After more than nine weeks of rehearsals, Shannon Perugino, co-director of Holy Cross Secondary School’s annual musical, is now seeing the payoff for those long hours — this week’s performances of the School of Rock. Article content

“(The students) practice their songs separately. They practice their dancing separately. We have the art club working on the set separately. And then, all of a sudden, (during) these rehearsals where everything comes together, you just kind of sit back and you’re like, ‘Yes. That was the vision, and now it’s coming to life,’ ” Perugino said. Article content Article content

“And that fuels (the students’) excitement, too. Everybody’s kind of beaming.”

This year is Perugino’s first in charge of the school musical, and she’s co-directing the show with he

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