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Students in the Hub Performing Arts School look like they're preparing for battle, and it's a fight this group has won before.
They are ready to head to Atlanta next week to compete in the Junior Theatre Festival. It finds around three thousand kids from all across the nation performing. School founder Paula Chanda says about 60 teams get narrowed down to six for the finals which makes for stiff competition.
"These are all excellent teams," Chanda said. "So when it comes down to judges making the decision of who is in the top six. it may be the tiniest thing that might separate the top six from the rest. That's why we work on every little thing to have it just perfect."
Chanda helps her students polish what they've created to perfection. They rehearse about 2-3 times a week. The group of actors is made up of kids ages 8-17. It's the Advanced Performance team, by invitation only, and about 90 percent are new this year. But veterans like Kendra Dukatnik
"I just think we have a really good team this year because we have so many little ones," Dukatnik said. "The team has been so cooperative. We work, work, work on dances. But that just shows the drive that this team has."
Dukatnikknows what she's talking about. She won the Outstanding Actress award at this contest last year. This is the group's fourth year to go to this competition to represent Lubbock, and audiences get a sneak peek of their planned performance this weekend with a fundraising dinner theater.
Because the show must go on - on the road, that is.
7p.m. Saturday
Broadway Church of Christ
Tickets: $25
Call: 795-7344
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