Photo by Ken Goold
Handed lemons with the cancellation of the 2020 musical Bye Bye Birdie and the inability to do a regular musical this spring, the students in the Honeoye Falls-Lima Drama Club and artistic director John Hennessey and vocal director Ken Goold have made lemonade with a unique virtual musical revue called Broadway Unmasked 2021. The virtual revue will be dropped on the HF-L High School Music 2020 and Beyond YouTube channel on May 1.
Bye Bye Birdie was only two weeks from being presented when COVID-19 shut down schools last March. Originally, it was hoped it would only be postponed until June, but the ongoing pandemic forced its cancellation. Then, it was hoped that maybe it could be presented as the 2021 show since only six seniors from the Class of 2020 (Audrey Natale, Zetta Hayes, Sydney Picciotti, Dominick Abraham, Evie Manchester and Melissa Price) were in the show. However as the 2020-2021 academic year got underway, it was obvious that wasn’t an option eithe