\n\t\t\t\tLance Deleon Guerrero, right, as John Bender faces off with Markel Toves, who plays Andrew Clark, in the Mount Carmel School Theatre Club production of The Breakfast Club. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n
\n\u201cAside from the nostalgic appeal of this great movie, I think its themes and message are timeless and universal,\u201d said Galvin Deleon Guerrero when asked why he decided to stage The Breakfast Club. \u201cWe\u2019ve all been teenagers before, and I believe that we continue dealing with the alienation, turbulence, and angst of adolescence long into adulthood. So I hope this show will help all of us be more honest with ourselves and with each other about these issues.\u201d<\/p>\nFor the actors in the show, who are all teenagers, dealing with the challenges of adolescence is a fresh experience for which the show has been therapeutic.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For Toves, playing \u201cThe Jock\u201d hits close to home because he\u2019s also his basketball team\u2019s captain in real life. \u201cI can definitely relate to and learn from this character, who shows that even if it looks like you\u2019re doing well like Andrew, deep down inside, you\u2019re hurting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hunter echoed Toves, saying that playing the role of Allison \u201cis like connecting to a character who I feel, inside, is also a part of me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortizo put it more bluntly. \u201cBrian is a character I\u2019ve been playing my entire life; playing it now just reflects who I am. I hope audience members will see that just because it looks like you\u2019re doing okay, it doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re okay emotionally.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the emotional weight of the show, the actors have also enjoyed having fun with their roles. As Lance Deleon Guerrero put it, \u201cIt\u2019s been a lot of fun, honestly, to play the criminal. It lets me be the bad guy that I\u2019m not allowed to be, that I choose not to be.\u201d<\/p>\n
Or, as Camacho put it, \u201cI feel pretty excited to play Claire because I can bring out my goofiness in this role, being sassy as an actual character.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Breakfast Club will be performed on Thursday, Nov. 19; Friday, Nov. 20; and Saturday, Nov. 21, in the Mount Carmel School library. Doors open at 6:30pm and admission is $5. Tickets can be purchased at the school\u2019s Business Office or at the door. However, due to limited seating, advanced purchase of tickets is recommended. Also, due to the mature content and graphic language of the play, parental discretion is strongly advised.<\/p>\n
The Breakfast Club is being staged as part of the Theatre Club\u2019s 20th anniversary. The club will continue its celebration with more productions this school year, including White Christmas in December and Disney\u2019s The Lion King in May next year.<\/p>\n
For more information, call 234-6184 or visit www.mountcarmelsaipan.com. (MCS)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Next week, Mount Carmel School\u2019s Theatre Club will present its stage adaptation of the classic…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":214455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1737,21,1111,3986],"class_list":["post-214452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-galvin-deleon-guerrero","tag-life","tag-mount-carmel-school","tag-theatre-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}