By Journal on February 15, 2024
Andrew Garrod, Bonny Taggart, Charlie in The Music Man, Fiddler on the Roof, Germaine Muller, ICC, Karen Earnshaw, Musical, Oliver!, Wilmer Joel, Youth Bridge Global
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![Wilmer Joel, front right with cape, rehearses with the cast of Oliver! at the MIHS library. The play will open at the International Conference Center Monday March 4. Acting is ‘magical’ to Wilmer](https://i0.wp.com/marshallislandsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Oliver-2-16.jpg?resize=750%2C350&ssl=1)
KAREN EARNSHAW “When I was a kid, my father told me there was to be a play and that we should go see it,” said Wilmer Joel, then a Rita Elementary School student. It was 2014 and the musical was Fiddler on the Roof: “I was captivated. I felt a magical tingling feeling as I […]
By Journal on February 8, 2024
Andrew Garrod, Bonny Taggart, Charles Dickens, Gary Erhsam, Ilona Bito, Karen Earnshaw, Marshall Islands High School, Oliver!, Rehearsal
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![Under the direction of choreographer Ilona Bito, right, cast members of Oliver! Work on their dance moves during a rehearsal at Marshall Islands High School this past week. Photo: Gary Erhsam Oliver! crew hard at rehearsal](https://i0.wp.com/marshallislandsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Oliver-2-9.jpg?resize=750%2C350&ssl=1)
KAREN EARNSHAW Rehearsals for the musical Oliver! are in full swing and going well at the Marshall Islands High School library each weekday afternoon and on Saturdays and we hear that the construction and painting of the sets is also coming along nicely. Producers Professor Andrew Garrod and Bonny Taggart and the rest of the […]
By Journal on January 31, 2020
Bonny Taggart, Carousel, ICC, Majuro, MIHS, Morris Jekkar, Professor Andrew Garrod, Wilmer Joel
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![Cast goes full blast Cast goes full blast](https://i0.wp.com/marshallislandsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Carousel-1-31-20.jpg?resize=555%2C280&ssl=1)
WILMER JOEL With just over four weeks till the opening night at ICC, the cast of the Youth Bridge Global production of the musical Carousel are going full throttle in their rehearsals at the Marshall Island High School Library. Under the direction of Music Director Jacob Donohue, the cast is starting to memorize the songs […]
By Journal on March 21, 2019
Allira Samson, Andrew Garrod, Bonny Taggart, Pamela Perkins, Yolanie Jurelang, Youth Bridge Global
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![The Music Man cast dances to the song “Oklahoma Stubborn” during one of six performances at the International Conference Center in Majuro from March 11-16. Photo: Hilary Hosia. Music Man lights up audiences](https://i0.wp.com/marshallislandsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/music-man-3-22.jpg?resize=750%2C350&ssl=1)
PAMELA PERKINS As always, the Youth Bridge Global/RMI Ministry of Education/Marshall Islands High School musical production is an amazing experience. Students of elementary through college age have been working diligently since early 2019 to entertain us at the level we have come to expect: success again! Music Man is wonderful! The opening scene with the […]
By Journal on January 24, 2019
Andrew Garrod, Bonny Taggart, Dartmouth, Summer Cody, The Music Man, Tyler Malbareaux
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![A rehearsal session for The Music Man gets the actors involved in learning how to express themselves for the musical. Professor Andrew Garrod is in the center, with Dartmouth Students Tyler Malbreaux and Summer Cody at right with local students. Photo: Hilary Hosia. Music Man swings into action](https://i0.wp.com/marshallislandsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Music-Man-1-25.jpg?resize=750%2C350&ssl=1)
GIFF JOHNSON Every year, Dartmouth Professor Emeritus Andrew Garrod brings his decades of theater experience and a Herculean level of energy to Majuro to direct a theater production. This year is no exception. He is currently several weeks into directing the musical The Music Man — described in a theater review as a “musical masterpiece.”
By Journal on March 29, 2018
Ally Alefaio, Andrew Garrod, Atmis Kaious, Bonny Taggart, Bryant Zebedy, Chase Domnick, Grease, Jeita Peter, Jobod Silk, Joe Doyle, Milner Okney, Nehmaer Loeak, Nikita Luke, Rachel Raczynski, Tanya Fawkes, Terosa David, Youth Bridge Global
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![A rehearsal session for the play Grease brought the same enthusiasm from the actors as the six nights they staged it under the brights lights at the International Conference Center in Majuro. From left: College of the Marshall Islands’ Atmis Kaious, Seventh Day High’s Jeita Peter, Assumption Schools’ Chase Domnick and Marshall Islands High School’s Nikita Luke. Photo: Hilary Hosia. Behind the Grease scenes](https://i0.wp.com/marshallislandsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/grease-3-30.jpg?resize=750%2C350&ssl=1)
HILARY HOSIA The biggest fear Grease actors and actresses shared does not happen on stage: it’s not remembering to deliver the correct line or the worry of projecting a clear voice while executing a dance routine. It’s what happens after the show. Throughout the six back-to-back shows in early March, the audience exploded in ecstasy […]
By Journal on January 12, 2018
Adlai Coleman, Andrew Garrod, Bonny Taggart, Bryant Zebedy, Dartmouth, Ilona Bitos, Jabwil Ned, Jerre Bennett, John Travolta, Ken Taggart, Olivia Newton-John, Save Filolita, Sophia Kinne, Tommy Kabua, Zackary Gottschall
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![Students pour over information and lists of roles in the play Grease during an audition earlier this week at Marshall Islands High School campus. Dozens of local students will be engaged in staging the play. Photo: Kelly Lorennij. Gearing up for Grease](https://i0.wp.com/marshallislandsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Grease-1-12.jpg?resize=750%2C350&ssl=1)
GIFF JOHNSON After a couple of decades of directing big theater productions in the Marshall Islands, Dartmouth College Professor Emeritus Andrew Garrod knows how to deliver. Most important ingredients are “don’t waste time” and include the right people in direction and production of an event that will involve 40 or more actors. In the don’t […]
By Journal on May 12, 2016
Ailuk, Amanda Witherell, Bonny Taggart, Brian Twitchell, GEF-SGS, Rufina Jack, sewing
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![Women on Ailuk try out the new treadmill sewing machines as part of the first stage of a 24-week training program on the northern atoll. Photo: Bonny Taggart. Ailuk project is sew fantastic](https://i0.wp.com/marshallislandsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Ailuk-Sewing-5-13.jpg?resize=750%2C350&ssl=1)
Ailuk Mayor Rufina Jack is always on the lookout for projects that will benefit the atoll. In 2014, she approached on-island grant writer Bonny Taggart about seeking funding to initiate a sewing training project on Ailuk – using machines that don’t need electricity. Bonny found a vendor in the US for the machines and treadle […]