HAPPIEST DAYS OF YOUR LIFE

The 2016 College Production of ‘The Happiest Days of Your Life’ wrapped last Saturday night with a sensational final show concluding what was a highly successful performance week. The four show run began on Thursday with a matinee for residents from Aegis Aged Care Ellenbrook (The Pines and Hermitage) along with students and staff from Swan Valley Anglican Community School. Our special guests enjoyed a wonderful morning tea prepared by Mrs Lewis and were very grateful to be invited to the show. SVACS Drama Teacher Meredith Corr gave a glowing review, saying “the enjoyment of each role was obvious onstage and each student brough their own quirks and personalities to the characters. Well done on a very slick production”. The cast and crew followed up their razor sharp matinee with their first evening show which was a huge success.

Two more evening shows followed on Friday and Saturday evenings to sellout audiences and the show was described by various audience members as being “hilarious”, “the best production Holy Cross has ever done” and Vice Principal Peter Collins stated “I have never heard an audience laugh so much at a school production”. The evening shows had an amazing energy and the cast were lifted by the audience’s engagement with the quick witted script. The performance run ended with an outstanding performance on the Saturday evening.

Huge congratulations must go to our talented cast: Max Hughes, James Evans, Calvin Thiel, Brianna Armstrong, Chardonnay Mitchell, Zoe Paluszak, Chloe Ryan, Josh Gethin, Lloyd Matias, Angela Gethin, John Paul Botha, Ben Sorensen and Beth Robinson.

Big thanks also go to our dedicated student crew: Jack Hammon, Kayla Castrianni, Casey Van Der Merwe, Kayla Collins, Rachel Joubert, Aran Burke, Alex Smilovitis and Will Evans.

As always, the production wouldn’t be possible without the dedication of College staff. A massive thank you the core team of Mr Chris McRae, Miss Jackie Collender, Miss Edel Maher and Mrs Emma Robinson for their amazing dedication to the show this year. 

The support staff team has also been instrumental this year and thanks must go to the following people for their hard work throughout the process: Mr Matt Smyth (Set), Mrs Colleen Azzopardi (Costume/Make Up/Hair), Mrs Jacqui Sanders (Budget/Front of House), Mrs Sarah Brown (Catering), Mrs Carolyn Jess (Marketing), Mr Chris Gooch (Media).

We were also lucky this year to have several external volunteers. So thanks must go to Mrs Rebecca McRae, Mr Ryan Lenard and Miss Laura Evans. 

Thanks to staff who gave up their time to supervise either at rehearsals or on performance nights: Mrs Anna Amatulli, Mrs Diane Oleynik, Mr Liam Benton, Mrs Toni Strong, Mrs Dorota Fretwell, Miss Sara O’Neill, Mrs Margaret MacMahon, Miss Kelly Bond, Mrs Carla Pastorelli and Miss Emma Pritchard. 

The production culture at Holy Cross College is as strong as ever and with some exciting new facilities on the horizon, we are set to expand even further in 2017. Well done to all involved in ‘The Happiest Days of Your Life’ in 2016.

Mr Chris McRae 

Production Coordinator and Drama Teacher

27 June 2016