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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While in performing arts West Springfield and Lake Braddock are pretty equal,[b] the fine arts department at Lake Braddock is far superior[/b].  Our family has experience with both schools and both art departments.  Visit both schools before you make your decision.  No school is perfect, but you can find a school with strengths in the areas that matter to your children.[/quote]

I would strongly disagree with this statement.

Lake Braddock has a fractured fine arts department with [b]little collaboration between the programs, particularly with regards to the plays and musicals[/b].

The schools are equivalent in terms of fine arts quality, with the program as WSHS much more collaborative than LB.
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What are you talking about?  :shock:

There is GREAT collaboration between programs, starting with this past spring's musical 1776, thanks to the new choral director Andrea Harmon, with a partnership with RL Mirabal for theatre and Clayton Allen for orchestra. They will be performing Ragtime this year.[/quote]

That is great to hear!

I had always heard from kids in the LB theater community that the theater kids did only the play, and the choir kids only did the musical, and there was no crossing over between the factions due to warring teachers.

I am happy to hear that they have a new choir teacher who now works with the theater program instead of against each other.

The kids were losing out on a comprehensive theater education by having such separation and discord between the two programs.[/quote]

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