Talent Show

A Talent Show at CTY usually involves very unusual skills that are possessed by us lovable weirdos who attend camp.

Lancaster

Both student and staff talent shows are held at Lancaster (Session 2) on separate days. In Session 1, there is only a student show, giving the staff an unfair advantage in practice time. On the last Tuesday and Wednesday, the talent shows are held in place of activities. The next day, Friday (calendar Thursday), was historically the day of key and fob return, although due to the new self-locking doors, this has since been changed to the morning of the last day.

06.2 Student Show

Master of Ceremonies - Blake Barnett

• Ashok Bhaskar - Devil's Sticks (to "Hot Ride" by The Prodigy)
• Ariane Turley - Flute ("Vivace" by Michel Blavet)
• Alexis Kravitz - Juggling (to "Salterello III" by New York's Ensemble)
• Teryn Dickson - Breakdancing (to "Canned Heat" by Jamiroquai)
• Rachel Todd - Ballet (to "The Tower" by Vienna Teng)
• Sandra Korn - Cello ("Rondo" by Boccherini)
• Jacob Hurwitz - Solving a Rubik's Cube while reciting first 200 digits of π.
• Sarah Hackney - Guitar & Voice ("The View From Heaven", in tribute to Phil Gunn)
• Christian "Christ" Burnette and Michael "Mike" Len - Raving (to "Liquify" by Toby Emerson)

07.2 Student Show

Masters of Ceremonies - William Saulnier and Ali Tammaro

• Elizabeth Leimkuhler - National Anthem
• Vanessa Baratta - Flutopia (flute)
• Jake Fernandez - Hallelujah (singing)
• Kara Lee and Lauren Willhoite - Missing You (singing and guitar)
• Austin Penner and James Chang - Extreme Rubik's Cubing
• Michael Krause - Martial Arts
• Student A Capella, AKA Something Funny - Eye of the Tiger
• Miriam Woodward - Iris (dance)
• Ilana Rice - Life of the Party
• Blabingos - Cotton Eye Joe (dance)
• Sarah Hackney - Blackbird (singing and guitar)
• Gavin Cook - Xtreme Lanyard Swinging
• MC Skit - Frank's Fire Extinguisher

Carlisle

06.2 Talent Show

MCs: Yean Do, Miriam Lynch, and Isaac Schlect

Tech Crew: Ian Hull (Tech God), Bonne Eisenman, Charlotte Lee, Kenneth Lin, Ever Ramirez, Olivia Stransky, Margaret Sulerzyski

Act 1

• Kevin Yang (piano), Jon Hecht (Bowser), Chase Stevens (Mario) - "Super Mario Brothers, Live" by Jon Hecht and Chase Stevens
• Eva Suarez - "I Get Along Without You Very Well" by Cole Porter
• Mike Morgan and Nico Mihalich - "Bar Rage" by the Glenngarry Bhoys
• Madeline Outland - "Ballet"
• Robert Knickerbocker - "Tarantella"
• Crystal Tung - "Dravidian Dithyramb"
• Michael Cretella - "New American Classic" by Taking Back Sunday
• Lucas Matheson - "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" by Paul McCartney and John Lennon
• Dave Miracchi, Andrew Levy, and Nico Mihalich - "Tribute" by Tenacious D

Act 2

• Liz Schierer - "My Father's Favorite"
• Taylor Lloyd - "Solo de Concours"
• Philip Chodrow - "Tae Kwon Do"
• Meridith Richmond - "Tap Dancing to 'Scat'"
• Gary "Squeaky" Minassian - "Guitar Improvisation"
• George Hotz - "Konstantine" by Something Corporate
• Lily Kerrigan and Aria Sharma, accompanied by Chris White - "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" by Tom Lehrer
• Dom Hazzard, accompanied by Jon Hecht - "Why Do We Have to Say Goodbye?" by Dom Hazzard
• "RA Madness," performed by your very own Residential Assistants

07.2 Talent Show

MCs: Sarah Boutom, Ali Sanne, Alex ter Weele, Jeremy McCandlish

Tech Crew: Ian Hull (Tech God), Nathaniel Byerly, Cristina D Ancona, Elizabeth Fair, Fionna Howes, Matthew Mahoney, Alexander Mechanick, Julian Spector, Zachary Taylor, Zachary Young

