RE Log Fall 2019

FALL 2019 Ransom Everglades LOG 35 Murder’s in the Heir Hilarious whodunnit engages audience Freaky Friday Musical brings out best from middle school drama kids Upper school drama students entertained and interacted with the audience at the spring play, Murder’s in the Heir , performing a concluding act only after polling the crowd on its preference for the evening’s villain. The lively show Feb. 21-22, 2019, at the Lewis Family Auditorium featured new faces from the senior and freshman classes and many familiar names from the drama program under director Sam Shapiro. There wasn’t a minor role in the production, which included amusing repartee from the 14 cast members interspersed with periodic visits to the stage from narrator Ilija Wan-Simm ’19 . The cast featured Juan Roca-Paisley ’19, Isabella Peña ’19, Quinn Harrellson ’19, Rachel Seipp ’19, Liam de Araujo ’21, Noah Delisma ’22, Vanessa Gonzalez ’19, Celeste Viana ’22, Zoe Holtzman ’22, Matthew Rocha ’19, Viviana Vela ’21, Viviana Freyer ’20, Abby Aldrich ’20 and Henry Schermerhorn ’19. Middle school drama students merged their musical gifts and comic timing in the spring musical Freaky Friday , a laugh-out-loud comedy that showcased more than two dozen student-performers during jam-packed performances at Swenson Hall March 6-8, 2019. Adriana Carvalho ’25 and Liv Steinhardt ’23 played the daughter- mother lead roles and were joined by a host of other talented middle schoolers in the show directed by faculty member Cecilia Gonzalez. The show benefitted from expert staging and a large well-rehearsed cast that included: Nicholas Harper ’25, Ben Joseph ’25, Ian Fox ’24, Zoe Katsoufis ’24, Nick Rubino ’23, Natasha Rodriguez ’23, Kenzie Kaplan ’25, Latrice Nelson ’25, Henry Berler ’25, Lila Diamond ’23, Nick Viana ’24, Fiona Oberg ’24, Mikey Day ’25, Gracie Hucks ’24, Nico Maynulet ’23, Jaerla Sajous ’25, Harrison Lamnin ’25, Kate Demos-Brown ’23 and Leo Fein ’23.