Fine and Performing Arts

(Music, Art, and Drama)

Performing Arts

Excellence and Opportunity

Focus: Mastery of vocal skills and expressiveness for a lifetime.

Courses Offered:

  • Honors Ensemble
  • Freshman - Sophomore Chorus
  • Junior-Senior Chorus
  • Handbell Choir
  • Treblemakers (student-run a cappella group)

Consistent statewide recognition of our students' accomplishments. Students win places in:

  • Highest Honors: Ensemble chosen three times for the Virginia Music Educator's Association conference (2003, 2002 & 1999)
  • District Chorus
  • National Catholic Youth Choir
  • Regional ACDA Honors Choir
  • All-Virginia State Chorus
  • VAIS Choral Festival
  • National ACDA Women's Honors Choir
 

Bring great music to large audiences with a full performance schedule.
 
Wide variety of music: popular tunes with choreography and serious choral literature in foreign languages.
 
Solo opportunities at concerts, liturgies, and the Talent Show
 
 

Drama

Bringing Laughter to the Heart...
 

Uplifting, thoughtful shows, with good messages that let high school students shine, and send audiences home entertained and happy.
 

Full Broadway productions.

Musicals:

  • Kiss Me Kate
  • Once Upon a Mattress
  • Meet Me in St. Louis
  • Sound of Music
  • Godspell
  • Oklahoma


Plays:

  • 1984
  • Twelfth Night
  • Harvey
  • Don't Drink the Water
  • Steel Magnolias
 
Be involved in theater with a Fall Musical and Spring Play, open to all students
 
Drama class teaches onstage and backstage basics
 
Stuart Avenue Players - Co-ed drama club with Benedictine. Practice acting skills, help with school shows, and attend professional shows together.