Catherine Chiocchi
Arts Editor
We’ve all been forced to endure the clichéd melodrama of Disney’s High School Musical. Troy Bolton, the star Basketball player and all-around jock, cultivates a newfound love for – gasp – singing. Cheesy as the trite storyline may be, many “Troy Boltons” secretly walk among us in the hallways. They are the undercover artists…
Author: Catherine Chiocchi
The Mystery of Edwin Drood commercials
Catherine Chiocchi
Arts Editor
The Drama Department has put together its “most innovative PR scheme yet” to build excitement for its upcoming production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood. For the first time, the department has worked with NCTV to produce nine commercials in which eight faculty members get to try out their acting skills as the leading players in the show “murder” them one by one. Life size pictures of the principle characters have also been speckled throughout the school to encourage students to pick their favorite suspect in the onstage “whodunit” mystery.Catherine Chiocchi
Arts Editor
The Drama Department has put together its “most innovative PR scheme yet” to build excitement for its upcoming production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood. For the first time, the department has worked with NCTV to produce nine commercials in which eight faculty members get to try out their acting skills as the leading players in the show “murder” them one by one. Life size pictures of the principle characters have also been speckled throughout the school to encourage students to pick their favorite suspect in the onstage “whodunit” mystery…
Drood takes musicals to new heights
Francesca DeRosa
Reporter
This year’s winter musical, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, will be the first NCHS production in which the actors literally take to the air.
Though it lasts only briefly, a few members of the cast will be hoisted into the air by a system of pulleys, which are manned by a troop of athletic students recruited especially for the purpose. The scene is played out with graceful somersaults and a lot of effort by the crew pulling the ropes…
Virtue-Moir earn ice dancing gold for Canada
Catherine Chiocchi
Arts Editor
Oh, Canada! Monday night in the ice dancing event, partners Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir brought home the gold for the host country at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games. Meryl Davis and Charlie White from the United States won the silver medal, and Oksana Domnina and Maksim Shabalin from the Russia Federation took home bronze…
“Stepping” into a culture
Catherine Chiocchi
Arts Editor
According to Webster’s Dictionary, dance is “a series of rhythmic and patterned bodily movements usually performed to music.” But beyond graceful choreography, dance is an integral part of many world cultures. Some students have spent years practicing dance genres inherent to a particular culture, like Irish step dance (traditional Irish dancing), Indian classical dance, and African tribal dance…