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THURSDAY,
FEBRUARY 3, 2005
The show must go on
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Hannah Toland took first prize in the seventh - ninth
grade talent division for her vocal performance. She
sang, “I Dreamed a Dream” from “Les Miserables."
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Madeline Dannerberg accepts her first prize trophy from
Wayne Morris.
The winners
Winners of the Perry Kiwanis Show received trophies
and cash prizes. The first place winner in the senior high
division goes on to represent the local club in the state tal
ent showcase.
Senior Division:
First Prize: Southern Flare Cloggers, Cloggers Amy
Zieg, Courtney Jones, Chelsea Steinbacher, Alyssa Alewel
and Lee Ann Rudd
Second Prize: Anna Shylova,Ukrainian dance
Third Prize: Wil Fisher, juggling
9th-7th Grade Division:
First Prize: Hannah Toland, vocal
Second Prize: Lindsey Webb, vocal
Third Prize: Jayme Leigh Hamilton, interpretive dance
Ist-6th Grade Division:
First Prize: Madeline Dannenberg, vocal
Second Prize: Emily Wallace, clogging
Third Prize: Michaela Heide, vocal
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Hannah Cleghom, Bonaire Middle School student, talks
back stage with E.Z. Cleghom of Warner Robins High
School just after her vocal performance. Cleghom who
on the program as an entertainer, not competitor, told
the middle-schooler that she would be “a hard act to fol
low.” She later received first prize in her age division.
Entertainment
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
HHJ Lifestyle Editor
PERRY - To borrow a line
from an old song, “the weather
outside was frightful.”
With icy winds and power
outages in some parts of the
county, some of the kids on the
program didn’t make it to the
Perry Kiwanis Talent Show at
all.
Still, the big Perry High
auditorium had an enthusias
tic crowd of parents and
friends of the young perform
ers, and for Nancy Whiddon,
who has organized plenty of
shows and pageants in the
past, there wasn’t any ques
tion about starting time.
Conferring with Master of
Ceremonies Wayne Morris, she
made sure the show started at
seven.
Then the sound system
seemed to be hexed, with stat
ic at times, and tapes that
somehow came up short, leav
ing two or three of the
youngest performers out on
stage with no music.
They were troupers, though.
First grader Michaela Heide
belted out the rest of
“Honeybun” with no music at
all, and second-grader Darlyn
Davis kept right on clogging as
the audience clapped the beat
for her, even taking a dramatic
bow or two.
Whiddon kept the show
moving, and Morris, ever the
raconteur, improvised, enter
tained and told countless jokes
to the audience while the
sound system got repeated
adjustments.
John Gray Walker, one of the
Kiwanians back stage, made
sure each kid got a word of
praise on the way out.
Then word came that a pipe
had frozen and burst in the
ladies room. The unflappable
Whiddon left her post just long
enough to work out a solution.
“One of the dads got a
wrench and fixed it!” she said
as she hurried back to her
duties behind the curtains.
And on it went, with some
fine talents emerging.
McKinley Starks, a Bonaire
Middle School sixth-grader
who has been studying piano
since he was three, was the
starting act, looking great in
his tuxedo. Chelsea Bugg,
Valerie Davis and Brionna
Pinkley followed with vocal
performances. Emily Wallace
got noisy applause for her clog
ging, and Alexa Mangus had
the audience spellbound with
her singing of “A moment Like
This,” and Kourtney Morrison
gave a sweet rendition of “No
Band-Aids in Heaven.”
Courtney Ward, dressed in
black, sang “End of the Line,
Taylor Campbell sang “Take
My Breath Away” and
Madeline' Dannenberg gave
her very witty rendition of
“Popular,” which later one
first prize in that age division.
The competition in the sev
enth through ninth grade divi
sion included dance perform
ances by Rebecca Webb and
Jayme Leigh Hamilton, and
vocal performances by Erica
Ferguson, Lindsey Wells and
Hannah Toland.
At the senior high level, the
volume rose, with a Warner
Robins High Band and a group
from Perry High School, as
well as Southern Flare
Cloggers. Travis Dugger, lan
Tew, Jimmy Jones and James
Buck competed as vocalists,
and Anna Shylova wowed the
audience with her Ukrainian
dance. One of the quietest rou
tines won enthusiastic
applause as Wil Fisher did
some remarkable juggling - an
act that would later win him a
third place trophy.
All in all, it was a night to
remember, and what makes it
even better is that the pro
ceeds will go into the Kiwanis
Club’s scholarship fund, help
ing still more young people
achieve their dreams.
...and it did, despite ice, technical
glitches and a busted pipe
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Southern Flare Cloggers Amy Zieg, Courtney Jones, Chelsea Steinbacher, Alyssa
Alewel and Lee Ann Rudd won the first place trophy in the senior division and will
represent the Perry Kiwanis Club in the statewide competition.
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Kiersten Williams and Brooke Laird perform a dance with a Latin flavor.
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Perry High Students Daniel Doutwith, Jarrod Jackson and Heather Hathcock do
some last minute practicing for their performance of “Whisper.”
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