Looking Back on the Sept. 21 , 2024 AACC Fall Show
The Alexandria A Capella Collective (AACC) fall show was at Bishop Ireton High School (BI), 201 Cambridge Rd. in Alexandria at 6 pm on Sat. Sept. 21. The theater venue is quite nice and the seating was great for the significant crowd of friends and patrons who attended.
Theme for this year’s show was Homecoming – an evening with family and friends.
The Harmonizers and Metro Voices ensembles each sang two sets of songs for the show, plus they combined for a fantastic finale set with “Defying Gravity” featuring Samantha Tramack, and “I’m Still Standing.”
Five great chapter-related quartets appeared on this year’s show too and wowed the audience: BETTER TOGETHER includes Elizabeth and Tony Colosimo and Heather and Andrew Havens; MIXTAPE includes Jenni Sheets Parsons, Dayve Gabbard, Brian O’Dell and Cy Wood; PRAXIS includes Kevin Clark, Francesco Logozzo, Lance Fisher and David Breen; PRATT STREET POWER includes Vince Sandroni, Ed Schubel, Ben Hawker and Darren Schmidt; and SWEET AND SOUR includes Christina, Samantha, Mert and Joshua Tramack.
Artistic director, Joe Cerutti, welcomed the audience at 6 pm and introduced performing ensembles during the show. The tech crew was students from the BI theater department and they were great. Show producer was Catherine LaValley. Also back stage was Greg Tepe and Ian Trent who helped as ‘quartet runner.’ Gary Cregan with DougWhite helped with the riser crew starting at 1:30 when the chapter was admitted into the school. Many members helped haul in risers and our equipment. Tony did the warm ups for the combined ensemble in the school band room.
Volunteer efforts in the lobby included general manager, Susan Fitzpatrick, with Kathy Kauffmann, Naida Harrington, Kitty Fedarko, Ellen Dellert, future member Rob Santine and shows director, Doug White. This was the first AACC concert for Adele Jones, Ker Medero, and Brenden White.
The Harmonizers performed both of their contest songs from Cleveland including all the staging. That meant Matt Zagorski came to help dance for the weekend and Cy Wood took Randall Eliason’s place on the front row since Randall was overseas. The Harmonizers wore their new fifth place medals from Cleveland with the black/gray outfits for the show. The audience was totally wild at the end of “Lullaby” with the trio of Maggie McAlexander, Tessa Walker and Samantha Tramack.
Their sets also included “Sit Down You’re Rockin the Boat” with a solo by Lance Fisher and directed by Tony Colosimo; “But the World Goes Round’ and “Calling Dreams.”
Metro Voices two sets were really great and well received also by the audience: “Happy Together” and “Sing Swing” which Maggie directed. Then “After You Who” and “Wayside.” They wore their combination color outfits for this show.
During the show, Joe enthusiastically promoted the launch of Capital Force – a seasonal youth chorus that will be part of the AACC chapter. The launch event is Sunday, Oct. 6. Tessa Walker will be the youth chorus director
There was an afterglow party at Astro Beer Hall in Shirlington. Many members and fans were there for the food and festivities – the Hall offered a couple great special afterglow sandwiches, there was lots of tag singing, and many attendees played pool and other games at the hall. The new AACC t-shirts were the comfortable dress code for the evening.
Until next time – editorjack!
(This message is prepared for your review if you were there, for your information if you had to miss, and as a historical record for the great things going on each week during the 76th year of the Alexandria Chapter. - YeEd)
The Chapter Mission Statement Enriching lives through vocal harmony in the greater DC area.
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