Written By: Alina Gomez
PERFORMING: During this year’s RUSD Theatre Festival, Poly theatre came home with so many wins!
With another year of performing at the RUSD Theatre Festival and with no doubt about it, Poly came home as winners from their outstanding talents. This Festival is held every year, and it is when many dedicated drama students come together to compete. The festival was held at Arlington High School where several schools’ theatre programs were attended as well as Romona, King, Arlington, North, and Poly. Each competitor was to showcase their singing, acting, designing, and more. All performers signed up for the categories that they were auditioning for, and the competition was decided between three rounds.
Students from all high schools were scattered around the school unveiling the strong points that each of them had. In different classrooms were the various categories; musical solos, original works, sound/makeup designing, and acting.
The students were judged based on the energy put into these performances, the character building, and precision. The beginning two rounds were all about group works, solos, and presentations; while the third round consisted of all school meetings back into the Arlington Theatre where this grand round was held. All theater programs have produced small plays and musicals, each school performed a musical scene from a show that was put on in their school. This round was the most entertaining since everyone got the chance to see snippets of several sequences. The high schools performed scenes from The Little Mermaid, Head Over Heels, Cinderella, and of course, Lightning Thief brought to you by our Theatre program.
Poly’s winners from the RUSD Theatre Festival:
Nicholas Flores- in third place for Musical Solo (“When the Booth Goes Bright” from Amelie )
Hayden Mclntosh- in second place for Musical solo
Tree Brautigam – in third place for Musical solo
Hannah Laag- in first place for Musical solo (“No One Else” from Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812)
Alina Gomez- in first place for Original Works (original poem “Grown Out Of Line”)
Charlie Racz- first place for Makeup Design (BeetleJuice)
Alyssa Chives Majano- first place for Sound design
Katherine Harbour, Lucien Bar, Autumn Dawson, Hannah Laag, Olive Warren, Tree Brautigam-third place for Comedic (The Play That Goes Wrong)
Hayden Mclntosh and Sydney Reed- first place for Musical Duo or Group
Luis Sosa and Joey Subrair- Second place for Set Design
Addison Snider and Lucien Bar- first place for Set Design (Mamma Mia)
Last but certainly not least…
The Lightning Thief– First place for Best Musical Cut from a show
Poly was locked in and ready for this year’s competition. Congratulations to all of our outstanding winners and performers!
Join us next time for the RUSD Theatre Festival