By Erik Harris
PINSON – The Pinson Valley High School theater department has announced that it will present “High School Musical” on April 16-18 in the school’s auditorium starting at 7 p.m.
Pinson Mayor Hoyt Sanders will be the special guest star of the annual spring musical.
It will be Brandon Triola’s first show as Pinson Valley’s theater teacher. He took the position in December 2014.
Admission to the show will be for students and for everyone else.
Those in attendance can expect an adaptation of the Disney film version of “High School Musical,” according to Triola. The show is expected to run about two hours.
“Just the process of creating a show is like trying to cram all the things that you’ve experienced in life into this two-hour experience,” Triola said.
Despite this being Triola’s first time presenting a play at Pinson Valley, he carries with him a bevy of performing experience. Since the age of 15, he’s performed with many of the Birmingham theater companies. He also worked as a full-time actor in New York for a while.
Even with so much experience under his belt, the teacher still gets excited with the approach of a new show.
“The show is really like life, and it’s shortened to about two hours,” he said.
The cast of roughly 40 students will present a show that Triola believes they can relate to.
“It’s a very vibrant, lighthearted comedy about kids in high school trying to figure out who they are,” Triola said. “It really resonates with the kinds of things most high school student deal with: the social paradigm of how to fit in and where they belong.”