This past March, North Gwinnett High School’s production of The Addams Family: The Musical was special in more ways than one. The theatre group, consisting of Brandon Dean (director), Sapna Annambhotla, Lucas Hsu, Jane Allen Duke, Owen Brown, DJ Keres, Spencer Cook, and Daisy Denton, reached out to local senior living facilities inviting residents to observe the show and interact with the high school student actors. Heartis accepted the invitation, and this collaboration provided a night of laughs, fun, and quite a few (appropriately themed) haunts to the 10 residents and staff members in attendance.
“The local senior community has been appreciative of artistic endeavors in past experiences… so we wanted to facilitate their ability to enjoy our shows by providing seats and highlighting their arrival,” NGHS Junior Sapna Annambhotla says. “The Heartis residents seemed to thoroughly enjoy the show; they ended the afternoon with big smiles and told us they would love to come to future productions. We hope to continue this connection in the future.”
