Centerville High School Performing Arts Center

Centerville Schools Performing Arts Center
Address 500 E. Franklin Street
Centerville, Ohio
Capacity 1,200[1]
Opened December 2007
Website
www.centerville.k12.oh.us/PAC
Lobby of the Theatre

The Centerville Schools Performing Arts Center is a theater venue in the Dayton, Ohio area that opened in December 2007. It has a 1,200-seat main auditorium and contains a modern dance studio, scene shop, and other support areas. A prominent feature of the center is the two-story glass lobby. The new PAC was financed by a levy and was built at the back of Centerville High School. The cost of the project was about $7.5 million.

In addition to the school's productions the facilities are also rented out for dance recitals, shows, concerts, and other performances. Some notable productions that have taken place in the Performing Arts Center are: Doyle Lawson, the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Jon Petz, Udit & Aditya Naryan, and Indian Idol's Aditi Paul.

Centerville Theatre

The Centerville High School Theatre Department produces four main stage productions most school years. Through the 2007–2008 school year there were only three main stage productions. In 2008–2009 season a fall musical was added. In addition to the four main stage shows, the students produce four additional productions throughout the year. In December there is a student-produced play performed for K-1 elementary students, and during February the students perform a student produced play. In May the Advanced Acting and Directing class along with the Technical Theatre Tech-Prep class produce a full play. The season ends in May with the annual Extreme Theatre experience.

Centerville High School Theatre is affiliated with the International Thespian Society and is organized as Troupe #2204. New members are inducted into the Thespian Honor Society at the annual Theatre Banquet in May. In 2010 they were asked to perform their fall musical, Lucky Stiff, at the state conference in March. In 2011 they returned to the mainstage at the state conference with their production of The Dining Room by A.R. Gurney. In 2012 they also performed their fall musical "Urinetown" at the state conference.

High School DayTony Awards

In June 2012, the Fourth Annual High School DayTony Awards celebration was hosted by Jim Sagona and Sinclair Community College at Blair Hall. Forty-nine Awards of Excellence and eighty-three Awards of Merit were received by students from ten area schools. Centerville High School students received three Overall Production Awards, twenty-three Awards of Excellence, and twenty Awards of Merit.

Production history

2012–2013 Season

2011–2012 Season

2010–2011 Season

2009–2010 Season

2008–2009 Season

Once Upon a Mattress
Director Joe Beumer addresses the cast of Inherit the Wind following a dress rehearsal

2007–2008 Season

2006–2007 Season

2005–2006 Season

2004–2005 Season

2003–2004 Musical

Music

Band

The Centerville High School band program consists of the Wind Symphony, Symphonic Band and Concert Band. The after school program features the marching band, Centerville Jazz Band, the Winter Guard and Winter Percussion (indoor percussion ensemble), four jazz ensembles (Jazz I, Jazz II, Jazz III and the newly-introduced Jazz IIII), and the Basketball Pep Band (BBPB).

  • In 2011 the CHS Winter Drumline was featured in the video "Rhythm Generation" along with three other high school drumlines as they prepare for the WGI Indoor Percussion World Championship.
  • In November 2011 the Centerville Jazz Band placed 20th overall in the BOA Grand National competition. 500+ bands began the season at Regional competitions held around the country this year to work up to the Super Regionals and finally to the Grand Nationals. The Killer Queen show, music and performance by the band was outstanding and absolute crowd pleaser.
  • The Centerville Band program will present Soaring Sounds 39 on Monday, July 30, 2018
Exterior of Centerville High School Performing Arts Center, taken May 9, 2014

Orchestra

The orchestra program at Centerville High School consists of its Symphonic Orchestra, Concert Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra (a small ensemble that breaks into smaller quartets to perform in the community), and an Alternative Strings program (which plays bluegrass, jazz, and Celtic music).

  • The Chamber Orchestra is a small ensemble that focuses on professional-level literature. In 2011, Chamber became a self-directed performing group for the first time. Chamber had the honor of collaborating with Miami University's Morpheus Chamber Orchestra in the fall of 2012. Additionally, the Chamber Orchestra was one of seven ensembles invited to play at the Ohio Music Education Association's state convention in Columbus in 2013. The ensemble also receives numerous requests from the community every year to perform in smaller chamber groups (quartets, quintets). These events have included wedding music, Christmas music at the Washington-Centerville and Woodbourne Public Libraries, and banquet music, just to name a few.

Choir

Centerville High School also has four choirs, known as Concert Choir, Women's Choir, Symphonic Choir, and Forte (an a cappella group). In addition there is an after school a cappella group, Novae.

  • Seventy two members of the CHS choral program went to Orlando, Florida in February 2012 to attend three days of workshops at Disney World. Besides participating in the "Disney Sings" workshops, the choir had a chance to perform for guests at Walt Disney World. Many of the students from Concert Choir, Women's Choir, Symphonic Choir and Forte earned their way to Florida through catalog sales and raffle sales.
  • The Choral Program at Centerville continued to grow. Centerville High School now has second a cappella group in addition to Forte called Novae.
  • Forte received a personal singing lesson from a top vocal coach featured on NBC's hit, The Sing-Off. Christopher Diaz worked with Centerville's a cappella group, Forte, helping them prepare for their upcoming CD release concert and nationwide competitions.
  • Forte released their second CD, 2 The Wire in February 2012

X-treme Theatre

X-treme Theatre is an annual event sponsored by the Centerville High School Theatre Department. The students must write, direct, design, act, and sing in an original theatre production. This event originated in 2007 and has continued annually. To prevent planning ahead a set of rules dictating specific items that must be included in the show are revealed twenty-four hours before the performance. These items may be characters, specific props, certain words, and various other requirements (such as a musical number). The event starts at 7:30pm on a Friday and the script or scripts are written overnight with production and casting beginning at 7:30am the next day. The performance begins that Saturday at 7:30pm. The show traditionally includes an improvisational component at the beginning of the show.

References

  1. ↑ "Performing Arts Center - Centerville City Schools". www.centerville.k12.oh.us. Retrieved 5 May 2018.
  • "Performing Arts Center - Centerville City Schools". www.centerville.k12.oh.us.

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