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Saturday, March 10, 2018

"Annie, Jr." Wraps Up This Weekend


    Today's edition of the Herald-Dispatch includes a great story written by Dave Lavender about the special production of Annie, Jr. that runs this weekend at Huntington High School. (Photo above by Larry Butcher.)

   (And let me just add how proud I am of the director, Zadokite Wood, who's grown up on local stages and has appeared in several shows I directed - and was my Student Director on Disney's Lion King, Jr. Needless to say, she's incredible talented and driven. Congrats to her and her amazing cast!) 

   You can read the full story at this link - here's an excerpt:

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As a budding actress, Huntington High School junior Zadokite Wood has notched up more than 25 shows with area theater companies from First Stage and Jeslyn to HHS and the Actors for Children's Theater in Ashland.
As a student, Wood has immersed herself in American Sign Language and will get an associate's degree in American Sign Language in May from Mountwest Community and Technical College.
This weekend, those two worlds of theater and ASL come together as Wood presents a theatrical capstone project, "Annie Jr. in ASL and English" at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 9 and 10, and at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 11, in the Huntington High School auditorium.
"Annie Jr." comprises two casts - there are 17 actors onstage using American Sign Language and 10 actors offstage using spoken English and singing the songs. Tickets are $10 and $5 for children and seniors 65 and older.
Wood, 16, said she is excited to be able to offer such a show that is accessible to everyone. There are two deaf students who are in the production, while other cast members learned ASL to do the show.
"I am so excited seeing these kids come together from these two worlds and watching them work together and seeing students like Steshka Snyder, who is not used to being in an environment where she an communicate with everyone — that is the best part,” Wood said.

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