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Jiyoon Lee ’09CA’s freshmen fractured fairytales in entirely new waysduring FroshProject 7.Upperclassmen wrote anddirected the thirteen skits.At right, from top, the cast andcrews of Beauty and the Beast,Princess and the Pea, andSleeping Beauty.David R. GammonsOn BroadwayThe first production of the Future Starsof Broadway Club hit the stage inFebruary, when the club’s originator, KatieAstrauskas ’09, produced Lucky Stiff, underthe guidance of music teacher and club advisorKeith Daniel. Directed by Chessy Normile’09 and Anneliese Cooper ’09, Lucky Stifffollowed the life of Harry Witherspoon, whowas promised a $6 million inheritance if hetook his uncle’s dead body to Monte Carlo.Besides Katie, the murder-mystery featuredElisabeth Beckwitt ’11, Talene Bilazarian ’10,Oliver Bruce ’11, Matt Clarkson ’11, MeghanLeathers ’09, Edmund Metzold ’11, WillNotini ’09 (a coproducer), Therese Ronco ’11,and Isabel Walsh ’10.WiredThe Concord Free PublicLibrary featured the wiresculptures of DuncanSherwood-Forbes ’08 in aMarch exhibit. Above, “I’ll BeOut in a Minute.”Clara Dennis ’08Jiyoon Lee ’09Snapshot: Waltham MillsOne artist at Waltham Mills,Anne Lambert, made sculpturesout of old, used materials,giving new meaning tothe saying, “One man’s trashis another man’s treasure.”Her witty work included large,hard-shelled suitcases with oldmen’s dress shoes attachedat the bottom, giving spectatorsthe sense of the suitcasemoving itself. Another workfeatured an old, tattered globeon a gurney, being carriedaway with the caption, “Rushto Intensive Care.”“The assemblages makeuse of discarded objectsthat speak to me of the beautyof age and the potential thatis latent in every thing forsurvival,” Lambert explained.Among the artists atWaltham Mills—sculptors,painters, printmakers, anddesigners—was a familiarPhotographer Martin Berinstein on Studio Dayface. Antoinette Winters, whoteaches fiber arts and drawingat CA, also opened her studioto the community for StudioDay. Winters displayed worksshe made by drawing piecesof plumbing on small paintchips and assembling thechips into larger pieces. Herpowerful yet simple linesshowed students a side ofWinters that isn’t often apparentwhen she’s teaching atConcord Academy.—Christeen Savinovich ’08Lamb Chops, Film ChopsLucas Frank ’08 and HarveyBurrell ’09 took the wackytemperament of a Roald Dahlstory and turned it into Lambto the Slaughter, a film recentlyselected for screening at the2008 YouthFilm Festival, sponsoredby the Northampton (MA)Arts Council.Lamb to the Slaughter, anassignment for Lucas andHarvey’s Film 3 class, was basedon Dahl’s story of the samename, a tale of a woman whomurders her husband with a legof lamb then feeds the evidenceto an investigator.Both Lucas and Harveyattended the YouthFilm Festivaland introduced their workthere. You can watch Lamb tothe Slaughter at www.concordacademy.org/lamb.39WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008