Friday

Grease in Mongolia!

 ISU produced it's first ever Broadway Musical, yesterday, with our production of Grease!  The audience seemed quite pleased and well entertained, despite the lightest rehearsal schedule I've ever seen for a high school musical! A couple of months was all we had, with only one music rehearsal and two stage rehearsals per week. Somehow, the kids pulled it off! Many students worked hard, but my Music Director hat goes off to students Namuun, Ashley, and Amy, from Mongolia, the US, and China. They were note-perfect in solos and harmonies, worked hard on stage, and took technical issues in stride like pros! With a total 35 students on stage and back stage, it was truly an international cast with students from another 15 countries.  Many of our school's students who were in the audience, came up to me at intermission and said they intended to audition next year.  So, "Mission Accomplished!"    Here are a couple pages from last night's student-produced program...