The school musical sadly comes to a close, but the emotions felt while watching this wonderful, heartwarming performance remain.
When it came down to coming up with what show to do this year, Ms. Patterson, theatre teacher and the director of Hello Dolly, knew that she wanted to do a “golden age musical”, which is a more-older style show, and ‘Hello, Dolly!’ was the one that stood out to her.
Both Ms. Obray and Ms. Patterson knew that since the school numbers were lower, they would have a lower number of actors. So they decided to open the play up to the Junior high students as interns for the play. So they invited kids from Orion, Mountain view, and Wahlquist to have them join in the musical.
“We got 30 performers, 30 performing interns, and 12 technical, so we had quite a few interns that joined us this year.” Ms. Patterson and Ms. Obray said
.“There’s a lot of new things we decided to do this year, one of them was the big turntable”
Said by Ms Patterson.
When they started designing the scenery, they knew they wanted to try something new for it, so, they sketched a bunch of designs out, and they eventually decided on a turntable that could be stored and rented out to other schools and still used for upcoming school plays.
The turntable was used for the whole duration of the show. It was used for Yonkers, the hat shop, the restaurant, and the parade. Actors and tech would be spinning it by the bars or just from behind the platform.
The actors and technicians worked extremely hard, equally, to make this play happen. The technicians working on the lights and scenery and sound, the actors working on the choreo, singing, dancing, acting and they all did amazing!
Corbyn Macari, a senior who played Barnaby Tucker. He reflected, “There’s a lot of hard work that’s going into it, but I think that it’s really going to pay off in the end.”
When it comes to tech crew in the play, they work extremely hard. Yes, they make the scenery, but they do more than just that. They make props, do the lighting and sound, help with microphones and they even move the scenery around.
Ms. Obray, one of the theatre teachers, stated that “technicians are better technicians when they’ve been on stage because you can really see the other person’s point of view”
The people who act or do tech for the play have a good relationship with each other. They have a lot of fun rehearsing for the play no matter how much work goes into it, they always have fun doing it together.
“The play is one of my favourite times of the entire year, because even though you have to spend crazy hours at the school, you get to spend that time with your friends,” said Rock Erkelens, a senior who played Ambrose Kemper in Hello Dolly.
Both cast and crew worked so hard on this wonderful play to bring you entertainment and fun. And they did! The heartfelt laughs and the happy cheers did wonders on our actors during Hello Dolly!
The curtains closed for Hello Dolly on Nov 23rd. Their next performance is the Lightning Thief, coming to Fremont in February.