Act 1

• Justin Brown - "Polichinelle" by Rachmaninoff
• Arhea Marshall - "To Be or Not To Be" by William Shakespeare
• Kiri Strack-Grose - bagpipe medley - "Molly Raukin's" by John Raukin, "Brenda Stubbert's" by Brenda Stubbert, "The Silver Spear", "Jenny's Chickens"
• Jessica Chu - "Tong Hua" by Guang Liang
• Hayden Chun - "Beat Box Explosion"
• Karen Bao - "Roumanian Folk Dances" by Bela Bartok
• Elizabeth Jarvis - "Dramas on the Nile" choreographed by Jennifer Vick
• Lauren McGarry - "Cantuus Inaquelis" from Adiemus
• Brian Riemer - "Hotel California"
• RA Phil's Hall- 200 digits of Pi
• RA Marshall - Ode to CTY
• RA Taylor - singing
• RA Abby - "Blackbird" - original choreography

Act 2

Will be uploaded soon.

Lists of Acts for 08.2 will be uploaded soon.

08.2

MCs: Jeff Herr and Fish Stark

Los Angeles (LMU)

At LMU, the staff and students both perform in the same talent show. The talent show is on the second Saturday of the session, or second Sunday of some sessions when the gymnasium is not available on the Saturday, and lasts three hours with an intermission. During the intermission, cookies are offered. During the talent show, there is a special nevermore [and nomore] song that happens at the end of the talent show, in which the nevermores [and, in second session, nomores] come up and sway in front of the stage while a select few are onstage and sing the song. In first session, the song is Seasons of Love from the musical Rent, started in 08.1. In second session, the song is Leaving on a Jet Plane by John Denver, and was started by Leah Steuer in 2005 and continued by Zoe Grieder in 2007.

06.1 Talent Show

MCs: "Grass" Kau, Rebecca Clark, Jared Solmssen, and Madeline "Swish" Swisher
Sound System: Spencer Dirrim

Act 1

• Chris Fung, Alex Boyd, Remy Mock, Eric Chen, Jen Casabar, Peter Luo, Brandon Lee, Kevin Yang, Nick Lam - Hip Hop
• Haley Bartels, Jillian Meeker, Jenna Go, Brigid Martin - Seasons of Love
• David Song - Guitar Medleys
• Aviv Gilad-Golgeier - Bach Goldberg Variation
• Harshini Jayaram (replacing Lucy McCabe, who was injured) - Indian Dance
• Albert Chang - Legende
• John Boyle, Albert Chen, Aviv Gilad-Golgeier - Random Advertisements
• Morgan Wang - Basic Subtraction
• Val Moore, Michael Yao, Nicholas Platoff - The Nerds
• Alex Boyd - Human Beatbox
• Aviv Gilad-Golgeier - Piano
• "Grass" Kau (not performed due to stolen ukulele) - "Somewhere Over The Rainbow"
• Aviv Gilad-Golgeier, Gary Yeung - Fuzz and Gary Present...

Act 2

• Alex Blum - Juggling
• Ryan Crout, Spencer Dirrim - One Winged Angel
• Nicole Brown, Samantha Park, Jennifer Lee, Divya Rao, Sophia Liang - 1, 2, Step
• Haley Bartels, Jillian Meeker - Elephant Love Medley
• Mike Langen, Johnny Z - Street Magic
• Lucy McCabe - I'm The Only One
• Kirk Huang - Fantasie Impromtu
• Vincent Le - Juggling with Rubik's Cubes
• Amy Zhang - Come Away With Me
• Albert Chang - Card Tricks
• Kevin Huang - Fantasia in C Minor
• Harshini Jayaram, Emily McKee, Andrea Tang - When There was Me and You
• Rebecca Clark, Sunita Chepuri, Erika Ji, Amy Nguyen, Jillian Meeker, Sam Hsieh, Kate Weiner, Haley Bartels - Little Romeo and J-Lo, a CTY Hopsical

