From patchwork britches to lunar moth jackets, Middle and Upper School costume designer Teresa Fogler has created her fair share of unusual outfits. Yet when Fogler began preparing for last winter’s...
Johnnycake presents the Upper School musical, Something Rotten! Get a backstage look into the production with this Q&A with the cast. Remaining shows are tonight at 7 p.m. and tomorrow at 2 p.m. and...
Preparations for both the play and the musical “Newsies” began months before their opening nights, starting with auditions. Actors devoted many hours memorizing lines, rehearsing and perfecting the scenes. The end of production is often met with mixed reactions.
On March 3, 4 and 5, Upper School students will perform “Newsies.” The musical tells the story of the New York City newsboys’ strike of 1899 and revolves around a group of Manhattan “newsies,” their leader, Jack Kelly, and a reporter who goes by Katherine Plumber.
"Into the Woods" seemed like the perfect musical to perform amid a pandemic: small cast and minimal choreography. Little did Director Jamie Stires-Hardin know how complicated staging a musical during a pandemic would turn out to be.
Senior Frank Willey performs "Ordinary People," originally by John Legend. Willey also plays the lead role of Harold in the upcoming production of "The Music Man," and will perform on March 2 at 7:30...
Sisyphus is rolling a boulder towards the Grand Hilbert Hotel. The hotel has an infinite number of rooms, but they are all full, so they may not be able to accommodate him or his boulder. If you choose to divert him, his boulder will destroy the Ship of Theseus. But the ship has had all of its constituent parts replaced, so it may not actually be the same ship. Is Sisyphus happy?
