{"id":67,"date":"2012-05-07T17:55:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T17:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/?p=67"},"modified":"2012-05-09T18:55:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T18:55:11","slug":"fiddler-plays-to-packed-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/2012\/05\/07\/fiddler-plays-to-packed-houses\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiddler Plays to Packed Houses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 10 percent of Williston <a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/files\/2012\/05\/6973093344_6d7983eafe_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-95\" title=\"2012-Fiddler-On-Roof-Cast\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/files\/2012\/05\/6973093344_6d7983eafe_o-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/files\/2012\/05\/6973093344_6d7983eafe_o-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/files\/2012\/05\/6973093344_6d7983eafe_o.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Northampton&#8217;s students were involved in the astonishing run of &#8220;Fiddler on the Roof,&#8221; which played to packed houses.<\/p>\n<p>I have never missed a school play in my nearly 30 years in secondary education, and Williston&#8217;s Fiddler ranks at the top\u2014not just for the overall effect of the show, but for some of stories from behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<p>People are shocked to learn (I sure was) that two of the leads tread their first steps on stage in this show\u2014a testimony to the coaching they have received from director Emily Ditkovski. Ditkovski focused on the\u00a0process of discovery that new actors experience in doing things they never thought possible.<a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/files\/2012\/05\/6973051642_8031a4147d_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-94\" title=\"2012-Fiddler-On-Roof-Scene\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/files\/2012\/05\/6973051642_8031a4147d_o-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/files\/2012\/05\/6973051642_8031a4147d_o-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/files\/2012\/05\/6973051642_8031a4147d_o.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tremendous accomplishments of the stage manager, light technicians, technical theater crew, costume creators\u2014all amazing.\u00a0\u00a0Adults and students come together in theater in what is\u00a0quintessentially an incubator for content creation and collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>Hat&#8217;s off to Williston&#8217;s theater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 10 percent of Williston Northampton&#8217;s students were involved in the astonishing run of &#8220;Fiddler on the Roof,&#8221; which played to packed houses. I have never missed a school play in my nearly 30 years in secondary education, and Williston&#8217;s Fiddler ranks at the top\u2014not just for the overall effect of the show, but for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/2012\/05\/07\/fiddler-plays-to-packed-houses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fiddler Plays to Packed Houses<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":94,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[18,20,17,19],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-on-campus","tag-arts","tag-fiddler-on-the-roof","tag-spring-musical","tag-williston-theatre"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/headofschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}