Genre: Musical
Written by: Ren Casey, based on the film The Goonies
Directed by: Ren Casey
Performed by: Ryan Bogner, Brendan Bradley, Christopher Crowthers, Shane Desmond, Ryan Eggensperger, Liz Gutman, Kohli Hessler, Jacob Kramer, Madalyn McKay, Kelsey Robinson, Carla Stickler, Ren Casey
Running time: One hour, 40 minutes
Web site: rashtheatre.org

If you're in your 20s and grew up watching (and worshipping) The Goonies on TBS once a month, you will love this show. If you aren't and you didn't, you'll want to rent the beloved Richard Donner/Steven Spielberg kid's adventure flick about a group of adolescents hunting for pirate treasure before going to see this perversely irresistible musical parody. The cast and crew got everything right—from Chunk's plaid pants and red windbreaker to Mouth's heartbreaking speech at the wishing well. But they also updated the 1985 movie with rousingly tuneful and melodramatic songs, carried by strong voices. Even Sloth, disfigured and in full Baby Ruth-mode (rent the movie!), gets his moment to shine. ("On the inside I know that I am beautiful," he croons in a syrupy smooth tenor.) But it's an over-the-top, fully choreographed, Stomp-style dance number that really steals the show. Corey Feldman definitely couldn't pull that off.—Ellen Carpenter

• Where: The Connelly Theater
• When: Sat, Aug 14 at 5 p.m.; Thu, Aug 19 at 5:45 p.m.; Sun, Aug 22 at noon; Mon, Aug 23 at 9:30 p.m.; Sat, Aug 28 at 7 p.m.; Sun, Aug 29 at 2:15 p.m.