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McKenzie Rice

CHS junior McKenzie Rice

Help her now and maybe she’ll remember you when she’s on Broadway.

McKenzie Rice, a junior at Coupeville High School, is among the best and brightest Wolf Nation has to offer.

One of the leading lights in the CHS drama troupe, she also plays tennis, is a key member of the school’s band and participates in Leo’s Club.

All while beaming a quiet, mega-watt smile everywhere she goes.

Now the talented Rice has a chance to hit the Big Apple and pursue the acting bug.

She has the chance to attend a 21-day Acting Intensive Course where she would stay at Yale.

The program consists of classes in voice, text analysis, scene study, movement, and basic acting technique and is taught by professional actors, vocal coaches and university professors.

While there, she and her classmates would create their own production, while also getting an opportunity to see Broadway shows.

It would be an invaluable life experience for a talented, fast-rising young star in the making, but McKenzie needs some help to be able to go.

Have a few extra bucks in the wallet? Want to help fund a talented, personable young woman? Pop over to:

http://www.gofundme.com/loo5qc

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The pertinents.

The pertinents.

Get yourself fueled up on egg nog and then get to the CHS Performing Arts Center this weekend.

The Coupeville Middle School Theatre Troupe is putting on a two-night performance of the holiday-scented “Stocking Stuffers” and your presence is requested.

The play is actually 15 short scenes which feature “the same silly characters in familiar and brand new situations. When all of these scenes come together, audiences will experience the holidays like never before.”

The play runs Friday, Dec. 12 and Saturday, Dec. 13, with the curtain going up at 7 PM.

Under the guidance of Peg Tennant, the troupe consists of:

Joshua Allison
Sofia Andrews
Brooke Ausman
Jakobi Baumann
Jaschon Baumann
Megan Behan
Julia Beumer
MacKenzie Davis
Natasha Estes
Kyndle Fouse
Ja’Tarya Hoskins
Teo Keilwitz
Mikaela Labrador
Catherine Lhamon
Tamika Nastali
Elaira Nicolle
Thane Peterson
Marenna Rebishcke-Smith
Ricky Rebischke-Smith
Joshua Robinson
Chandell Schoonover
Koby Schrieber
Hannah Shinn
Helen Sinclair
Jillian Taylor
Megan Thorn
Seth Weatherford
Tia Wurzrainer
Lily Zustiak

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You get two Sebastians for one ticket price, with Sebastian Davis (left) and Sebastian Wurzrainer

   You get two Sebastians for one ticket price, with Sebastian Davis (left) and Sebastian Wurzrainer both in the play.

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Promo material for you to gaze upon.

Comedy, intrigue and drama will be fighting for their closeups on stage at Coupeville High School.

The CHS drama troupe opens its fall season with a run of the play “Fair Exchange” starting Friday, Nov. 7.

Performances will be held in the school’s performing arts center (7 PM curtain) for two weekends (Nov. 7-8 and 14-15).

Cost is $6 for adults and all students in grades 6-12 without an ASB. It’s $4 for kids in grades K-5 and free to senior citizens (62+) and Coupeville students in grades 6-12 with an ASB.

“Fair Exchange,” written by Kurtz Gordon, takes place on Long Island in 1959 and tells the story of a student swap between an Ohio high school and a New York high school, Wickapoque High.

Questions arise with the arrival of Ched Armstrong (played by Sebastian Davis), the Ohio exchange student, and the discovery of an unconscious teenager by the highway.

Is Ched really the exchange student who will escort Peggy Wilson (Taryn Ludwig) to the Winter Formal?

Or could he be the notorious gas station robber, Dino Durkin (also essayed by Mr. Davis)?

Questions, drama and laughter ensue as the audience discovers the truth and finds their way to a happy ending.

