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The choir program began the year with the show Cabaret, titled “If I Ruled The World” and was directed by senior Shannon Barry.  The students were all dancing and singing, but Barry also had to direct, plan and choreograph, as well as dance and sing.
“I have been thinking about Cabaret since my freshman year and it started as a dream, but once I was chosen as a director at the end of my junior year, I revolved my entire summer around it, planning and organizing, trying to choose the right songs,” Berry said.
In the show 20 songs were preformed ranging from, “We Built This City” to “ We’re Not Gonna Take It”.  Each song had a choreographed dance to it, 18 of which were choreographed by Barry. Senior Belana Torres and junior Curtis Faulkner choreographed the other two.
“My favorite song to preform was “We Go Together” because we got to roller blade on stage,” Torres said
The choir did have a limited number of weeks to practice in preparation of the performance.  With only three weeks to put the show together choir members met before and after school for rehearsals.  Even with such stressful situations the Cabaret team was ready by the night of the performance to put on a show.
“One of the strong points that we had was the cabaret team really made the show strong, and the powerful music brought it together and made a full circle,“ Barry said.
Students, who joined, worked to help Barry with the performance so that they could help her with the productions of Cabaret.
“I joined Cabaret because I had lots of fun in it last year and wanted to be more involved in the process of it,” sophomore DJ Fortner said. “I’ve known Shannon for a long time and I knew how much she cared about this show so I wanted to help make her dream come true.”
Making sure that everything got done on time Barry worked over the summer just to make sure this turned out as successful as she wanted it.
“I made sure I got everything done at the right time, I even had a to-do list, I made sure that all the rehearsals were gong well, we even met over the summer to record some of the dance,” Barry said.       by Photo Editor Ashley Stroud