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Noblesville Intermediate School will present its inaugural musical production “Annie Jr.” 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday night to the public. The show will be performed by the 80 students in the NIS Drama Club.
“Annie Jr.” is based on Broadway musical “Annie,” except adapted for younger audiences and increased roles for actors. The show is directed [...]

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Westfield High School presented two performances - “Skinny Teeth” and “Act Three Scene Five” - during the Theatre Production Showcase Wednesday night.

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Mayfest, a yearly event at Noblesvile High School, provides students at NHS a chance to showcase their artisitic and performing art talents to the community.
A variety of bands, choirs, musicians and thespians perform free to the crowd. Sculptures, paintings and photography from the high school students were also on display to the public. Noblesville Middle [...]

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Hamilton Southeastern High School’s Thespians will perform “Of Mice and Men,” tonight through Sunday at 7 p.m. in the Little Theatre.
In John Steinbeck’s classic, two drifters, George and his friend Lennie, with delusions of living the American Dream, arrive at a ranch to earn enough money to buy their own place. Lennie is a “man-child” [...]

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Tickets for Carmel High School’s performing arts department performance of “42nd Street” are available in the high school bookstore, 520 E. Main St. in Carmel.
The performances are May 8, 9, 10 at 7:30 p.m. and May 10 and May 11 at 2 p.m. in the high school’s Dale E. Graham Auditorium.
Tickets are priced at $8, [...]

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Noblesville High School’s theater production class presents the British farce “Blithe Spirit” beginning tonight.
The plot centers around socialite Charles Condomine being haunted by the ghost of his first wife Elvira following a seance, and her desperate efforts to disrupt his current marriage.
The 1941 Noel Coward production will be 7 p.m. today and Friday, 2 and [...]

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The Hamilton Southeastern High School Choral Department will present its 2008 Spring Show, “Rockin’ the Paradise,” May 8 and 9 at 7 p.m. in the Leonard Auditorium.
It features songs of paradise, the beach, heat, water, vacation and summer. The show includes familiar songs such as “Cheeseburger in Paradise,” “Rockin’ the Paradise,” “Heatwave,” “Vacation,” “California Dreamin’,” [...]

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Sheridan Community Schools’ performance of “Guys & Dolls” is a true family affair for the Shelbourne family. Courtney, an eighth-grader, is Miss Adelaide and her brother, Casey, a sophomore at Sheridan High School, stars as Sky Masterson. Their mom, Amy, an SHS English teacher is one of the directors.
“It’s great we’re all involved,” said Courtney. [...]

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Not only did St. Theodore Guerin High School librarian and “Jesus Christ Superstar” director Marcia Murphy have the challenge of putting together a production in just over a month, she also had to turn a controversial musical into one acceptable at a parochial school.
“I love the music, it’s just awesome,” she said. “I wanted to [...]

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By Robert Herrington / rherrington@noblesvilledailytimes.com
Westfield High School theatre teacher Rhonda Adams has the largest cast ever assembled to date for a production with 53 students performing in “Bye Bye Birdie,” which opens tonight for a three-evening run.
“They don’t fit in the dressing rooms,” joked Adams. “I feel like the old woman in the shoe.”
The first [...]

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