The show will premiere Friday, Feb. 19. 5:00 pm, Feb. 17, 2021 ×
Monica Peterson (middle), playing the role of Sister Robert Anne, uses a puppet for one of the musical numbers in Nuncrackers: The Nunsense Christmas Miracle. Ruth Blom (left) as Sister Mary Hubert and Carrie Smoley (right) as Sister Mary Paul stand on either side of Peterson with light-up headbands on top of their habits. (Jasmine Johnson / Echo Press)
Christmas in February?
The coronavirus temporarily put the Andria Theatre’s Christmas-themed musical comedy on the shelf, but it’s now set to run the next two weekends, celebrating the holiday season a few months after it passed.
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Ja na Kelly poses in front of University City High School. She s a senior at the high school, though she s hardly been inside since March. She had to navigate school and now college admissions virtually.
Without extracurricular activities or standardized test scores, students with ambitious college plans are doing so without the resume they had hoped would win over admissions officers.
This is not the year for the college road trip. Instead, it’s been all about clicking through virtual campus tours.
Parker Kopplin is a senior at Ritenour High School in St. Louis County, and that’s where he was when he explored the campus of UCLA.
Originally published on December 17, 2020 7:22 am
This is not the year for the college road trip. Instead, it’s been all about clicking through virtual campus tours.
Parker Kopplin is a senior at Ritenour High School in St. Louis County, and that’s where he was when he explored the campus of UCLA.
“It just doesn t feel like a real experience,” Kopplin said. “It kind of just seems like you re reading and talking to a brochure.”
Kopplin instead has listed Mizzou, a school he was able to visit last summer, as his top choice.
McCluer High School senior Aldo Estrada also at one time had dreams of going to college in southern California. But the pandemic has Estrada, who will be the first in his family to attend college, wanting to stay closer to home.