Broadway comes to San Marino! Direct from the 2005 Tony awards, Monty Python’s Spamalot is a an up beat, high energy, hilarious musical that is sure to be another huge success for San Marino High School.
As a leading public school district in California, San Marino High School has a reputation for innovating and raising standards, and their performing arts department is no exception. San Marino High School’s students are committed to excellence, investing hundreds of hours into rehearsals. Whether they are creating harmonies, building the sets, painting props, or tap dancing, the students work for over three months while still juggling their academic and extra curricular activities.
Following the legendary King Arthur as he quests to bring together the best and brightest in the land to sit at the round table, San Marino High School’s musical draws students from the entire campus. An all-school musical allows students who normally don’t get a chance to participate, to be on stage. Always packing about 60 students on stage, the actual number of student involvement is closer to 10% of the school’s population, when you count the stage crew, the student orchestra members, the art students and all the volunteers who help pull it all together. San Marino High School believes in allowing its students to drive the production and the students are most definitely the ones running the show.
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The musical is based on the original 1975 movie, Monty Python’s Quest for the Holy Grail, which came out the same year director Blake Williams was born. She literally grew up watching Python with her dad, and she hopes that the silly lyrics, the fun characters, combined with her interpretation will truly impress local audiences. “It still has the traditional favorites that everyone has come to know and love, like the SPAM Song, the Black Knight, a killer rabbit, and the coconuts. But I have added a few things like tap dancing trees, new knights, and some comedic moments for today’s high school audience. Any time you expand a show from a cast of 20 to 60 some changes have to be made. Hopefully I have been able to blend the best of Broadway into our community production“ Blake explains.
Don’t miss this year’s
musical. Appropriate for audiences of all ages, the San Marino High School
production of Spamalot will run on March 14, 15, 20, 21 and 22 at 7:30pm and on
March 16th at 2pm. For more information visit http://www.sanmarinohs.org/. Tickets are
only $15 for adults and $7 for students.