07.2 Talent Show

MCs: Zoe Grieder and three other people I forgot the names of. (Please edit if you know)

Act 1

• Emily McKee - "Black Swan"
• Miranda Guzman - "Bad Habit"
• Andy Inadomi - "99 Red Balloons"
• Christina Fong - "Crush"
• Brice Green - "Spanish Prelude by Gershwin"
• Simon Rhee - "Stand-Up Comedy"
• Miranda Lowe - "Song Without Words Number 21"
• David Smith - "Charango"
• Jackie Choi - "RA Whose Line #1" [canceled thanks to a ridiculous migraine.]
• Angelo Cruz - "The Four Horsemen"
• Liz Burch and Yang West - "On My Own"
• Sunli Kim - "Sibelius"

Act 2

• Jackie Choi, Sunli Kim, Mia Buettner, Andy Inadomi, Alder Fletcher - "Canon Rock"
• Elissia Kim - "I Love You"
• Caroline Sir, Jenny Tabares, and Mia Buettner - "Better Than Tae Kwon Do"
• Jackie Choi - "RA Whose Line #2"
• Liz Burch, Yang West, and Margot Solmssen - "Ain't No Mountain High Enough"
• Asher Meerovich and Holly Seyler - "I Don't Love You"
• David Krucik - "Soccerface 2"
• Ralph and Andy - "Songs"
• Daniel Liu - "I'll Cover You" (Reprised)
• Angelo Cruz and Andy Inadomi - "Unholy Confessions"
• Alan Sage, Josh Eddy and Alder Fletcher - "In Compton"
• Jason and Mike - "Secret Shakes"
• Zoe Grieder - "Surprise" ("Leaving to a Jet Plane," dedicated to Leah from 2005)

08.1 Talent Show

Theme: America's Next Top Model
MCs: Brandon Chang and Olivia Gardner (two instead of the traditional four)

Act 1

• Jane Sadetsky - Die Alone
• Julia Regan - Teardrops on My Guitar
• Maya Mason and Maiya Tracy - Interpretive Dance (Maya) and Vocals (Maiya) to Reflection from Mulan
• Aviv Gilad Golgier (Fuzz) - Original Piano Composition
• Dillon Dong - Viva la Vida
• Justin Kelly - Cows With Guns
• Simon Orr and Madhu Vijay - Magic Act
• Haley Bartels - Summertime (the non-High-School-Musical one)
• Stephanie Ting, Michelle Lei, and Julia Regan - Skit
• Rahsaan Elridge (RA) - Rap

It was during this first act that Brandon first performed the YMCA at CTY, it was hilarious.

Act 2

• Alex Blum - Juggling
• Lizzy Hardwick, Jane Sadetsky, and Brandon Chang - CTY Pie
• David Losh (RA) - Original Composition
• Michelle Lei - Way Back Into Love
• Dillon Dong, Declan McKelvey-Hembree, and Morgan Wang - Skit-Swordfighting-Musical
• Erik Anderson (RA) - Pirates of the Caribbean

(Josh Quillin was supposed to do Queen - We Will Rock You, but he was off-campus and was unable to perform.)

• Albert Chen - Gypsy Airs
• Isabelle Espy, Maiya Tracy, Lizzy Hardwick, Jane Sadetsky, and Haley Bartels - Seasons of Love

08.1's theme for the Talent Show was America's Next Top Model. I think most people found it offensive (yet hilarious) as the RA-written skits made fun of gay people, straight people, people in-between, and epileptic people. That last one is pretty damn hard....

08.2 Talent Show

Theme: Making the Band
MCs: Divya Goel and Adam Gerard

Act 1

• Andrew Casner, John Xia - Better Off Alone, Club Inferno (Raving)
• Joseph Eddy, Brice Green - Blackbird (Guitar/vocals/saxophone)
• Tiffany Wong, Holly Seyler - I Will Follow You Into The Dark (Vocal)
• Courtney Tran - Medley (Piano)
• Catherine Li, Angela Zhang, Araby Martin, Teresa Eun - Mamma Mia! (Vocal)
• Jackie Choi, Katherine Leu, Chelsea Leu - Nightswimming (Vocal/Piano/Cello)
• Alder Fletcher - The Hero Of Canton (Acapella)
• Brice Green - Concerto (Saxophone)

