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SEPTEMBER 16 Students who were accepted into the musical had their first meeting, NOVEMBER 18-20

nwhere everyone went around in a Cast and crew work to put all of the n SEPTEMBER 10 & 11 Students who wanted to be involved in circle and said their biggest hope and fear for the show. REHEARSALS NOVEMBER 17 Students on crew sacrifice their finishing touches on the show during a long, exhausting production week. NOVEMBER 21-24 PERFORMANCES! Students n n n n n the fall musical auditioned or interviewed Sunday to make final adjustments finally get to share all of their with the directors. and run challenging scene changes. hard work with an audience.

Working on Working

When the fall musical was announced, the majority of students involved in theatre were confused. Working? I knew I had never heard of it before. However, after two months of rehearsals, I can say that it has definitely grown on me. Throughout the rehearsal process, the cast and the crew didn’t get to see much of each other. Everyone worked separately on their own pieces of the show, so that when we all finally came together, the production went as smoothly as possible.

The different crews met once a week at the beginning of the show and taught the basics of their crew to their new members. Then, for the three weeks leading solo and/or monologue in up to the show, they worked order to perfect it. Because with the cast to run the show the show was based on real and then stayed even later people’s stories and words, to fine tune what they had perfect lines were somealready worked on. Crew thing that was heavily emalso has tech Sunday, where phasized. they run through the parts “We are telling the stoof the show that are givries of real people in their ing them trouble, like hard own words. We owe it to scene changes or songs with these professionals to get a lot of cues. Then they stay it right,” Director Don Wathe week of the show until chowiak said. everything is finished. Getting the opportunity

“There’s a few mental to tell a real person’s life breakdowns through all of story is amazing. Every night that,” junior Lights Crew before I would go onstage Head Alexa Brown said. to sing “It’s An Art”, I would For the ensemble, rethink about how I had the hearsals consisted mostly ability to potentially impact of learning and practicing someone in the audience the songs and dances, while because they related to the featured cast members put life my character lived. It was in extra time to work on their extremely rewarding.

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Junior Claire Jesionowski (Props Crew Head)

“Instead of a certain set of characters for the duration of the show, each scene is completely separate. One thing [the audience] will take away is the passion that each of the characters show and the differences in how each person perceives the world around them. My favorite part of the show are the memories I’ve made and all of the new friends I met.”

Senior Patrick Osinski (Mike Dillard, Iron Worker)

“Working is a very difficult musical compared to past shows. The whole cast size is about the same, but having 20+ people with solos and monologues makes the whole thing rough. My favorite part of the show is seeing everything, as well as everyone come together to form something beautiful. We’re all just a big family. Also, the smell of hairspray in north commons makes the show worth it.”

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Dance is harder than it looks

Abigail Clark

Staff Writer As the daylight hours get shorter and perfecting their techniques. and the night hours get colder, the During the dance season, they ofdance team jumps into action. ten make goals to reach by the end of Contrary to popular belief, dancthe year. Each dancer has his or her ers work hard all year to be able to meet own goal, but as a team, they all agree their goals when it comes to dance team on one thing- working hard and trying competition. Currently, they are still their best to get as far as possible. practicing for competition, as the sea“At this point, we just want to try son just started. our bests and make the most out of what “Last year we qualified for States we are given,” Mitchell said. and placed third in Jazz and fourth in The athletes work tremendously Pom,” sophomore Rylee Mitchell said. hard all year to ensure that they are givAs for their current practices, they ing it their full effort, and to show all the seem to be very laid back. According other teams they compete against who’s to the dancers, you typically show up boss. Even though it may not seem like whenever you would like, as most of it, dancers work equally as hard as any BARTLETT the time, other dancers are performsport at Northview, and compete just as NORTHVIEW DANCE TEAM rises to the challenge. Juniors Josie Varwig, ing. They are run by the members of hard too. Catch the dancers at their first Emma Meredith, and Josie Umfleet raise sophomore Rose Roberts at the team. During these practices, they competition at Maumee High School one of last years’ basketball games. do lots of conditioning, choreography, On January 19.

Emma Steingass

feature athlete

What is your Personal Record?

My season best and PR is an 18 minutes and 23 seconds, which I ran at Regionals.

How many races have you run in your career?

I think throughout my entire high school career, I have ran around 25 races in Cross Country.

What’s your favorite Cross Country memory?

My favorite Cross Country memory was when my teammates and I were cheering at the starting line before Regionals this year because it really helped us all to push ourselves during the race.

What gives you an advantage over other runners?

I think one thing that gives me an advantage over most runners is my work ethic when it comes to my training.

Do you plan on running in college?

I do plan to run in college, but I am not sure where yet.

29th place States