Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
Appleton North's production of Mary Poppins enjoyed a spectacular run that, despite a dramatic rain delay, was practically perfect in every way. A little drama Friday's night only proved how poised these talented high school students are, how loyal their growing fan base remains, and how gifted their directors continue to be. Here's what happened [...]
Just before 5 a.m. yesterday, Molly and I pulled into her dark, cold high school parking lot, active with working snow plows and assembling theatre kids. Then I watched as the students and their fearless director boarded two yellow school buses for the 175 mile trek to LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Last night, they performed a showcase [...]
A talented director entertains, a gifted one elevates. This weekend in a high school theatre that has blown us away more often than we can count, we once again transcended a story we had heard all our lives. This time Peter Pan and his faithful, naughty sidekick Tinkerbell led us to Neverland, a place at [...]
For more than a decade our family has been living under the spell of a gifted theater director. The inexhaustible Ron Parker, whose Appleton North Theater Program recently was named the No. 1 high school theater program in the Midwest, consistently amazes us. In retrospect, our initial astonishment seems humble. We attended North's 2002 production of [...]