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WHS nominated for 9 Dallas Summer Musicals awards
Ashley Ford
WISD Communications Specialist
Waxahachie High School was nominated in nine categories at the Dallas Summer Musicals High School Theatre Awards for its winter production of “Matilda.”
The 2021 Dallas Summer Musicals High School Theatre Award nominations received by WHS include:
Best Musical
Best Orchestra
Best Direction
The opportunity to perform in a COVID year was a blessing in itself, even though the virus had the potential to cancel the performance in its entirety.
Just one week before showtime, the original student cast for Miss Trunchbull could not perform due to a family exposure to COVID. WHS senior Anthony Gallo was challenged to fill the vacant role even though he had already developed the character Rodolpho, an eccentric dancer. Gallo a first-year musical theater participant immersed himself into the new lead role and persevered to learn the lines, songs, and choreography in just one week.