Welcome to the Mingus Performing Arts Department!
We are committed to bringing live theatre and music to the Verde Valley and beyond. Our varied selections and venues provide insight to people from all beliefs and walks of life. We create a positive performance opportunity for high school students to thrive and prepare for a career in the performing arts.
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Broadway: Screen & StageA.T.O.R.T., in collaboration with the choir department, have joined together to kick off the new year with our 6th musical revue, Broadway: A Screen & Stage Revue. Showing from January 18th to January 26th, this revue is just like its predecessors –Passport to Broadway, Broadway Across America, Disney on Broadway, Modern Broadway, and Classic Broadway. If you haven’t experienced our bi-annual event, this show is a two hour singing and dancing spectacular with nonstop music and fun that features a cast of close to 100 students. Come enjoy medleys from some of your musical and movies – The Wizard of Oz, Waitress, Jersey Boys, Little Shop of Horrors, Frozen, Kinky Boots, and Oliver. Other songs featured in our review are from the musicals Anastasia, 42nd Street, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chicago, Love Never Dies, The Last Five Years, and Billy Elliot. This year we’ll have images of your favorite movies synced up with the live performance from our ATORT kids on stage. We will also feature our 2018 musical, Crazy for You and our award winning 2019 Musical, Newsies, as our alumni take the stage one more time!
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Saturday, January 18th at 7pm
Sunday, January 19th at 3pm
Friday, January 24th at 7pm
Saturday, January 25th at 7pm
Sunday, January 26th at 3pm
EXTRA! EXTRA! ATORT Newsies wins state awards!
ATORT’s production of Newsies has won the AZ High School Music Theatre Awards most prestigious honor of “Best Musical”!! What you have to remember is that there are no divisions in theatre competitions. The 5A schools, 4A schools, 3A schools, Performing arts schools - EVERYONE is ranked the same whether you are a school of 5,000 or 500. Not only did we win best musical, we won 5 of the other 11 categories! Our little rural school that had to travel the furthest won 50% of the awards last night!
Best Supporting Male - Preston Chalmers
Best Dancer - Preston Chalmers
Best Hair and Make-Up - Natalee Powell
Best Set/Props - Shenoah Williams
Best Sound - Alex Goltz
Best Musical - Mingus Union High School’s “Newsies”
Congrats to the cast and crew of NEWSIES and we look forward to delivering more award winning shows in the 2019-2020 School year!
Best Supporting Male - Preston Chalmers
Best Dancer - Preston Chalmers
Best Hair and Make-Up - Natalee Powell
Best Set/Props - Shenoah Williams
Best Sound - Alex Goltz
Best Musical - Mingus Union High School’s “Newsies”
Congrats to the cast and crew of NEWSIES and we look forward to delivering more award winning shows in the 2019-2020 School year!
Mingus Union High School
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We are the performing arts department from Mingus Union High School District #4. Located in Cottonwood, Arizona, we serve over 1,200 students and offer a variety of academic classes, technical classes, and performing and visual arts classes. For more information on the school, please follow the link below to the school's homepage.
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