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Pirates, Mittens, and Music Fill Holiday Assembly
“I have seen the error in my old pirate ways: take, take, gimme, gimme! It was all wrong. There’s something else to life," proclaims reformed pirate Mad Dog Cruikshank, dressed as an elf.”
At today’s annual K-12 holiday assembly in Memorial Field House, that something else was seasonal music performed by music and dance groups from all three divisions. Vocal and instrumental ensembles entertained. And a saxophone-playing Santa accompanied the Lower School chorus.
The charming event is always a crowd-pleaser. The audience enjoys watching its traditional beginning, when seniors hoist prefirsters up to decorate the mitten tree. They wonder what holiday tale Director of Religious Studies John Grega will create as a way to introduce the various performing groups. And what corny jokes he will tell as asides.
This time, as the reformed Cruikshank, Grega tries to convince cohort Bo Starling (Headmaster Bo Dixon, in a companion role to his Halloween portrayal of movie pirate Jack Sparrow) to renounce his thieving ways. Bo Starling continues to pilfer holiday gifts until, in a scene loosely based on The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, an adorable little girl gives him her teddy bear.
“Here Mr. Starling, you seem to need something. Will this help?” she asks.
The child’s kind gesture gets Bo Starling thinking … “Maybe a change is in order,” he concedes.
With that, the lower schoolers sing “Light One Candle.” Cruikshank and Starling leave arm-in-arm. The 2006 holiday assembly concludes.
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“I have seen the error in my old pirate ways: take, take, gimme, gimme! It was all wrong. There’s something else to life," proclaims reformed pirate Mad Dog Cruikshank, dressed as an elf.”
At today’s annual K-12 holiday assembly in Memorial Field House, that something else was seasonal music performed by music and dance groups from all three divisions. Vocal and instrumental ensembles entertained. And a saxophone-playing Santa accompanied the Lower School chorus.
The charming event is always a crowd-pleaser. The audience enjoys watching its traditional beginning, when seniors hoist prefirsters up to decorate the mitten tree. They wonder what holiday tale Director of Religious Studies John Grega will create as a way to introduce the various performing groups. And what corny jokes he will tell as asides.
This time, as the reformed Cruikshank, Grega tries to convince cohort Bo Starling (Headmaster Bo Dixon, in a companion role to his Halloween portrayal of movie pirate Jack Sparrow) to renounce his thieving ways. Bo Starling continues to pilfer holiday gifts until, in a scene loosely based on The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, an adorable little girl gives him her teddy bear.
“Here Mr. Starling, you seem to need something. Will this help?” she asks.
The child’s kind gesture gets Bo Starling thinking … “Maybe a change is in order,” he concedes.
With that, the lower schoolers sing “Light One Candle.” Cruikshank and Starling leave arm-in-arm. The 2006 holiday assembly concludes.