A three-hour long concert with 33 acts on Feb. 11 raised $7,000 towards this year’s graduation festivities. Several teachers and alumni with musical chops reprised their appearances from prior years. The elementary schools’ honors chorus added a humorous twist, entering the stage with powdered white hair, stooped shoulders and carrying canes, accompanying guitarist-math [...]
Top musical theatre students of Laguna Beach High School open their Musical Theatre Workshop showcase Thursday and Friday, May 19 and 20, at 7:30 p.m. in room 55, the Greene Room, the high school’s black box theatre. “The program is a compilation of specific musical theatre study that advances our students’ abilities,” explained Mark Dressler, [...]
By Jennifer Erickson | LB Indy A famous joke asks, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” The answer is “practice, practice, practice.” According to Roxanna Ward, the music director at Laguna Beach High School, that is exactly why junior Sarah Busic and sophomore Karina Parker gained entrée to a revered venue and symbol of [...]
Two Laguna Beach High School students, Sarah Busic and Karina Parker, have been selected to perform at Carnegie Hall for the 2011 American High School Honors Performance Series this February. Following fall auditions, Busic and Parker were accepted for the Honors Performance Series after a review by a selection committee. To select finalists for this [...]
Ill Prepared Hiker Rescued from Hillside
A sheriff’s helicopter was used to extract a hiker who suffered an anxiety attack and was unable to move from a steep trail in Laguna Beach’s open space about 6 p.m. Sunday, June 9, police said. Lifeguards in an all-terrain vehicle coordinated the extraction from thick brush and a steep slope between Alta Laguna Park [...]
