Talent Show

A Talent Show at CTY usually involves very unusual skills that are possessed by us lovable weirdos who attend camp.

Lancaster

Both student and staff talent shows are held at Lancaster (Session 2) on separate days. In Session 1, there is only a student show, giving the staff an unfair advantage in practice time. On the last Tuesday and Wednesday, the talent shows are held in place of activities. The next day, Friday (calendar Thursday), was historically the day of key and fob return, although due to the new self-locking doors, this has since been changed to the morning of the last day.

06.2 Student Show

Master of Ceremonies - Blake Barnett

• Ashok Bhaskar - Devil's Sticks (to "Hot Ride" by The Prodigy)
• Ariane Turley - Flute ("Vivace" by Michel Blavet)
• Alexis Kravitz - Juggling (to "Salterello III" by New York's Ensemble)
• Teryn Dickson - Breakdancing (to "Canned Heat" by Jamiroquai)
• Rachel Todd - Ballet (to "The Tower" by Vienna Teng)
• Sandra Korn - Cello ("Rondo" by Boccherini)
• Jacob Hurwitz - Solving a Rubik's Cube while reciting first 200 digits of π.
• Sarah Hackney - Guitar & Voice ("The View From Heaven", in tribute to Phil Gunn)
• Christian "Christ" Burnette and Michael "Mike" Len - Raving (to "Liquify" by Toby Emerson)

07.2 Student Show

Masters of Ceremonies - William Saulnier and Ali Tammaro

• Elizabeth Leimkuhler - National Anthem
• Vanessa Baratta - Flutopia (flute)
• Jake Fernandez - Hallelujah (singing)
• Kara Lee and Lauren Willhoite - Missing You (singing and guitar)
• Austin Penner and James Chang - Extreme Rubik's Cubing
• Michael Krause - Martial Arts
• Student A Capella, AKA Something Funny - Eye of the Tiger
• Miriam Woodward - Iris (dance)
• Ilana Rice - Life of the Party
• Blabingos - Cotton Eye Joe (dance)
• Sarah Hackney - Blackbird (singing and guitar)
• Gavin Cook - Xtreme Lanyard Swinging
• MC Skit - Frank's Fire Extinguisher

Carlisle

06.2 Talent Show

Emcees: Yean Do, Mariam Lynch, and Isaac Schlect

Tech Crew: Ian Hull (Tech God), Bonne Eisenman, Charlotte Lee, Kenneth Lin, Ever Ramirez, Olivia Stransky, Margaret Sulerzyski

Act 1

• Kevin Yang (piano), Jon Hecht (Bowser), Chase Stevens (Mario) - "Super Mario Brothers, Live" by Jon Hecht and Chase Stevens
• Eva Suarez - "I Get Along Without You Very Well" by Cole Porter
• Mike Morgan and Nico Mihalich - "Bar Rage" by the Glenngarry Bhoys
• Madeline Outland - "Ballet"
• Robert Knickerbocker - "Tarantella"
• Crystal Tung - "Dravidian Dithyramb"
• Michael Cretella - "New American Classic" by Taking Back Sunday
• Lucas Matheson - "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" by Paul McCartney and John Lennon
• Dave Miracchi, Andrew Levy, and Nico Mihalich - "Tribute" by Tenacious D

Act 2

• Liz Schierer - "My Father's Favorite"
• Taylor Lloyd - "Solo de Concours"
• Philip Chodrow - "Tae Kwon Do"
• Meridith Richmond - "Tap Dancing to 'Scat'"
• Gary "Squeaky" Minassian - "Guitar Improvisation"
• George Hotz - "Konstantine" by Something Corporate
• Lily Kerrigan and Aria Sharma, accompanied by Chris White - "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" by Tom Lehrer
• Dom Hazzard, accompanied by Jon Hecht - "Why Do We Have to Say Goodbye?" by Dom Hazzard
• "RA Madness," performed by your very own Residential Assistants

Los Angeles (LMU)

At LMU, the staff and students both perform in the same talent show. The talent show is on the second Saturday of the session and lasts three hours with an intermission. During the intermission, cookies are offered.

06.1 Talent Show

MCs: "Grass" Kau, Rebecca Clark, Jared Solmssen, and Madeline Swisher

Act 1

• Chris Fung, Alex Boyd, Remy Mock, Eric Chen, Jen Casabar, Peter Luo, Brandon Lee, Kevin Yang, Nick Lam - Hip Hop
• Haley Bartels, Jillian Meeker, Jenna Go, Brigid Martin - Seasons of Love
• David Song - Guitar Medleys
• Aviv Gilad-Golgeier - Bach Goldberg Variation
• Harshini Jayaram (replacing Lucy McCabe, who was injured) - Indian Dance
• Albert Chang - Legende
• John Boyle, Albert Chen, Aviv Gilad-Golgeier - Random Advertisements
• Morgan Wang - Basic Subtraction
• Val Moore, Michael Yao, Nicholas Platoff - The Nerds
• Alex Boyd- Human Beatbox
• Aviv Gilad-Golgeier - Piano
• "Grass" Kau (not performed due to stolen ukulele) - "Somewhere over the Rainbow"
• Aviv Gilad-Golgeier, Gary Yeung - Fuzz and Gary Present...

