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Aerialist in ‘Harry Potter’ found magic of theater in Novi BY CHARITY MEIER
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Members of the Novi High School band perform the school fight song outside the door of the auditorium to call guests for the State of the District address Feb. 25.
Novi State of the District address includes plans, aspirations and millage During the annual State of the District address Feb. 25, Novi Community School District Superintendent Ben Mainka spoke of the district’s aspirations and the possibilities attached to the potential approval of a no-tax-increase millage later this year.
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Mainka said that the district started to create an aspirational plan last year. According to Mainka, the district was looking to figure out where it was headed as a school community and figure out what investments it desired and what things it wanted to go after. “I think that every successful organization has to have that
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Broadway actress Erin Chupinsky now flies high in theaters around the world as an aerialist in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” currently being performed in Los Angeles. However, she took her first flight as Peter Pan on the stage of Novi High School more than 20 years ago. Even today, when she looks back at her career, she says her favorite theatrical memory is of her participation in Peter Pan, as “That’s where I learned to fly.” And fly high she has, with roles in national tours of not only Harry Pot-