With finals just around the corner, Monsignor Edward Pace High School’s Fine Arts Department brought out the Christmas cheer with its 2015 Christmas show “Grinchmas.” Pace students, parents, faculty, alumni, and friends came out to the Spartan Center on the evening of December 11 to watch Pace Academy for Visual & Performing Arts Dance, Theatre, Art, and Music Programs put on a show based on the Dr. Seuss Christmas classic.
Students from the Music Program’s Jazz Band academy, led by lead teacher Ross Goldman, performed a set of holiday classics to open the show. Drama and Musical Theatre students acted and sang as the Cat in the Hat, the Whos, and the Grinch.
Members of the Dance Academy performed their own choreographed pieces in between bouts of dialogue from Drama students, while the Art Academy designed the stage sets and props. The show closed with a nativity scene as a clarinet trio played Silent Night. Following the show, the Fine Arts departments’ Lead Teachers were called on stage and recognized for their work.
Brittany Gonzalez, a senior in the Drama Academy Theatre Program, wrote the show’s Seuss-inspired rhyming script. She says the performance was special because it was the first time she had seen one of her works performed onstage in a full production. She has been admitted into the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) with a full scholarship upon graduation from Pace.
Senior Andrew Almaraz was there to watch his fellow Pace students on stage, and was impressed by their performance. “They really brought out the Christmas spirit,” said Almaraz.