PERFORMING ARTS
RISING TO THE CHALLENGE... AGAIN! With Term 2 our busiest time of year, the performing arts have risen to the challenge. Already many of our students have been involved in nationwide events, kicking off with Dio’s Jazz Band competing at the National Jazz Festival in Tauranga, followed by the senior Hip Hop crew competing at the Mega School Division competition, Dio hosting the Shakespeare Festival regionals, and Les Misérables debuting as our first largescale production in the new theatre, to name a few. We have been thrilled with the results across so many disciplines and look
forward to more fabulous successes at regional and national level later in the year. In collaboration with Dilworth School, the Diocesan team presented Les Misérables one of the most popular musicals in the world as our first fully staged production in the new theatre. The students across both schools were unbelievably excited to be in this wonderful new venue, which boasts a large open stage perfectly suited to musical theatre, an orchestra pit, full lighting rig and backstage facilities to die for.
With a stellar double cast of 50 performers, 15 musicians, 36 backstage crew, and a 15-strong creative team led by Director Sarah Spicer and Musical Director/Producer Lachlan Craig, this epic production of passion and redemption set during the French Revolution, brought out the very best in everyone and we were so proud to stage this West End hit as our first major production in the new venue. Shelagh Thomson, Director of Performing Arts
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