The entire cast performs the “Kick It Up!” number in the musical “If You Could Dance in My Shoes,” written by Diane Beckstead of St. Luke's Lutheran School.

Putting on a good show and doing a good deed at the same time was the aim of Diane Beckstead and the students of her theater arts camp at St. Luke's Lutheran School, 330 Hannahstown Road, Cabot.

Their Aug. 13 performance of Beckstead's musical, “If You Could Dance in My Shoes,” provided both song and dance and support for Soles4Souls, a Nashville nonprofit that provides shoes to those in need around the world.

“If You Could Dance in My Shoes” is the latest musical that Beckstead has written for her company, Musicals For Change.

She writes and sells children's musicals to encourage children to be change-makers, educate and inspire audiences and support organizations such as Soles4Souls, Cribs for Kids, Operation Christmas Child and Heifer Project International.

Beckstead has been the musical educator at St. Luke's Lutheran School for 15 years and the vocal musical director for musicals at Knoch High School for the past six years.

A lack of children's musicals prompted her to take a stab at writing them herself, she said.

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