As you may (or may not) know, my daughter is in the Performing Arts Magnet at Van Nuys High School. Last night, there was a fire at the school, and the drama room was lost. There are some pictures in this report from KABC, including a video. According to nsshere, the drama program lost all of their scripts, past videos, monitors, etc. According to the Daily News, there was $70,000 worth of damage. The bungalow also housed the parent center, but there was evidently less damage there.
I’m going to try contacting some of the theatres we frequent to see if they might donate some scripts from previous productions to the program. If anyone has further ideas, please let me know.
[Oh, and in case you ask: Although they did have an arson crew investigate, word on campus is that there had been electrical problems in the room in the past, and that the fire was an electrical fire.]
