Arts Quincy Magazine

New Faces Variety
Show Goes Virtual:
“The Beat Goes On”
NEW FACES
Saturday, April 10 at 7 pm
Live Stream
qpsmusic.org
The tradition of Quincy Senior High
School New Faces Variety Show will
continue this year virtually. New Faces
has been a highlight of the QHS Music
Department programming since 1955
when then band director Mr. Dan Perrino
began the production to feature the QHS
Jazz Band and variety acts. In 1969
retired QHS Choral Director Mr. Dan
Sherman added the QHS Swing Choir
to the New Faces line-up, to round-out
the production format, a tradition that
continues today.
New Faces 2021, “The Beat Goes On,”
thematically represents the perseverance
and resiliency that has kept music alive in
QHS classrooms and virtually on the QHS
theatre stage during the global pandemic
when many school districts in Illinois and
across the country canceled music in
their schools.
Senior Tara Garner rehearses vocal solo “Don’t Rain on My Parade,”
made popular by the 1964 musical “Funny Girl.”
In February, QHS Students auditioned
to be included in this year’s virtual
production. Variety Acts include vocal
solos and duets, house/garage bands
and dramatic skits. Keeping with tradition,
QHS Jazz Bands and Show Choirs,
Company Blue and Electric Blue will be
featured along with the QHS Madrigal
Singers, QHS Senior Color Guard, QHS
Percussion and two area student dance
troupes, Q-Dance Senior Elite and Vancil
Performing Arts Center.
QHS Jazz Band will open the show with
jazz composer Paul Baker’s swing chart,
“Roll with the Punches,” exemplifying
the titles instruction to stay positive
and always adjust to what comes your
way. The Electric Blue mixed voices
Show Choir will kick off Act II with the
production’s title song, “The Beat Goes
On,” originally
performed by Sonny
and Cher. Other
highlights include the
Gloria Estefan’s 1994
hit, “Turn the Beat
Around,” performed
by Company Blue, the QHS treble voices
show choir.
The production team includes teachers
Mr. Matt Gabriel, Mrs. Meghan Buckley,
Mr. Paul Shelor, Mr. David Buckley and
QPS Director of Music Education Dr.
Todd Pettit.
Virtual tickets are $20, available at
qps.org. New Faces 2021 will be prerecorded
and will air on Saturday, April
10 at 7 pm at the link patrons will receive
upon purchasing tickets.
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