This past Saturday, February 1st, Cathedral High School’s Show Choir participated in a long day of performances at Decatur Central High School. The Irish Adrenaline and Irish Adrenaline Rush performed their set, Spies are Forever, beating various schools in the final rounds.
Cathedral High School’s Show Choir team has been competing in this Show Choir Show Down for two ongoing years, holding the title of Grand Champions this year. The Irish Adrenaline Rush, including a total of 42 girls, and the Irish Adrenaline Rush, having a total of 19 girls and boys, performed their award-winning set of: Spies are Forever. Songs like Secret Agent Man by Johnny Rivers, Call Me Beat Me from the Disney Show, Kim Possible, by Christina Milian, SkyFall by Adele, and others. Marian Bender, the show choir director for Cathedral High School exclaims that watching her students perform was like watching a “mini broadway production.”
The preparations that took place for this award-winning show took place starting back in August. Student performers stay long hours after school, practicing and perfecting their singing and dancing skills. During this time, Jennifer Velazquez said, “even though the hours of hard work may seem exhausting to others, when you are passionate about something, it’s super fun. I love it!”
Like Velazquez, high schoolers competing in the Show Choir Show Down all share one thing. This similarity being their love and affection for show choir, so much so that waking up at 4:30 in the morning, performing over the course of 12 hours and coming home at 1 in the morning the next day, isn’t a worry for them at all.
These shows were performed over different rounds, with Cathedral’s Irish Adrenaline first round going against schools with a student body higher than 900 such as Beech Grove High School, Mooresville High School, and East Noble High School. After beating those schools, Cathedral High School competed in the second round finals with Mooresville High School, Whiteland Community High School, and Lawrence North High School.
The first competition slot took place at 8:30 A.M, then continuing on with the Irish Adrenaline Rush performance at 1:15, and ending off at 8:45 P.M. At the end of the night when Cathedral’s name was announced as Grand Champions, the group was ecstatic. Bender said, “We [show choir] were surprised we’d won! There were lots of bigger teams.” Coming home with the title of Grand Champions earns Cathedral yet another award, showing the hard work and dedication the average Cathedral High School student has.
