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Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Director Beth Anderson, center, gives stage direction to actor Joy Love
Breshears, right, in her role portraying Dorothy in the Hermiston High School
production of “The Wizard of Oz” during a dress rehearsal Monday in Hermiston.
Wizard of Oz cast :
Dorothy Gale — Joy Love
Breshears
Aunt Em — Samantha Steffey
Uncle Henry/Ozian Guard —
Samuel Surber
Scarecrow/Hunk — William
Kern
Tinman/Hickory — Brooks
Bellinger
Cowardly Lion/Zeke — Louis
Parra
Wicked Witch/Almira Gulch
— Faith Powell
Professor Chester Marvel/The
Wizard of Oz — Shawn Conant
Glinda — Keali’imanaole
Hamilton
Munchkin Mayor — Maja
Rahm
Munchkin Coroner: Dezirae
Klaviter
Citizens of Munchkinland/
Poppies/Ozians/Trees:
Mackenzie Andersen, Kylie
Barker, Nicholas Breshears,
Lainey Byrd, Emilio Cambell,
Mattison Christensen, McKenna
I. Christensen, Justin Goucher,
Isabelle Herrera, Madelyn Jord-
heim, Sophia Jordheim, Dezirae
Klaviter, Aurelio Marin, Pedro
Martinez, John Myrick, Charles
Nelson, Alyssa Perkins, Maja
Rahm, Samantha Steffey, Zariah
Uzzell, Karlee Varady, Annalise
Wright
Special Women’s Chorus:
Alyssa Perkins, Sophia Jord-
heim, Madelyn Jordheim
Flying Monkeys: Isabelle
Herrera, Emilio Cambell, Pedro
Martinez, Paul Vore
Lollipop Guild: Alyssa Per-
kins, Sophia Jordheim, Madelyn
Jordheim
Munchkin “toughs”: Emi-
liio Campbell, Pedro Martinez,
Charles Nelson
Winkie General: Annalise
Wright
Winkies: Nicholas Breshears,
Aurelio Marin, Pedro Martinez
For a list of the crew members and orchestra
visit www.hermistonherald.com
WIZARD
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of an audience, she said, but the stage
manager and assistants have to have
the confidence to boss their peers
around. It may look like chaos as peo-
ple and set pieces move around qui-
etly in the dark backstage, but there is
a very specific method to the madness
so that everyone and everything comes
on stage at exactly the right moment.
This spring’s star of the show is Joy
Breshears, who donned Dorothy’s sig-
nature blue dress and ruby slippers
Monday. In between being rushed off
stage by flying monkeys during multi-
ple tries to get the staging just right, she
said the thing she loves about acting is
“finding pieces of myself inside these
other characters.”
Thoroughly memorizing the dia-
logue and songs and movements so that
she can focus on character develop-
ment takes a lot of work, she said.
“I’ve read my script more times than
I can count and annoyed my family
with ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow.’”
BTW
she said.
For this show she also had to get
used to working with an animal co-star,
playing Dorothy’s dog Toto.
“Sparky is amazing,” she said. “He
hangs out in my arms a lot. He’s so
sweet. He licks my face a lot.”
Dorothy’s traveling companions
are played by Louis Parra (Cowardly
Lion), Brooks Bellinger (Tinman) and
William Kern (Scarecrow).
Kern, a sophomore, said he loved
his character.
“He’s really fun. He’s kind of silly,”
Kern said. “I like how loosy-goosy he
is. I can relate because I’m kind of all
over.”
Faith Powell, a freshman who was
getting used to a face full of green paint
as the Wicked Witch, said it was her
first high school play.
“I love the Wizard of Oz, it’s one of
my favorite musicals,” she said. “I have
memories of watching it with my fam-
ily when I was five.”
Her favorite part of the character
was “messing with” the audience, she
said, and perfecting the villain’s evil
The American Red
Cross recently celebrated
several blood donors
during regular monthly
collection events held at
Good Shepherd Medical
Center in Hermiston.
