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Hommocks Auditorium Stages its First Musical:
Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
by Judy Silberstein; photographs by Tom Jordan
(February 10, 2004)
After years of schlepping between the middle school
and the
stage
at Murray Avenue
Elementary School, the Hommocks musical came home.
On February 5, 6 and 7 (despite the snow and ice), there
were 100 students onstage and 25 backstage
from grades 6, 7 and 8 presenting
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in
the new auditorium.
There were some kinks to work out: How does the curtain
work? How do we balance the state-of-the-art sound
system? But by opening-night, cast, crew and pit orchestra
(with six middle and high school student musicians)
were ready to play to full houses and receive their
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Step 1. Let those voices ring - loud
and clear, musical director Omar Rodriguez' body language
exhorted the cast of Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat.
Step 2. Keep your places, mind your paces, Director
and Choreographer Cal Chiang appeared to be thinking.
Step 3. Hair swept up, makeup straight, the cast prepared.
Step 4. Wide arms on those ribbons, indicated Producer
Katy Heyde. |
Tom Jordan is the Band
Director at the Hommocks Middle School.
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