The Girard Academic Music Program, whose home is in the Edgar Allan Poe building in South Philadelphia, is one of the brightest lights of the Philadelphia School District and the school's Spring musical is an electric event. Their production of Mame opened last night, and there's not another high school in Pennsylvania that could have presented the show as engagingly or to so high a musical standard.



A great evening of musical theater, and, after the multiple curtain calls and ovations for cast and orchestra, ending with a graceful tribute by these very talented students assembled in a full company call: words of thanks from them as a flag unfurled and then their grand performance of "God Bless the USA"



The students of GAMP are, year after year, an advertisement for the city of Philadelphia, and a model of the high achievement possible when the talents of the young are recognized and encouraged, nurtured and developed in a disciplined program whose standard is excellence.