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KM Drama students up for Blumey Awa C
Kings Mountain High
School Performing Arts
Department is among 72
nominees, Six in each of the
12 categories, who are are
competing in the 4th High
School Musical Theater
Awards which recognizes
the best in high school the-
ater.
The winners will be
announced at 7 p.m. on
May 17 in Belk Theater in
Charlotte. WBTV's Mau-
reen O'Boyle will emcee.
Tickets for the awards cer-
emony go on sale April 30
at 10 a.m. and range from
$40 to $60. They can be
purchased at Blumenthal/
Arts.org or over the p hone
at 704-372-1000.
The awards ceremony
will feature performances
by six finalists for best
actor and best actress. Two
students from each pro-
duction will be featured
in opening and closing
production numbers. The
Doctor Family Foundation
will also award a $10,000
annually renewable schol-
arship to two area students.
The national show and
ceremony will take place in
New York on June 29.The
two students named best
actor and actress will re-
ceive an all-expenses-paid
trip and week-long stay in
New York City where they
will train and compete with
other regional winners,
Blumenthal Performing
Arts says. Y
For three years the
~ Kings Mountain H igh
School Performing = Arts
Department,
under the
direction of
Dan Tre-
harne, has
partici-
pated in the
Blumeys
and this
year's mu-
sical, “Lit-
tle Shop of
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Horrors,"
has been
nominated
for seven
awards: best
ensemble,
chorus; best featured per-
former Austin Willis as
Orin; best supporting actor
Tobias Curry as Audrey II;
best actress Jensen Fleisher
as Audrey; best actor Jack
Pearson as Seymour; best
overall direction; and best
musical.
The Wells Fargo “best
musical” category will
consist of two tiers with
three schools being nomi-
nated within each tier. Tier
I includes schools with a
musical production budget
of under $10,000 and Tier
II includes arts magnet
schools and schools with
musical production budget
of $10,000 or more.
Eight schools, includ-
ing Kings Mountain High,
are in competition for best
musical award, KMHS for
“Little Shop of Horrors.”
Students scoring in the
top 20 in the best actor
and best actress categories
will be invited to audition
before a special panel on
Jack Pearson as Seymour and Jensen
Fleisher, right, as Audrey, in a scene from
the KMHS production of “Little Shop of Hor-
rors.”
Saturday, May 2. The six
nominees for both of these
categories will be chosen
after the auditions and an-
nounced on Monday, May
4. )
Kings Mountain High
School's Jack Pearson, who
had the role of Seymour in
“Little Shop of Horrors" is
among the best actors from
20 schools chosen in the
top 20 for the audition.
. Kings Mountain High is
among six schools chosen
for best ensemble/chorus
in the production of “Little
Shop of Horrors,” among
six schools. chosen for
best overall direction, and
among six schools for best
featured performer, Austin
Willis as Orin in “Little
Shop of Horrors” and To-
bias Curry as Audrey II,
best supporting actor, in
“Little Shop of Horrors."
The Blumey Awards is
produced by the Blumen-
thal Arts' Education De-
partment and presented by
Wells Fargo.
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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS - Pictured are members of the cast of “Little Shop of Horrors,"
the recent production by the KMHS Performing Arts Departments. Front row, from left, Leah
Nations, Janah Williams, Casey Johnson, Tobias Curry, Haley Johnson, Jacob Edmondson,
Akeela Frost, Brennin Fleisher; second row, Jailah Pettis, Rachel Mower, Sophia Kellstrom,
Jensen Fleisher, Jack Pearson, Ashlea Hodge, Nyla Barnes, Skylar Smith; third row, Jere-
miah Fite, Landon Ervin, Austin Willis, Rielly Neal, William Toweyy, Brandon Towery, and
Cole Smith.
" PERFORMERS- Pictured are seven members of the cast of “Little Shop o Horrors” ina
musical routine. From left, Jailah Pettis, Sophia Kellstrom, Rachel Mower, Jack Pearson,
Ashlea Hodge. la Barnes and Skylar Smith.
KM Woman’s Club tours KM Historical Museum
Adria Focht, Director/
Curator at the Kings Moun-
tain Historical Museum,
gave 20 members of the
Kings Mountain Woman's
Club a tour of the museum
April 27 and pointed out
the numerous exhibits, “Pi-
oneering Women of Kings
Mountain," which includes
pictures--and memorabilia
from a number of Kings
Mountain women and their
contributions to the commu-
nity.
Focht began the tour at
the front of the building and
talked about each exhibit as
the members walked by the
various cases filled with me-
mentos. The exhibit is open
Service history, Carfax 1 owner,
low, low miles, Aux input.
to the public during museum
hours through May.
Among exhibits dis-
played were those of Min-
erva Stone Tracy, the first
postmistress; Lottie Go-
forth who left her estate of
$20,000 for the building of
Kings Mountain Hospital;
Mary Accor, the first woman
chairman of the board of
Cleveland County Commis-
sioners; Ruby Alexander,
the first woman contractor;
Hazel Herndon Fryer, the
founding president of the
Historical Museum who do-
nated her wedding dress and
a Red Cross uniform; Lib
Stewart, who served as the
2000 National President of
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for The Kings Mountain
Herald, who has displayed
numerous articles from her
travels for the Auxiliary
and a vintage typewriter
displayed by Greg Ledford,
publisher of The Herald.
There are many more pho-
tographs and artifacts of
early pioneers and numer-
ous other women featured
in the exhibit, open to the
public during museum hours
through the month of May.
The Kings Mountain
Woman's Club's exhibit in
the museum features a look
back into the club's -100 year
history and features Mrs.
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Katherine (Aubrey) Mauney
and her service to the club.
Ann Bennett is club pres-
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