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Come see what our students performed at our past competition, and see the finalized version of Digging Up Dessa one last time before we go to Nationals!

Tickets are available online or at the door!

• Wednesday, May 21st @ 7pm​

Ticket Prices

• $8 Student
• $8 RHSD Staff
• $10 Adults

*Please note: Rock Hill School District has now implemented the Clear Bag Policy at all events. Review here.*

Solo Musicals:

• ​Sierra Hunter - “Times Like This” from the musical Lucky Stiff 
• Madi Foster - “I Get a Kick Out of You” from the musical Anything Goes
• ​Kiden Lindsay - “I Hate Men” from the musical Kiss Me, Kate
• Isabella Tramell - “Little Girls” from the musical Annie
• Kaitlyn Hall - “Everything Else” from the musical Next to Normal
• Layla Washington - “Live Out Loud” from the musical A Little Princess
• Kennedy Thompson - “Colored Woman” from the musical Memphis

Duet Acting:

• Kaitlyn Hall and Beckett Hall - Dearly Departed

Duet Musical:

• Kiden Lindsay and Sierra Hunter - “The Apple Doesn’t Fall” from the musical The Rink​ ​​

Scenic Design:

• Bee Sims - Emma
• Averi Hagen-Schultz - When She Had Wings

Costume Design:

• McKensye Lucas -The Spongebob Musical

Short Film:

• My Abnormal Obsession - Redneck Randy by Beckett Hall

ABOUT THE SHOW
Dessa is a 21st-century girl with no shortage of struggles, secrets and mysteries to solve. From dinosaur bones to hidden memories, the world is filled with buried treasures just waiting to be uncovered. Luckily, thanks to the mysterious appearance of a remarkable friend—the pioneering 19th-century English paleontologist Mary Anning—young Dessa knows just how to excavate them! After a field trip to a museum reveals that Mary Anning’s legacy has been buried by history because of her gender and lack of formal education, Dessa decides that she’s going to fight to earn her friend the credit she deserves. With help from her once-rival, Nilo, Dessa sets to work unearthing the secrets hidden beneath the surface of the past and present—for Mary’s history and her own future.

Digging Up Dessa was commissioned by The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and was first produced at the Kennedy Center during the 2017-2018 season.

Digging Up Dessa is produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC., of Woodstock, Illinois.