“Damn Yankees” Opens Fulton’s “Music in Our Schools Month” Events Tonight

March 8, 2012 Contributor

Sports Reporter Gloria Thorpe (Alexis Pawlewicz) is trying to give her favorite baseball team some good publicity. Visiting with the Washington Senators she hopes she will find information for a story that her readers will enjoy. Pictured with Thorpe are members of the 1958 Washington Senators’ Baseball Team (kneeling – l to r): Brandon Webb, David Houck, Max Wood, Michael Mankiewicz, Justin Grower and Jeremy Herlowski. Seated (l to r): Logan Carvey, Mark Parry, Alex Bawarski. Standing (l to r): Mitch Lalik, Stephen Heywood, Cody Hockey, Brad Crofoot, Nathan Hawthorne, Markus Harter and Joe Medico.
Sports Reporter Gloria Thorpe (Alexis Pawlewicz) is trying to give her favorite baseball team some good publicity. Visiting with the Washington Senators she hopes she will find information for a story that her readers will enjoy. Pictured with Thorpe are members of the 1958 Washington Senators’ Baseball Team (kneeling – l to r): Brandon Webb, David Houck, Max Wood, Michael Mankiewicz, Justin Grower and Jeremy Herlowski. Seated (l to r): Logan Carvey, Mark Parry, Alex Bawarski. Standing (l to r): Mitch Lalik, Stephen Heywood, Cody Hockey, Brad Crofoot, Nathan Hawthorne, Markus Harter and Joe Medico.

Fulton’s celebration of “Music in Our Schools Month” begins Thursday with opening night for the play “Damn Yankees” at the G. Ray Bodley High School auditorium.

Quirk’s Players will put on the classic Broadway musical Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m.  There will also be a 2:00 p.m. Saturday matinee.

Every musical group in the district will perform during the month:

  • The high school jazz bands hold a concert March 15 at 7:30 p.m.;
  • The Volney Elementary School band and orchestra perform at the Syracuse Crunch game March 16;
  • The high school choruses perform March 19 at 7:30;
  • Lanigan Elementary holds a schoolwide concert at 6:30 p.m. March 20;
  • Volney Elementary holds a schoolwide concert at 6:30 p.m. March 20;
  • Granby Elementary holds a schoolwide concert at 6:30 p.m. March 21;
  • Fairgrieve Elementary holds a schoolwide concert at 6:30 p.m. March 22;
  • The high school bands hold a concert at 7:30 p.m. March 22;
  • The Junior and Senior High All-County Orchestra Festival will be held at G. Ray Bodley March 23 and 24;
  • Fulton Junior High holds its 7th grade concert at 6:30 p.m. and its 8th grade concert at 8:00 p.m. March 28;
  • The high school orchestras hold a concert March 29 at 7:30 p.m.

The district’s music facilitator, Debra Farden, said that more than 1,500 students will perform during the month.  “It’s a great showcase,” she said.

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