Archive for the ‘Entertainment’ Section
Senior Project A Very Potter Musical Casts Delight
by Jackie Surdan & Leah Pinsky | June 2010
Every year, underclassmen anxiously wait to see the senior projects in Ms. Lenington and Ms. Kuhn’s Project English classes, and this year was no different. The most prominent of this year’s projects was the production of A Very Potter Musical. Seniors Sophie Peyton, Sarah Chip Minkoff, and Macauley Brooks collaborated to produce a full-length musical [...]
10-Minute Plays Dazzle
by Leah Pinsky | June 2010
At the end of every year, Mrs. Potter’s Directing Class has one major project. Every student has to direct a ten-minute play. Even though the plays are only ten minutes long, each director spends hours making sure everything is just right. Each director has to find and research a play, design a set, find [...]
Seniors’ Dr. Horrible Far from Horrible
by Emily Jones | June 2010
On Saturday, May 8, Proscenium Circus’ annual class play competition took place. The event promised to be a night of fun and exciting theatrical competition between the classes. It began with the freshman play, Alice and the Bookkeeper, an original production written and directed by Serena Cates and Julia Roth. Based on Lewis Carroll’s Alice [...]
No Soap Radio: Fresh Music Bursts Onto the Scene
by Valerie Wittman | May 2010
The heat of the crowd, the lights beating down, the anticipation… “It’s a feeling like no other,” says singer Eugene Mundowa. The newest sensation at Acton-Boxborough, No Soap Radio, is making its way from The Middle East, a restaurant and nightclub, to the upcoming Senior Variety Show at AB. The aspiring high school band features [...]
Seniors & Faculty Variety Show
by Valerie Wittman | May 2010
On Thursday, April 29, AB will host the Senior and Faculty Variety Show in the auditorium. Seniors can reveal their unique talents at the second variety show at AB in three years. The show is an opportunity not only for the seniors to show off their skills and entertain an auditorium full of people, but [...]
Classes Show Off Acting Chops
by Maya Hardimon | May 2010
Every year, the classes ferociously compete in the Class Plays. Each grade presents a 30-minute, student-directed play for the audience and a panel of judges picks the best show. Additional awards are given for outstanding actors and great technical achievements.
This year, the freshman class is presenting a student-written play, Alice and the Book Keeper, directed [...]
PC’s Kiss Me Kate Shines on Stage
by Jackie Surdan | March 2010
This winter, ABRHS’s Proscenium Circus put on another showstopper of a musical, Kiss Me Kate. The award-winning Broadway phenomenon, written by Cole Porter, is a play-within-a-play. The peppy show, filled with humor, slapstick, and wonderfully threatening thugs, was a huge departure from last year’s Nazi-filled Cabaret, but the cast definitely displayed the same caliber of [...]
