Photos: Hilltown Players present "Taking it from the top"

“Take it From the Top,” written and directed by Penny Shaw and the show’s dates are Nov. 16 and 17 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 18 at 3 p.m. at the Berne-Knox-Westerlo High School Auditorium. Tickets are $12 for adults and $8 for veterans, members of the military, senior citizens, teenagers, and children.

The Enterprise — Michael Koff

Dressed in pastels as Southern belles, Faith Coates, playing Dale; Madison Galvin, playing Fran; Clara Thomas, playing Sydney; and Madison Mosbey, who plays Bailey, sing their hearts out in “Take it From the Top,” a play centered around a group of people trying to put on a variety show under the watch of a reluctant director with an anger-management problem.

The Enterprise — Michael Koff

It takes three kids to hold a long beard: Jayden Mosbey, who plays Izzy; Myla Evans, who plays Julie; Charlotte Elble, who plays Lynn; a bearded Eden Elble, playing Casey; and Brody Shaver, who plays Lionel, sing “Grandpa’s Old Gray Whiskers” in the audition scene of a show within a show, “Take it From the Top,” which opens Friday at the Berne-Knox-Westerlo secondary school auditorium.

The Enterprise — Michael Koff

Tossing a chair, Morgan Galvin, playing a director of a variety show, demonstrates her anger-management problem in “Take it From the Top,” written and directed by Penny Shaw. Galvin’s character reluctantly starts directing the show as a form of community service, and is referred to only as “Coach” by a cast of disorganized but well-meaning characters because she refuses to give out her name. The show’s dates are Nov. 16 and 17 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 18 at 3 p.m. at the Berne-Knox-Westerlo High School Auditorium. Tickets are $12 for adults and $8 for veterans, members of the military, senior citizens, teenagers, and children.