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    • Eastside High School Drama Department presents Songs For a New World
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    • Eastside High School Drama Department presents Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind!
    • Eastside High School Drama Department presents Anything Goes
    • Eastside High School Drama Department presents Our Town
    • Eastside High School Drama Department presents Waiting for Godot (remastered)
    • Eastside High School Drama Department presents Waiting For Godot
    • Eastside Drama Department presents Disney's The Little Mermaid Jr
    • Eastside Drama Department presents Stand and Deliver
    • Eastside Drama Department presents Antigone!
    • Eastside Drama Department presents "You're A Good Man Charlie Brown."
    • You're A Good Man Charlie Brown Videos
    • Eastside Drama Department presents a new musical Barbershop Tales!
    • Barbershop Tales Videos
    • Eastside Drama Department presents The Outsiders
    • Eastside Drama Department presents Gruesome Playground Injuries
    • Eastside Drama Department presents Jesus Christ Superstar
    • Eastside Drama Department presents School House Rock Live!
    • Eastside Drama Department presents The Dining Room
    • Eastside Drama Department presents Rent School Edition
    • Eastside Drama Department presents Zombie Prom
    • Eastside Drama Department presents Baby with the Bathwater
    • Eastside Drama Department presents Of Mice and Men
    • Eastside Drama Department presents Mulan Jr.
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    • District Competition November 15, 2014
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    • Thespian State Festival 2014
    • DISTRICT 2 COMPETITION Saturday, December 14, 2013
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Stand and Deliver

April 16th - 17th 7pm 2015
April 18th - 7pm and 2pm 2015
This Oscar-nominated drama is the compelling true story of a dedicated East Los Angeles teacher who surmounts overwhelming odds in his quest to turn inner-city students into whiz kids. When Jaime Escalante leaves a career in engineering to teach high school math, he is assigned to a barrio school with a reputation for gangs, drugs and dropouts, an ill-funded school that is also in imminent danger of losing its accreditation. Still, his quirky sense of humor, antics and offbeat teaching methods mesmerize and motivate his students. A class goal is set: to take the Advanced Placement Calculus Test, an exam so demanding that less than two percent of seniors attempt it. Pressure mounts! Escalante works his students and himself so obsessively that he suffers a heart attack a couple of days before the test; nonetheless, 18 students take the test. All 18 pass! However, the skeptical Educational Testing Service invalidates the scores because of the unusual similarity of wrong answers. Ambition and pride vanish in a single computerized keystroke. Reluctantly, the students agree to retest. The result provides the dramatic conclusion to this emotion-packed, inspirational, urban fairy tale.
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  • Home
  • Shows
  • Past Shows
    • Eastside High School Drama Department presents Songs For a New World
    • Eastside High School Drama Department presents She Kills Monsters
    • Eastside High School Drama presents The Wedding Singer
    • Eastside High School Drama Department presents Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind!
    • Eastside High School Drama Department presents Anything Goes
    • Eastside High School Drama Department presents Our Town
    • Eastside High School Drama Department presents Waiting for Godot (remastered)
    • Eastside High School Drama Department presents Waiting For Godot
    • Eastside Drama Department presents Disney's The Little Mermaid Jr
    • Eastside Drama Department presents Stand and Deliver
    • Eastside Drama Department presents Antigone!
    • Eastside Drama Department presents "You're A Good Man Charlie Brown."
    • You're A Good Man Charlie Brown Videos
    • Eastside Drama Department presents a new musical Barbershop Tales!
    • Barbershop Tales Videos
    • Eastside Drama Department presents The Outsiders
    • Eastside Drama Department presents Gruesome Playground Injuries
    • Eastside Drama Department presents Jesus Christ Superstar
    • Eastside Drama Department presents School House Rock Live!
    • Eastside Drama Department presents The Dining Room
    • Eastside Drama Department presents Rent School Edition
    • Eastside Drama Department presents Zombie Prom
    • Eastside Drama Department presents Baby with the Bathwater
    • Eastside Drama Department presents Of Mice and Men
    • Eastside Drama Department presents Mulan Jr.
  • Thespians
    • Thespian Board 2019 - 2020
    • State 2019
    • District 12 December 2018
    • District 2: November 2017
    • Thespian Board 2017 - 2018
    • Thespian Board 2016 - 2017
    • State Festival 2015
    • Districts 2015
    • Thespian Board 2015 - 2016
    • District Competition November 15, 2014
    • Thespian Board 2014 - 2015
    • Thespian State Festival 2014
    • DISTRICT 2 COMPETITION Saturday, December 14, 2013
  • Links
  • Alachua County High School Theater Summer Musical