James and the Giant Peach still on DCT stage for six shows

The Dallas Children’s Theater has six remaining performances of James and the Giant Peach. The popular story is based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. In 1996, a British-American musical fantasy film was created based on the movie, directed by Henry Selick.

Young James Henry Trotter’s resilience is tested when he is sent off to live with his mean aunts, Spiker and Sponge, after a chain of unfortunate incidents. Life is no fun at all there until he accidentally spills some tiny green things on a tree, and…voilà, a giant peach! When James and his new oversized friends — Grasshopper, Centipede, Ladybug, Earthworm, and Spider — snip the stem of the peach, the quest for happiness and great adventure lands them in New York City and at the center of attention.

The production features Jori Jackson as Miss Spider. Jackson is a native of Shreveport, Louisiana and a graduate of Northwestern State University of LA with a BS in musical theatre and performance & directing. Her most recent stage work has been in DCT’s Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook (Grace) and A Charlie Brown Christmas (Frieda).

Other credits include DCT’s Miracle on 34th Street (Finley), Fancy Nancy: The Musical (Bree), and Jackie & Me (Rachel); Kitchen Dog Theater’s 3rd annual One Minute Play Festival and New Works Play Festival as Sophia inCedar Springs or Big Scary Animals; Theatre Three’sMemphis (dance ensemble); Cara Mía Theatre Co.’sWhere Earth Meets The Sky (Born At Dawn); and Uptown Players’ Aida (dance ensemble).