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So much (good) high school drama!!

Posted in Drama, Not sports? Tough!, tagged , , , , , on November 5, 2014| Leave a Comment »

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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‘Beautiful Game’ attracts Wolves!!

Posted in Boys Soccer, Cheer, Drama, Girls Soccer, tagged , , , , on June 19, 2014| Leave a Comment »

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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Play’s the thing for CHS troupe!!

Posted in Drama, Not sports? Tough!, tagged , , on February 28, 2014| Leave a Comment »

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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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Buy a ticket, unleash the smile!!

Posted in A freakin' American hero, Drama, Not sports? Tough!, tagged , , , , , on February 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »

It's like sunshine flows from every pore in Chelsea Randall's face. (Kelsey Simmons photo)

It’s like sunshine flows from every pore in Chelsea Randall’s face. (Kelsey Simmons photo)

Savannah (left) and Chelsea Randall, early in their careers.

Savannah (left) and Chelsea Randall, early in their careers.

Chelsea Randall has a smile that lights up the world.

Not just the room she’s in, or the city outside that room, or the continental U.S., but the entire freakin’ globe. It’s a documented fact.

Seriously.

Scientists in Oslo have determined that one smile from Ms. Randall can cure entire villages of depression, malcontentedness and you-look-like-you-have-a-stick-up-your-rear syndrome and are debating flying her into war-torn countries as a one-woman USO tour shooting joy from her dimples.

It’s Nobel Prize-worthy research, really.

For the next two nights, you, the person reading this article as you try to open your eyes and stuff some cereal in your face, can help make the sunniness bloom in her cheeks. Can make her eyes twinkle like the stars set free from the heavens.

It’s simple.

Slap down a few bucks and see Whidbey Island Center for the Arts production of “City of Angels” as it plays its final two shows.

Fill the seats, from the floor to the back row and reward the show’s supremely-talented choreographer/assistant director (and everyone else involved in the creation of an intricate, wildly entertaining musical comedy) for the countless hours she has poured into giving Whidbey a slice of Broadway in its own backyard.

Chelsea, working with mom Elizabeth Herbert (director) and lil’ sis Savannah Randall (one of the show’s leading ladies with Karla Crouch and Deana Duncan) has taken a show that won multiple Tony Awards and injected her own brand of sassy dance into it, bringing new life to the already-strong music.

The show is fast-talkin’ and high-swingin’ for the fences, and the untold hours she and her cohorts have poured into the show need to be rewarded.

Of course, you could wait until Chelsea ends up on the Great White Way, as a writer or choreographer, and go buy a ticket to see her work then.

Or, you could make your wallet happy and spring for a ticket now and still have some bucks left over for dinner or drinks pre-or-post-show.

You’re smart. You’re reading this story, after all. So the decision is easy.

Unleash the smile.

BUY TICKETS at:

http://wicaonline.com/2013-2014/CITYOFANGELS.html

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Do you want to break Chelsea Randall’s heart? Yeah, I thought not!!

Posted in A freakin' American hero, Drama, tagged , , , , on February 13, 2014| Leave a Comment »

The early days of actress Savannah Randall (left) and choreographer Chelsea Randall.

  The early days of actress Savannah Randall (left) and choreographer Chelsea Randall.

Chelsea (left), Savannah and mom Elizabeth Herbert (right), out for a day on the town.

  Chelsea (left), Savannah and mom Elizabeth Herbert (right), taking the theater world by storm.

The Chelsea Randall Appreciation Society is standing by, paddles at the ready, if you don't make the right choice.

  The Chelsea Randall Appreciation Society is standing by, paddles at the ready, if you don’t make the right choice.

Your butt in a theater seat. Make it happen.

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts production of “City of Angels,” a majestic, sweeping musical comedy set in the film noir-drenched world of classic Hollywood, opens tonight for a two-week run in Langley.

It’s simple. You buy a ticket (or, better yet, multiple tickets) and the Chelsea Randall Appreciation Society doesn’t have to hunt you down and apply the Paddle o’ the Hurtin’ Butt.

We know where you live. We have the technology.

So, if you treasure your ability to sit down in the days to come, it’s simple — go bask in the inspired choreography laid down by Ms. Randall (which was not in the original Broadway show, it’s all her), the snappy direction of Elizabeth Herbert (her mom, who used to hang out with Elvis and Henry Fonda in her days as an actress) and the acting with a capitol A delivered by a cast that includes (uber-talented) little sis Savannah and Coupeville’s own heartthrob crooner, Jim Castaneda.

It’s an easy choice.

Otherwise Mr. Affleck and the boys will be round to see you. Soon. Very soon.

Go buy tickets here:

http://wicaonline.com/2013-2014/CITYOFANGELS.html

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