AKRON, Ohio — The Miller South School for the Visual and Performing Arts auditorium, which has struggled with an outdated sound system, is getting a new one thanks to a fundraiser led by school parents.
What You Need To Know
- The efforts of two parents led to a fundraiser that brought in $13,000 in eight weeks
- The fundraiser was to replace an outdated sound system at the Miller South School for the Visual and Performing Arts
- You can catch it in action during the production of Matilda the Musical at 7 p.m. on March 12, 13 and 14
According Akron Public Schools, the outdated sound system had been causing problems.
“There’s been so many times in the past two years that kids’ work and the kids’ voices were not heard because the sound system would cut out or the battery would break or the cables would rip and we were just trying to really duct tape things together.” said Rachel McCann, the school’s theater director, in a news release. “The frequencies were not working appropriately. It was always the weakest area in our productions.”…