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Show Thursday. March 30. 2006 (JEWS AtJD IDEAS FROM CLASSROOMS AND EDUCATORS Take a carpet ride Barbara Christiansen Torties Momentary S hool will present the musical. "Aladdin, "Alad-din, Jr." Tuesday through April 7 at 7 p m. The public is invited to attend. at-tend. 1 n ket s are S I per person or $10 per family. No ( hildren under 5 should attend Tickets may be purchased at the door, with sales beginning at p m forties Ls lo ated at 2X1 N 2'M) hast, American Fork. Cast memlers are from students in tlie fourth- to sixth-grades. sixth-grades. "We saw a k of tak-nt in ttiem," said executive director Iv-elyn Iv-elyn Fowlfs. Thi' majir roles have understudies, who will x-rfonn in tin; Wednesday evening show. Kalob Valle will play Aladdin with I.uke (iunther as understudy. under-study. Christina lYatt will U; Jasmine with Natasha IJowen as her understudy. Other cast memlx.rs include: (with understudies in parent lie-ses) lie-ses) Sarah Keuhl (Erin Snyder) as (Jenie; Tony Oswald (Derrick Cain) as Jafar, Haley Anderson (lisa Ix'ikam) as Magic Carxt, Daniel McComhie (Chad Niel-son) Niel-son) as Ka.oul, Jakob Garlic (Andrew Hunker) as Sultan. 1 lie guards will be portrayed by Hunter l-addis, Jordon Hen-nen, Hen-nen, Quid Nielson, Zach Snow Examining the pains of the Mason Porter 1 bird term is over and many are lucky to Ix; alive. It is common know ledge that third term is the most difficult term to succeed in. proven by th' increased numlx-r of dropouts Ix-tween 5- 4 .'l"Ji ,.." P Li i 'i '" I '. IfVl rT-'ei I jt yam. T(8B-WJtW i do you eirr oel lalltimtd' U v rr j ttri irii arm it juii aueil-c broken j wi.' Ami per fit aren't f.ua and uutnei, hut medual fih: andf-roiedures' (h dn ut xmii lniw know, and feel, that thn un't Ju l any other profenton' Ihjt aery djy r hjir aiwthrt ilumt to preterit life. To rnmfort. To heal. And than u hy tin patient ti ever juii aiwtlier patient. j r Q We. I, V ri l mm li v-vfi!: The magical genie, played by Sarah Forbes Elementary 's production Tuesday und runs through April and Jordan Ungricht. Taylor Carpenter will be lago. Narrators and servants will be Cheyenne (iranthan, Mortan Hardy, Jaclyn Landeen, Jes the months of February and April But w hat is it that makes third term so hard? Trevor Gatenby, a senior, said. "It's just hard." Travis Landeen. a junior, provides that fact definitively, stating, "1 he winter months add an emotional factor. Everyone's getting depressed Intermountain American Fork Hospital LDSUcnfmJ Pi Win, Oi U;mi '.Wal Cctio to Forbes AUTUMN LORIMERNorth County Keuhl, bows to Kulob Vulle, playing Aladdin during a rehearsal of of Disney's "Aladdin, Jr." The play, featuring 88 students opens 7. sica Rasmussen, Taylor Rose, Makenzie Southwick, Maddy Schellenberg, Aspen Shelley, Katelyn Smith and Lite Smith. lYince Baba of Ganoush will third-term school letdown caveman and lethargic." Thank you, Dr. Landeen. Whatever the reason, we are all lucky to be over the Elementary for 'Aladdin, Jr.' be played by Derrick Cain, with Prince Dahdu Rahn-Rahn by Luke Gunther. The prince formerly for-merly known as The Artist" will be played by Chance Peterson. hump, because from here on out all we have to do is hold on and let gravity pull us down. It's just like riding a bike. Of course if you can't ride a bike, you may have just as hard a time with fourth term as you did with third. What a shame. AMERICAN FORK HIGH SCHOOL 'Beauty and the Beast' The AFHS drama department depart-ment will present the stage production of Disney's classic tale, "Beauty and the Beast" scheduled to open Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the school's auditorium. audi-torium. Under the direction of Neal Johnson, the play will run nightly through April 11, except April 8. A matinee is also scheduled sched-uled for April 8 at 2 p.m. Starring Nicole Ashby as Belle, Mike Shephard as Gaston and Alex Barlow as the Beast, along with a talented supporting support-ing ensemble, attendees are invited to enter a world full of magical enchantment and spectacular spec-tacular music. This Disney film was the winner win-ner of two Academy Awards for original score and best song and is sure to spark the interest of children both young and old. Tickets can be purchased at the door and are $7 for adults, $6 for students, $4 for children under un-der 12 or $35 for a family pass. I Drama department competition competi-tion Students from the drama department went to Mountain View High School last week for Region Drama and earned 16 straight superiors. According to director, Neal Johnson, "It was awesome f" The students who qualified for state include Nicole Ashby, Alex Barlow, Bri Bird, Matt Boulter, Annie Chamber-lin, Chamber-lin, Meredith Hammond, Cory Johnson, Leah Jones, FJyse Kanno, Nick Kanno, Travis Landeen, Kaelie Pellegrini, AH-na AH-na Rea, Chris RomreU, Lauren Simpson and Adam Walker. I Choir notes The Chamber Singers participated in the region festival last week and according to director Tracy War by "performed except ion- Towaspeople will be Andrew Bunker, Kaitlin Anderson, KeLsey Arnold, Jessica Barnes, Kelly Bryan, Kayla Cannon, McKenzie Carter, Danielle Frost, Kaeli Heaps, Kathryn Hollingshead, Sara Ivie, Sierra John, AUyson Jones, Lisa Lei-kam, Lei-kam, Linda Maughan, Jenny Maughan, Heather Moody, Robyn Nay, Megan Nerdin, Daylene Paskett, Shalee Paulos, Melissa Pratt, Ashley Rigby, Faith Rowely, Natalee Rowley, Maddi Ruchti, Kaymin Shields, Sierra Smith, Alexa Tall, Madison Thomson, Baylee Van-Camp, Van-Camp, Courtney Webber, Kiana Wong and Erin