Saskatoon high school drama students prove ‘the show must go on’ [Video]

A Saskatoon high school drama production took an unexpected turn when a massive power outage took the lights out in the middle of a packed house last week.

But as they say in the theatre, the show must go on.

This dark tale has a happy ending thanks to the creativity of the cast and crew, as well as the audience.

On Dec. 3, Bedford Road Collegiate drama students had a production experience that they will never forget. At first, their school production of Seussical the Musical was going as planned.

“We were just about to start the second act, the power cut. Then everybody was kind of in a frenzy. all of these like little kids, you know, they got up and they were wondering what was going on,” cast member, Sara Pelletier, told CTV News.

Those little kids, almost 300 elementary school students, filled the theatre for the …