The power of creative expression to encourage intellectual and spiritual development also inspires confidence in performance. As learning and growth come from experience, at Mayfield, every grade level participates in multiple performances each year.

The lessons of stage presence, voice projection, tone, and interpretation begin in kindergarten with the Nativity Play. Students build on and add to these skills in a second-grade "Halloween Variety Show", the fourth-grade student-written and produced "Three Little Pigs" production, a fifth-grade workshop production musical, and a seventh-grade dramatic production in which students interpret scenes from Shakespeare.

As students experience collaborative and solo performances, they explore and discover their unique potential through creativity and possibility. This learning culminates in the eighth-grade play. By their last year at Mayfield, students have a solid foundation in performance and are able to put their skills to use in the production of a full-scale musical. With an expectation of professionalism, the audition process includes a vocal audition, a short dance routine performed in small groups, and an acting audition, in which students are asked to prepare a short monologue. This final performance provides a meaningful combination of bonding experience and achievement.

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