Wellsville-Middletown senior Libby Kleinsorge is getting ready to do her fourth and final play this year.

She is excited about it because it’s a comedy.

“I’m ready for show day,” Kleinsorge said.

Kleinsorge and many other students from the W-M School District will perform in “The History of Dating,” which is a play about how dating has changed from the prehistoric age to the current digital age. The performances are scheduled for 7 p.m. on Oct. 7-8 at the W-M gymnasium. The cost of the tickets is $10 for reserved gym floor seating and $5 for open bleacher seating.

Director Donnie Boenker said the crew will include 30 junior high and high school students.

“Several students are doing their first theater performance ever, so we have a lot of newbies this year to help replenish the talent we graduated over the last couple of years,” Boenker said. “They have done really well. I’m very pleased and I think it’s going to be a great show.”

Kleinsorge and sophomore Della Gosseen will be the main characters of the play. They will play the professors as they will guide the audience through each time period of dating. The periods will include the 1920s, the 1950s, the 1980s and the Colonial and Medieval eras.

“I think it’s going to be a lot of fun to see the audience sitting and laughing along with us,” Gosseen said. “I hope some of the audience members learn a few tips on dating, too. I think it will be fun for all of us.”

Gosseen will be performing in her third play.

“I enjoy it,” Gosseen said. “It changes every single year because it’s a new group of people coming in and out every single time we do one of these. You can get really attached to some of the people that you do it with. It’s fun to have new people, but it’s also sad to lose some of the others.”

Senior Carly Henderson also will be in her third play. She did her first play when she was a sophomore.

“It will be bittersweet,” Henderson said. “I wish I would have joined my freshman year, but I was kind of scared to do it because I wasn’t too sure about how would people look at me. So I decided to join in my sophomore year and it really kind of opened up my shell and made me more confident in front of people.”

Henderson, Kleinsorge and Gavin Hill will be the only seniors in the play.

Kleinsorge played in “The Beverly Hillbillies” in her freshman year, “Aladdin” as a sophomore and “Murder On The 518” as a junior.

“It’s a lot of fun,” Kleinsorge said. “It’s more fun than I expected. I joined because my older sister (Abbigail) did it. As it went on, I kept doing it because I liked it.”

Cast and crew members have been working on the play since the first week of school. They received their scripts and assignments in May.

“They learned a little bit in each rehearsal about the certain decades and time periods,” Boenker said. “They’re enjoying it. I think they’re having a blast.”

Earlier in the year, Boenker picked about 10 shows for the students who were interested in participating. The list was later narrowed down to three shows. Finally, the students unanimously selected “The History Of Dating.”

“I was in big favor of the comedy play,” Henderson said. “I felt that it would be better for our younger cast members. I also thought it would be really good to do a comedy play.”