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Courtesy of Valley High School Drama Club
The Valley High School Drama Club rehearses on Zoom for its spring production of Peter and the Starcatcher.
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To stage or not to stage, that is the question for area high schools as musical season approaches.
As many productions fell prey last year to the pandemic, school personnel and students didn’t think they would be facing the same challenge this year. But they are.
With gathering size and social distancing rules still in place, many schools are still figuring out what to do and how to do it. But the consensus seems to be that virtual is the way to go, and any live audience necessarily will be limited in size.
What makes Pittsburgh such an attractive movie location?
Tax credits for film companies are just the beginning, says Dawn Keezer, director of the Pittsburgh Film Office.
“We have such a diversity of locations. Pittsburgh can look like any place in the world,” she says. “The only things we don’t have are a beach and a desert.
“We do New York better than New York,” she says. “We’ve been San Francisco, Paris, Ukraine and Atlanta.”
There’s the beauty of the city viewed from the West End Overlook or Mt. Washington and downtown’s blend of modern and historical architecture, she says. Drive for an hour and you have mountains, small towns, farmland and other attractive settings.