Dim the lights. Cue the music. It’s show time!  Two southern Minnesota artists will come together to help create Minnesota’s only Elders Celebration hosted annually by elementary students from Green Isle Community School at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 26.
As it has done every year since 2005, Green Isle Community School selects a noteworthy elder to honor with a night of original musicals based on his life and performed by the students before a packed house.

The creative process began in December during an oral history presentation made by this year’s selected elder, Judge Thomas G. McCarthy.  Based on those presentations, Tara Jungclaus (composer), and tdbarna (lyricist & playwright) together forged a 60-minute musical.