The Garden City High School Drama Department qualified 12 students to attend the International Thespian Festival with Thespys (Thespian Excellence Awards Competition). All of the students that qualified attended the Kansas Thespian Festival in January and prepared Thespys for that competition. The school had five students qualify at the Kansas competition. The school also had seven students qualify for additional Thespys at a second chance qualifier through the Texas Thespians, which is a virtual festival held in January. Students also qualified additional events at this second chance event.
Garden City High School will have twelve students in twelve different Thespys compete at the Festival. The qualifying students and their events are:
Hayley Loya-Solo Musical with “No One Else” from Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
Georgia Fahrmeier-Solo Musical with “Nothing Short of Wonderful” from Dogfight
Silas Lobmeyer-Solo Musical with “You Can’t Succeed on Broadway” from Monty Python’s Spamalot
Julia Facio-Solo Musical with “I Just Wanna Be a Star” from Nunsense
Logan Wyatt-Solo Musical with “The Whole Being Dead Thing” from Beetlejuice: The Musical
Marsae Hanneman-Solo Musical with “Right Hand Man” from Something Rotten
Phybee Madlangbayan-Solo Acting with monologues from Hardball and The Vagina Monologues
Katrina Almaguer-Solo Acting with monologues from Stop/Kiss and High School Musi-pocolypse
Santiago Rueda-Solo Acting with monologues from A Thousand Clowns and Karma
Logan Wyatt and Gavin Norton-Duet Acting with scene from The Creation of the World
Georgia Fahrmeier and Hayley Loya-Duet Musical with “In His Eyes” from Jekyll & Hyde
Santiago Rueda, Nic Vigil, Jasper Transfiguracion with a scene from The Aliens
The International Thespian Festival will be held June 23rd-28th at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. This is the highest level of competition for the drama students. The week-long festival includes competition in Thespys, nine Mainstage shows from around the country, and amazing workshops from theatre industry professionals.