Last week, our advanced choirs gave a ‘celebration of the decades’ concert. Concert Choir, JV Exit One, and Exit One Show Choirs gave an amazing two hour performance, celebrating Ms. Wilson’s 20th year teaching at Northeast High. To begin with the show, Concert choir sang a selection of songs from “Les Miserables” and “Phantom of the Opera”. Soloists included Leandra Carlyle, Alundra Peete, Jeremy Carey, Antonio Jones, Tristian Clark, Josh Bemudez, Ciara Aragon, Brenda Hurlbut, Brianna Tyre, DD Richard, Mikayla Culpepper, Addison Sayre-Adona, Brenda Smith and LaSarah Harvey. Jacqueline Carey and Jeremy Carey preformed “The Phantom of the Opera” together, and received a standing ovation from the crowd. JV Exit One joined the stage after, and all choirs sang, “God’s Gonna Set This World on Fire”, “Lakota Woyanki”, “Sing to the Lord”, and “Treasure”. After the choirs sang and danced to “Treasure”, the audience enjoyed a 7 minute intermission as concert choir took down the stage. Exit One came out and sang to “100 years of Broadway”, “Do-Re-Mi”,”Music in the Mirror”, “Comedy Tonight”, “70’s Soul Celebration” while dancing. “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” was sang acapella, with very few movements. Exit One then swing danced to “A Little Party” by Fergie, Q-tip and Goonrock. Once Exit One was off stage, JV Exit One came out and performed, “Girls Night Out”, and “70s Dance Party”. Mikaela Dinsmore came out and sang “Hopelessly Devoted to You”, and then both JV and Exit One sang and danced to their Grease selection. The Grease selection of the show included: “Greased Lighting”, “You’re the One That I Want”, and “Born to Hand Jive”. During a quick change, Clarissa Hensley sang, “Leave Before the Lights Come On” with accompaniment of guitar by Jose Collaza and Jonathan Bunton. Ciara Aragon then sang, “At Last”. After Ciara’s solo, JV and Exit One danced the Mambo. Finally, Exit One ended the show with the epilogue.
If you didn’t come out to watch any of the shows, you definitely missed out. However, if you did come out and watched the show, and you think you might want to join Concert Choir, JV Exit One, or Exit One, try-outs are Monday, March 31st at 6-9pm. You’ll need to have a song on a CD without words, a copy of your report card. If you want to be in JV or Exit One, you’ll also need to learn a dance that night.
Haley Palmeri
Talon Times Paper 