The Spring Thing!


Songs from and Dances Inspired by "The Wiz," with narration written and supplied by Mr. Scott's FOCUS group.

My kids were awesome!

OK, here's the premise- Miller is a Fine Arts Magnet School. Our chorus, dance, and drama departments collaborated to produce a 45-minute set of songs from and dances inspired by "The Wiz." However, something was missing. Prior to the inclusion of the Drama department, there was no cohesion between the songs and the dances, no clues telling who was speaking or singing, who was supposed to be on stage. So, the Drama department was asked to fill in with some narration.

So, we did. Ms. Bailey (our Drama teacher) gave me a list of students who would be good for the narration, and then I met with them every day to get the lines and blocking down. Well, we didn't get a script, either, so I had them write their monologues. I tweaked them and assigned parts.

And it all worked marvelously!

And that is what matters... that our students got to perform and do well in front of an audience (standing room only, I might add). Was pretty good! My narrators were the best part!

I have been known to be biased.

Posted: Fri - May 9, 2008 at 07:32 AM          

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