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WEEK OF MAY 2, 2024
VOLUME 40 | ISSUE 39
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Green Mountain High School celebrates 50 years of theater with alum benefit concert
Singers gather for the performance. BY SUZIE GLASSMAN SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA
Current students and graduates of Green Mountain High School’s theater, choir and orchestra programs took to the stage earlier this month to celebrate 50 years of performances at the Lakewood school, which opened in 1973, and to raise money for a new projector. The concert included 20 perfor-
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mances featuring songs and compositions from a sample of the 37 plays and 36 musicals hosted in the school’s auditorium since the Fall of 1974 and the night also included loving tributes to retiring theater director Barbara Amberg and choir director Dave Gleason. “Tonight, we are going to go through a journey of the last 50 years of theater here at Green Mountain High School,” said Lisa
Hidalgo, Denver 7 meteorologist and class of ‘96 alum. “We have alumni not only that you’re going to see on stage but also in the audience – anywhere from the class of 1987 to now, said Hildago, who recalled how her theater experience at Green Mountain gave her the stage presence and confidence to pursue an on-air career.
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