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Tweet And the SM East parade of champions continues… So to recap: We already have women’s swimming league champs, women’s soccer league champs, men’s golf league champs, and a lacrosse team in the title game. Phew! But there’s more! SM East’s speech and drama team took home the top honor in the state at last [...]
Tweet The nominations are out. And the cast and crew of SM East’s The Drowsy Chaperone couldn’t be much happier. Starlight Theatre on Thursday officially released the nominees for this year’s Blue Star Awards, honoring the best of Kansas City-area high school musical theatre. SM East learned last week that it had 10 nominees among [...]
Tweet Those talented thespians at SM East have drawn plenty of attention for their big production this year. But their young peers at Indian Hills Middle School have impressive talent of their own. The middle school’s performance students are preparing to stage their annual musical May 2-4: The Little Mermaid. Here’s the show description from [...]
Tweet The Kansas City Christian community gathered this weekend for a celebration of creativity. The school’s second annual “Art Event at KCC” showcased more than 30 artists, displaying ceramics, jewelry, sculpture, paintings and mixed-media pieces. A portion of the proceeds from the event benefited the school and the City Union Mission. This year’s festivities kicked [...]
Tweet Looks like it could be a big year for SM East’s theater department… Director Brian Cappello has received word from Starlight Theatre’s Blue Star Awards that SM East’s production of the Drowsy Chaperone has received 10 nominations. (The Blue Star Awards — basically the Tony Awards of Kansas City high school musicals — give awards [...]
Tweet Last month band students and parents turned out in big numbers to protest cuts to the band program at SM East. The school now says that all of the band-related courses at SM East will be taught again next year. But the news may not be enough to alleviate the concerns of band supporters. [...]
Tweet Three SM East students were among the recipients of 18 Shooting Stars arts scholarships awarded by the Arts Council of Johnson County at its annual gala this past Sunday. Senior Ali Felman, who plays the viola, took the first place scholarship in the strings category. Senior Lily Kaufmann took the second place scholarship in [...]
Tweet The Mission Hills home Hollister and Porter Hovey’s family moved into in 1989 needed some work. There was the shag carpeting, for starters, which covered seemingly every floor. And then the gold wallpaper, bright orange formica counters, and a mirror that took up an entire wall in the master bedroom. “It was thoroughly stuck [...]
Tweet St. Patrick’s Day may be behind us, but the Irish spirit is as strong as ever in a group of young northeast Johnson Countians who are making their debut at the World Irish Dancing Championships today in Boston, Mass. The team of eight 8-12 year olds train together at the O’Riada-McCarty-Manning Academy of Irish [...]
Tweet Once the snow has melted for good next week (knock on wood), it will be officially time to get into the spirit of spring. And one young Prairie Village resident is helping spring spirits bloom with her role in a timely Starlight Children’s Theatre production at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts next [...]
Tweet If you happen to be downtown this weekend for Kansas City’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade, be sure to get a good look at the spirited group of young dancers at the front of the pack. Because the eight 8-12 year olds who will be among the leaders of the parade will be heading [...]
Tweet If in the process of your spring cleaning this month you happen upon a stash of dusty books, don’t set them out by the curb. The Shawnee Mission East students organizing a used book sale in conjunction with this year’s Earth Fair can use them! For information about where to donate books, call 913-993-6617. [...]
Tweet The SM East band community took its case to the Shawnee Mission School Board Monday night in an attempt to keep the band director’s job a full-time position. SM East band students and their protest signs greeted even early arrivals to the meeting outside the administration building. Inside they helped fill the room and [...]
Tweet It’s likely that the public comment portion of Monday’s Shawnee Mission School Board meeting won’t be filled with happy tunes. SM East Band Boosters leaders say they expect somewhere around 50 parents and perhaps that many students and alumni to attend the meeting in a show of solidarity for finding a way to keep [...]
Tweet A group of SM East parents are in the process of organizing a massive display of dismay at news that next year’s proposed school staffing plan would cut the Band Director from a full-time to a half-time position. Should the position be reduced as currently planned, it appears the school’s two jazz bands — the [...]
Tweet SM East sophomore Akshay Dinikar was a bit frazzled that February afternoon. It was 7th hour, the end of the school day, and he’d just finished a challenging chemistry exam. “My mind was all about chemistry and the formulas I’d been using,” he said. “That’s all I was thinking about.” But when a text [...]
Tweet There are just six days left for artists to apply for the right to show their work at this year’s Prairie Village Art Fair, scheduled to run May 31-June 2. Just 100 artists are selected to appear at the show from the more than 400 who have applied in recent years. The Art Fair [...]
Tweet “The Drowsy Chaperone,” SM East’s 2013 musical, hit the stage for its first of four performance Thursday, and, if you’ll forgive a brief bit of editorializing: Wow. Go see this show. You will not believe these are high school kids. That is all.
Tweet You crazy web kids out there probably think you invented the concept of self-referencial “meta-ness,” don’t you? Don’t you! Wellsirs, I invite you to visit SM East starting this Thursday to take a virtual trip back in time — all the way back to the ancient year 1998 — when “The Drowsy Chaperone,” this year’s SM [...]
Tweet A Prairie Village resident’s 40 year devotion to sculpture is on full display through the end of January. Mark McHenry is an architect by day, but since the early 1970s, he’s been crafting unique multimedia works out of wood, wire and metal. Six of those pieces are presently on display at the Late Show [...]
Tweet On Thursday, Whitney Kerr gathered with his extended family on a farm an hour and a half east of Kansas City for their traditional Thanksgiving celebration. His daughter Charlotte was there, up from Dallas, where the 2007 SM East graduate now works as a buyer at Neiman Marcus. Starting a career in the fashion [...]
Tweet When Liz Dimmel’s “Mystery of Christmas” hits the stage for the 15th time this year, two young Prairie Village dancers will be helping bring the artistic director’s vision to life. The ballet combines the music of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite with the Christmas story. This year, Prairie Village’s Olivia and Molly McAuliffe will join a [...]
Tweet Aspiring young artists on Thursday will have a chance to see what career paths might be open to them at the first-ever Shawnee Mission East Art Career Fair. The event, which is free and open to students from across the metro area, will expose high school artists to a range of art-related careers, from [...]
Tweet Prairie Village’s State of the Arts Gala has turned into quite a jewel. The annual juried arts show celebration attracted so many patrons this past Friday that organizers ran out of food — “and ALMOST out of wine,” according to committee member Randy Kronblad. “Good problem to have.” A perfect evening and growing interest [...]
Tweet The Barn Players Community Theater in Mission is now selling tickets for its 58th consecutive season. The company will produce six regular shows during the 2013 season, two Barn Kids productions, the annual Barn Benefit Concert and its 10-minute play festival. The Barn Players Theatre is at 6219 Martway, across from the Sylvester Powell [...]
