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The student news site of Stillwater Area High School

The Pony Express

Musical Bye Bye Birdie features new talent

Musical ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ features new talent

Madison Weispfenning, Editorial Cartoonist April 6, 2018

The theater department is hard at work preparing for the spring musical "Bye Bye Birdie". Originally performed as a Broadway show called “Let’s Go Steady” in 1960, “Bye Bye Birdie” eventually...

Vogel looks over her lines within her practice binder. “I’m glad we’re doing Grease. I think the whole cast is having fun with it,” Vogel says. Students are smiling and their energy and excitement can be felt during practice. The show will be a lot of fun to watch.

Sophie Vogel stars in ‘Grease’

Mira LaNasa, Editor-in-Chief October 20, 2017

Senior Sophie Vogel’s day begins at 6:10 a.m., and ends later than 12 a.m. She wakes up, goes to school, orchestra, work, rehearsal and finally home to study and do homework. All of this work is...

Participants, like sophomore Flora Sherr-Nelson, worked to produce short plays under 15 minutes in length at the Festival. The first thing that we needed to include was to mention the color black and/or red. Second we had to have two generations, like a parent and a child. Our last constraint was to include a famous quote about pride and make sure to credit the author. Sherr-Nelson said.

24 Hour Play Festival immerses students in theatre

Liv Krusinski, In-Studio Video Team Director April 27, 2016

One way to get a taste of theatre is to audition for a show and take a few months and really get to know the way things work around there. This year, the theatre department decided to put a new twist into...

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