Review: "The Pound, A Musical For The Dogs", Gahanna High School Theatre,

Gahanna High School’s Performance Studio 2017 students put together a sweet, delightful, simple musical  “The Pound, A Musical For The Dogs” as their annual dinner theatre fundraiser.  This is a cute story about, Laura, who begins a new job at a municipal dog shelter and quickly discovers she has a gift for being able to communicate with the dogs. As she gets to know them, Laura discovers that the dogs each have a sad story about how they ended up at the shelter. The show was a simple staging with the students singing, and dancing to piano accompaniment from music director and Gahanna High School alum Michael O’Dell simple, attractive choreography and effectively delivering the lines. “The Pound is a relatively new work from the Minnesota creative tea, of Phil Darg and Julie Ana Rayne.  I would highly recommend it for other high school or community theatre groups looking for a simple musical with wide audience appeal. Their Imagine Theater web site describes this as suitable for all ages.  I would suggest that some parental discretion might be advised as the piece contains stories of dogs and their owners dying.  Those scenes had me and my husband as well as several other audience members, blinking back tears. But the ending is hopeful and uplifting.   Well done, Cindi Macioce and students. Thank you for this pleasant evening of theater. 

    Imagine Theatre, Minnesota, link: http://www.imaginedtheatre.org/ThePound/about.htm.