NDCL drama department opened Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific" for a five-show run on Feb. 28 at NDCL's Sam J. Frankino Stage…
‘South Pacific’ Warms Audiences
NDCL drama department opened Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific” for a five-show run on Feb. 28 at NDCL’s Sam J. Frankino Stage of the Pat and Janet O’Brien Center for the Performing Arts.
Set during World War II, South Pacific is a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning love story that weaves together the lives of Seabees, nurses, islanders and military officers as they experience and struggle with acceptance, sacrifice, loss and love. The show features such popular songs as “Some Enchanted Evening,” “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair” and “Younger Than Springtime.”
The 26-member cast includes junior Katie Malish as Ensign Nellie Forbush and seniors Alec Plumley as Emile de Becque, Andy Chom as Luther Billis, Jade Shimooka as Bloody Mary and Cole Prots as Lieutenant Joe Cable. The annual production s directed by Mrs. Shirley Ivancic Stall.
Students Raise Awareness
On Feb. 27, Brenna J. Randel, founder of UneARThed, brought several consumers from the Cuyahoga Board of Developmental Disabilities, Beachwood Adult Activities Center to NDCL to raise student awareness on National Developmental Disabilities Month.
UneARThed is an art program that hopes to unearth or discover meaningful relationships between the consumers and the community through art. Together, the students and visitors participated in an NDCL ceramics class.
