Wednesday, January 9, 2013
This year's appearance is the fifth in as many years for BRAVO program.
BRAVO, the fine arts and performing arts program at Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School, has done it again. The troupe of 46 performers will head to the National Junior Theater Festival, being conducted over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend in Atlanta, GA. This is the fifth consecutive year that the talented group will represent Brooks and the entire state of Illinois in one of the most prestigious national competitions of its kind. The festival is sponsored by iTheatrics, a New York-based organization that takes Broadway shows and changes the keys of the songs to fit younger performers’ voices, shortens the scripts and in the case of such shows as Hairspray, makes them G-rated. The Saturday night of the festival, the cast will …
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Brooks Middle School production opens Friday.
BRAVO, Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School's fine and performing arts department, will take visitors on an extraordinary journey when the school presents, "Once on this Island." The third production of the season will be on stage for three performances at 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 2, and at 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3 at Brooks, 325 S. Kenilworth Ave. "Once on This Island" is a story within a story, told to calm a young girl during a storm. Set on a French Antilles mythical Caribbean island where class differences prevail, it’s a fable about a peasant girl plucked from just such a storm by the gods and sheltered in a tree. Students will perform, sing and dance. And they'll also a hand - with adults - in doing the choreography, costumes and…
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Friday, February 25, 2011
The Oak Park and River Forest High School production of Once on This Island is low on dialogue and high on song.
Its title may be Once On This Island, but for Jiana Odland, it won't be the first time. The statuesque high school senior first appeared on stage at the age of six in the Village Players Theatre production of Once on This Island. Her last performance before leaving for college will be in the same musical, premiering Saturday at the Oak Park and River Forest High School Auditorium. This time Odland plays the Goddess of Earth, one of four deities who lead the protagonist, Ti Moune, on a journey to save her one true love. Set in Haiti, the story shifts between two contrasting societies: the sarong-wearing peasantry, to which Ti Moune belongs, and the Grand Hommes, descended from French settlers. First-time actress Annie Riles landed the part …
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