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• Orchestra

  Beginning in 3rd grade, students can take part in Orchestra as an elective course. Students are exposed to music theory and encouraged to practice sight reading regularly.  Orchestra performs every year in a winter and spring concert series as well as other performance venues. 
  
  Qualified orchestra, band, and chorus students may participate in the Central Jersey Music Educators’ Association honors festivals and All Shore Band. 

• Jazz Band

  Beginning in 3rd grade, students can take part in Band as an elective course. Students are exposed to music theory and encouraged to practice sight reading regularly. Jazz Band performs every year in a winter and spring concert series as well as other performance venues. 
  
  Qualified orchestra, band, and chorus students may participate in the Central Jersey Music Educators’ Association honors festivals and All Shore Band. 

• Chorus

  Beginning in 3rd grade, students can take part in Chorus as an elective course. Students are exposed to music theory and encouraged to practice sight reading regularly. Chorus performs every year in a winter and spring concert series as well as other performance venues. 
  
  Qualified orchestra, band, and chorus students may participate in the Central Jersey Music Educators’ Association honors festivals and All Shore Band. 

• Theater

  The theatre program at Ranney School combines artistic practice with intellectual inquiry in all three divisions. Students learn by doing. Thus, we strive to create an artistic environment where the unique talents and interests of each individual student can thrive. All three school divisions produce technically supported musicals on the Roberts Stage in RSPA Panther Hall. Ranney students produce an annual Lower School musical, Middle School musical, and both an Upper School musical and theatrical production. Past Lower School productions have included Madagascar, Jr. and Willy Wonka, Jr. Past Middle School productions have included Bye, Bye Birdie and Once Upon a Mattress. Past Upper School productions have included Clue, 
  
  Middle and Upper School students serve as volunteers for the Lower and Middle School productions, providing technical support and choreography assistance, while also gaining hands-on stage experience. 
  
  Our theater program participates in the Basie Theater’s annual Basie Awards, which honor theater excellence in Monmouth County high schools. Students that enjoy performing Shakespeare can compete in the English Speaking Union’s Shakespeare competition as well.

• Honor Societies

  There are four Performing Arts Honor Societies offered at Ranney. Our Tri-M® Music Honor Society recognizes passionate Upper School arts students who take an active role in the community, and the Jr. Tri-M includes Middle School students.  Serious Upper School theater performers are offered the opportunity to join the International Thespian Society. 

• Coffee Houses

  Students in all three divisions have the opportunity to perform on stage in our intimate, black-box-style Commons Theater as part of division-level Coffee Houses. These informal evening venues encourage students to perform original music, poetry, dance and comedy as well as musical covers and forensic pieces.