Act 2

• Alex Blum - Juggling
• Ryan Crout, Spencer Dirring - One Winged Angel
• Nicole Brown, Samantha Park, Jennifer Lee, Divya Rao, Sophia Liang - 1, 2, Step
• Haley Bartels, Jillian Meeker - Elephant Love Medley
• Mike Langen, Johnny Z - Street Magic
• Lucy McCabe - I'm the Only One
• Kirk Huang - Fantasie Impromtu
• Vincent Le - Juggling with Rubik's Cubes
• Amy Zhang - Come Away With Me
• Albert Chang - Card Tricks
• Kevin Huang - Fantasia in C Minor
• Harshini Jayaram, Emily McKee, Andrea Tang - When There was Me and You
• Rebecca Clark, Sunita Chepuri, Erika Ji, Amy Nguyen, Jillian Meeker, Sam Hsieh, Kate Weiner, Haley Bartels - Little Romeo and J-Lo, a CTY Hopsical

07.2 Talent Show

MCs: Zoe Grieder and three other people I forgot the names of. (Please edit if you know)

Act 1

• Emily McKee - "Black Swan"
• Miranda Guzman - "Bad Habit"
• Andy Inadomi - "99 Red Balloons"
• Christina Fong - "Crush"
• Brice Green - "Spanish Prelude by Gershwin"
• Simon Rhee - "Stand-Up Comedy"
• Miranda Lowe - "Song Without Words Number 21"
• David Smith - "Charango"
• Jackie Choi - "RA Whose Line #1"
• Angelo Cruz - "The Four Horsemen"
• Liz Burch and Yang West - "On My Own"
• Sunli Kim - "Sibelius"

Act 2

• Jackie Choi, Sunli Kim, Mia Buettner, Andy Inadomi, Alder Fletcher - "Canon Rock"
• Elissia Kim - "I Love You"
• Caroline Sir, Jenny Tabares, and Mia Buettner - "Better Than Tai Kwan Do"
• Jackie Choi - "RA Whose Line #2"
• Liz Burch, Yang West, and Margot Solmssen - "Ain't No Mountain High Enough"
• Asher Meerovich and Holly Seyler - "I Don't Love You"
• David Krucik - "Soccerface"
• Ralph and Andy - "Songs"
• Daniel Liu - "I'll Cover You" (Reprised)
• Angelo Cruz and Andy Inadomi - "Unholy Confessions"
• Alan Sage, Josh Eddy and Alder Fletcher - "In Compton"
• Jason and Mike - "Secret Shakes"
• Zoe Grieder - "Surprise" ("Leaving to a Jet Plane," dedicated to Leah from 2005)

The 08.1 Talent Show

MC's: Brandon Chang and Olivia Gardiner (Two instead of the traditional four)

Act 1

• Jane Sadetsky - Die Alone
• Julia Regan - Teardrops on my Guitar
• Maya Finke and Maiya Tracy - Interpretive Dance to Reflection from Mulan
• Aviv Gilad Golgier (Fuzz) - Original Piano Composition
• Dillon Dong - Viva la Vida
• Justin Kelly - Cows with Guns
• Simon Orr and Madhu Vijay - Magic act
• Haley Bartels - Summertime (The non high school musical one)
• Stephanie Ting, Michelle Lei, and Julia Regan - Skit
• Rahsaan Elridge (RA) - Rap

It was during this first act that Brandon first performed the YMCA at CTY, it was hillarious.

Act 2

• Alex Blum - Juggling
• Lizzy Hardwick, Jane Sadetsky, and Brandon Chang - CTY Pie
• David Losh (RA) - Original Composition
• Michelle Lei - Way back into love
• Dillon Dong, Declan McKelvey-Hembree, and Morgan Wang - Skit-Swordfighting-Musical
• Erik Anderson (RA) - Pirates of the Caribbean

(Josh Quillin was supposed to do We Will Rock You - Queen, But he didn't show up, go figure)

• Albert Chen - Gypsy Airs
• Isabelle Espy, Maiya Tracy, Lizzy Hardwick, Jane Sadetsky, and Haley Bartels - Seasons of Love

08.1's theme for the talent show was America's Next top Model. I think most people found it offensive as the RA-written skits made fun of Gay people, Straight people, people in between, and Epileptic people. That last one is pretty damn hard....