Performing Arts
The school's "cafe-chape-torium" (so named due to its function as the cafeteria, school chapel and auditorium), the Rilko Center, serves as the venue for Mullen's theatrical and choral performances.
Choral music is alive and well at Mullen High School with three ensembles currently offered for student enrollment. Mullen Singers - a large concert chorus - is a non-audition ensemble open to students on all levels. Students perform a variety of both traditional and contemporary styles of choral music at numerous venues throughout the year, including several formal concerts. Varsity Singers, our men's chorus, and our Women's Chorus are 'training choirs' in which students are taught choral basics. Starting in the Fall 2008, a Chamber Ensemble will be added to the choral line up. Chamber Ensemble will be an audition-only, 16 member group of Mullen's finest choral musicians.
Opportunities to sing abound for singers at Mullen High School. Students are encouraged to audition for (through the preparation of arts songs) and are selected to sing in local Honor Choirs as well as All-State choir. In March 2006, Mullen Singers performed Mozart's Coronation Mass at Carnegie Hall in New York City as part of a nationally selected ensemble. In February 2007, they performed as part of a nationally selected festival chorus at Boettcher Concert Hall in Denver. In June 2008, Mullen Singers will be performing by invitation for the 2008 Summer Olympic festival in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou, China. During the summer of 2010 Mullen Singers Maya Stackhouse and Kevin Covelo went to New York to sing in an audition only ensemble at Carnegie Hall.
The Mullen Symphonic Orchestra was added to the Mullen Performing Arts line-up during 2007-2008 school year.
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“More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.”
—Uta Hagen (b. 1919)