The auditorium has been with Elkhorn High since 1980, but Elkhorn finally decided to go under construction and redo the entire auditorium. The first ever choir concert in the 2024-2025 year is October 8th, and they will have to perform without the auditorium. They will instead be performing in the commons for the very first time and hopefully not have any trouble with the new environment.
“I am a little bit worried about the new environment, because we don’t get practice in the commons until the day of (an hour before) and we don’t know how loud we have to sing so the crowd can hear us,” junior Megan Erdkamp said.
To be able to pull off this new idea, they will need to fit all their choir crew and also their audience.
“We will have the junior/senior parents come first and then leave, and then we perform again, and then we perform again and then the freshman/sophomore parents come,” choir teacher Abby Thompson said.
They will be rotating their audience in and out of the building to be able to fit everyone.
“So instead of the audience coming for a full hour concert, the parents/guardians/friends are going to come during the part of the concert where their student is singing, then they’ll not have to stay for the whole thing,” Thompson said.
Even though the students have to go through a whole new environment and have to adjust their performance, they are excited for the brand new stage to be done.
“I am excited that it is going to be all brand new and everything, but it’s a bummer to not have it for a while,” senior Nix Erwin said.
The commons is made for students to eat lunch in, not to perform in, so there are some cons due to the echoey walls and spacing in this area.
“It is extra echoey in the commons because it’s not built for all the noise that we would make during choir, so it throws us off a little bit sometimes,” Erwin said.
Even with all these challenges, Elkhorn kept on the show instead of canceling the entire thing.
“I don’t think it really matters where we perform, because it is way better than us just canceling the performance and waiting until the auditorium is done getting remodeled,” Erwin said.
