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Fiddler on the White sh Stage
The Homeschool Theater Club presents its annual performance, this year with “The Fiddler” on May 6 and 7
David Landis, left, and Elijah DeLapp rehearse “The Fiddler.”
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valley’s homeschool students not only to the ne arts, but also to each other.
“The purpose up front was to give exposure to the homeschool students with theater, and it has accomplished that,” Dean Landis, who sits on the club’s board, said during a rehearsal last week.
Four of Landis’ ve children take part in the club, which puts on one major pro- duction each year. This year’s selection of “The Fiddler” – an adaption from “Fid- dler on the Roof” – marks the 11th show for the group. Performances take place May 6 and 7 at the White sh Perform- ing Arts Center.
The club averages anywhere from 50 to 70 kids each season, Landis said. This year’s production includes 60 perform- ers, and last year’s included 72.
Originally, the club held its plays on a church stage, which worked for the rst six years or so. But it had grown each year, and nally, ve years ago, the club was too large for the church and needed more space and professional equipment.
Since shifting their play performances to the White sh Performing Arts Center, the shows have been all but sold out.
The adults involved with the club said it is gratifying to watch the students blos- som as they improve, and it’s also a good place to earn credits through writing the production script, auditions, fundrais- ing, and the actual performance.
But one of the other purposes of the club is to get kids who might not meet up otherwise together. Landis said it’s important for many of them to be part of something big, to work as a team, and to develop small-group skills.
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HE ROOM AT EASTHAVEN Bapist Church was chaos, with dozens of dancers’ limbs ying
and twirling through the air, close to smashing into each other were it not for
carefully followed choreography.
In the center of it all, two young men linked arms and drank fake booze out of steins, celebrating the upcoming mar-
riage of a daughter.
It’s a scene of fun and frivolity that
would be familiar to fans of musicals
everywhere: as they dance, the perform- ers also sing the classic lines of the song “To Life! (L’Chaim!),” from “Fiddler on the Roof.”
It’s the most exciting time of year for the Homeschool Theater Club, an edu- cational group that helps introduce the
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