In The Spotlight

It’s a rush beyond any rollercoaster, greater high then overcoming incredible odds and a bigger adrenaline rush then the fastest of cars. Your heart pounds and you start to sweat, your legs are shaking and you stomach feels like it’s about to burst with butterflies. Then the blinding light shines right in your eyes and you feel like you’re on top of the highest mountain peak. You deliver words that move thousands and let every emotion fill you up. It’s then, in that one moment, you know what you were born to do. 

Greeks, Romans and Italians have been acting since the beginning of time, often all to glad to make fools out of themselves to entertain peers and royalty. Since then the view of acting has changed quite dramatically. Many teenagers see acting in high school is only for nerds and outcasts but only a select few realize the courage, bravery, and the will it takes to stand in front of sometimes hundreds of people and take on the traits and personalities of someone who does not even exist.

Drama Club is more then just a group of actors, it’s so much more. Junior Wendi Boltenhouse and Drama Clubs publicist said, “It’s like a small family at school because you get so close to the people you work with.” Almost everyone in Drama Club feels this way. “Drama Club helped me meet my best friends,” said Drama Club historian and junior Angel Moore

Being on stage is exciting and exhilarating! Acting is a passionate art and the people who experience it can really get wrapped up inside of the characters and situations they are portraying. “Everything you worry about just goes away when you step on stage,” said Drama Club president Alana Feasel. Lives are changed by being on stage, it is one of the best experiences a student at West High School can have. “Being on stage is really, really fun, when your on stage you feel accomplished because of all the hard work you’ve done comes together for one great result,” commented Drama Club member Cody Herron.

“Drama Club is everything, it’s life on stage, it’s music and dance, it’s even sometimes therapy to life’s situations…It’s everything,” said WHS Drama Club director Mr. Engelman. For the people who understand theatre, it is their life and their passion. Being on stage is one of the most selfish things a person can do because they do it for themselves first and to entertain second. As the senior Drama Club members graduate, it is sure to be one of their greatest memories of West High School. It’s something that can never be replaced.

In the final scene of “Sylvia” by A.R. Gurney is not only emotional but pulls the audience into the intensity and complexity of the lives of Kate (Sara Scott), Greg (Cody Herron) and Sylvia (Alana Feasel).

WHS Thespian Troup #3750 opens the 2009–2010 season with the outrageously funny “Sylvia” by A.R. Gurney. A story of love and the bonds between man and man's best friend. In this opening scene, Sara Scott, Cody Herron and Alana Feasel mastering their roles of Kate, Greg and Sylvia.

In a tense and hilarious scene from the fall play “Sylvia by A.R. Gurney the bonds of a 13 year marriage are almost torn apart by a wife’s prejudice against her husband's dog.