Tickets are on sale now for performances Jan. 26-29 at the Farmington Hills school.
It's Wednesday, which means the week is halfway over and we're that much closer to the weekend. Check out what's going on this weekend in and around the township with today's weekend spotlight: Our pick for today: Bye Bye Birdie at Harrison High Come back to West Bloomfield Patch tomorrow for more weekend-things-to-do options. Or, visit our Events Calendar. Joni Hubred-Golden contributed to this story.
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Tickets are on sale now for performances Jan. 26-29 at the Farmington Hills school.
While cast members in Harrison High School's production of Bye Bye Birdie are having fun, they're also very serious about putting on a good show. Freshman Kate Kreiss said the more than 50 students involved in the production are rehearsing about three hours a night as they head into the final weeks before the show opens on Jan. 26. Kreiss plays teen-ager Kim MacAffee, a fan of teen idol Conrad Birdie, who is about to be drafted into the Army. She has done some acting, she said, "but never anything like this ... These are people who are really serious about what they do. It's more fun." Sophomore Katie Dodd, who plays Rose Grant, the secretary of Birdie's agent, agrees that hard work makes the experience more enjoyable. "You put on a …
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