Beetlejuice: The Musical (2026)

By Camille Knight | Photography | OCT. 3, 2026

The International Thespian Troupe 3929 of Stanton College Preparatory School recently put on a production of Beetlejuice The Musical, which tells the story of a demon named Beetlejuice attempting to cross over into the land of the living. The story also follows Lydia Deetz, who has recently lost her mother, and has now moved with her father to a house belonging to the recently deceased Maitland couple.

The priest (Fiona McCullough-Orr) speaks at the funeral of Emily Deetz

Beetlejuice (Archer Karstaedt) strums a ukelele and gives the introduction to the musical

Adam Maitland (Isabella Diaz) sings about restoring an old crib

Charles Deetz (Aaron Woods) and Delia Schlimmer (Heidi Le) move into their new home

Lydia Deetz (Anushka Singh) sings about missing her dead mom

Beetlejuice details his plan and makes a proposal to Adam and Barbara Maitland (Kira Silkova)

Delia sings to an unenthused and dejected Lydia

Adam and Barbara attempt to scare Lydia with sheets used as ghost costumes

Charles gets down on one knee and proposes to Delia

Beetlejuice begs Lydia to say his name to make him alive again

Lydia twirls in front of the dinner guests while wearing the dress Delia got for her

Lydia scares Sky, a Girl Scout (Kamila Pedrera)

Beetlejuice proposes to Lydia in order to become a living person again

Miss Argentina (Celena Joy Perez) concludes her musical number

Lydia talks about her mother in a heartfelt moment

Beetlejuice performs a mock gameshow

Beetlejuice watches and laughs as his mother Juno (Katie Stokes) is swallowed by a snake

In the closing scene, Lydia ends her song on a high note, with Delia and Charles embracing her

Stanton Newspaper