Four high schools across the county are planning for smaller indoor and outdoor proms, and hope to have more traditional, outdoor graduation ceremonies.
Schools - and parents - planning small proms, but hoping N.J. lifts gathering limits soon
Updated Apr 15, 2021;
Posted Apr 15, 2021
File photo from the annual Pop-Up Prom Boutique that the Cornerstone University Enactus team hosts for high school students to receive free prom dresses donated by CU students and area shops. On Saturday, March 16, students can shop for dresses at Clearwater Place from 1 to 4 p.m.
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And that’s only if the event, tentatively scheduled for May 22, takes place at all.
The current outdoor gathering limit of 200 people isn’t high enough to accommodate the large class of 380 students, said Mike Vicente, director of student activities and athletics. By the end of April, the administrators will review state guidelines and decide whether to forge ahead selling tickets and making seating arrangements, he said.
No audience? No problem. How this N.J. school is making a musical during COVID.
Updated Mar 01, 2021;
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It’s just something you do, even when it’s never been done before.
That’s how a senior of a high school in Hunterdon County explained his decision to try out for this year’s musical despite the fact that it will be different from every performance he’s done before it.
“After doing the musical since my freshman year, it’s just a feeling I keep wanting to come back to,” Bryant Kessie, a student at Delaware Valley Regional High School in Frenchtown, told NJ Advance Media. “It’s never really mattered what the show is, or if there’s a role I want. I’m just way too happy to come to rehearsal, and I couldn’t get away from that, even if I tried.”