Jericho HS theater program chosen to perform popular musical 



four students in front of table with baked goods

High school students held a bake sale to help support Jericho High School’s theatre program.

It will be a March to remember, as the Jericho High School theater program was recently chosen as the only program in the state to perform the full Disney tour-version of Frozen the Musical. The school was selected by the National Educational Theater Association as part of ‘The United States of Frozen- Love is an Open-door’ contest. The performances will take place from March 9-12 in the high school’s Little Theater.

 
Theone Rinaudo, theater director at Jericho, said she was on vacation in the Cayman Islands with her family, when her daughter informed her about the upcoming competition.
 
“My daughter, Stephanie, who usually helps with the choreography in our musicals, told me about this competition , which was being put together by the Educational Theater Alliance,” said Rinaudo. “We found out on a Friday night that the deadline to enter was Sunday. I had to contact my student team back in the states to get everything together asap. We barely made the deadline.”
 
The criteria to enter the competition included a google form, three essays on why their school would be a good fit and a video montage of past performances.
 
“My daughter and one particular theater student, Shuvhan Mehta, were very instrumental in putting together three quality written essays in a very short period of time.”
 
She said that the Jericho Theater Production Organization, contains nearly a hundred students, who have worked diligently over the past few months to craft their vision of ‘Frozen.’
 
“I’m very excited for them that they were chosen by this organization to represent our state in this nationwide competition,” said Rinaudo.
 
This particular musical will focus on the two main characters in Frozen, Elsa and Anna, two loving sisters who fiercely protect their snowbound kingdom at any cost.
 
The character of Elsa will be played by senior, Lauren Marchand and Anna will be played by Gianna DeVellis, also a senior at Jericho.
 
Rinaudo said the theater program does not benefit from funding from the school district and relies solely on outside resources.
 
“The school district is well-known for financial stability but there’s no funding involved for the theater. We rely on the school community and community-at-large to help us pay for things like the kids costumes, stage-props and major things like projections for Little Theatre.”
 
In order to donate money and to purchase tickets for the upcoming musical, you can visit the website jerichoschools.org
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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