Act 2

• Carlyn - Various compositions (Band)
• David Krucik - Soccerface 3 (Video)
• Heidi Quach, Mary D'Onofrio, Marguerite Solmssen, Divya Goel, Kara Woodworth - Wannabe (Vocal)
• John Xia - Organ Donor (Diabolo-ing)
• Jaibe Jeam Garces, Courtney Tran - Hey There Delilah (Piano/Vocal)
• Clayton Brand, Stephen Cruz - An American Classic (This was actually "If You're Happy And You Know It Clap Your Hands." It was amazing.) (Guitar/Vocal)
• Johanda Laloi - Without You (Dance)
• Divya Goel, Mary D'Onofrio, Heidi Quach, Joseph Eddy, Chelsea Leu, Katherine Leu - Leaving on a Jet Plane (Guitar/Vocal)

09.1 Talent Show

Theme: Amazing Race [which fell apart during the actual show]
MC's: Maxwell 'Zac Efron' Coleman, Max Stivers, Holly Burke, and Jackie 'Allegra' Choi.

09.2 Talent Show

MC's: Alder Rye Fletcher, and Olivia Rose.

[Please fill these in, someone?]

Baltimore (JHU)

At JHU, the staff and students both perform in the same talent show. The talent show is on the second Saturday of the session. There is no intermission.

09.1 Talent Show

MC: RA Trevor Crest

• Henry Hershey - "Let It Be" by The Beatles
• Austin Chustz, Ben Coe - Strum Corps
• Maddie Ossmus - "Wonderwall" by Oasis
• Whitney Loo - dancing to "Pictures of You" by The Last Goodnight
• Wendy Woodin, Maria Kanevsky, Waritha Chiarnpattanodom, Wendy Chen - skits Invisible Bench and Pebbles
• Green Ahn - "Moments Musicaux No. 4" by Rachmaninoff
• Alex Rakoski - "The Ashokan Farewell" by Jay Ungar
• Vaishali Kumaraguru - "Fidelity" by Regina Spector
• Vidhi Vakharia - dancing to "Killa" by Cherish
• Riley Yuan - "Ballade No. 1" by Frederic Chopin
• Dan Hus, Bob Zhou - "Don't Trust Me" by 3OH!3
• Seoyeon Esther Park - "Excerpt from Concerto No. 1 G minor" by Max Burch, "You've Got a Friend in Me" by Randy Newman from Toy Story
• Chareeni Kurukulasuriya, Maggie Mann, Whitney Loo, Elina Saxena, Judy Lee, Elise Pennington - CTY Idol
• Josh Kramer - Mid-Air Object Manipulation a.k.a. Juggling
• Tristan Kindig - "Thunder Road" by Bruce Springsteen
• Paul Lee - "Tornado" by Mitch Markovich
• Kyj Mandzy - Guitar
• Roxanne Heston, Grace Ramsay, Rasheeda Berry, Amelia Merrill - dancing to "Single Ladies" by Beyonce
• Elliot Rosenberg - "A Trumpeter's Lullaby" by Leroy Anderson
• Jaidev Satish - "Fur Elise" by Ludwig van Beethoven
• Ariella Applebaum, Elana Forman, Jinny Kim - "Part of Your World" by Jodi Benson from The Little Mermaid
• RA Spencer's Hall (names unknown) - Balance Act
• Claire Chen - "A la Memorie" by Ella Gannis
• Chen Shen - "Little Troll" by Edward Grieg
• Rosemary Gurak - "Memory" by Elaine Paige from Cats musical
• Ronald Zhange - "Willie Wagglestick's Walkabout" by Brian Bonsor
• Jack McNeil - Impossible Card Magic
• Dan Hsu, Austin Igelman, Bob Zhou, Whitney Loo, Elise Pennington, Calvin Chueh, Johnny Gray as Midnight Train- "Chasing Cars" by Snow Patrol
• Seoyeon Esther Park, Alexa Rakoski - Highlights from The Sound of Music
• Male RAs a.k.a. The Single Men - "Single Ladies" by Beyonce