A thank you note just isn't enough when the gift is a theater sound system for Bill Reed Middle School.Add an element of surprise and what you got Tuesday morning was a Broadway-style thank you with song and dance performed by 14 Loveland Integrated School of the Arts students.Doug Erion, board president of the Erion Foundation, suspected something was up when his granddaughter, Harper Erion, knocked on the door during the foundation's quarterly meeting. The eighth-grader, wearing her LISA shirt, should have been in school, Erion figured.
He didn't figure on the students singing "our unanimous attitude/ is one of lasting gratitude/ for what our friend has done for us today," giving him a four-minute show for the song, "Thank You Very Much.""It was absolutely superb," said Erion, a Loveland artist. "The kids put on a whole musical number."The Erion Foundation, which meets at Artworks Loveland, 310 N. Railroad Ave., donated $20,000 to the school to update the auditorium's theater sound system. The system will include a new soundboard, stage lighting, wireless microphones and other equipment.
"The equipment just is old," said Rachel Galambos, drama teacher at Bill Reed Middle School.The current system, in place since the 1990s, has feedback and sound and lighting issues, plus a limited number of microphones."The lighting is very minimal. There aren't very many options for change," Galambos said. "It just does a flood of light rather than anything that will change with color and movement."Galambos, who hasn't yet received the equipment, hopes to have it in place by the time of the school's spring musical in early May, "Seussical, The Musical Jr."
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