Meet the leads from Oklahoma

Meet the lead characters for Oklahoma!

starting bottom right and going clockwise:
Macaila Funk (Laurey Williams), Ryan Epp (Jud Fry), Eric Epp (Ali Hakim), Sara Bartel (Ado Annie Carnes), Luke Driedger Enns (Will Parker), Brendan Paetkau (Curly McLean), Emily Hooge (Aunt Eller)

Jud Fry (Ryan Epp) works on his solo with assistant musical director Audrey Falk Janzen

Ali Hakim (Eric Epp) and Ado Annie (Sara Bartel) work one of their scenes on a stage still under construction.

Audrey Falk Janzen (assistant music director) coaches Macaila Funk (Laurey Williams) from the piano.

These seven actors are rehearsing Friday and Saturday, laying a strong foundation for what looks to be an excellent show!

Tickets are now on sale! (306.232.4222)

2012 CD - Breath

Call in your order for the 2012 Choir CD.  It features performances by Concert Choir, Women's Choir and Chorale. There are 20 songs on the CD.  Original artwork is by grade 12 student Macaila Funk.

The cover for the 2012 Choir CD "Breath"

Call 306.232.4222 to purchase. They will be distributed during exam week and during grad weekend.

See the playlist here.

Rocky Mountain Festival in Banff (Chorale Tour)

Chorale has returned safely from a short and intense tour to Alberta. In addition to singing at various schools and churches, they spent a day in Banff at The Banff Centre where they performed at the Canadian Rocky Mountain Festival. Chorale had their best performance of the year and deeply impressed the judges with their versatility and sincerity of performance. 

One of the highlights (just one of them - there were MANY more) was Canadian composer Stephen Hatfield jumping out of his chair at the end of Chorale's performance, stomping his foot and shouting "Now THAT'S a set you can be proud of!!"

In the bus on the way.

In Hanna Alberta - a much needed bus break.

First stop on tour was Westberry Elementary School in Kindersley. Here Chorale is shown singing at Didsbury Bergthal Mennonite Church in Didsbury Albert where we stopped for night.

Free time means creative time-killing for Landon.

There were some interesting art pieces in the Cross Iron Mills Mall in Calgary.

At Menno Simons Christian School in Calgary, where Sara read a story to the rest of Chorale.

Chorale sang at Menno Simons Christian School in their atrium - pretty good acoustics there.

Paradise and Meghan have some fun with Val's Generation Next stuff.

The Tenors and Basses performed "Let's Hang On" from the hit musical "The Jersey Boys"

The Menno Simons Christian School musical cast joined Chorale for the final song of their concert. Both groups had prepared "Hold Me Rock Me" by Brian Tate just that afternoon.

Saturday was the day in Banff. What a beautiful day it was!

In Banff, mixing it up with many other choirs and singers.

Some of the singers soak up the sun while waiting for their clinic with one of the judges. Chorale had an AWESOME performance and were rewarded with very favourable and encouraging comments.

On Sunday morning, Chorale sang both services at Foothills Mennonite Church in Calgary. All in all an exhausting tour - short but fulfilling.

The back of the Chorale tshirt. Can you find the errors?

Chorale Spring Tour Itinerary

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Sask Valley Music Festival Awards

The Sask Valley Music Festival came to a close on Sunday with the final awards concert. Several RJC students performed and received awards. Congratulations to Chorale (Top High School Choir), Sara Bartel (Top Musical Theatre Performance), Emily Hooge (Instrumental Runner Up - violin), Jamieson Fitzgerald (Vocal Runner Up), and Ryan Epp (TopVocalist.)

Sara Bartel won the Station Arts Centre trophy for top musical theatre performance.

Ryan (Vocal Rose Bowl) and Louella Klassen Friesen (voice teacher)

Emily Hooge with her Oma. Emily was awarded the instrumental runner up award for playing violin.

All the SVMF winners.

OKLAHOMA Cast List

The cast list was posted this morning. Congratulations to all the auditionees. We look forward to a strong ensemble and an excellent show!

Please note that tickets go on sale on May 23, 2012

Choir Festival Times

If you want to hear the choirs (Concert Choir and Chorale) sing at the Sask Valley Music Festival in Rosthern, you should be at Rosthern Mennonite Church on:

FRIDAY, MARCH 30 at 10:30 am.

ALSO - the musical theatre classes run tonight (Wednesday) and Thursday at 7:00 pm. PLEASE NOTE THE EVENING SESSIONS ARE AT STATION ARTS CENTRE in Rosthern.