North Scott High School

Fine Arts

Lancer Productions offers at least three shows a year with chances for students to participate on and off stage. Troupe 739 in the International Thespian Society. Lancer Productions have performed at many State and International Thespian Festivals. They have performed many plays and musicals, including Schoolhouse Rock Live, The Music Man, A Piece of My Heart, Dark of the Moon, Once Upon a Mattress, Godspell, It's a Wonderful Life, Bye Bye Birdie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Loving Lives, and The Spitfire Grill (musical).

The music department has multiple choirs (including two jazz choirs), two jazz bands, two concert bands, a pit band, a marching band and an orchestra. North Scott's Jazz band has been the winner of many state contests, and its participants winners of many individual honors. On February 25, 2009, it was announced that Jazz I was one of fifteen high school jazz band finalists for the 14th annual Essentially Ellington competition and festival held at Lincoln Center in New York City each May.

North Scott also has a state-honored speech team, which has had numerous students qualify for the Iowa High School Speech Association's state competition in Ames, Iowa. Several Reader's Theatre and Ensemble Acting plays received Division I ratings, the highest honor possible, in all-state competition. The school's duet act for the play "The Rabbit Hole" featuring S. Phipps and N. Curlott (both Seniors) was selected as the best out of 800 in Iowa during the 2010 competition. In addition, B. Frieden is the first student in North Scott history to receive All- State honors in four events in one year (2011)- the maximum amount of events one student is allowed to participate in.

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