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Local School Choirs Have
Something To Sing About

featuring Holiday Songs
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4 P.M. & 8 P.M. Saturday, December 9

adult $24 • student/sr. cit. $22

SUZANNE CHESSLER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

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featuring Songs For The Holidays
sponsored by

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7 P.M. Sunday, December 10
adult $28 • student/sr. cit. $25

The Gaylords

featuring Family Holiday Songs

sponsored by Arriva Ristorante

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4 P.M. & 8 P.M. Saturday, December 16

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Rodger's & Hammerstein's

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3 P.M. & 7 P.M. Sunday, December 17
adult $24 • student/sr. cit. $22

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on the
1995-96 season
and to order tickets,
Hall (M-59) at Garfield Road
call the
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One mile east
Macomb Center Box Office.
of Lakeside Mall
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onny Osmond may be the

star of Joseph and the
Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat , but not to the
parents of the kids in four local
choir groups who will take the
Masonic Temple stage with Os-
mond starting Wednesday, Nov.
29.
Each of the 92 youngsters will
become professional singers for
half of the performances during
the hit Broadway musical's nine-
week run. The staging of the show
keeps the 46 student vocalists on
stage for almost all of the pro-
duction.
As part of the audition process,
school choral groups from around
the state were invited to submit
audio tapes for consideration. Of
these groups, 23 choirs were se-
lected as semi-finalists. At the Oc-
tober 2 audition at Detroit's
Masonic Temple, where the stu-
dent groups competed and sang
on stage, 10 schools were chosen
to go on to the fmal round of au-
ditions on October 12.
Four choirs were then selected
to perform throughout the Detroit
run of the show, including those
of Abbott Middle School in West
Bloomfield, Bethesda Christian
Church in Sterling Heights,
Greenfield Elementary School in

for half days. Homework often is
completed during their roundtrip
trek to the rehearsal hall down-
town.
Of the Jewish youths selected,
most agree that this very exciting
experience also has meant eye-
opening, hard work.
Julie Schiller, 13, an eighth-
grader at Abbott, can compare the
professional routine directly to one
of her community activities. A for-
mer member of the choir at Con-
gregation Shaarey Zedek, she
performed as the narrator in the
synagogue's version of Joseph last
year.
Part of that tightness involves
non-fidget tests that all the
youngsters regularly have to take.
They are being taught to avoid
any movement that might dis-
tract the audience from what is
being spotlighted.
"There's no physical freedom
on stage, but I still think it's a lot
of fun," said Blair Mellow, 12, a
seventh-grader at Roeper. "It's
something I will always be able
to talk about."
Eleven-year-old Ryan Levitt is
a sixth-grader at Greenfield Ele-
mentary. He found the fidget test
to be a surprise and a mark of how
alert the singers have to be. Be-
cause he has performed in con-

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Beverly Hills and Roeper School
in Birmingham.
AbbOtt Middle School and
Greenfield Elementary School
have teamed up to form one choir,
and Bethesda Christian Church
and Roeper School comprise the
other team. The finalists have
been rehearsing six days a week
for a month.
Each day, buses pick up and re-
turn the young Oakland County
cast members (ages 9 to 15) to
school so that they can attend
classes for half days and rehearse

certs in front of as many as 1,000
people, he is confident about work-
ing on stage at the Masonic.
Three school choral directors
— Rita Jury (Abbott), Janice
Haines (Roeper) and Rebecca Mi-
er (Greenfield) — agree that all
the hard work, including many
hours of pre-audition rehearsals,
is well worth it. They have been
preparing their singers since last
May when the call for choirs went
out.
'We're an arts-oriented middle
school, and I thought with all the

