While the end of the school year is approaching, that doesn’t mean there can’t be some wizarding fun.
A game of Wizzitch is played during the dress rehearsal for “Wizards and Wands” at Grand Island Senior High on Tuesday, April 30. Wizzitch is the parody name for Harry Potter’s Quidditch, with students flying around and trying to catch the Golden Snotch.
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Anna Jessop as Luscious Mayfly, left, and MaKenna DeBraal as Moldyvort think of ways to take down Harry Blotter. There are quite a few scenes where they connive together in their secret lair.
Orvin Rubio Hernandez as Professor Albert Fumbledoor, left, and Adeline Woods as Professor Minerva McMonacle look out into the crowd during the dress rehearsal. In the scene, Fumbledoor and McMonacle are discussing why Harry Blotter needs to grow up in the human world.
From left, Hana Butters, Faith Polowski and Elise Phinney react to Ava Stein during the dress rehearsal. "I'm never like nervous ahead of time, but then like right before opening night, you get kind of nervous," Stein said. "But I just hope it all comes together and then I don't have anything to worry about."
Kainen Mora tries to hide a laugh during the dress rehearsal for "Wizards and Wands." Mora plays Drekko Mayfly, the main Slythering student and bully of Harry Blotter.
Jaylynn Mercer sits onstage during the dress rehearsal for "Wizards and Wands" at Grand Island Senior High on Tuesday, April 30. Mercer plays a student in the Slythering house and has a wand made of uncooked noodles.
Logan Ripp as Harry Blotter, left, eagerly waits to be sorted by Lela Straw during the dress rehearsal for “Wizards and Wands” at Grand Island Senior High on Tuesday, April 30. Straw plays the Sorting Cat and is responsible for sorting all Blogwarts students into their houses.
Logan Ripp as Harry Blotter raises his wand in the air during the dress rehearsal for "Wizards and Wands" at Grand Island Senior High on Tuesday, April 30. "We (the GISH theater community) all still work together, and it's just all such a tight community group together," Ripp said. "Although we may not be friends, we all get along with each other and we all are able to come together to put a show together almost perfectly and I really liked that about our theater, that everyone can work together and become so sort of like a family."
Cadence Gidcumb as Tollivander, left, and Cael Wiegert as Ron Wheezey argue during the dress rehearsal for "Wizards and Wands" at Grand Island Senior High. In the scene, Wheezey was complaining about the wand that Tollivander gave him, which was just a pencil without an eraser.
Lela Straw and Logan Ripp battle during the dress rehearsal for "Wizards and Wands." Straw also plays the Blogworts Beast, who eats human flesh and is described as everyone's favorite childhood friend.
