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| drama department's Spring Musical "thoroughly modern millie" |
It’s 1922 and Millie Dillmount has arrived in Manhattan, New York. Millie has guts, pluck, charisma and moxie! She’s a gal with big dreams from a little town in Kansas planning to make her mark in the big city…telling the world to “beat the drums, ‘cause here comes ‘Thoroughly Modern Millie’” . She meets Jimmy Smith, a “city slicker” with a buoyant personality who suggests she check into the Hotel Priscilla, a local rooming house for aspiring actresses. Mrs. Meers, who runs the hotel, is a former actress ……..with a hidden agenda. She is aided in her “other business” by Bun Foo and Ching Ho who are working to save enough money to bring their mother over from Hong Kong. Millie becomes part of the gang along with the ingénue, Miss Dorothy Smith, who is also seeking a new beginning. Millie lands a stenographer’s job with the very handsome Trevor Graydon III despite all the efforts of the very severe Miss Flannery, the office manager. All will be delighted by the wonderful tap dance sequence in ‘The Speed Test’. Jimmy (who is sweet on Millie) invites the gang to attend a welcome home party for Muzzy Van Hossmere where she entertains many of New York’s elite. Love is in the air and the story line twists and turns as each of the main characters find their true loves. In the meantime, Mrs. Meers pursues her nefarious exploits only to be foiled at the end and her true character revealed. The show comes to a dramatic close amid totally unexpected revelations and happy endings.
This show is filled with excitement, grand dance and song numbers and all the glamour and fun of the roaring twenties. It is a true broadway style show destined to delight both the audience and all who participate!
Production Dates:
Friday, April 25 (Dinner Theater)
Saturday April 26 (Dinner Theater)
Sunday April 27 (Brunch Theater)
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Visual Arts
SCS offers a comprehensive visual art experience for grades K - 12.
Lower School
- Instruction is focused on the elements of art through stimulating projects including drawing, painting, printing, weaving and fabric arts, ceramics and other three dimensional mediums.
- Students have received recognition and awards locally from the Daily Times, the Delmarva Youth Magazine the Ward Museum Art Show, and regionally from the Baltimore Arts Week exhibit at the Meyer Hall.
- 5th grade students take a yearly Fine Arts field trip to Baltimore to include a Baltimore Symphony Concert and a tour of the Walters Art Museum .
- Art students are introduced to famous art and artists through an integration of art history into the art curriculum.
Upper School
- The curriculum is designed to meet the six "National Visual Arts Standards:
- Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes
- Using knowledge of structures and functions
- Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols and tools
- Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures
- Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.
- Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines
- Students participate in the ACSI Fine Arts Festival. At the most recent festival select students received "Best in Show" for graphics Arts and Acrylic Painting.
Performing Arts
- SCS offers a Drama Club to our 6th -12th graders which becomes a training ground for our students to learn all aspects of the production process.
- SCS offers two full scale productions per year: a drama in the fall and a musical in the spring. Past drama productions include You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, Cinderella, Fiddler on the Roof, Hello Dolly, Little Women of Orchard House, Arsenic and Old Lace, and The Sound of Music .
- The dramas mentioned above have included an average cast of 80 students and teachers with approximately 20 students in the orchestra.
Instrumental Music
- SCS offers band instruction starting in the 4th grade. Our 4th & 5th graders learn through small group lessons once a week.
- Our band program consists of both wind instruments and percussion.
- At the Upper school level band instruction becomes a part of the student's daily schedule.
- The combined total of students in the Upper school band programs totals approximately 75 students.
- SCS also offers a Pep Band option (Basketball games!) for interested students.
- Besides the Winter and Spring Band concerts, the band competes each year in regional competitions.
Vocal Music
- Each Winter and Spring our Lower School chorus, made up of all of our 1st - 5th grade students, perform amazing programs.
- At the Middle and High school levels, students are required to audition for Chorus. The Middle school chorus consists of approximately 30 students, while the High school chorus is around 45 students. In addition, SCS offers an Honors Chorus for select students.
- Our Upper school chorus performs in the ACSI Fine Arts Festival and has become accustomed to receiving "Excellent" ratings.
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