Last Updated on March 2, 2025 11:32 am
Below are videos from the final live performance in Boone of SURGE, as written and performed by the Watauga High Playmakers, on Saturday, March 1, 2025.
“Surge” is based on their experiences during Hurricane Helene and includes an original song written by three of the ensemble members.
After winning at the Regional North Carolina Theatre Conference (NCTC) competition and the State NCTC competition, they next head to Baltimore Maryland later this month.
Videos: Kenneth Reece/WataugaOnline
SURGE ACT 1: Watauga Strong: Expressions of Resilience
Welcome
“With and For” Choreography by Playmaker Alumna
Avery Smith
- Performed by Taylor Norman & Kat Rudolph
- Music by Bela Fleck “The Overgrown Waltz, Flatland Cavalry
“Mountain Song:” John Denver” “Take me home, Country Roads”
* This piece is inspired by the phrase “With and For” that was given to me by Zach Walker and Sarah Miller. In our little mountain community, we work together to create an environment where everyone is loved and taken care of.
Thank you to those whose voices are mentioned in the music. Even after such devastation our community continues to work with and for each other.
Dr. Bonnie Smith and Ms. Bailey Little, Messages of Hope, Episode 1: “Valle Crucis”
TYPEWRITER TRUTHS, Take 1
•”Helene by the Numbers” written by Selah Greer, read for her by Eriana Fidler
“This Too Shall Pass” written & performed by Julia McKinney
Title: Read” written and performed by M Quigley
TYPEWRITER TRUTHS, Take 2
“There Is Beauty” written by Delilah Wurth Hobbs, read for her
by Rowan Tait
“Remnants of the Flood” written & performed by Jonah Norris
“Change,” written and performed by Bailey Reece
“Flicker Flame” written and performed by Alex Edgerton, Kyleigh Hogan, and Liliana Lemus
TYPEWRITER TRUTHS, TAKE 3
*Oh, How the Rain Fell,” by Brennan Smith, read for him by Brian Newmark
Beauty: An Apology written and performed by Abby Ardois Clogging performance by William Greene and Liliana Lemus to Hillbilly Shoes* by Montgomery Gentry
TYPEWRITER TRUTHS, TAKE 4 – read by Playmaker Alumna
Bethany Pryor
Act II: SURGE: The Last Wave
- Thank you & Donation Celebration – Sarah Miller & Zach Walker
- TYPEWRITER TRUTHS, TAKE 5 – Mr. Scott Strickler, “Stay Helper”
- • High Country Heroes – Mr. Mark Norris
