Look at her way up high, she’s flying.

She’s Juliet Soricelli, a junior at Valhalla High School, and in this case she’s a “he” – Peter Pan in this weekend’s production of the musical of the same name.

Since Valhalla’s budget does not include real-live fairy dust to levitate the boy who’ll never grow up, director Bill Mentz relies on Amir Tawfik, of Flying By Foy.

Foy is the company that has flown Mary Martin and scores of other Pans through the years.

Stroll into the auditorium at Brewster High School any night this week and you’ll see a flurry of activity – and things you’ve likely never seen before.

There’s a candlestick over there who’s flicking his candles on and off, to the oohs and ahhs of his friends. A flirtatious feather duster is batting her eyes. And there are two teapots chattering with a couple of cups.

Welcome to Brewster High School’s production of “Beauty and the Beast,” the Alan Menken/Howard Ashman/Tim Rice musical that was the first of the Disney musicals to make it to Broadway. It runs for five performances this week at the school on Foggintown Road.

Got a quick note from Pelham assistant director Tom Beck. They’re doing “Hello, Dolly!” this weekend:“Last night was our best sold night for HELLO DOLLY!  The show was great and the kids were feeding off the energy from the wonderful audience. They APPLAUDED the “Sunday Clothes” costume change!!! Anyway, Pelham Police forced us to stop the show and evacuate the school due to a 4-alarm chemical fire in nearby Mount Vernon.“The kids were crestfallen.  They were so upset because they knew they wereon their way to the best show ever. “So … now we only have tonight and tomorrow at 3 pm to try to re-seat the sold-out crowd into the remaining seats!”Sounds like a tall order, but if anyone can figure it out, it’s director John Orefice and his able assistants, Beck and Neil Schleifer. 

Dolly Gallagher Levi has been in mourning for a while. She lost her husband, Ephraim, years ago and has set her matrimonial sights on Yonkers businessman Horace Vandergelder.

But where to step out for the first time?

Those familiar with “Hello, Dolly!” – and those who attend this week’s performances of the musical by Pelham Memorial High School’s drama group – Sock n’ Buskin – know that there is really only one place it could be. The place with the friendliest and most acrobatic wait staff around.

The Harmonia Gardens.

Senior Charlotte Donovan, 17, plays Dolly, the matchmaker, piano teacher and carrier of many business cards. She says Dolly is two different women, really, when she’s with the two men in her life – Horace and her late husband, Ephraim.

Everyone knows that Fraulein Maria doesn’t become a nun in “The Sound of Music.”

Right?

At Suffern High School this week, Brianne Stiso will play Maria on Thursday, Friday and Saturday night but the actress will get a glimpse of what might have been on Saturday afternoon, when Suffern’s underclassmen understudies play the lead roles and Stiso becomes a matinee nun.

Director Jessica Minick knew she had two challenges ahead of her – one for the cast, one for the audience.

“You announce that you’re doing ‘The Sound of Music,’” she says, “and the students are already familiar with the music, the story, the famous scenes. I wanted to challenge them. I wanted them to walk away from this production having learned something and grown as performers.”

Audience members, Minick says, can’t help envisioning the film as they enter the auditorium.

The Mark Brent Dolinsky Memorial Foundation announces an all-Westchester teen talent showcase, “The Mark Show,” to be held on April 12, 2008.

Tickets for the event — subtitled “Where Teens Get to SHOW Their Stuff” — are on sale on the charity’s Web site: www.dolinskyfoundation.org.

That’s where you can also find out how you can be part of The Mark Show — which will include singers, dancers, comedians, a capella groups, bands, etc.

Performers can be individual teens or groups of teens. Get more details at www.dolinskyfoundation.org/FAQs.php.

The audience will be the judges, as teens compete for cash prizes of $500, $250, and $100.

Last year, Divya Innocent played Sarah Brown, whose sole purpose was saving souls in “Guys & Dolls.” This year, her character comes from the netherworld – the temptress Lola in “Damn Yankees” – who is anything but innocent.

“Damn Yankees” plays at 8 tonight and tomorrow night at Nanuet High School.

To find Lola, Innocent says she applied techniques she’s learned in acting and dance classes through the years.

