'Night at the Wax Museum' - reliving a part of history

Jacob Fairchild is a young history teacher at Hoover High, just after graduation. He is enthusiastic and passionate about the most boring subject in school - History. However, Jacob has work cut out when several of his students wind up failing the subject, forcing him to tutor them at summer school.

Ever the enthusiast, Jacob organises a special class trip to 'Cultully' Wax Museum, in which his aunts Jolene Fairchild and Julene Fairchild (no, they are not twins!) hold the curator and vice curator positions.

They are to spend one night at the museum and assist the old ladies of the 'Cultully' Historical Society before the museum opens to the public.

As is to be expected the teens are not very happy about the set up, but as far as opinions go, they are in no position to argue theirs.

Here Jacob meets his best-mate-turned-worst-enemy in High School, the dashing yet extremely uneducated Skip Webster.

Webster was the handsome and popular Basketball Star - even the old ladies love him. Skip is now the Head Handyman (no pun intended) at the Cultully Wax Museum. Putting all his personal problems aside, Jacob decides to teach the students the art of loving history.

Yet, events take an unexpected turn when the meddlesome Sneed Family involuntarily bring the wax statues to life.

The students are forced to relive history literally, amidst brawling Mongolians and Cowboys who are convinced the Museum carries a secret treasure worth millions.

What follows can only be termed as 'history running amok!' as fights break out. Cleopatra and Henry VIII fall in love with each other and Anne Boleyn's nearly loses her head... for the second time.

Will the students, Jacob and Skip manage to subdue 'history' just in time to save their Museum? Will the old ladies discover the treasure or will the Cowboys beat them to it? 'Night at The Wax Museum!' goes on the boards on March 27 and 28 at the CIS auditorium.

'Night at The Wax Museum' pays tribute to teens around the world and it is also a tribute to the power of friendship, resourcefulness, teamwork and of course, the subject of History.

The wax figures represent characters that were famous in history. All who considered history as a subject to be boring will have to give it a re-think. The play is directed by Gopitha Kiribandara, the play boasts of a wide musical score and dance items, supervised by the Choral Director Jayanthi Sivapragasam and Choreographers Shanika Weerasinghe and Suchintha Weerawardene.

The cast consists of approximately 200 students of CIS's finest Junior School performers.