Local girl to star in 'The Secret Garden'

STOCKHOLM — Madeline Lupi, 12, of Stockholm will appear in "The Secret Garden."
Lupi will play Jane and Dance Troupe, while her father, Victor Lupi, will play Major Holmes, in Hexagon Player's "The Secret Garden."
Madeline has been appearing in theater since the age of 5 and has performed in 15 different productions. Most recent performances include Billy Elliot (Tracey Atkinson), Alice in Wonderland (Alice), Mother Goosed (Beth), Peter Pan (Pirate Skylights), Annie (Orphan) and Beauty and the Beast (Enchanted Object). She also enjoys acting for film and has been credited with 50+ film projects. She has earned 7 nominations for Best Actress and won at the 2016 Christian Film Festival and the 2016 Universal Film Festival.
For Victor, this is his first musical theater experience. Having watched his daughters perform over the years, he finally decided to take the plunge. Although he's never taken the stage before, he does fiddle around on the guitar from time to time, and did minor in music theory in college. Victor hopes this is a new hobby he can take on more than once.
Hexagon Players' Fall 2016 production of The Secret Garden will be an all new staging with spectacular Asian-inspired choreography, amazing stage illusions, fanciful puppetry, dazzling period costumes, and a staging that is both hauntingly suspenseful and whimsically magical; this is one family-friendly production that is sure to leave an indelible imprint on all who experience it. Performances from November 11 through November 19 for a limited 7-show engagement at Grace Lutheran Church, 65 Main Street, Mendham.
Using 4-D Audience Immersion Technology developed exclusively for Hexagon Players, journey with Mary Lennox to the Moors of England in a multi-sensory experience like nothing you've ever seen, heard, smelled, or felt before. This hauntingly, magical production, based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s children’s book, music by Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman, and directed by Patrick Frances Mahn, with Musical Direction by Darlene Yannetta.
Performances are Friday, Nov 11, at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov 12, at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Sunday, Nov 13, at 2 p.m., Friday, Nov. 18, at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, Nov 19, at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 each and can be purchased online atwww.HexagonPlayers.wixsite.com/secretgarden or HexagonPlayers.com.