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The Show-Me-Harmony Chorus of Sweet Adelines Inc. is moving into the computer age.
The chorus will present “I’ve Got E-Mail?”, a play about computers, trouble and lots of music, at 3 p.m. today in Pittsburg Memorial Auditorium. Tickets cost $10 for adults and $5 for children 12 and younger, and may be purchased at the door.
Chairmen for the 2010 show are Elsie Danner and Marilyn McClure. Script for the original play was written by McClure, Kathy McDonald and Carole Wade.
“It’s based on older people, change and learning to use the computer,” McClure said. “A daughter suggests to her mother that she get a computer. She does, and a computer expert gets her set up. The daughter suggests that her mother try out YouTube, and she does. She gets hooked, and falls asleep with her head on the keyboard.”
She said that the YouTube sequence is a musical flashback that starts with country music, including some Patsy Cline favorites, then moves on to Elvis Presley, the Mamas and the Papas and the Fifth Dimension.
“The chorus members are all wearing letters, to look like a computer keyboard, and our director, Glenda Rucker, is dressed as the mouse,” McClure said.
Guest performers in the show, playing the mother, daughter and computer expert, are Margaret Beeson, Karen Wood and Kevin Pommier.
“Carole Wade and I are both relatively new to music, and this show was the first time for us,” said McClure, who teaches at St. Paul. “This was a lot of fun, and the ladies are wonderful to work with.”
Special guest for the show is the Girard High School Jazz Band under the direction of Willey Abati.
“When we did this show in Joplin, we featured the Carthage Show Choir,” McClure said. “We like to give young people a chance to perform in our shows.”
The GHS jazz band is made up of students in ninth through 12th grade, and was originally formed in the 1970s, when Abati was a GHS student. The band presents a Christmas program and spring concert every year, and participates in the annual Pittsburg State University Jazz Festival.
This year the group also performed at the Kansas Association of School Boards Region 3 meeting, in Girard.
Band members rehearse totally on their own time at 7:15 a.m. two mornings per week. They play many different styles of music, from older jazz and swing classics like “Georgia on My Mind” and “Route 66” to more modern music like Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”
The Show-Me-Harmony Chorus of Sweet Adelines Inc. is moving into the computer age.
The chorus will present “I’ve Got E-Mail?”, a play about computers, trouble and lots of music, at 3 p.m. today in Pittsburg Memorial Auditorium. Tickets cost $10 for adults and $5 for children 12 and younger, and may be purchased at the door.
Chairmen for the 2010 show are Elsie Danner and Marilyn McClure. Script for the original play was written by McClure, Kathy McDonald and Carole Wade.
“It’s based on older people, change and learning to use the computer,” McClure said. “A daughter suggests to her mother that she get a computer. She does, and a computer expert gets her set up. The daughter suggests that her mother try out YouTube, and she does. She gets hooked, and falls asleep with her head on the keyboard.”
She said that the YouTube sequence is a musical flashback that starts with country music, including some Patsy Cline favorites, then moves on to Elvis Presley, the Mamas and the Papas and the Fifth Dimension.
“The chorus members are all wearing letters, to look like a computer keyboard, and our director, Glenda Rucker, is dressed as the mouse,” McClure said.
Guest performers in the show, playing the mother, daughter and computer expert, are Margaret Beeson, Karen Wood and Kevin Pommier.
“Carole Wade and I are both relatively new to music, and this show was the first time for us,” said McClure, who teaches at St. Paul. “This was a lot of fun, and the ladies are wonderful to work with.”
Special guest for the show is the Girard High School Jazz Band under the direction of Willey Abati.
“When we did this show in Joplin, we featured the Carthage Show Choir,” McClure said. “We like to give young people a chance to perform in our shows.”
The GHS jazz band is made up of students in ninth through 12th grade, and was originally formed in the 1970s, when Abati was a GHS student. The band presents a Christmas program and spring concert every year, and participates in the annual Pittsburg State University Jazz Festival.
This year the group also performed at the Kansas Association of School Boards Region 3 meeting, in Girard.
Band members rehearse totally on their own time at 7:15 a.m. two mornings per week. They play many different styles of music, from older jazz and swing classics like “Georgia on My Mind” and “Route 66” to more modern music like Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”
“This is my 10th year back at my alma mater working with this group,” Abati said, “and I really enjoy it.”
Current band members are: Natalie Duling, Blake Marshall, Austin Egbert, Bethany Baker, Paige Harrod, Ryan Hisey, Alex Hughes and Haley Pitts, alto saxes; Delaney Hirst, James Spieth, Alex Battitori and Tanim Dillon, tenor saxes; Nicholas George, baritone sax; John Duling, bass guitar; Ashlee Hisey and Baylee Hisey, Zach Trageser, Derrick Amend, Chanel Jackson, Amanda Longpine, Rachel Blankenship and Paxton Boore, trumpets; Dalton Piatt and Nathan George, trombones; Krista Jarboe and Alex Tippie, drum set; and Bethany Schifferdecker, piano.
The Show-Me-Harmony Chorus is one of hundreds of Sweet Adelines International Choruses that make up a worldwide organization of women who sing four-part barbershop harmony. Members come from Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma, and they perform regularly throughout the four-state area.
Anyone wishing additional information about the chorus may visit its web site at www.showmeharmony.org.
