Last Tuesday night, the Sparta High School Auditorium was filled with the sounds of clapping, dancing, and show tunes. For the second consecutive year in a row, the Sparta High School Choir hosted "Broadway Night", hosted by choir director Laura Lopez. Given its name, members of the SHS Woman's Choir, Concert Choir, and Honors Choir each performed a choreographed number to a well-known Broadway song.
Students were given the option to prepare their own solos, duets, trios, or small ensemble groups separate from the larger choir numbers choreographed in class. Some of these students include Junior Taylor Brady, Junior Lomaani Ranasinghe, Senior Nina Strowe, and Senior Erin Vreeland in their performance of "Mama, I'm A Big Girl Now" from Hairspray the Musical. "We would rehearse every day at lunch and we had to go buy the costumes and decide who had the right voice to sing each part," Brady notes of the experience. "It was really fun to be on stage and perform. It was scary, but I'm so glad I did it!"
Tickets were sold for eight dollars per person, and all of the funds were allocated towards the choirs' highly anticipated trip to Disney World in Orlando, Florida. In addition to Broadway Night, Lopez and her students have organized other benefit events and fundraisers throughout the year in an effort to help aid the cost of the trip including a Holiday Spectacular event as well as Yankee Candle and Ashley Farms sales this past December. With another benefit concert behind them, the Sparta Choirs have their sights set on their next endeavor: lugging seventy-five Spartans on a plane from New Jersey to Florida on a new and exciting learning experience!
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