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Fine ArtsNews(cont.)
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Padua Franciscan Performing Arts will present the play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie as the Fall Play in 2018.
Black Coffee is “a superbly crafted whodunit with endless red herrings, subplots of infamous spies and an astonishingly prophetic story line about weapons created through ‘bombarding the atom.’ One of Christie’s most gripping country house murder mysteries.”
The production is co-directed by Mrs. Rebecca Simna and Miss Elizabeth Malloy ’11 with Mrs. Amanda (Tweddell) Leonard ’05 as technical director and Mrs. Andrea (Fatica) Mikolajczyk ’02 as scenic artist.
Padua Accepted into
2018 Dazzle Awards
The Dazzle Awards are the high school equivalent of the Tony Awards for musical production. This year 26 areas high schools were selected to participate in the program, which included workshops with Broadway professionals, production critique and performing on stage at the Playhouse for the Dazzle Awards. Categories mirror those in the Tony list: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Set Design etc. In order to qualify for any of the production categories, students must complete at least 50 percent of the design and build it themselves. It was sometimes a challenge for the adults to take a backseat and simply guide and supervise but the students did an incredible job.
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Bruins Perform at Carnegie Hall
Five Bruins were selected to participate in the 2018 High School Honors Performance Series at Carnegie Hall in New York City and the Sydney Opera House in Australia.
Greg Prevoznik ’18 and Tommy Margevicius ’18 performed with the Honors Concert Choir and Nicole Rongone ’18 performed with the Honors Women’s Choir at Carnegie Hall on Sunday February 4, 2018. Andrew Smeader ’18 was accepted into the Honors Orchestra, but opted not to perform. Grant Bell ’20 performed with the Honors Choir at the Sydney Opera House with composer/ conductor Greg Gilpin on July 21, 2018.
Students were selected by audition from applicants from all 50 United States, Washington DC, six provinces of Canada, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Mexico, New Zealand, Qatar, South Korea, and the United Kingdom.
The Honors
Performance Series
was established
to feature talented
young musicians
on stage at two of the world’s most prestigious music halls.