Shoutout to Westmoreland High School’s Drama Club and their production of The Phantom of the Opera at The Stanley Theater

I know what you’re thinking, this title must be fake. Kids, children, minors performing on stage, for real? I know The Phantom of the Opera is a Broadway musical and I know what drama club means. I know you have more questions: Where is Westmoreland High School? Do you mean The Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber? There is an actual theater where the show was performed? Are you saying high school students put this together and made it happen? How was it? It’s real and it’s true.

Westmoreland High School is located in the town of Westmoreland in upstate New York. Geographically located in Central New York in close proximity to the cities of Rome and Utica. The Drama Club is a foundation block of the many activities available for students enrolled in the school district. The Drama Club delivers plays and musicals every year. They focus on participation from the high school students but all are welcomed. In the past few years students have performed The Canterbury Tales, Peter and the Starcatcher, Fiddler on the Roof, Newsies and The Wizard of Oz. The musical…