For the 2023-2024 Spring Season NTA Theatre produced It Came From Outer Space! a new musical adaptation of the classic Ray Bradbury 1953 movie of the same name written by  Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair. 

Production Highlights:

• First High School to ever produce the musical.

• First use of projection in both set and scenic design.

• Tenth Anniversary of our annual Spring Production

• Featured our first student director, Leilani Rosado, in ten years.

• Shortest production time in NTA History (five weeks)

• First all female band in NTA Theatre History, each of whom also doubled as 4D specialists. 

• Featured four originally choreographed numbers by student choreographer Grecia Lopez.

A New Musical by Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair

first debuted at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, 2022

It’s a classic story: Astronomy Professor John Putnam leaves the big city for small-town living in Sand Rock, Arizona, where the vast night sky and the apple of his eye, Ellen Fields, occupy his field of view. 

Sand Rock is a peaceful place, all sand and sun, and its occupants are friendly folks, but, despite the charms of a humble town newspaper, newly installed power lines, and home-made peanut brittle exchanges, John struggles to acclimate to life among the cacti out in the remote desert. 

But, when a meteor streaks across the sky and crashes near the old mine, John leads an expedition into the resulting crater and opens the eyes of the locals to the possibility of alien life. 

Of course, John’s just imaginative, right? It’s impossible that aliens have crash-landed, and even more impossible for them to be wandering among the townsfolk undetected…

Will nosy neighbors, persistent press people, and a surly sheriff uncover John’s secret past, foil his romantic pursuits, and gum up his astronomical studies?

It Came From Outer Space is a story about the friction between what we want to believe and what we actually practice, about “insiders” and “outsiders,” and about how having big ideas is not the same as having an open mind. Come and enjoy the musical stylings of this year’s NTA Theatre pit band, the song, dance, and antics of the NTA Theatre Ensemble, and our final send-off to this year’s seniors. 

Come and enjoy the chaotic and comical stories that unfold in Sand Rock, NOW IN 4-D!