'Showstoppers' benefit concert set for Tuesday

Graduates of Cape Girardeau Central Junior High School musicals will perform Tuesday in "Showstoppers Tonight," a concert featuring pop, country, Broadway and big band tunes.

The concert starts at 7 p.m. at the junior high auditorium. An admission fee will be taken.

Choir director Mike Dumey will direct the show, which will include songs from the popular "Wicked" Broadway show.

Dumey said the concert will last about 90 minutes. Tickets will be sold in advance from Dumey's junior high choir students and at the door.

Proceeds will help offset the cost of this spring's junior high school musical, "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat."

Dumey regularly holds a fund-raising concert to offset expenses for his annual spring musical.

Royalties alone for the spring musical this year will cost about $2,400, Dumey said. "That's $2,400 to produce it even before we start," he said.

Dumey said Tuesday's concert will feature the talents of a number of his former students who all had primary roles in past musicals at the school.

"I think people will really be amazed at the amount of talent they see," he said.

Tuesday's performers will include Heath Daniel, Kyle Gilhaus, Cat Goeke, Sarah Goeke, Elizabeth Hooker-Sykes, Sami Gross, Matt Leimer, Cara Mueller, Rebekah Pfanstiel, Paige Pritchard, Kayla Reed, Tricia Roth, Blake Russell, Carly Trautwein, Alex Weinhold and Kasper Woldtvedt.