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Arts
Domino Club Presents
“Damn Yankees!”
Episcopal Academy Showcases
Innovative Artwork of Leo Sewell
Carolin Sisters Perform at
PMEA District 12 String Fest
The Episcopal Academy Domino Club presented “Damn
Yankees!” as this year’s spring musical. The story centers
around Joe, who is so consumed with his favorite
baseball team, the Washington Senators, that he makes
a pact with the devil to become their new superstar player in
order to see them win the pennant and beat those damn Yankees!
The show featured memorable songs and dances, a fun
story line, and lots of interesting characters.
The cast included over 37 students and also featured a student
technical crew. The students worked long and hard to
make the show a success. Several Domino board members were featured in the
production, including: Jordan Haddad ’07 as Joe, Spencer Squire ’07 as Applegate,
and Samantha Aronchik ’07 as Lola. The production was led by director and choreographer
Mandie Banks, musical director John Powell, technical director Brandon
Koenig, and assistant director Susan LaPalombara.
Top Right
(From l to r): Spencer Squire ’07, Samantha
Aronchik ’07, Jordan Haddad ’07, and Hannah
LaPalombara ’09.
Middle
(From l to r): Meghan McCormick ’07, Carter Cox
’07, Jordan Haddad ’07, and Spencer Squire ’07.
Left
Jordan Haddad ’07, who played Joe, and Kelsey
Platt ’07 as Sister.
Middle School
Student Selected
for National
Honor Choir
Over 1,200 vocalists
auditioned for 180-member
chorus selection
Episcopal Academy eighth grade
student Kate Ruggiero was selected
to participate in the
National Honor Choir and
performed at the National Convention
of the American Choral Director’s Association
in Miami in March. The choir
performed under the direction of Jean
Ashworth-Bartle, who is the conductor
of the Toronto Children’s Choir and an
international music specialist.
Selected from over 1,200 candidates,
Ruggiero, who plays the piano and flute
in addition to her vocal pursuits, joined
179 other students ranging in age from
11 to 15. Ruggiero has held significant
roles in Episcopal Academy’s annual
Middle School musical productions,
works privately with a voice instructor,
and participates in two singing ensembles
at Episcopal.
A total of five Episcopal students submitted
audition tapes for consideration.
Working with Middle School choral director
Joanne Ward, students Katie
Fell ’11, Maggie Familetti ’12, Jordan
Marinchak ’12, and Karen Christianson
’13 worked exceptionally hard to prepare
their selections.
Philadelphia artist and sculptor of found objects, Leo Sewell, held an exhibit
at Episcopal Academy this spring, drawing rave reviews from parents and
students alike. The month-long installation was initiated by the Art Edge
Committee of the EAPA and was by far one of the most popular exhibits
ever sponsored by the group. The Art Edge committee invites local artists to display
their work in the school’s main lobby a few times each school year. These exhibits are
alternated with student-created artwork displays.
Sewell’s work has been collected by corporations, museums, private collectors, and
foundations alike. Using discarded materials from everyday life, Sewell fashions large
Art Edge Committee members (from l to r) Vicki Le Vine, Evelyn Fell, and Janet
Smith pose with Leo Sewell (second from left) and his sculpture “Apple” during
a reception for the artist on March 15th.
and small-scale
sculptures, including
such oddities as
a life-sized house
cat and a 24-foot
stegosaurus.
Sewell also spent
time with Episcopal
students at
both the Merion
and Devon campuses.
As an interesting
side note, the
Class of 2007 has
commissioned
Sewell to create an
“Episcopal” sculpture—fashioned
from materials
from the current Merion and Devon campuses—as their gift to the new campus. It
will be created over the next year and installed permanently once the school makes
the formal move to Newtown Square in the fall of 2008.
Two of Leo Sewell’s unique
pieces that were on display
at Episcopal this spring.
(From left) Victoria and Alexandra Carolin
(Classes of 2013 and 2014, respectively)
pose after performing at the PMEA District 12
Intermediate String Fest in April. Along with
music teacher Deborah Newnham, the sisters
worked exceptionally hard at preparing for the
music all-star event.
Middle School
Harlequin Club
Presents “The
Phantom Tollbooth”
The Middle School Harlequin
Club produced “The Phantom
Tollbooth” by Susan Nanus as
their spring play this year. Based
on the book of the same name by Norton
Justin, “The Phantom Tollbooth” is the
story of a boy named Milo and his adventures
in an imaginary world.
Milo is a child who has forgotten how
miraculous and exciting the world is and
has fallen into a state of pure apathy and
boredom. The mysterious appearance of
a small car and a tollbooth in his room
one day starts him on a heroic adventure
where he must rescue the princesses
Rhyme and Reason in order to restore
order in a world where their brothers,
The Mathemagician and King Azaz,
have been fighting over the supremacy
of numbers versus words. Milo meets a
variety of strange and interesting characters
along the way and discovers a great
deal about himself and the world in the
process.
The production, which was directed by
drama teacher Susan LaPalombara, was
a huge success and played to a packed
house.
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