cast of Pendleton Heights High School production of “Back to the 80’s” at Loran G. Skinner Auditorium. The show is a nostalgic theme based in the 1980s.
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Actors and stage crew members gather together moments before going on stage for the Pendleton Heights High School production of "Back to the 80's" at Loran G. Skinner Auditorium on Saturday.
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Actors and stage crew members gather together moments before going on stage for the Pendleton Heights High School production of "Back to the 80's" at Loran G. Skinner Auditorium on Saturday night.
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the Pendleton Heights High School production of "Back to the 80s" at the Loran G. Skinner Auditorium.
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Raya Conway, left, and Kaitlyn Brunswick refers their dance moves moments before going on stage for the Pendleton Heights High School production of “Back to the 80’s” at Loran G. Skinner Auditorium.
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Kaitlyn Cowan takes a picture with her phone of Parys Loomis holding up a pink bracelet. Cowan’s mother was recently diagnosed with breast cancer, and she was passing out bracelets in support. The pair were cast members of the recent Pendleton Heights production of “Back to the 80’s.”
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Maddie Roots, left, and Emily Hall take a moment along with other cast members and stage crew to pray before going on stage for the Pendleton Heights High School production of "Back to the 80's" at Loran G. Skinner Auditorium on Saturday night.
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The cast of Pendleton Heights High School production of "Back to the 80's" on stage at Loran G. Skinner Auditorium. Tom Russo | The Times-Post
The full cast of "Back to the 80's" during their first performance on Friday.
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In Pendleton Heights' opening night Friday of "Back to the 80s," Nathan Ferryman lifts Kaitlyn Brunswick in the lift scene from the movie "Dirty Dancing," while Parys Loomis looks on. This was part of the School Prom scene and was performed to the Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes song "(I've Had) The Time of My Life."
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Tanner Huffman and Daniel Schlabach perform in a Star Wars dream sequence during Pendleton Heights's opening night performance of "Back to the 80s" on Friday.
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Cast members (from left) Alana Manges, Alayssia Franklin, Neleh Thompson, Claire Carpenter, Graycen DeVault and Alayna Samaniego perform in the School Assembly scene to the Cyndi Lauper song "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" in "Back to the 80s" on Sunday at Pendleton Heights.
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PENDLETON — Pendleton Players performed the musical “Back to the 80’s” from Friday through Sunday at the school’s Loran G. Skinner Auditorium at Pendleton Heights High School.
All three performances of the high school production — which tells the story of the 1980s senior class at William Ocean High School through the nostalgic eyes of an adult looking back, set to popular music of the day — had good attendance, Artistic Director Jacque Brown said.
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The musical, written by Neil Gooding and featuring dozens of student performers, included songs such as “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go” by Wham!, “You Give Love a Bad Name” by Bon Jovi, “Total Eclipse of the Heart” by Bonnie Tyler and “Material Girl” by Madonna.
Among the cast members was alumni guest artist Skyler Leffingwell, a 2013 Pendleton Heights graduate who was active in theater in middle and high school. He returned to play the adult version of Corey Palmer, the character who recalls the story in “Back to the 80’s.” Pendleton Heights first performed the show the year after Leffingwell graduated. Leffingwell said in a text on Tuesday that his guest role was all he hoped it would be.
“It was a long time coming and I truly missed the stage! Everything ran so well!”