Page 81 - Bellfort Issue 3 2014

The Performing Arts Department A Really WICKED Trip! theatre genre and used ramus - Preparing for Life! songs from the show in One class graced us with This year the Performing their final showcase per- the soulful and rhythmic Arts department collabo- formance in May. The class sounds of a blues percus- rated with the A level are now excitedly looking sion ensemble while an- Travel and Tourism class to forward to their next thea- other presented scenes attend the internationally tre trip to see Willy Rus- that told of the new and acclaimed production sell’s Blood Brothers at the exciting subjects that they WICKED at the Bord Gais Grand Opera House, Belfast had explored in the first Energy Theatre in Dublin. in September. Dunclug’s few weeks in their new WICKED is based on a novel students have been truly school. The roof was raised by Gregory Maguire and bewitched by the limelight as one class drummed to tells the story of two and smell of grease paint. Avicii’s popular song ‘Wake unlikely friends; the popu- Me Up’ while a more gen- lar and blonde Glinda and Robbie Erwin and Rebecca teel sound was created as the misunderstood and Whyte studying their pro- one class sang ‘One World green skinned Elphaba. In a gramme from WICKED (In Harmony)’ featuring SUMMER 2014 parallel story to the Classic several soloists including Wizard of OZ, the story ex- Borgan Havelin who took plores how these two the lead in the chorus. The magical characters become classic fable of Finn McCool Glinda The Good and The was retold through choral Wicked Witch of The West work and the audience respectively. feared for Cassy McGloin as Gerda in the robber’s scene By the sobs, gasps and from Hans Christian Ander- wide eyed faces of the year Checking It Out – The son’s classic tale The Snow 13 pupils who attended the Check In Evening! Queen. trip, it was safe to say that the trip was a complete Starting school is always a The evening was enjoyed success. They were spell- nervous and worrying time by parents, pupils and bound by the musicality of – but not for Year 8 stu- teachers alike and was the show and in awe of the dents in Dunclug. After again a fitting prologue to set, lighting, dance routines only three weeks in school the school year. and special effects. One every Year 8 pupil took part pupil, Chloe Peachey said ‘I in the annual Check-In Eve- wish I could do this every ning. The evening com- day’ and along with her prised of six individual per- peers was scouring the bro- formances undertaken by chures for the next big hit all six of the Year 8 Per- show to attend. forming Arts classes as well as coming together to per- Raising the roof Back at school pupils have form the school song which 8P1 at the Year 8 Check-In since used WICKED as a contains the all-important Evening. case study into the musical school motto: Ad Vitam Pa- 81