Music Revue
Choir director preps music revue highlighting the Awesome ’80s
Students raise voices to
honor decade
By Katherine Lacaze
Seaside Signal
Seaside High School’s mu-
sically inclined students plan
to take the community back
to the “Totally Awesome 80s”
with a winter musical revue.
Seaside High School Mu-
sic Director Vanessa Rush, in
her third year at the school,
put together the program to be
presented Dec. 4 and 5. Doors
will open at 6:30 p.m. and the
show will start at 7.
The primary fundraiser for
the choir programs, the mu-
sic revue will include about
60 students from the high
school’s chamber choir, jazz
choir and musical revue elec-
tive class.
Rush started the musical
revue aspect of the choir
programs last school year
with “Motown.” The perfor-
mance replaced the chamber
choir’s fall concert.
Rush did musical revue
— a type of performance en-
tertainment featuring a com-
pilation of music, movement
and sometimes theatrical
sketches — in high school
and she remembers enjoying
it.
“I wanted to bring that to
the students here,” she said.
The bene¿t for students,
Rush said, is “they go
through the steps an artist
would go through to put on
a performance.” Last year,
the group performed only
one night, but the program’s
success led Rush to expand
the production to two perfor-
mances this year.
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She picked the 1980s as
a theme because of that de-
cade’s appeal.
“It seems to be a pretty
popular era. Most people rec-
ognize a lot of hits from that
era,” Rush said.
The approximately one-
hour performance will in-
clude ’80s hits such as Kool &
the Gang’s “Celebration,” the
Weather Girls’ “It’s Raining
Men,” Huey Lewis and the
News’ “Hip To Be Square,”
Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After
Time,” a Madonna medley
and several other songs and
medleys to be sung by the
whole groups, sub-groups
and soloists. Admission is $7
for adults; $5 for students and
seniors; and $10 for premium
pre-sale tickets that guarantee
a front-row seat. For more
information about the music
revue, call (503) 738-5586.
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Seaside High School students perform in last year’s musical revue, “Motown,” which took the
place of the Seaside Chamber Choir’s fall concert. The high school’s chamber and jazz choirs and
musical revue class will put on a second musical revue, “Totally Awesome ‘80s,” in December.
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