By Wendi Reardon Price Staff Writer wprice@mihomepaper.com INDEPENDENCE TWP. — Kids were just finishing their popsicle break during the Musical Theatre Camp, July 25, when their counselors jumped on the stage and began dancing the choreography to Aladdin’s “Friend Like Me” in the Clarkston High School Performing Arts Center. The campers ran onto the stage, […]
By Wendi Reardon PriceStaff Writerwprice@mihomepaper.comINDEPENDENCE TWP. — Clarkston High School Drama Club is taking a journey into Peter Pan’s past in their spring production “Peter and the Starcatcher” at the CHS Performing Arts Center, April 26 and 27.“It’s how he came to be who he is and Captain Hook, too,” shared senior Francesca Catalla, about […]
By Wendi Reardon PriceStaff WriterINDEPENDENCE TWP. — The Clarkston High School Drama Club is making the last preparations as they get ready to present “The Addams Family High School Edition” at the CHS Performing Arts Center, Feb. 15-18.“‘The Addams Family’ follows the Addams family,” said senior Aubrey Drouin. “Wednesday falls in love with a boy […]
Forty-four members of the Clarkston High School Drama Club Troupe 803 attended the Michigan Thespian Festival in Lansing, the weekend of December 8.They participated in workshops, networked with universities and theatre professionals, watched productions, and met other theatre students from all over Michigan during the festival.Graduating seniors Alex Gianakos, Francesca Catella and Jilliana Lehman received […]
By Wendi Reardon Price Clarkston News Staff Writer The Clarkston High School Drama Club is returning to Oklahoma in their spring production of “The Outsiders” with performances on Friday, April 21 and Saturday, April 22, 7 p.m. “The Outsiders,” adapted by Christopher Sergel, from the book written by S. E. Hinton, takes the audience to […]
By Wendi Reardon Price Clarkston News Staff Writer The Clarkston High School Drama Club is proud to bring to the CHS Performing Arts Center stage Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s “Oklahoma!,” Feb. 16-19. “It’s the drama club’s fourth time doing this musical,” senior Gavin Bow shared. The first time was 1970 . “It’s been […]
BY WENDI REARDON PRICE Clarkston News Staff Writer The Clarkston High School Drama Club is proud to announce their spring production of Robert Fulghum’s “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten,” with shows on Friday, April 22 and Saturday, April 23. “Kindergarten is really about a reflection on a lot of the […]
BY WENDI REARDON PRICE Clarkston News Staff Writer All bets are off when it comes to love, as characters in 1950s New York find out when Clarkston High School Drama Club presents the musical comedy “Guys and Dolls,” Feb. 13-16. The show centers around two gamblers, Nathan Detroit and Sky Masterson, and the two women […]
BY WENDI REARDON PRICE Clarkston News Staff Writer Maryn McConnell and Ben Neideck will step into their “Hairspray” roles again as they represent Clarkston High School at the Sutton Foster Ovation Awards, May 11-12. “I was so excited,” said McConnell, a junior who played Tracy Turnblad in “Hairspray.” “I didn’t think I would be selected […]
BY WENDI REARDON PRICE Clarkston News Staff Writer The Clarkston High School Drama Club takes you back to the 1920s as they perform “Radium Girls” by D.W. Gregory at the high school’s Performing Arts Center on Friday, April 26 and Saturday, April 27 at 7 p.m. Radium is the miracle cure and Grace Fryer and […]