“We don’t let things stop us,” said drama instructor Tommy Varella-Kossack, whose home was destroyed in the Aug. 25 slide.
Mason Avila plays Albus Potter and Oliver Wutzke plays his father Harry in a rehearsal for “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” at Ketchikan High School.
“Whether you’re a community theater, or you’re a professional theater around the globe, if you want to produce, say, ‘The Crucible’ by Arthur Miller, there’s only one door to knock on on the planet, and that’s ours,” he said. Keilholtz said the passion and teamwork of the school’s theater troupe, the Kayhi Drama Kings, stood out from other applications. An audition video, posted in December on TikTok, captured the cast’s energy.The Kayhi Drama Kings, hailing from Ketchikan High School in Alaska are the perfect example of MAGIC! As the director of the group, I can attest to the tenacity and drive of these students, I can’t imagine a more deserving group.
With the first day of school set for Monday, Aug. 26, Varella-Kosack and Pratt planned to do outreach and generate excitement for “Cursed Child” ahead of auditions scheduled the following week. But a day earlier, the landslideSchool was delayed for a full week, and Varella-Kossack didn’t return to school for several days even after it reopened. He said Pratt took charge in his absence.
“But even more than that, I can’t just portray the characters in those because this is set 19 years later, so it’s an older version ,” Wutzke said. “It’s different. And that would be a challenge, I would say.”Members of the Kayhi Drama Kings rehearse for “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”
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