OK, so we don’t typically include elementary school theatrical productions among our Critics’ Picks, but you’ll soon understand why we’ve made an exception here. This week, Eakin Elementary School in the Hillsboro-West End neighborhood will stage JY’ALLS — “a musical based on a movie based on a book.” Almost exactly 50 years after the release of Steven Spielberg’s groundbreaking 1975 thriller JAWS, JY’ALLS promises a cast of “dozens of earnest and adorable students” — per writer and producer Edwin Willmore’s description — providing renditions of such maritime classics as “Under the Boardwalk” and “Rock Lobster,” among other songs. Willmore promises this production will be “stripped down to its bare bones,” but with all the essential tension that made Spielberg’s original an instant classic. And the titular shark? In this case, it’s a 16-foot-long puppet. (Fans of Rushmore: Are you picking up the Max Fischer vibes here?) There will be four stagings this week, and pay-what-you-want tickets are available at eakinpto.org/jyalls. D. PATRICK RODGERS