"Lollipop, lollipop / Oh lolli lolli lolli" the treble choir began, their Wholesale Ugg boots and Converse sneakers shuffling on the classroom's hard floor. They twirled around, holding imaginary candy in their hands.
"Smile!" choir teacher Bill Liberatore called out. "Flirt with him! It's a song about a boy — he's very cute!"
On Tuesday and Wednesday, the Uggs and jeans will be replaced by saddle shoes and poodle skirts, as Gunn's choir students stage their annual February musical extravaganza. The students, along with 50 Gunn staff members and choirs from JLS and Terman middle schools, will perform "Heavenly Bandstand," which they describe as discount ugg boots a '50s musical valentine."
The show, written by playwright Nancy Hersage, tells the story of a high school student who falls asleep in class and dreams that she's visited by a celestial musician named Johnny Angel, who is desperate to return to Earth. To do so, he has to compete on an "American Bandstand"-style competition featuring '50s music.
"It's been a hard year at Gunn, and I think this show needed to be just fun, laughs and silly," Liberatore said.
The treble choir girls last week ran through "Rock Around the Clock" and "Tutti Frutti," preparing for a preview performance at the middle schools. "I love the idea of showing little kids the fun side of high school," Liberatore told the students. "All they're hearing right now is discount ugg classic tall boots what math lane are you in."
Gunn's choir was cool long before the TV show "Glee" hit the airwaves. Liberatore has been teaching the popular classes for 20 years, and this year has about 135 students enrolled.
In addition to more formal choral performances earlier in the year, and the musical in February, the choir students each year have the opportunity to go on a trip. Last year, the students went to Vienna and Prague, and this May will go to New York, discount ugg classic boots where they'll sing in a choral festival and see Broadway shows. Tickets sales from next week's performance will help pay for students who can't afford the trip.
Liberatore says his students are "all kinds of different kids ... athletes, drama kids. We become sort of our own community."
The diversity of the group is representative of Gunn, Liberatore said, where students are encouraged to try everything.
"It's totally fine if a kid is a football player and a choir singer," Liberatore said. "It's totally cool if a kid is on robotics and in the play. ... We don't make kids choose at Gunn."
Some students said they never really sang before.discount ugg bailey button boots Malik Gill, a 15-year-old sophomore, said he and his friends decided to join after seeing last year's musical.
"At first we were singing a lot of old music, and it was kind of boring, but this show is fun," Malik said.
On the other end of the spectrum, Shivani Rustagi, a 16-year-old junior, had been in her middle school's choir and joined Gunn's as a freshman. She said she likes meeting students with "completely different interests, but they're all together for this one thing."
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