Bedford High School will be putting on their very own rendition of High School Musical. The plot follows a basketball player, Troye Bolton, and science nerd, Gabriella Montez, who try to break free of their 2000s-esque high school cliques to audition for their own high school’s musical. Starring the most talented of BHS students, the musical will be an amazing recreation as stars Danny Lewis and Audrey Acevedo take to the stage. A member of the props team, Amelia Przybylski, speaks on the play’s production so far.
Q: What were your opinions when you first heard the show was “High School Musical”?
A: I admit that I was skeptical, because I watched the movie and I didn’t particularly love it, but when I thought about our amazing cast and crew, and our ability to pull things off, I realized that we have the ability to grow the show from the sentimental piece it is, to something exciting on stage.
Q: What are some of the props you have that were the most difficult to obtain?
A: There are definitely some props we haven’t obtained yet, but what’s going to be difficult is the phones. While we have numerous phone cases, it would be difficult to make it appear that there are phones in the cases, especially because there are so many of them. There’s a song in the musical where the phones are the primary prop that are choreographed around. So, I suppose, it’s the quantity over quality that’s going to be killing us.
Q: What is your favorite scene and song?
A: From what I’ve seen so far, I really like Status Quo, because it’s one of the most iconic songs in the musical, but I believe that our choreography is amazing. The actors haven’t fully completed it yet, but it’s incredible from the beginning. The song is really catchy, and represents the musical as a whole. It’s the turning point in the musical, where the entire school realizes we can be more than our clique.
To the Technology team, the logistics of the musical are incredibly important. On the marketing side, they guarantee an audience so the BHS Theatre Company can offset the costs of putting on a musical such as this one. The following interview is with Marketing Team member, Kit Dixon.
Q: What’s your favorite aspect of the musical (music, plot, vibe, time period)?
A: I think the vibes are cool, mostly the environment. Other than that, it’s comedic in a childish way, but it doesn’t go so far to be corny. It’s kind of universally funny, no matter how old you are. A lot of shows can’t really recapture that. It has the kind of vibe that most musicals don’t really have.
Q: What does a day of rehearsal look like to you?
A: A day of rehearsal for tech is very chaotic, but it’s a good chaos, I’d say. As the crew today, we were moving props around, and we were building shelves, which was kind of fun. We’ll be moving stuff, and we’ll hear Nate yelling. Watching the cast, it looks like they are incredibly in tune with what they’re doing, like they’re in another universe.
Q: How do you think people feel about this musical?
A: At this point in time, we haven’t fully completed our posters or gotten emails out, but for now it seems like people are excited because High School Musical is a nostalgia film for them. The production and crew is really excited for it, and it’s the biggest crew that we’ve had.
Q: What are your main strategies for gaining publicity for the musical?
A: One of our biggest strategies so far is making a Greet Bedford article, which is a public newspaper, as a form of outreach to the community for people who don’t have anything to do with the high school. We’re also trying to reach the intermediate and elementary schools, asking the principals to spread the word. We’ve obviously made posters for our own school to help familiarize the student body with the show.
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