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Benjamin Logan High School’s music department plans to rock the crowd this weekend with a musical set to a score of popular 1980s rock’n’roll classics.
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The show Rock of Ages: High School Edition is a new adaptation of a Broadway performance, and Ben Logan is the first school in Ohio to attempt the ambitious musical and among the first in the nation.
Show times are 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and tickets are $8 each and can be reserved by calling 592-1666.
Directed by Layne Bair and Christy Fout, Rock of Ages features seniors Collin Headings as the protagonist Drew Boley, Collin Losey as the narrator and loyal Bourbon Room employee Lonny Barnett, and Jack Robinson as the smooth and sleazy rock star Stacee Jaxx. Junior Courtney Garwood is the female lead Sherrie Christian with sophomores Daniel McPherson as Bourbon Room owner and aging hippie Dennis DuPree, Kallie Young as Sunset Strip protector Anita Bath and Logan Phillips as Franz Klinemann. Other cast members include senior Mikayla Rose as Venus Club owner Justice Charlier and freshman Josh Cox as real estate tycoon Hertz Klinemann.
In the photos, …
1. A group of protesters sings and chants outside to keep the Bourbon Room open.
2. Sherrie stands up to Stacee Jaxx.
3. Anita and Franz challenge Hertz to fight to the tune Hit Me with Your Best Shot.
4. From left, Sherrie confides in Justice Charlier, Franz holds Anita and Drew sits near the band as the main cast makes amends with their loved ones.
5. Hertz offers a contract to DuPree as Lonny, right, and Franz, left, look on.
6. The crew celebrates the reopening of the Bourbon Room.
7. Mullet-wearing narrator Lonny leads the cast in a portion of the finale song Don’t Stop Believing.
8. Members of the main cast, front row, from left, Franz, Anita, Stacee, Drew, Sherrie and Lonny, dance during the finale song Don’t Stop Believing.
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