From October 4th to the 7th, the drama class and tech crew hosted the annual production of Campo Night Live with four brave guest hosts. Directed and produced by senior Lauren Beld, senior Marissa Mahler, senior Logan Raymond, and junior KT Thompson, each performance captivated its audiences with the level of cohesion and enterprise exemplified by the students.
The CNL band opened with music reminiscent of the familiar Saturday Night Live theme song before the hosts gave a brief introduction. Senior Arjun Krishnan explained that this year’s performance had four different days with four different teacher hosts. “Each of the teachers would give a five minute monologue telling a bunch of jokes.” This year’s hosts were social studies teacher Dino Petrocco, English teacher Tom Duffy, science teacher Katie Guy, and librarian Liz Herring.
CNL can be described as an exciting black box theater production in which performers recreate scenes from Saturday Night Live, including the occasional spin on the company’s actual scripts. “Sometimes there’s small changes to them, usually little things to make it more relevant to our generation or adding a different prop,” said Krishnan.
The performing students had six weeks to prepare and rehearse, including after school hours, tech days, and dress rehearsals. The incredible amount of effort put in was greatly exemplified by the high level of performance quality.
“We have little rituals to do before the show when we get ready,” said Krishnan. But when asked about what these include, he said “I’m not actually allowed to say”. Leaving suspension and intrigue in the air, the Campo community is thrilled for next year’s performance.
