NHS Stages Classic Play

By LAURIE BORST

Published: Nov 03, 2006 12:00 AM

Newtown High School Drama Club will perform Tennessee Williamsâ classic play, A Streetcar Named Desire November 16â19. Directed by NHS senior Nathaniel Basch-Gould, the production focuses on the breakdown of famed heroine Blanche Dubois, during her visit with her sister, Stella, and brother-in-law, Stanley, in postwar New Orleans.

âThere is such incredible power in this show, and I wanted to get students involved in producing something with real dramatic weight. This cast carries that weight and is using that momentum to put up a show that will profoundly move this community,â says Nathaniel.

Senior Keilly McQuail stars as the fragile, yet captivating Blanche, while senior Brian Stickles plays opposite her as Stanley Kowalski. As Stella, junior Maia Jacoby rounds out the cast of 11.

Performances in the Newtown High School auditorium begin Thursday, November 16, at 7:30 pm, and continue Friday, November 17, at 8 pm, Saturday, November 18, at 8 pm and Sunday, November 19, at 2 pm. General admission is $10, with $8 tickets for students and seniors.

For tickets, call Sharon McCarthy at 426-4369.

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A lovely tribute-Matt, we are thinking of you, Tanya, and entire Medve family at this time-Jane & Keith & Family 💙

Susan Medve

I am sorry but $88.8 million dollars to educate 4030 kids is way out of line! That's over $22k per kid, used to be $8k per kid, the kids aren't getting any smarter, the administration eats all the cost. Time to cut the budget by 20% and also cut the $225k salary of the superintendent and $193k of the superintendent assistant ! You can get a lot of teachers for $400k wasted for 2 overpaid positions. Common sense should tell you that spending $2.5 million per every week for population less than 30k people is just way too high! Also voting should be done by mail, enough with these nonsensical referendums where barely 16% of voters show up. 51% voters approval should be MANDATED!

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Encouraging. The town budget squeaks by but the school budget got dinged. Let the games begin.

Who have you asked that didn't know where to cut? Its easy. Ideally, you would start with section 100 of the budget but the union prevents that. So I say you turn to page 18, put it on your dart board, and start reducing the head count. It's all you can do when the union controls the budget.

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The people have spoken, time to sharpen your pencils. If we look at the town budget for guidance the BOE should cut the budget from 4.4% to 2.75% I find the voting results very interesting ... We have approximately 4,030 students in our town, with a published 12:1 ratio which means we have 335 teachers. I would love to know the actual number if someone knows. If we account for their spouses that gets us very close to the number of people who voted yes for the budget and wished it would be higher (729).

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