Get ‘Shook Up’ after break
The musical “All Shook Up” has its opening night Jan. 18 and is playing through Jan. 21 for $9. The cast has practiced hard on routine and getting their lines perfect, and have made “All Shook Up” a fantastic musical to see. The musical takes place in the ’50s and is inspired by Elvis Presley’s [...]
Clubs give back for the holiday season
INTERHIGH Halfway through November, the MTHS annual canned food drive started. The tournament itself was dubbed “Munch Madness” this year, based off of college basketball’s “March Madness.” It is a single-elimination tournament pitting third period classes against one another. Each class tried to collect more canned food and other monetary donations than their assigned opponent, [...]
Veteran’s Day around the corner
There have already been three assemblies since the school year started: the Inspirational Speaker Assembly, the Fall Activities Assembly, and the Homecoming Assembly. The Inspirational Speaker Assembly was to inspire students to “be the bigger elephant” and to prevent bullying. The Fall Activities Assembly introduced the sports teams and helped kick off the year in [...]
Develop opportunities now and for the future
There are several extracurricular activities to choose from at school, from sports to drama to student government. Though socialization is a key factor in joining activities outside of school, the benefits extend beyond. A survey of over 300 schools by the Minnesota State High School League showed the average student had a 2.68 GPA, student-athletes [...]
Clubs grow in number and popularity
Research has shown that students who are involved in extracurricular activities do better in school than those who aren’t. The good news is that there are many different clubs and activities to join and participate at MTHS. For athletics, the first day of winter sports starts on Nov. 14. This includes men’s and women’s basketball, [...]
Next step of ‘All Shook Up’
Tryouts for the musical “All Shook Up” took place Sept. 13 through Sept. 15. Sept. 13 and 14 were the singing auditions, and Sept. 15 was the dancing auditions. There are 10 lead roles followed by 27 ensemble, bringing a total of 37 that had to be chosen from the nearly 60 who tried out. [...]
Martin’s original song is on iTunes
Three MTHS students in the past few years have had their work become widely known. Ariana Deboo, a 2010 graduate, has been featured for two songs on iTunes. The first song is “Brand New Bike,” the other is “Swisher Sweet Dreams.” Then for his Senior Project, Nick Terry made a mockumentary called “Prom Night” that [...]
Summer sessions key for band
Over the summer, just as every summer, MTHS instrumental music instructor Darrin Faul busied himself with two weeks of band camp. The first week was open to all band students that reached to about 45 students. The second week was a bit more specific to jazz band students that reached about 30 students. The first [...]
From Cline to Christmas to Beatles
Seattle Women’s Chorus (SWC) is coming around again, starting their ninth season on October 1st and 2nd at Benaroya Hall with country music that will be focusing on major female country singers including Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Martina McBride, Dixie Chicks, Tammy Wynette Loretta Lynn, and Anne Murray that they will be calling True Country. [...]
Audtions for unique musical ‘All Shook Up’
Drama teacher Jeannie Brzovic along with the choir teacher TJ Sullivan have already gone out of their way to pick out a musical of all Elvis Presley songs that have been set up to fit with Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” that will be showing January 18 through January 21 called “All Shook Up.” The musical is [...]
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