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NMS Preparing To Stage ‘Beauty And The Beast Jr’

By Eliza Hallabeck

Published: Mar 23, 2019 07:00 AM

A “tale as old as time” is coming together on the stage at Newtown Middle School. Students have been hard at work to prepare for the musical Beauty and the Beast Jr, which will be staged at the school, 11 Queen Street, April 5 to 7.

Beauty and the Beast Jr will be presented April 5 and 6, at 7 pm, and April 6 and 7, at 2 pm. Tickets for the show will be $10. Tickets can be purchased online at showtix4u.com/events/2279.

As the students wrapped up a rehearsal on March 14, Producer Andrew Tammero and Choreographer Meghan Quinn were quick to stand up and clap for the students. Theresa Talluto is directing the musical.

A special free preview of the musical is scheduled for senior citizens on Thursday, April 4, with complimentary finger foods and beverages being served starting at 3:15 pm. People interested in attending the April 4 event can RSVP by e-mail to krismpowers3@gmail.com or by calling 203-426-7642.

Madeleine Talluto, left, as Belle, and Nicholas Williams, as Beast, rehearse a scene on March 14 from Newtown Middle School’s upcoming production of Beauty and the Beast Jr. —Bee Photo, Hallabeck

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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!

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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