“Picture a person who’s played the part – or someone who reminds you of this character -and study their mannerisms and how they talk and adapt that to make it your own,” she says.

Who’s the person in Innocent’s mind?

“Gwen Verdon, definitely,” she says. “All the way.”

Campbell Scott may live in Connecticut now, but he hasn’t forgotten his Westchester roots when it comes to three of his loves: theater, literature and music.

• Tomorrow night, the son of acting greats Colleen Dewhurst and George C. Scott will bring Ronan Noone’s one-man play “The Atheist” to Westchester Arts Council’s Arts Exchange in White Plains, to kick off the venue’s Theater Week.

• On April 10, Scott will read short stories – “Thurber, Cheever and some other great choices” – at the Katonah Museum of Art.

• And on May 31, he and his band, The Right Out Louds – playing The Beatles, U2 and Hendrix, with Scott on the drums – will play at the Katonah museum’s annual benefit, at Roosevelt Ballroom in Yonkers.

He phoned from his home.

I was in my car the other day and I heard this ad for an oil company. And I thought, “That sounds like Campbell Scott.”

That would be Chevron.

Any of your friends ask you about that?

People do mention it. Knowing that I’m such an environmentalist, they’re shocked.

If he were to deliver the line “And I mean it” in a traditional play, Joe Perkowski might just speak it.

In a traditional musical, he might say it louder or perhaps sing it.

But in “Li’l Abner” at Yorktown High School this weekend, when the senior who plays the corrupt Gen. Bullmoose delivers the line, “I have to shout it and jump up and down.”

You can learn plenty doing theater. Just ask Dobbs Ferry High School senior Eric Seti. Last year, Seti played Hugo the jealous boyfriend in “Bye Bye, Birdie” and he learned to throw a punch at Conrad Birdie. Before that, he played Avram the bookseller in “Fiddler on the Roof” and learned to sing “Tradition.”

This year, the senior Seti won’t be on the stage. He’ll be in front of it this weekend, playing guitar and banjo in the orchestra of “The Boyfriend.”

Before this musical, Seti had never picked up a banjo.

Nyack’s Kathy Tappenden emailed to say that there are still seats available for this weekend’s performances of “The Phantom of the Opera.” They are a huge bargain at just $10, $5 for students and free to seniors and will be available one hour before each of the remaining performances. Curtains are Friday at 8; Saturday at 2 and Saturday at 8.

I saw the show on Opening Night and am still amazed at the production values and the quality of the work. See it if you can.

Got this email from Pia Haas at Westchester Broadway Theatre.

“Westchester Broadway Theatre will be holding auditions for the role of Chip in their upcoming production of “Beauty & the Beast”. Auditions will be held on Thursday March 20th at the theatre starting at 2:00pm. The show goes into rehearsals 4/14; Opens 4/24; Closes 8/3/08. There are evening and both weekday and weekend performances.

If you would like to set up an audition for your child please call 914-592-2268 ext 827 and leave your name, name and age of your child, phone number and email address. NO CALLS WE BE RETURNED BEFORE MARCH 14TH.

Child must be 4’11 or shorter, with a good vocal quality, previous acting experience is not necessary. Please be prepared with a song of your choice that you are comfortable singing and have the sheet music for. Headshots are not necessary.”

Dang it! I’m 6’2”!!!

Edgemont and Ardsley high schools are just three miles apart, but they might as well be side-by-side when it comes to high-school musicals.

Beginning Thursday, both schools will present “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” – two schools, two auditoriums, two sets, two casts, two orchestras.

Same show.

Award-winning Westchester playwrights Rosemary Foley and Albi Gorn will have their works, “Ophelia’s Mother” and “It’s About Forgiveness,” performed as part of the Acting Company of Greenwich’s popular lunchtime series, Play With Your Food, not to be confused with the Play With Your Food summer play-reading series at Stony Point’s Penguin Rep.

Alia Munsch, a senior at Fox Lane High School, started out in ballet and just got into musical theater with last year’s “Fifty Million Frenchmen,” for which she was dance captain and had some ballet solos.

This weekend, her musical-theater career takes off, literally, as she plays the title role in “Peter Pan” at Fox Lane.

How can a ballerina be a boy?

She found her character, she says, when she found her stance: arms on hips, feet out and shoulders back. That’s Peter Pan.