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Students at LaGrange Academy will soon share a walk through history as wax figures come to life with their annual Living Wax Museum.

The academy will host its second annual Living Wax Museum on Wednesday, March 26 from 6 to 8 p.m. Organizer Savanna Hunt said most of the attendees are likely to be parents and family but the event is free and open to the public and everyone is encouraged to come.

For the event, 40 fourth and fifth graders at LaGrange Academy submitted three choices for historical figures they would like to portray. From those submissions they were assigned their subject and they did two weeks of research during theater class and library class.

“Our high school history students came and helped them do research, helped them find books, helped them find good, credible sources online,” Hunt said.

After the research, the students wrote a 60-second monologue that goes over their subject’s life from start to finish, discussing their importance to history.

The students will later deliver their monologues in costume as wax museum figures come to life.

“The audience will get to walk the hallways and drop little tokens in baskets by each kid’s name, and they will be stuck in a pose that represents their character. When the token gets dropped in, they’ll come to life, essentially, and give their monologue and then go back to being frozen,” Hunt said.

The museum will feature prominent figures from American and world history from athletes and artists to kings and queens.

“We’ve got people from theater and film. We have artists and musicians. We have authors. We have some activists and politicians, and then we have some traditional history,” Hunt said. “We’re excited to be doing it again this year, hopefully, we’ll still have a good turnout.”

The students memorize and perform the monologues. Hunt said they have some Korean students who are still learning English, so they were offered a shorter time for their memorization and to do a portion of it in their native language.

“They were offered to do it in Mandarin or Korean, so one of the boys decided to do his in English and in Mandarin, which is super exciting,” Hunt said.

Last year’s wax museum was a big success, with hundreds of people in attendance, which Hunt hopes will continue. The event is a big deal to the kids, she said.

Tickets for the event are available for free at https://gofan.co/app/school/GA5105.

Hunt said people don’t need to register for tickets to attend. They are just using Go Fan to estimate their attendance. The kids will be performing their monologues throughout the event, so attendees can drop in anytime during the two-hour performance.

LaGrange Academy’s Living Wax Museum: “A Walk Through History” will be performed on Wednesday, March 26 from 6 to 8 p.m. at 1501 Vernon Road in LaGrange.