Williams. Featured musical numbers include "A Whole New World," "Arabian Nights," "Why Me?", "Prince Ali" and ""Friend Like Me." The school has been preparing prepar-ing for the production since January. Auditions were held the first week of school after Christmas break. For two weeks, they held music and dance practices, then the actual rehearsals began. They started at twice a week and have progressed pro-gressed to four times a week. There is a place to participate for everyone who has the desire, de-sire, Fowles said. "I don't cut anybody," she said. "On the elementary el-ementary level, every single kid that wants to be in the play, can and the madness of March But the thing that best transitions tran-sitions the students from third quarter to fourth quarter is the inevitable March madness disease which is running rampant ram-pant through the school. "I'm in many pools myself," says Gatenby. "I'm positive that LSU will take it, George Mason (University) doesn't notes ally well and handily made it to the state level." She added, "Lauren Bangert-er Bangert-er played a ridiculously difficult song for the choir and was amazing. In addition, Spencer Bogardus sang a solo that was fabulous as well." Students from all of the high school choirs left for tour last week to San Francisco where they performed as well as participated par-ticipated in various vocal workshops. work-shops. Early in March, the Women's A Cappella choir performed in a festival at the University of Utah and competed against other women's choirs in the state. They took first place at the festival and will be singing a command performance with Viva Voce (Utah's premiere Women's Choir) in April. I Ballroom Dance Team The ballroom team recently participated par-ticipated in the BYU National Ballroom Dance Championships Champion-ships where the team placed third out of seven schools in the Utah High School Team Match. According to director Nolan Devor, "There were about 10 points separating the top three positions. They did the best that AF has ever done." He added, "liesl Wright and her partner danced in the Novice Latin 2-dance event and earned third out of 60. "The majority of her competitors com-petitors were college students. She and her partner also won the national title for the Youth Open American Smooth Event." In addition, Devor said, "During "Dur-ing the Saturday competition, the team danced very welL We placed eighth in the nation and third of all the high schools. I've never seen the team so pumped and ready to dance. This is hopefully only the start of what is to come. They did a great job of representing AFHS." I Cavette tryouts Try outs for the Cavette drill team will be Monday at 4 p.m. and Tuesday be, as long as they are in good standing at the school." Westin Wong is the stage manager; Steven Densley, Benson Ben-son Gunther, Chelsee Miller, Stephany Shelton and Ryan Williams are on the light crew, with Jacqueline Rasmussen and Shannon Rowley on the sound crew. Alec Gibson works with props, Joseph Maughan with the curtain. Nneka Dean, Bradley Ivie, Cody Mitiani and Ashley I larding are on the stage crew. Members of the art and set crew are Melissa Fackrell, Megan Me-gan Gale, Melissa Hirsch, Gabri-elle Gabri-elle Hollingshead, Jacqueline Rasmussen Ras-mussen and Jenna Schellenberg. This is the seventh year Forbes has produced a musical. In addition to the students, it takes parents, teachers, custodial custo-dial and secretarial teams. Principal Dr. Larry Dean has been the proud producer through every play. He said it is a good experience experi-ence for all involved. Dean said Forbes has developed devel-oped a reputation for its theater programs. Staff members at Forbes have created a shadowbox display dis-play at the library showing mementos me-mentos of plays that the school has produced in the past. They include "Tom Sawyer," "Annie Jr.," "Fiddler Jr." "Music Man Jr." and "Beauty and the Beast." have a chance." Travis disagrees, dis-agrees, saying, "I think George Mason has the heart needed to win the big games." This kind of excitement is the perfect remedy for the lack of energy abounding in the school halls. There's only two months of school left. Let's make them count, eh? at 3:30 p.m. The new team will perform at the Cavette concert on April 6 at 7 p.m. I United States Achievement Academy American Fork High School student Jonathan Wright has been named a United States National Award winner in mathematics. AFHS teacher John Hanks nominated Jonathan for the award. His name will appear in the United States Achievement academy's official yearbook, which is published nationally. Jonathan is the son of John and Mary Wright of Highland. His grandparents are Marvada Wright of Highland and Marjo-rie Marjo-rie Pratt of Orem. BARRATT ELEMENTARY Fundraiser The cookie dough fundraiser that began Friday wDl end Monday. Mon-day. All orders should be turned in by this date. The cookie dough will be delivered April 11. I Grocery receipts Macey's will donate funds to the school based on the amount of receipts they collect. Customers should save their receipt, write their child's name on the back and drop them in the clear box by the office. FORBESELEMENTA Science fair winners The winners of the Forbes science fair are: upper grades, first, Luke Gunther ("Why Do Your Ears Pop"); second, Divina Wheeler ("Comets")-, third, Sara Brooke Ivie ("Rainbow Snow"). Lower grades: first, Danielle Frint ("Hot vs. Cold"); second, Bonnie Schellenberg ("Too Hot, Too Cold or Just Right"); third, Malorie Finch ("Give Me a Hand"). www.heraldextra.com yellowpages ft POOR |