Anti-Bullying Musical Comes to ALT School
Amy Jensen's 'What's Your Favorite Color?' uses color choice as lessons in bullying.
Angelo L. Tomaso School music teacher Amy Jensen likes to engage her students with her music—she writes small musicals for class exercises to teach concepts to her students. Friday, she treated the school's fourth- and fifth-grade classes to a debut presentation of "What's Your Favorite Color?," a musical tackling the issue of bullying through students' choices of colors. Working with Landon Heimbach, choreographer Debbi Silas and composer Ray Rhoads, Jensen crafted a tale of students ostracized by their classmates because they don't like the traditional choices of blue and pink. Friday's show was staged by Maria Damore, Jimmy Damore, Olivia Damore, Katie Spencer, Debbi Silas, Kassi Scheese, Josh Sell and Jake Hangen—a group of …
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