The holiday show was poppin’! Santa, Christmas, Willy Wonka, and a whole lot of sinning! It was a great way to start the day on the last day before winter break.

The show featured 7 performers as the 7 deadly sins personified. During the Christmas season, each one of these characters disrespects a homeless man, who is later revealed to be Santa Claus and sends them to his factory where they are disciplined into repenting.

There were 25 cast members participating in the show as well as 7 separate singing performances and 3 different dance groups.

Performers, such as the singers and people with main roles, were selected through auditions that drama teacher Ms. Brooks held in November, Ms. Brooks adds that the Christmas show was a project for advanced students in her upper level classes who were all required to participate.

Performer Leonardo Rivera, who played the role of a drill sergeant in the very last scene of the show, says that he enjoyed participating because he got to have a really important role.

Senior Hector Paiz enjoyed his role as an elf worker. Despite not being a main role, being an elf was very entertaining because making his own script was “super cool”.

Many in the audience enjoyed the show. Junior Jeremy Velarde’s favorite part was Santa twerking. “He went off,” Jeremy said. Football player Wildney Present thought that the Storm Dancers had mind-blowing moves.

Junior Carlos Moreno says that this year’s show was better than the last year’s because it took more of a comedic approach. However, senior Wilfredo Mejia preferred last year’s performance because White Boy’s rapping was “A1”.

Some people complained about technical difficulties arising from distracting feedback from the microphones. Junior Maria Maldonado says that she could barely hear and only her friends in the front could.

TV Production teacher Dr. Underwood says that these difficulties had absolutely nothing to do with the school’s tech crew. He said that the vendor that sold the audio equipment to the school has done little to nothing to fix the problem.