Wednesday, May 13, 2009

One Short Day

Tomorrow is our showing of Emerald City! And it's going to be great... Hopefully. :) For those of you who don't know what Emerald City is, allow me to educate you.

At the end of every school year, there is a final choir concert to kick off summer and celebrate a great year together. Well, along with a new high school comes new traditions. At his old school, Mr. Resseguie decided that instead of a choir concert, he would direct a series of mini musicals and different arrangements of music. He continues with this fun way of ending the school year at Staley and we have been quickly preparing to put on a good show. Preparing for this show not only involved learning music and memorizing choreography, but building, painting, and ordering sets, putting together costumes, hiring tech crews, and rehearsing with our amazing orchestra pit. Over all, this ain't just some walk in the park. It's hard work... but we love every minute of it.
Each choir does a different musical. So Concert Choir will be performing an arrangement of Seussical the Musical, Treble Choir will be doing Annie, Falcon Choral- Hairspray, and finally Chamber Choir will be performing Grease. ** I am in Falcon Choral and Chamber Choir.**

As I mentioned before, tomorrow is the first and only showing of Staley High School's first ever Emerald City! And because I know you are all dying to know more (wink wink), I'm providing a sneak peek of this Emerald City.

In Grease, we named the diner after our very own principal, Clark Mershon. (He actually is on stage with us "working at the diner".) With the help of one of my best friends, Katie O' Toole, we managed to cut plywood and paint it to match the back drop for Grease.
Speaking of Grease's back drop... Here it is!! It took five of us and fifteen minutes to hang it.


For Seussical, we had a couple teams of students build and paint 16 foot flats to look like the book spines of Dr. Seuss books. These flats will be hanging behind the performers during their portion of the show. This flat in particular was built by yours truly. It took 35 minutes to cut and put together. Following that, it took 3 1/2 hours to draw, paint, and dry. And I must say.. I'm quite proud of it. :)
Yes, this is a real car. And yes it is back stage in this picture. And if you look carefully in the right hand corner there is a motor cycle waiting to be driven onto the stage. I'm NOT giving away this surprise! Maybe after the show... but I don't want to spoil the rest of it for the viewers, now do I?? ;)

Getting excited and anxious! And closing off this school year with a bang!

Love, Hunter Bug

3 comments:

  1. Dang, how fun. Very talented in the art department you are. We'll see you soon.
    Otto says he wants to lick you too :)

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  2. It was sooooooo great! I loved it.

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