Pictured Above: Tori Overton Hurd flying in as Glinda the Good in Cheboygan Area High School’s 2011 production of the “Wizard of Oz.” – courtesy of Randy Scott. By Kathy King Johnson Cheboygan Area High School musical director Midge Shaw said, “Little did we know when we flew Tori Overton on stage as Glinda the …
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By Kathy King Johnson One early morning in March 2011, Midge Shaw’s phone wouldn’t stop ringing. The Cheboygan High School musical director climbed out of bed to get the phone call she never, ever in her life expected to get. The Opera House called. They said, “Hey, we’ve got two tons of steel they’re trying …
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Pictured Above: Cast of “Jesus Christ Superstar,” 1984 Cheboygan High School Musical By Kathy King Johnson The 1984 cast of Cheboygan Area High School Musical sat on the opera house stage and shattered mirrors. Then they collected the shards and glued them to the giant cross. It sparkled with a million lights for the resurrection …
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Pictured above: The early Shaw family, from left: Tom, Midge, Peter, Jennifer, Bobbie, Stephanie. By Kathy King Johnson Midge Shaw, her towheaded toddler Peter slung over hip, stood at the open window of her new home. She breathed in the fresh breeze off the Straits of Mackinaw and let the June sun touch her face. …
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By Kathy King Johnson Katie Cederholm Mallory from Conklin, Michigan, first set foot on the Opera House stage in the Northland Players production of “Chicago” in 2009. Katie said, “I could feel the history when I first got the opportunity to step on the stage in ‘Chicago.’ I was one of the dancers and we …
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