'Drama High': 7 stories from behind the scenes of a life-changing drama program

Here are seven stories from "Drama High," Michael Sokolove's book about the award-winning theatrical program at Harry S Truman High School.

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Brian Stokes Mitchell (l.) and Christine Baranski (r.) perform in 'Sweeney Todd,' a musical which was produced at Harry S Truman High School.

The Truman drama students brought their play "Good Boys and True" to the Pennsylvania Thespian Festival, where performances are judged by directors of drama departments from other schools. When the other directors came backstage to see the students, two of the three had mostly blank forms – practically no critique of any part of the performance. "You know how remarkable it was," one of them, North Penn High School's Andrea Roney, told the Truman students. "There were nine hundred kids out there who just grew up a little bit. All I can say is thank you. There is a need for this kind of theater in high schools, a deep need."

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