By Harry Kane

A group of talented young actors took stage and performed with excellence in the latest musical theater show presented by Somerville High School, the musical fable Guys and Dolls, which played Thursday Feb. 2 – Saturday Feb 4.

Sarajane Mullins and Richard Romanoff directed the show.

“The whole process is just great,” said Richard Saunders, director of music education.

“To see students kind of develop from shy initially, not projecting enough, and not knowing about blocking – all the things that we learn in musical theater.”

The students trained for three and a half months, two days a week, and in the final week spent several longer sessions rehearsing late into the night.

“Tom Kennedy plays Nathan Detroit and he’s just an amazing kid and brings life to the character,” said Saunders.

The show also had a full pit orchestra, which Saunders felt was very special.

Thomas Kennedy was thrilled to play the lead character in the musical. “I’ve had the songs stuck in my head for days now.”

All Kennedy could think about was the show. “I had a math quiz and I couldn’t figure out the problems cause I had the song stuck in my head. Kennedy admitted that he didn’t do that well on the math quiz but was able remember and accurately deliver all of his lines.

“This is a s really high energy, great group of kids,” said Sarajane Mullins, co-director of the musical.

“My job was kinda easy because there was already that set group of forty or fifty kids that were really excited to be a part of what was going on.”

Audry Hiaoui, a.k.a. Miss Adelaide, stole the show with her electrifying performance.

“Since I was a little girl I knew I loved acting and I started doing it more seriously when I was 13.”

Hiaoui writes songs in her spare time and hopes to have a career in motion pictures someday.

“I’m really interested in dark plays. I don’t really like being funny. It was a hard role for me to get into but it worked out well in the end,” says Hiaoui.

– Photos by Harry Kane