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Center Stage: Glee Club at New Albany High School
Sunday, September 30, 2012
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The gentlemen of the Glee Club had an early morning as they headed off to New Albany High School, home of the Bulldogs!
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After a three hour bus ride to New Albany, everyone helped to unload the properties quickly and set the stage for the performance that afternoon.
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Sir of Merchandise, Danny Hartman, sets up the merchandise table and display where CDs, and even plush Glee Club Petes, can be purchased!
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After setting up and unloading, the gentlemen of the Glee Club helped themselves to some pizza in the New Albany cafeteria.
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Once the Glee Club specialties were finished warming up, the whole group took to the stage to do final sound checks.
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Andrew James, Kirk Weathers, and Jason Ban all worked with Ted Arthur to put a little extra rock in the Glee Club’s new opener “Life is a Highway”.
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The gentlemen prepped positions for “Strike Up the Band” and ran off stage to change while the house filled with several returning audience members.
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Junior Taylor Reiff had the first solo of the show in the Glee Club’s “Indiana Medley”, a combination of classic tunes such as “Tonight Along the Wabash” and “Kokomo, Indiana”.
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A crowd favorite, the gentlemen cut loose and had fun with the country song, “Sold”!
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Danny Hartman returned to his hometown of New Albany and sang the run out before the halftime of the show.
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Nick Miller, Caleb Larsen, and Roy Johnson were rockin’ and a rollin’ in Ba Na Na, the Glee Club’s oldest specialty group.
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Senior Rob Lechner poked fun at Bill Griffel’s operatic background when he sang the solo within the humorous “Lambscapes”.
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The ladies of the Henryville Choir joined the gentlemen of the Glee Club for the patriotic “Battle Hymn of the Republic” toward the end of the performance.
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The Glee Club closed with a powerful rendition of “God Bless the USA” with senior Roy Johnson on the solo. After mingling, the group quickly took down the stage and boarded the bus for a long drive back to West Lafayette.