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HIGHLAND PARK HIGH SCHOOL TAKES ON ‘THE HEATHERS’ BY JULIE KEMP PICK DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
BY LIBBY ELLIOTT DAILYNORTHSHORE.COM
Ask skiers who grew up in suburban Chicago during the 1960s and ’70s and they’ll likely remember a childhood filled with cold, snowy winters and weekend bus trips to Wisconsin ski resorts like Wilmot, Little Switzerland and Cascade. Many will tell you they earned their skiing chops on the glorified hills and minimountains of the Midwest. Back then, an abundance of ski clubs operated out of the North Shore, shuttling hundreds of kids each Saturday morning to the Wisconsin slopes for ski lessons and a day of fun, and returning them home at night - tired but happy. Fast-forward 50 years and this North Shore tradition is still going strong with two thriving weekend ski programs: the Avalanche/Trolls Club, whose home base is the Scandinavian Ski Shop in Glenview, and the Snowflake Club, which operates out of Williams Ski & Patio in Highland Park. Nearly 1,300 children signed up for membership in this year’s Snowflake Club, the North Shore’s oldest and biggest youth ski program. On the Martin Luther King Jr. school holiday, Snowflake transported more than 500 skiers aged 8-18 on six buses to Alpine Valley Resort in Elkhorn, Wisconsin. An average Saturday ski trip will draw around 250-300 participants. “Snowflake Club has successfully run the same program for 50 years with very few changes,” said Continued on PG 10
With cyberbullying on the rise and the epidemic of school shootings, Highland Park High School Theatre Arts Director Scott Shallenbarger decided to listen to his students by tackling the controversial show, Heathers, The Musical, (High School Edition). Heathers, The Musical is a dark comedy based on the 1988 film Heathers that became an off-Broadway cult classic by Kevin Murphy and Laurence O’Keefe (the latter is one of the composers from Legally Blond, The Musical). The Paramount Network will also debut Heathers as a TV series on March 7. Shallenbarger explained that his students had been asking for years to perform what he describes as “a cautionary tale about bullying in high school.” But after initially reviewing Heathers, The Musical, Shallenbarger told his students that he loved the play as much as they did, but he thought it would be too difficult to attempt at the highschool level. “We are very well supported with our fine arts program in Highland Park historically, and I’ve had the affirmation of the administration and the Board of Education to do things that typical high schools don’t always get to do, and even for me the explicit language and violence (in Heathers, The Musical) seemed too much,” said Shallenbarger. Then last spring, Shallenbarger learned the creators wrote a new version of the show:
Maya Garfinkel, a Highland Park High School senior, plays Veronica Sawyer in “Heathers, The Musical/High School Edition” PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER
Heathers, The Musical, (High School Edition) that enabled them to take out the explicit language and deal with the violence in a different way without “stealing the heart and soul of the story,” which Shallenbarger felt would be more accessible for the kids, as well as the audience. The musical revolves around Veronica
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Sawyer, a smart and beautiful teen who joins the most powerful school clique, the Heathers; three popular and superficial “Mean Girls” all named Heather, only to be alienated from the group, and her dangerous new boyfriend, J.D., who encourages her to get Continued on PG 10
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