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Assistant Head of School Brian Schlaak shakes his head in amazement. “Seventykids! Weonlyhavetwohundredandfiftykids in the whole high school, and seventy of them are in Concert Choir!” Father Martin notes, ”You see the captain of the football team, a senior quarterback, right there, as prominent as anyone, singing away. You’d never have gotten that before.”
The booming concert choir is just one of the many ways the performing arts have blossomed at Priory since the opening of the Performing Arts Center in 2007. Made possible by the Golden Jubilee Campaign, the PAC’sopeningwastimedtocoincidewithPriory’s50thanniversary. The ambitious three-building project, which provided Priory with the 400- seat Rothrock Performance Hall, a Black Box theater, and state-of-the-art