Join Us Thursday for "Jukebox Wonder" - This Year's 9-12/Middle School Musical
Jukebox Wonder began as a 9-12/Middle School project for which students created two “This Is Me” playlists - one based on interviewing family members about music and cultural identity, and another of songs with personal meaning to the students themselves. The students then studied classic musicals and the purpose of the songs in them. The middle-schoolers taught the 9-12 students a lesson on writing a musical, using techniques such as story-boarding.
Jukebox Wonder uses the story from the book Wonder, written by R.J. Palacio in 2012, which was the students’ summer reading. It is a jukebox musical (like "Mama Mia," "Rock of Ages" or "Moulin Rouge"), which uses existing popular songs around a certain theme to tell a story. The themes of the show are identity and DEI-B (diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging), and the songs were chosen from the students’ “This Is Me” playlists. We hope you will join us for the show!
Thursday, May 18, in the WMS Gym/Auditorium
9:30 a.m. - Dress Rehearsal
7 p.m. - Performance