The many hours of hard work from our amazing students came to life on stage on Friday, 26 and Saturday, 27 July at the Dalby Great Hall and those in the audience who came along to enjoy the show were entertained and delighted by our performance of 'The Wiz'. The spectacle created with sound, dance, music and colourful and creative costumes was something to enjoy and the students were immensely proud of their effort on both nights.

Right back at the beginning of Term 1, 35 students committed their time and energy to the production of The Wiz and a team of dedicated staff members and parents came together to make it all happen. Each week, students rehearsed for up to 10 hours together as well as time spent at home learning lines and lyrics to the many wonderful songs that tell the story of Dorothy and her trip to see the Great Wiz. 

Of course, there are many incredible people who need to be thanked including staff, parents and supporters who each did something amazing that brought the whole event together. We had parents who sewed costumes, cooked food for our hungry cast and crew, made props, hauled equipment and helped with hair and make up. Our staff helped with ticket sales, making programs, promotions and general support where ever it was needed. Thank you.

We would like to acknowledge our Major Sponsors Myall Medical, Brodah Computers and Sundown Signs as well as Minor Sponsors Kelly Ag Morphology Services, Farm Sitters Australia, O'Shea's Music Centre Dalby, MacNellies Workplace Safety, Stonestreets Coaches, GDL Livestock, Cleaning and Catering, Nathan Berting - #1 Property Centre Dalby Sales, AUSURE and Ashton's Butchery. We would also like to thank Dalby Safety Supplies for their amazing work on our production shirts along with Dalby Herald for their assistance with advertising.

We must also thank Kaye Nightingale from Sunshine Linus who donated the beautiful quilts we were able to use for our raffle. It was wonderful for two of our staff to win a prize and the lady who won the magnificent first prize was very excited. 

We need to send out a huge THANK YOU to Candice Lloyd from Tease Colour and Hair Design who vounteered her time to create amazing hair styles for our cast. The styles were very cool and the students loved having their hair done by someone as talented and generous as Candice. We send another huge THANK YOU to Kerry Lindenberg from Country Rose Beauty who applied her craft to making our cast look amazing on stage. Kerry gave up hours of her time to apply face paints and beautiful make up for our two shows as well as the dress rehearsal. If any of our Senior students are looking for someone very talented for hair and make up for their formal, Candice and Kerry would love to help make you look amazing.

Arrow Energy Brighter Futures Grant also allowed us to employ the services of the very talented Hamish McGovern who assisted with many aspects of the production. Hamish worked with the students from the beginning helping them with stage movement and acting coaching. Leading up to the performance, he helped with stage make up and provided invaluable advice on how we needed to present the cast to make them look their absolute best under the lights. Hamish was also the backstage manager and he did an amazing job to make sure things were running smoothly. We thank Arrow Energy for providing us with the funds to have Hamish available and we thank Hamish for everything he did!

Lastly, we give a huge thank you to Mrs Baxter, Mr Blauw, Ms Rea, our band made up of Craig Ellis, Mr Wager and Mr Holmes  and Mr Sankey who manned a spotlight but most of all, we thank the amazing students, from both cast and crew, who displayed their talent and dedication to make the show what it was. Congratulations to all involved. Enjoy some of the amazing images from Mrs Biggar and Scott MacDougall that captured all that was so fantastic about 'The Wiz'.