JACKSON — When Jesse Morgan approached Andrew Munz last fall with a script, some drawings, and a collection of music he'd composed, it was the kind of brave gesture those involved in local theater want to see more often.

"He said, ‘Well, I wrote this show for another theater company that my mom was involved with,'” Munz recalled. "And he sent me an initial script and a bunch of music that he composed.

“And that was a first for me to have like a score that somebody had actually recorded and written out, and then these drawings, these incredible drawings of costume ideas and these rabbits that were holding spears.”

Those spear-wielding rabbits would become the heart of "Velveteen," an ambitious adaptation of Margery Williams' beloved children's story "The Velveteen Rabbit."

On Thursday,

See Full Page