— Daily Freeman-Journal photo by Anne Blankenship Kaitlynn Seeley, playing Dr. Joan Watson, and Jake Lahr, as Sherlock Holmes, discover a clue in this scene from “Sherlock Holmes and the Wolf Family Caper.” The children’s play opens at Webster City Community Theatre March 31. Tickets go on sale Saturday at the theatre box office.

Webster City Community Theatre brings its youth production to the stage with “Sherlock Holmes and the Wolf Family Caper.”  Performance dates are March 31, April 1, 7 and 8 at 7 p.m. and April 2 and 9 at 2 p.m.

  In this “Law and Order” type mystery, the audience is called upon to help Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick, Dr. Joan Watson, solve the mystery of “The Wolf Family Caper.” Holmes and Watson are investigating the case of two missing pigs. Not only have the pigs disappeared, but a straw house and a stick house have vanished as well. Just when Holmes and Watson begin to think they have a serial house-napper on the loose, they discover a single paw print at the scene, which gives rise to the Huff-and-Puff Theory.

Suspecting a wolf may be the culprit, Holmes and Watson pay a visit to Ezekiel Wolf, the owner of a pork processing plant. When the duo suggests that a wolf may have huffed and puffed and blew the houses down, Mr. Wolf’s hair bristles at the theory, and he insists that such stories are just old wives’ tales. And, besides, he suffers from emphysema. As Holmes and Watson continue their investigation, they discover that all clues lead back in some way to the Wolf Family Picnic Extravaganza.

  Tickets will go on sale Saturday. All tickets are $10.  To reserve tickets, call 832-4456, order online at www.wcctonline.org, or stop by the box office at 1001 Willson Ave., Webster City.  Box office hours are weeknights from 5 to 7 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to noon, and one hour prior to show time.

  Director Alan Yungclas is mentoring two high school students who are serving as assistant co-directors.  Maren Borer and Katie Greenfield have both been involved in several WCCT productions.  Following auditions, they selected the cast: Kaitlyn Seeley as Dr. Joan Watson, Gianna Borer as Beulah Berkshire, Jake Lahr as Sherlock Holmes, Becca Kenville as Becky Berkshire, Addison Hayes as Mrs. Hudson, Zach Dodge as Harry Lupus, Daniel Blankenship as Wiley Fox, Joleah Stuhr as Sally Superglu, Emersen Paukert as Greta Von Cistem, Delaney Kopriva as Rosemary Razorback; Jonathan Dixson as Louis Lobo, Holden Klein as Wolfsbane, Isabelle Hooker as Mr. Wolfgang “Wolfie” Von Wolfe, Joseph Johnson as Ezekiel Wolf, Tatumn Leeper as Wilhemina Wolf, Olivia Gallentine as Ruth DeWolf, Clare Martin-Schwarze as Duroc “Rocky” Landrance and Samantha Camp as Little Red Riding Hood.

“Sherlock Holmes and the Wolf Family Caper” is presented through arrangement with Big Dog Productions.