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High schools to light up the stage

Ohio Valley high school and junior high students have been busy this winter preparing to showcase their talents in a variety of musicals.

And area auditoriums will continue to be filled in the coming weeks, offering a great opportunity for relatives, friends and even area residents to support our local school districts.

Madonna High School is gearing up for its production of “High School Musical” Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the school, while Brooke High School will present “Pippin” on those same days. And Harrison Central High School students will offer up “Footloose” Friday and Saturday at the Harrison County school.

Other upcoming musicals include “Once Upon A Mattress” April 5-7 at Indian Creek High School; “Back to the ’80s” April 13-15 at Toronto High School; and “Beauty and the Beast” April 12-14 at the Jefferson County Christian School. And rounding out the musical season will be “Footloose” May 10, 12-13 at Weir High School.

Steubenville High School performers just finished up their performances of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” while Catholic Central High School drama students recently presented “Cinderella,” and Buckeye High School students brought “The Phantom of the Opera” to its audiences.

These productions, taking place in their respective high school auditoriums, represent the culmination of months and months of hard work and sweat from students who learned lines and songs, as well as dance routines.

The shows represent the patience and hard work of the teacher/directors, of support staff including students and parents and other teachers who get the stages ready and the sets prepared and the costumes just so.

It’s a chance to laugh, to ponder and to simply enjoy a variety of talent available in our area high schools. If you doubt that today’s youth are capable of much beyond video games, erase those doubts by attending one of these productions.

You’ll see talent on display from young people dedicated enough to have put in the time it takes to perform in a production.

It is a credit to these schools, these instructors and especially these students.

And when the lights come up and the applause rise, we hope it’s full houses that the performers see.

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