18th annual Pioneer Theatre Guild’s FutureStars a chart-topping success
The 18th annual Pioneer Theatre Guild’s FutureStars 2020 was a huge success both on and off the stage. The citywide talent search was held Jan. 17-18 with the finals on Jan. 25 at Pioneer High School.
The event featured students from Ann Arbor’s public high schools as they sang, rapped and played music. The students performed to a sold-out house – 1,600 people in Schreiber Auditorium!
Bridget Roberts and Monty Granderson singing “Beauty & The Beast” (both seniors at Pioneer)
Finalists:
Maya Boyd singing “Put Your Records On”
Bridget Roberts singing “Home Sweet Home”
Kat Stanczak singing “What About Love”
Cali Hill singing “Carry On Wayward Son”
Here is a list of performances from the night.
Company Medley –I Gotta Feeling (The Black Eyed Peas), Rock and Roll All Nite (Kiss), Old Town Road (Lil Nas X, Billy Ray Cyrus), Be Our Guest (Beauty and the Beast) Full Ensemble
Arranged by Ryan M Lewis Choreographed by Maya Alwan
Welcome to the Jungle (Guns N’ Roses) Suri Gaiana, Mazey Perry
Love Song (Sara Bareilles) Ella Maki
A Whole New World (Aladdin) Nate Frison, Zoe Resendez
Put Your Records On (Corinne Bailey-Rae) Maya Boyd
Any Way You Want It (Journey) Lila Harris, Elena Tucker
Dancing With a Stranger (Sam Smith & Normani) Monty Granderson
Love Is An Open Door (Frozen) Tony Birchler, Carli Starman
Reflection (Mulan) Jasmine Williams
What If I Never Get Over You (Lady Antebellum) Luke Andoni-Savas, Talia Milliman
Home Sweet Home (Motlëy Crüe) Bridget Roberts
Disney Medley–Kiss The Girl (The Little Mermaid)/ I Wan’na Be Like You (The Jungle Book)/ Circle of Life (The Lion King) RisingStars
INTERMISSION
Smooth (Santana ft. RobThomas) Kiyan Aslani, Landon Brimacombe, Etai Smotrich-Barr
What About Love (Heart) Kat Stanczak
7 Rings (Ariana Grande) Simone Mahler, Ella Maki, Zoe Resendez, Shyannne Wilson
Don’t Stop Believin’ (Journey) Maya Boyd, Jasmine Williams
Haven’t Met You Yet (Michael Bublé) Aidan McCoy
Carry On Wayward Son (Kansas) Cali Hill
I Don’t Care (Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber) Aidan Jelic
Beauty And The Beast (Beauty and the Beast) Monty Granderson, Bridget Roberts
Pour Some Sugar On Me (Def Leppard) Nadia Ajlouny, Ileana Oeschger, Dana Steiner, Aliya Szutz
Queen Medley–We Will Rock You/Another One Bites The Dust/We Are The Champions/Bohemian Rhapsody RisingStars
In addition to this list, a group of six talented and entertaining hosts performed a few skits and MC’d the entire evening. Those students were:
Pioneer Senior Asha Coy
Pioneer Senior Kayla Ford
Skyline Senior Andrew Laffertry
Pioneer Junior Brad O’Brien
Pioneer Senior Maggie Packard
Community Senior Bao Polkowski
And the winner is … watch VIDEO of winning performance at FutureStars