The crew:

Makeup Manager — McKenzie Rice

Costume Manager — Olivia Goodenough

Props Manager — Ashley Smith

Stage Manager — Dani Johnson

Concessions Manager — Julianne Sem

Lobby Manager — Rebecca Robinson

Tech Wizards (booth) — Rebecca Robinson and Garrett Compton

Props and Set Piece Builders — DeLayney McIntyre-White and Lydia Page

Set/Lighting Design and Construction Boss — Scott Davis

Greenroom Goddess and Hair Design — Amanda Rice

CHS Drama Advisor and Director — Peg Tennant

The cast:

Miranda Kortuem
Amanda Foley
Mckenzie Meyer
Desirae Bradley
Emily Reid
Taryn Ludwig
Sebastian Wurzrainer
Garrett Compton
Bella Cedillo
McKenzie Rice
Joseph Wedekind
Eric Wertz
Julia Jones
Ken Johnson
Dylan Hummel
Sebastian Davis
Jose Castro Sotelo
Alex Beech

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Tori Wellman was one of 50 CHS students to play soccer in 2013-2014. (John Fisken photos)

  Tori Wellman was one of 50 CHS students to play soccer in 2013-2014. (John Fisken photos)

The Wolf cheer squad, which included Robin Cedillo

  Cheer drew in 51 girls over two seasons, including Robin Cedillo, who would also go on to play softball for the Wolves.

Soccer was the most popular sport at Coupeville High School during the 2013-2014 school year.

At least in terms of how many students played the sport, and, if we don’t consider cheer a sport — which school officials don’t.

If cheer was given a little more respect, the 51 girls who participated over the course of the fall and winter seasons would top the list.

But, since cheer is considered an activity, soccer, with 50 players (30 boys, 20 girls), rules the roost.

The numbers for the eight sports CHS offers:

Soccer (50) — 30 boys, 20 girls
Tennis (45) — 29 boys, 16 girls
Basketball (44) — 21 boys, 23 girls
Track (40) — 22 boys, 18 girls
Football (39)
Volleyball (21)
Baseball (19)
Softball (13)

Coupeville also had one golfer, junior Christine Fields, who finished 5th at the 1A state tourney. CHS doesn’t offer golf, but Fields trains and travels with South Whidbey while competing as a Wolf.

At the middle school level, Coupeville offers four sports, with hoops drawing the most participants.

CMS sports numbers:

Basketball (45) — 23 boys, 22 girls
Track (42) — 24 boys, 18 girls
Volleyball (33)
Football (15) — 14 boys, 1 girl

Among non-sports activities, drama was one of the biggest draws.

CHS:

Cheer (51)
National Honor Society (43) — 18 boys, 25 girls
Drama (38) — 10 boys, 28 girls
Science Olympiad (14) — 11 boys, 3 girls
ASB Executive Board (8) — 3 boys, 5 girls
History Day (4) — 3 boys, 1 girl
Jazz Band (3) — 3 boys

CMS:

Drama (65) — 18 boys, 47 girls
Natural Helpers (33) — 13 boys, 20 girls
History Day (6) — 2 boys, 4 girls
Jazz Band (5) — 4 boys, 1 girl

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    Just a small part of the CHS Wolf PAC Theatre Troupe. (Clockwise from left) McKenzie Rice, Sebastian Davis, Bella Cedillo, Shane Squire, Andy Walker.

Peg Tennant’s troops are ready to take the stage.

Well, actually it’s troupe, not troop, since it’s drama we’re talking about.

Coupeville High School drama to be exact, as the CHS Wolf PAC Theatre Troupe prepares for opening night of its two-weeked run of the Pulitzer Prize winning play “You Can’t Take It With You.”

The Wolves will unfurl Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman’s classic, immortalized on film by Jimmy Stewart, March 7- 8 and 14-15. The curtain goes up at 7 PM each night in the Performing Arts Center at Coupeville Middle/High School.

Telling the tale of the Sycamore family, a somewhat-motley band of nut cases whose madness hides great intelligence and wit, are:

Heni Barnes
Desirae Bradley
Bella Cedillo
Sebastian Davis
Amanda Foley
Joye Jackson
Miranda Kortuem
Jae LeVine
Taryn Ludwig
Megan Oakes
Emily Reid
Maureen Rice
McKenzie Rice
Rebecca Robinson
Julianne Sem
Shane Squire
Andy Walker
Sebastian Wurzrainer
Sam Wynn

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