For years, the Student Assembly has put on a talent show at the end of the year, displaying the wide range of skills Staples students possess.
This year, though, the Student Assembly has announced that the talent show will now be called the variety show from now on.
Since this announcement, students and staff have inquired about the exact reasoning for the name change. Some have wondered if a specific event led the Student Assembly to change the name.
President of the Student Assembly, Micheal Goodgame ’11, negated this idea, saying that the Student Assembly’s decision to change the name of the show was as a result of many years of experiences.
“We decided to change the name because previous experience had taught us that the name ‘talent show’ implies that the show is a competition, when in fact it is simply a display of the diversity and skill of the student body and an opportunity for the school to unite under something,” Goodgame said.
Goodgame, as well as vice president of the Student Assembly, Spencer Adler ’11, and faculty advisor, Trudy Denton, decided to make the change. Like Goodgame, Denton stated that the name change was spurred by an attempt to emphasize the show’s variety.
“We feel this name is more reflective of the show. We remain committed to providing the variety of acts and representation to all classes,” Denton said.
Unrelated to the name change, the show has also been moved to May 17, so that seniors can watch it before they leave for internships.
“From those who have tried out, it looks like it’s going to be a great show.” Goodgame said.
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Michael Goodgame • May 13, 2011 at 11:13 am
The name was changed, as the article states, because there was a false impression in earlier years of it being a competition. We have always had to cut out acts that had a lot of talent but were very much the same as other acts for the sake of letting the student body see a variety of different types of performances. In short, we cannot have ten guitarists. There is nothing moronic about clarifying a point. There are a variety of different types of performances from a variety of grade levels; we felt it appropriate to change the name because virtually everyone that tried out had “talent”…we were looking for variety.
Jim • May 8, 2011 at 9:38 pm
The name change is, to be fair, moronic. You can’t call something that has no variety a “variety show.” There’s nothing new this year that last year’s show didn’t have. That’s not to say that the people that were accepted into the show did not deserve it… In fact I’m looking forward to the show. But the show has nothing new to offer. There is not much spice to it, not much “variety.” A bunch of bands, a couple of singers, and the same comedian that performed last year who will most likely make very similar jokes to those in his previous performance. Judging by the people who tried out and the people who were accepted, whoever made the decisions did NOT (only capitalizing “not” because there is no italicize function online) make them with variety in mind. Calling this show a variety show is like calling a home video of a four-year-old on the toilet a film. There is very little “variety” in the show and a lot of talent, similar to the home video where there is very little cinematic element but a lot of blurry camcorder footage. If the show was called a talent show, at least the people who tried out would know if they sucked or not, yet the change implies that if the person auditioning did not make it, they added little to no variety to the show. There is too little “diversity” to call this a variety show and too much talent for the acts to not receive a little gratitude, even if it means an accurate name. My message is to stop fooling yourselves, people; this is a talent show.