Teachers will become performers in third annual 'Fractured Follies'
By Dick Sparrer
Anne Martyn acting out William Shakespeare for her English class? Could happen.
Gayle Shank doing a dance for her P.E. students? Maybe.
But Steve Hammack singing the Table of Elements during science? Not likely.
Still, there will be all of that and more on April 25 at Los Gatos High School when English teacher Paris De Soto brings back the Fractured Follies for the third straight year.
Teachers, many of them graduates of the high school, will be displaying their talents in the variety show at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Prentiss Brown Auditorium at the school.
English teachers Anne (Burke) Martyn, Tonya (Hayes) Dehorn, Kristi (Musser) Grasty and Julie Alonso, all Gatos grads, will perform in the show, and Hammack will team with Scott Downs for a vocal duet. Downs, also a Los Gatos graduate, is an art teacher and the school's wrestling coach.
Shank, another alumnae of LGHS, will join P.E. teachers Nancy Walker and Larry Hansen to perform their own version of Riverdance, and resource teacher and football coach Russ Leal will lead his band, ExtraLarge, in the night's finale.
English teacher Kurt Kroesche will serve as master of ceremonies.
Tickets for the faculty talent show are priced at $10, and all proceeds will benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
"I reinstated [the show] to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society," said De Soto. "There was a personal goal behind it."
De Soto, who lost a close friend to a related disease, also competes in an endurance athletic event to raise funds for the society. She will participate in the Wildflower Half-Ironman event on May 4, and the Ironman USA event in Lake Placid, N.Y., in July.
Ed and Shirley Burke of the Los Gatos Athletic Club have been generous supporters of all of De Soto's fundraising events, including Thursday's variety show.
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