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By Kevin McClintock
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JOPLIN, Mo. — Tonight’s the night when
the lights dim, the curtains part and the
sound swells inside one of the newest and
most modern concert halls found in the
Joplin area.
“This is something I’ve wanted (to see)
since I was in middle school,” said Thomas
Jefferson Independent Day School junior
Clayton Woolery. “I couldn’t ask for
anything more than what we have now.”
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Samantha Bradshaw (left
to right), Clayton
Woolery, Shannon Clark
and John Bowman
rehearse a scene from
"Hello Dolly." The musical
will be presented at
Thomas Jefferson
Independent Day School.
Globe | Bill Stewart
As he spoke, he gestured around at the
425-seat capacity TJ Concert Hall. While
the facility already received its public
debut late last year, tonight marks the
school’s first full-fledged, “bells and
whistles” performance held inside the
multi-million dollar facility.
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The popular musical “Hello, Dolly!” will be
performed by TJ’s actors, singers and
musicians at 7 p.m. today and Saturday.
There’s really not a bad seat in the house,
said Robert Carlson, director of
communications and technology.
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“We did some strategic planning two years
ago and everybody in the community, the
alumni, the parents, said (the school)
could really benefit from a nice performing
arts center,” Carlson said. “We have a
huge performing arts and music program, but we really didn’t have the right facility for them.
Now we do.”
The concert hall is just one aspect of the $15 million Humphreys Arts and Student Life Complex,
which neatly doubled the size of the school, from about 45,000 square feet to about 90,000.
The new complex also has a lobby for art galleries, rehearsal rooms for music, a commons area
with a full-service cafeteria and outdoor dining, an open-air courtyard in the center of the
building, a foreign languages lab, a library and media resource center for older students and a
studio arts room.
The theater features a lighting system, sound system, orchestra pit, a trap door, 40-foot fly
tower, plenty of space for back stage access for tech crews and props, a sizable staging area as
well as practice rooms.
“There are a lot of big theaters, but this one is pretty unique with the current level of
technology we have here,” Carlson said. “There’s really nothing like this in the area.”
Before the concert hall was constructed, music and drama students competed for performance
space inside the school’s multi-purpose room, which wasn’t built for acoustical performances.
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“Everybody sat one right behind the other,” Carlson said. “Parents sat in plastic chairs set up for
them, and that’s where we held our assemblies and performing arts performances.”
First musical
“You can do everything in here,” said John Atteberry, the school’s music teacher. “We’ve already
had concerts, a full symphony orchestra, we’ve had plays, and now we’re getting ready for our
first big all-school spring musical. I think everybody is excited about it.
“We picked ‘Hello, Dolly!’ last fall because we wanted to make sure we matched a play our
current group of students,” could succeed at. “It’s a good one because it involves a large group
and a large chorus -- it’s a show that everybody knows, so the audience (should) be excited to
hear the music. Everybody loves the songs.”
The play revolves around Dolly Gallagher Levi, a professional meddler and matchmaker who
decides to marry a miserly millionaire named Horace Vandergelder -- and that is when the fun
begins.
Demonstrating the commitment shown by the school’s students, Atteberry said, 60 of the
school’s entire 160 students, grades 6-12, are participating in the performance, be it acting,
chorus, instrumental or as a member of the tech crew backstage.
“They really enjoy being here,” Atteberry said of the students, “and they can see what it’s like
being in a real theater and how exciting that can be” by graduating and moving to a performing
arts department on the collegiate level.
Having the space on the concert hall’s mammoth stage helps when practicing lines and walking
through dress rehearsals, said TJ sophomores Frank Cascone and Evadne Rodriguez.
“It’s definitely made practice a lot easier for us,” said Cascone.
Aside from Woolery, Cascone and Rodriguez, students with headlining roles include: Samantha
Bradshaw, Kaylee Conner, Sanjay Jenkins, Jonathan Shumaker, Samantha Mountjoy, John
Bowman, Victoria Baker and Shannon Clark, among many others.
Want to go?
Thomas Jefferson Independent Day School is located at 3401 Newman Road. Call 781-5124 for
advanced tickets -- $12 for adults, $8 for children.
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