Volunteer Patti Per-
kins reported first-time
donors in the past four
months included Cary
Sherrow, Alaina Hyatt,
Makayla Neely and Ser-
ena Barker. Also, in
November, several donors
met gallon milestones,
including Paula Morris
(7), Kevin Hodges (17)
and John Nagode (18).
Also, Perkins expressed
appreciation to service
groups that have provided
sandwiches and cookies:
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Students can now begin
signing up for Driver’s
Ed through Hermiston
High School. Classes cost
$255, although students
who qualify for free and
reduced lunch can sign up
for a $75 scholarship.
Priority will be given
to Hermiston students for
the spring classes, but the
summer session will be
open to all students from
Umatilla and Morrow
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“My favorite scene is in Munchkin-
land, because I get to be really sassy
toward Glinda,” she said.
The play features a large supporting
cast and chorus members who show
up as munchkins, flying monkeys,
singing trees, poppies, Winkie guards
and residents of Oz. Chorus members
Kylie Barker and Zariah Uzzell said
the hardest part was learning all the
choreography.
“We have so many different steps,
and each character is a different per-
son,” Uzzell said. “The Ozians are rich,
for a tree I have to be stiff, and munch-
kins are like little kids.
Everyone interviewed said the best
part of any theater production is always
the friends they make. While there
is downtime during early rehearsals,
however, Monday’s four-hour rehearsal
was too busy for long conversations.
Some scenes ran smoothly, while
others Anderson called a halt to in
order to make adjustments. During
one scene, the set pieces didn’t come
together right and technical crew mem-
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completion rate.
“That’s still important
to me, because the students
who left are still prepared
for what they’re going to do
next,” she said.
Mooney said there is
still work to do, but they
plan to focus even more
on tactics they’ve already
implemented.
She said the hiring of
graduation coach Omar
Medina has been one posi-
tive change, as well as col-
lecting data to help them
figure out where students
need more help.
Across all grade levels,
she said, they’re focusing
bers swarmed onstage, studying the
problem and laying down bits of col-
or-coded tape to “spike” where the new
placement would go.
Jessica Chavez, an assistant stage
manager, said while the actors often
have elements of their performance
set well in advance, the crew work-
ing backstage and in the lighting/sound
booth are often keeping track of a mul-
titude of last-minute changes to their
jobs.
“We have to be adaptable,” she said,
adding they also have to keep careful
notes because “if we don’t remember,
no one will.”
“The Wizard of Oz” premiers Friday
in the Hermiston High School audito-
rium at 7 p.m. with additional shows at
7 p.m. on Saturday and on Feb. 8 and
9. There will also be a matinee show-
ing this Sunday, at 2 p.m. Tickets are
$10 for adults, $8 for seniors age 65
and older, and $5 for students. Seating
is general admission, but groups of 10
or more may purchase reserved seats by
e-mailing Beth Anderson at beth.ander-
son@hermistonsd.org.
on more attendance efforts.
“I think we’re breaking
down silos of work,” she
said. “We’re not looking at
anything different for next
year, we’re looking at stay-
ing the course.”
Other schools in Uma-
tilla County saw improve-
ment as well. Umatilla
School District cleared the
statewide rate by nearly six
points, graduating students
at a rate of 84.16 percent in
2017-18. Their rates were
up from 81.72 percent the
previous year.
Superintendent
Heidi
Sipe said via email that she
was proud of students’ con-
tinued success, but their
goal is still helping all stu-
dents receive a high school
diploma, whether in four
years or a few years longer.
“We continue to wel-
come our non-completing
students back until age 21
to finish their diplomas,”
Sipe said.
“While those students do
not always count in gradua-
tion calculations, they count
in our community and we
are honored to support stu-
dents until they earn their
diplomas.”
Stanfield School Dis-
trict fell just below the state
average, with a 76.92 per-
cent graduation rate. Stan-
field had 42 students in its
2017-18 class.
Echo School graduated
87.5 percent of its students,
in a class of 34 students.
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