extrapolation is just too far to work, for me. 

[Glenys · Rating 4 out of 5]

Christy puts on a play about Goldilocks at the school, and gets the chance to travel to Knoxville with Neil McNeill to visit his Aunt Cora who is a director with an amateur theatre group. (She had been holidaying in Cutters Gap and saw the Goldilocks play)

spoiler warning
The play is Romeo and Juliet... only Juliet is crook, the understudy has eloped and Christy had happened to mention that she played the part in school herself..... what could possibly go wrong. Throw in some unrequited love and a few of the class coming for a visit to see Miz Christy, but it all goes well on the night.

[Eve (◍•ᴗ•◍)❤ (Semi-active) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Full of dreams and excitment!

[Cherish Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

(5☆ Would recommend & would read again)
I loved watching the Christy TV series was I was young. These books brought back a nostalgia and are well written. I loved this book series.

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is yet another Christy book and it deals with jealousy.