{"id":8214,"date":"2025-07-22T20:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T20:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/?p=8214"},"modified":"2025-07-30T15:11:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T20:11:16","slug":"talent-show-prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/07\/talent-show-prep\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting on a talent show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After four total hours of choreographing, mixing music and rehearsing, Ella Smith of Oakland, California, and Abi Paterniti of Clarksville, Maryland, were ready for their latest performance: Cherubs Got Talent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cEven if it\u2019s a show with thousands of people or a talent show with 90 cherubs, it\u2019s thrilling either way,\u201d Ella Smith said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cherubs Got Talent showcased 13 different acts on the last Sunday of the program. Performances ranged from Bollywood dancing and a Hamilton sing-along to a cartwheel marathon and a cherub-themed rap.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The community and academic associates announced the talent show in the early afternoon of July 19 and hosted the event at 10 p.m. on July 20. With just more than a day to prepare, participating cherubs managed a looming story deadline and weekend classes on top of practicing for the talent show.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hailey Lloyd of Houston and Logan Kreisberg of Stamford, Connecticut, said they spent 10 minutes rehearsing before performing \u201cLove Is an Open Door\u201d from the movie \u201cFrozen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Savannah Smith of San Carlos, California, said she and her friends spent 35 minutes before the show writing a script, making a Google Slides presentation, and creating six different sock puppets to represent each of the four CAAs, program director Roger Boye and fellow cherub Kai Shah of Burlingame, California.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhile we lacked the typical singing, dancing and musical talent skills, we knew we did have that storytelling factor,\u201d Savannah Smith said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While cherubs had little time to prepare, each act received applause and cheers. Some even earned a standing ovation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI think the talent show is really a moment for all the cherubs to come together and support each other in the different talents we have,\u201d Cara Huang, of Los Angeles, said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cherubs Got Talent showcased 13 acts, from dances and songs to a cartwheel marathon and a cherub-themed rap. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":9619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[509],"class_list":["post-8214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus"],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":509,"user_id":245,"is_guest":0,"slug":"janemercer","display_name":"Jane Mercer","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0c6da80921535d75df8f2b21157475fac5f37b5d2d911e5e7a303f0bcf0080ff?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Mercer","first_name":"Jane","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8214"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10325,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214\/revisions\/10325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8214"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=8214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}