Wednesday, February 20, 2008
YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown Connection, Youngstown city school’s high-energy song and dance troupe, will perform in the America Sings “Singabration” Saturday at Walt Disney World in Florida.
The 10-member local group will be among 300 singers selected from 10 states and an American school in Brazil invited to participate. The performance will take place in Cinderella’s Castle in the Magic Kingdom.
The Connection always performs a community service as part of its tours, and the Ronald McDonald House in Orlando will be the beneficiary of family welcome kits put together in Orlando by the Singabration participants.
The Youngstown students are contributing books, crossword puzzles, children’s games and toiletries to the kits.
The trip also will allow The Connection to unite with a former Youngstowner, Brayshawna Thomas, who is a dancer and choreographer at Disney World and who also helped choreograph the now-famous “High School Musical.”
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