OCTOBER 30, 2015, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A5
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Coffee Shop concerts
offer different taste of
Celtic musicality
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
Ready to see a different
side of the McNary High
School choir? Then the Cof-
fee Shop Concert series might
be right up your alley.
“We have a lot of contem-
porary music instead of the
classical. It’s a chance to see
the other side of what we do
and hear music
that is more re-
latable than some
of the other stuff
they might hear
us sing,” said Ari-
ana Pippert.
For the past
few years, the
series,
which
doubles as a fun-
draiser for choral programs
at the school, has given the
spotlight to some of McNary’s
singer/songwriters and a ca-
pella groups that otherwise are
only part of the burgeoning
choir program at MHS. The
next Coffee Shop Concert is
slated at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov.
5, in the McNary choir room.
Admission is $5.
Students not only perform
covers of current and classic
pop hits, but also try to put
their own spin on the tunes.
Lainie Zamudio works
with several of the performers.
“I take song requests from
the other performers and take
parts out and write spoken
word and raps to fi ll in those
spaces,” said Zamudio.
On the a capella front, there
are both boys and girls groups.
“We do a lot of individu-
al and a capella small group
songs, sometimes we even
come together and do big
group numbers,” said Mari
Martin.
Currently, the girls are
working on pieces by Uncle
Cracker and Colbie Caillat,
while the boys are
working on some
older hits.
“We have two
major songs, I’m
a Believer by the
Monkees
and
we’re also doing
The Longest Time
by Billy Joel,” said
Casey Potesmil.
When not performing in
the concert series, members
of the performance troupe are
taking the show on the road.
“We just fi nished gathering
our a capella groups together
and we went to Keizer El-
ementary to sing for the stu-
dents there. Then the singer/
songwriters went the follow-
ing week,” said Jessica Grim-
mer.
“If they start loving music
in elementary school, they’ll
be able to do so much more
by the time they get to Mc-
Nary,” added Marissa Rogers.
“Basically, we want to inspire
them to want to persue music
and stick with it until they get
here.”
Crafting a tale as old as time
KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald
Dorothy Woolford, Ashley Rodriguez, Kailey Rendo and Alayna Sykosky dress up a merchant’s cart to be used McNary’s upcom-
ing production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
When a hauling trailer
arrived at McNary High
School packed with the
dresses and vests and even
wolf heads for the upcoming
production of Disney’s Beauty
and the Beast, costumers Beth
Murphy and Lexie Simpson
spent the next few hours rev-
eling in their work.
“The costumes are just
crazy in their detail. We spent
hours just going through and
matching the pieces. The
whole time we were asking
each other if we had seen
some new piece that had just
been unwrapped,” said Mur-
phy.
Then the girls had to set
to work.
“Everything has to be
hand-stitched and it has to be
able to come out. Sometimes
it’s just pinning things up or
repairing rips, but we’ve had
to take in the shoulders and
waistlines for a lot of the main
characters,” said Simpson.
Performances
begin
Thursday, Nov. 12, and,
for the fi rst time, tickets
are being sold online. Visit
mcnarytheatre.weebly.com
for show dates, times and
tickets.
While the costumes ar-
rived in bulk from Westview
High School, the McNary
theatre tech students have
spent weeks building every-
thing else. That’s meant creat-
ing or repurposing set pieces
and painting fl y panels to
recreate the feel of a proper
Disney animated movie.
“It feels a lot like we’ve
been living in a fairy tale
the whole time we’ve been
working,” Simpson said.
Student Taylor Long de-
signed the chair for the vil-
lainous Gaston.
“We had a medieval chair
and I picked out pieces that I
liked and reformed the rest of
it,” Long said.
It’s taken her about 12
hours, but she designed and
cut an addition to the chair
back that looks like racks of
antlers. That piece alone is six
feet across.
“We had originally done
it as four feet, but it looked
too small. When it’s fi nished,
it will have fake fur on the
armrests and bright red satin
cushions with gold cinches,”
she said.
Zena Greenawald, Madi-
son Munro and Katherine
Gray are handling most of the
art design for the set pieces.
“The hardest, and most
fun, part is trying to make it
seem like reality while hav-
ing it also be outrageous,”
said Gray.
While some of the design
includes taking input from
others, Greenawald said the
team is taking inspiration
from other sources.
“We’ve looked up a lot of
photos of old French villages
and we’re trying to mix those
with the cartoon style,” she
said.
Munro said it’s really be-
come a team effort because
not only are they creating
the set for the play istelf, they
We’ll transform your kitchen
or bath into what you’ve
always dreamed of
are creating a separate back-
drop for tea parties that will
be held with the members of
the cast each Saturday of the
performance.
“I’ve enjoyed being in-
cluded in the whole design
process and working as part
of a team is a good time,”
Munro said.
Stage managers Serena
Dufour, Sarah Hays and Jaida
Watson are overseeing the
organized chaos of prepara-
tion for the opening night.
Given all the moving parts,
literally and fi guratively, Hays
said she’s been most surprised
at the response from mem-
bers of the cast.
“It’s been good just seeing
how the cast and crew re-
sponds when you try to assert
some authority and try to be
respectable,” she said.
Watson said watching it all
come together, even when it’s
stressful, has been worth the
hard work it’s taken to get to
this point.
“Seeing the cast smile to
themselves after they hit a
big dance number is really
cool. Watching it come to
life makes you feel warm and
fuzzy inside,” Watson said.
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