Act Out

Last week, ah… last week.  It seems so calm and peaceful now, thinking back on it from a  rehearsal free weekend.  Monday marked out first run through of Act 2.  While is was fun to run, we all realized that we were very behind.  So, the days to follow were spent playing catch-up. There were … More Hard Work

Yesterday the cast ran all of Act One for the first time. And by ran it I mean stumbled through it. There are songs and dances we all know by heart and then there are those songs that we did once and forgot everything about it. But for it being so incongruous, the cast got … More Stumble Through

The pit orchestra, comprised of the top players at HHS, has started with a bang.  This happy group has been sight reading with Ms. Winnie for the past two weeks.  They have begun the transformation into the legendary pit orchestra that HHS knows and loves.

This week, the cast of Pippin, met Zack Duckler, a 3rd grader at Donges Bay Elementary School who is joining the high school students in this production of Pippin.  He will be playing Theo, the son of Catherine (played by MacKenzie Melan). His first rehearsal was fabulous, working well with MacKenzie and Andrew in the … More Theo’s Corner

Last weekend, Brad and Will asked me what I’d do if Ms. Figg let me choreograph a number in the musical. I said I’d pretty much die of excitement, and maybe they just wanted me to die, but the next day Ms. Figg agreed to give me my favorite song of the whole show—Glory. This … More Introducing Meri Bobber, choreographer for “Glory”