Barry Keating’s “Starmites,” recently performed by Playful People Productions, has been a Bay Area youth theater staple for decades.
If you’ve been involved in youth theater in Silicon Valley at all during the past couple of decades, you’re probably familiar with “Starmites” — a sci-fi fantasy musical with a short Broadway run in the late 1980s and now a cult classic around here.
“I heard about it for a long time because San Jose’s done so many productions of my show,” said Keating, 76. He flew in from Manhattan and took part in two “talk back” sessions before shows featuring older teens and their adult family members as well as chatted with audience members, cast and crew. Indeed, its been a staple for CMT San Jose, Starting Arts, Playful People and countless high school drama departments.
Playful People, which had previously done the show in 2016 and 2019, contacted Keating while they were prepping for permission to allow the characters of Starmites — a galactic team of superheroes usually cast as males — to be male, female or gender fluid. Keating wholeheartedly agreed to the alteration.
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