This week, the young thespians of YS High School and McKinney Middle School were in the last galvanic days before that transformation as they prepared to perform “Shrek: The Musical.” The production will be staged Friday–Sunday, May 6–8, in the Paul Robeson Cultural and Performing Arts Center at Cen
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“I would like to tell you I had a plan I really would,” she said.
All things being equal, if Sparrow-Knapp could have had it her way, she would have picked up where she and the performing arts program had left off last school year: “The Fair Maid of the West” was in production when the pandemic shut everything down. Though much of the principal cast of that show has graduated, Sparrow-Knapp said she had cast some younger students as understudies who could have stepped into the main roles.
“I even thought about bringing back some of the kids who’d graduated,” she said.