When “The Old Man and the Old Moon” opened Off-Broadway in New York City in 2012, critics didn’t know whether to love or hate it.

The frolicking tale follows an old man who leaves his job replenishing the light of the moon to look for his wife, who herself has gone in search of a song. Featuring shadow puppets and live music performed by the seven young founders of the PigPen Theatre Company, the production was almost offensively charming. Critics came down on the side of “love.”

The production seems a sweet choice to mount in contentious times, but Colleen Sullivan’s decision to make it her first production as the new theater teacher at the Sun Valley Community School was more pragmatic: It’s low-tech and doesn’t require many actors. It’s also not really a musical.

“It is a musical sh

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