Chad Doreck one of the four remaining contenders for the part of Danny in the musical “Grease” spent his lunch break hanging out with Orange County High School of the Arts’ students. The school is often reffered to as OCHSA by those who are involved with it.  Doreck graduated from OCHSA in 1997 and was in the Music and Theater conservatory. Chad told the group of very talented students about how hard it was learning so many different songs each week for the television show. The talented music and theater student Avery Grant responded with a sarcastic, “Oh right, cry me a river.”

Instead Chad sang a Stevie Wonder song, “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours”, the song he did on “Grease You’re the One I Want”. One student, Hannah Solow, held up a big sign read “Marry me, Chad.” She explained that wanted to marry him because, “He has talent, he can sing,. I realized he’s godly.” He repeatedly asked the students to vote for him and even emphasized the fact that they could each vote 200 times. He did explain that they shouldn’t vote for the girls because then they could not vote the full 200 times for him.

The Orange County High School of the Arts that Chad attended was at the Los Alamitos high school. It is now located in Santa Ana, California. Some other notable graduates of the school are Drake Bell Susan Egan and Matthew Morrison. Two other OCHSA alumni have already been cast in roles for “Grease” which starts in June. Lindsay Mendez, class of 2001, has been cast as Jan, one of the pink ladies and Anna White, class of 2002, will be in the ensemble cast.  Mendez said that she had a much easier auditon process than Doreck with only one auditon and three callbacks. Doreck has been auditioning for five months now.

Chad went outside and signed autographs on head shots that he just happened to bring along. The whole lunch break was the Orange County High School of the Arts version of a pep rally. The school’s group “The Kids Next Door” performed a medly of Grease songs and dances to fill out the rest of the rally.

 
Orange County High School of the Arts

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