Let's Hear It For The Boys And Girls

February 26th, 2007 at 05:52am Michael Conniff 2

I never had a better night at the Wheeler Opera House than the one Saturday night--and that's saying something. The cause of my glee was a music performance by the entire Aspen Country Day school on the main stage based on the proposition that nobody really knows what's in there upside your head.

There was real talent up there on the stage, with a half-dozen singers, boys and girls both, who could keep on singing in productions at least through high school and college, and at least as many who clearly loved their perch up there on the stage. The camaraderie of the eighth-graders, announced individually at the end of the performance, was particularly cool to see, but what I loved the most was the little kids scrambling and bouncing around on stage to come through in the clutch. It was like that magical moment in every production of "The Nutcracker" when the little sugarplums race around--multiplied by twenty. 

You want glee? You got it?

Kudos go to Marci Sketch who produced, directed, and wrote (with her brother from Detroit) the extravaganza that filled up the Wheel House. I'm told that the school is meticulous about making a DVD of the event for the grandparents who couldn't make it, one that includes at least one shot of every single kid. It's easy to see why. In the production by Aspen Country Day, everybody is a star.

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