On January 31, 2020 middle school students performed a play called One Act. The play was a variety show featuring 14 unrelated, yet talent-filled acts. 

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The first act was “Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better” from the show Annie Get Your Gun and was performed by Jenny Gamero Gomez & Abigail Hoellrich, both 7th grade students.  “It was fun coming here to singing and I was nervous but turned out to be great,” Jenny said.

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The second act was “Naughty” the broadway show Matilda and was performed by Anjesa Morina, a sixth grade student.

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The third act was “Million Dreams” from The Greatest Showman performed by Katrica Terrell & Mubashira Shoeb, both sixth grade students.

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The fourth act was a piano performance of “Burn” from the musical Hamilton performed by Payton Bigley, a seventh grade student.

 

The fifth act was “I’m an Introvert”, an indie song sang by seventh-grade student, Freya Davies. After the show, Freya talked about how she was able to relax through the performance. “I was nervous but I then got over my fear performing my song.” Freya said.

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The sixth act was a skit written by seventh-grade student Helena Schenck and performed by both Helena and another seventh grader, Kevin Munoz-Mondragon.

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After the sixth act, there was a brief intermission with a performance by sixth-grade Xavier Tickle called “Ghosts ‘n’ Stuff” which featured Xavier riding his hoverboard around the auditorium to music.

 

The seventh act was a performance that featured a theatrical skit acted by Helena Schenck, Jenny Gamero Gomez, and seventh-grade student Crystal Romero-Mayan. Eighth-grade student Cat Harper and seventh-grade student Lani Ashton sang “Prom Queen” by Beach Bunny as a musical backdrop for the act. “It was really fun even though there were a couple mistakes,” said Crystal about the act.
 

The eighth act was “Waving Through a Window” from the show Dear Evan Hanson performed by Josephine Crouch, a sixth-grade student.

 

The ninth act was a singing trio performance of “Sisters” from White Christmas performed by real life sisters, Abigail Englis (eighth grade), Violet Englis (sixth grade), and Grace Englis (sixth grade).

 

The tenth act was a performance by the singing quartet featuring Colgan Groller (seventh grade), Myles Lanier (eighth grade), Jonathan Lopez-Bernal (eighth grade), and Lukas Vargas (eighth grade). The students performed the song “The Longest Time” by Billy Joel.

 

The eleventh act was a dancing performance by eighth-grade students Janelle Lapid and Marelyn Alvarez to the song “Telephone” by Lady Gaga ft. Beyonce.

 

The twelfth act was “Don’t Rain on My Parade” from the show Funny Girl  performed by Jenny Gamero-Gomez.

 

The thirteenth act was “Santa Fe” from the show Newsies  performed by Helena Schenck.

 

The fourteenth and final act was performed by all of the One Act performers and they all sang the song “Finale” from the show Rent together to finish out the show. Helena Schenck had this to say about being part of One Act: “It was a really amazing experience, I really don't know the people here but it was really fun getting to meet new people.”

 

The show was a hit with the audience as well. Seventh and eighth grade Language Arts teacher, Ms. Harris said she “thought it was very well done and creative. I liked that each performance was different. I really liked in the finale that everyone was together.” Seventh-grade student Nanci Calderon also added, “I think it was really good and I like how everyone came together.” 

 

The second season of One Act is coming soon, so if you are interested in joining and being part of the show, be sure to listen to announcements about auditions for the next season.

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