Volume II Issue VIII: February 10, 2017 |
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT |
Next Issue: February 24, 2017 |
REV Prepares for Wizard of Oz ProductionBy SAVANNA PATINO
This year at Redlands East Valley, the performing arts department is putting on their second consecutive spring musical. The drama, choral, and instrumental music departments come together to put on the best show possible for students and adults. This year, they are producing the classic musical “Wizard of Oz.” The cast, teachers, and many others have put a lot of work in so far in order to prepare. Isaac Roberts, a freshman flute player in the pit band, says that soon “the pit will be working with the rest” of the cast, and that “[t]he opening song is coming along really well” for the band; they have made “quite a bit of progress so far.” Sydney Prybycien, one of the cast members, tells that “the show is coming along very well; as of today, we have finished all our blocking, and the set is getting painted,” and “the flowers [on the set] are quite beautiful!” When asked what she is most excited for, Sydney, who plays the Wicked Witch of the West, says she is “most excited to work with the band. There is nothing quite like having live music; it adds to the magic of theatre. Oh yeah, and "dying for the first time on stage.” The Wizard of Oz production will be open to an audience on March 2, 3, 4, and 5. CV Teachers Make The Audience LaughBy AHLORA SMITH
Citrus Valley High School’s Comedy Sportz team had their first, and biggest, match of the semester on Feb 3- the annual Teacher Match! Every year, loads of students show up to watch their favorite teachers battle it out with the students to see who can gain the most laughs and applause from the audience, and this year was no different. The two weeks prior to the big match, the teachers had been training hard to learn their games. Following the usual Junior Varsity Comedy Sportz match, for the first half it is time for educators to prepare themselves for “battle.” In the first half, the participating teachers were Elena Smith, Integrated Math III H teacher; Maggie De La Cruz, Latin teacher; Karen Alexander, AP English Language teacher; and their captain, Ken McGrath, AP English Literature teacher. This set of teachers learned the games “What Are You Doing,” “Emotional Symphony,” “Spelling Bee,” and “Expert Challenge” for the first half of the match. The half’s opener game was “What Are You Doing” where the players are given a topic from the audience that they have to follow for entertaining actions supplied by suggestions from the opposing team. The teachers successfully won this game. Because his team had won, Captain Ken McGrath was able to choose which game his team would play first. He chose “Emotional Symphony,” which is a game where the team stands in a line at the front of the stage and each player is assigned an emotion. The referee then conducts this “symphony” in which the players vocally express their given emotion. Each of the teachers’ emotions were very unique and hilarious, making the whole audience roar with laughter. In round two of team games, the teachers decided to play “Spelling Bee”. This game consists of the team standing in one unit line, shoulder to shoulder, in the playing field, and spelling out an audience-given word letter by letter. The game starts with a simple word, such as cat, and progressively the words get more complex and longer, one example being juxtaposition. No matter how difficult the word, the team must work together to get it spelled. This worked out rather comedically in the teachers’ case. The teachers very enthusiastically spelled out each word, even under the eyes of their most loyal students... |
Rent Celebrates 20 YearsBy CAROLINA SANCHEZ
About three months after writer, Jonathan Larson, died of an aortic dispersion, Rent opened on Broadway on April 29, 1996. Now 21 years later, the 20th anniversary tour of the Tony award winning musical hit Los Angeles. The Pantages Theater hosted the national tour from January 24 to January 29. Rent was the “Hamilton” of the turn of the millennium. It enticed the young generation with its rock style opera the way Hamilton draws in a young crowd with its interwoven rap... Comic Strip: ArtemBy MALLU CONCHAS CASTENDA
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Dishonored 2 Checks OutBy LIAM MCABEE
Dishonored 2 is a game that was created by Arkane Studios and released in Nov. 11, 2016 by Bethesda Softworks for Microsoft Windows, Playstation 4 and Xbox One. The game is a sequel to the 2012 game Dishonored also published by Bethesda Softworks. This Action/Adventure game puts you into the fictional world of Pandyssia where you start back in the city of Dunwall just like the first game. Then the game puts you into the shoes of one of two characters. The two characters to choose from are Corvo Attano the main character from the first game or his daughter Emily. Each character has their own unique playstyles and has possible different outcomes for each character. Corvo was designed to be the sneaky assassin just like the first game whilst Emily is still an assassin but, she is far from sneaky. Each character also has their own ability sets. Corvo has all the abilities from the first game and some extras whilst Emily has a whole new set of powers designed for taking out multiple enemies out at a time to eliminate the need for sneaking. Each character has their own sets of unique play styles and abilities to make the game as fun as possible for everyone. The game also includes new enemies to fight, people to meet and places to go... |