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"I'm sorry, the bridge is out. You'll have to spend the night."

Thus starts the Lehighton Area High School Drama Club's annual musical, a story of two naïve travelers stranded near a medieval castle in Ohio.

When travelers John David Wellgood and Mary Helen Merriman, stranded by car trouble, enter a castle to call for help, they find themselves spending the night with a host of monsters, including Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Igor, The Monster, Count Dracula and his wife Natasha, and more.

It's story is that of sacrifice and betrayal.

A 1970 musical by Steven Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak, "Godspell" will be performed by the Palmerton High School Drama Club.

Show times for the play are 7 p.m. tonight, Friday and Saturday in the high school auditorium. Admission is $5 at the door.

Brent Harris, drama coach, said the theme of "Godspell" is the "retelling of the gospel of Matthew, recounting the events of the life of Jesus."

On Friday, Sarah Ayers will hold a comeback concert at the Jim Thorpe Mauch Chunk Opera house in honor of Ayers' voice returning after a year battle with Hasimoto's disease that threatened to take her singing career away.

Steve Brosky and Jimmy Meyer will co-bill with Ayers.

Last January, Ayers, an accomplished Lehigh Valley singer who has won more than 30 Lehigh Valley music awards, and whose stage is, and has been for years, the Lehigh Valley had to stop singing because of a rare autoimmune disease that interfered with her singing range.

The Lehighton Band's Spring Concert will be held Sunday, April 10, in the auditorium of the Lehighton Area Middle School beginning at 2:30 p.m.

The director of the band, Paul R. Smith, has announced the soloists for the program.

Lora Krum and Beth Cressley will play a novelty number called "The Elephant And The Fly." As you might expect, you will hear two instruments that are completely opposits in musical range. Cressley will portray the elephant on her bassoon while Krum will play the fly on her piccolo.