{"id":154665,"date":"2025-10-31T05:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T05:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/154665\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T05:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T05:07:15","slug":"wexford-students-take-to-the-stage-in-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/154665\/","title":{"rendered":"Wexford students take to the stage in \u2018Oklahoma!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Matthew Byrne as Curley and Jasmine O Donoghye as Aunt Eller at Creagh College Presents Oklahoma in The Gorey Little Theatre. PHOTO: Sabrina Ffrench<\/p>\n

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Matthew Byrne as Curley at Creagh College Presents Oklahoma in The Gorey Little Theatre. PHOTO: Sabrina Ffrench<\/p>\n

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Bobby McDonald and Adam McCormack attending Creagh College Presents Oklahoma in The Gorey Little Theatre. PHOTO: Sabrina Ffrench<\/p>\n

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Jasmine O Donoghue as Aunt Eller at Creagh College Presents Oklahoma in The Gorey Little Theatre. PHOTO: Sabrina Ffrench<\/p>\n

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Some of the cast at Creagh College Presents Oklahoma in The Gorey Little Theatre. PHOTO: Sabrina Ffrench<\/p>\n

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Matthew Byrne as Curley and Gemma Kavanagh as Laurie at Creagh College Presents Oklahoma in The Gorey Little Theatre. PHOTO: Sabrina Ffrench<\/p>\n

\"Lucy<\/p>\n

Lucy Higgins and Tara Brenoff attending Creagh College Presents Oklahoma in The Gorey Little Theatre. PHOTO: Sabrina Ffrench<\/p>\n

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Gemma Kavanagh as Laurie at Creagh College Presents Oklahoma in The Gorey Little Theatre. PHOTO: Sabrina Ffrench<\/p>\n

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Sandra Redmond and Jane Kinch attending Creagh College Presents Oklahoma in The Gorey Little Theatre. PHOTO: Sabrina Ffrench <\/p>\n

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Ciaran and Trish Graham attending Creagh College Presents Oklahoma in The Gorey Little Theatre. PHOTO: Sabrina Ffrench<\/p>\n

Students from a Wexford school filled audiences in Gorey with laughter after their recent production of the hit musical, Oklahoma!<\/p>\n

Creagh College performed at Gorey Little Theatre from Thursday, October 16 to Saturday, October 18 to sold out audiences each night.<\/p>\n

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Matthew Byrne as Curley and Gemma Kavanagh as Laurie at Creagh College Presents Oklahoma in The Gorey Little Theatre. PHOTO: Sabrina Ffrench<\/p>\n

Principal Declan O\u2019Toole said Oklahoma! was a wonderful celebration of the talent and teamwork from students at the school and spoke of the success of the night.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur students were simply outstanding – both on stage and behind the scenes, and I\u2019m so proud of everything they achieved,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

More than 60 students took to the stage, while many others contributed behind the scenes by managing props, ushering guests, and selling programmes and tickets.<\/p>\n

On the night, Creagh College was also delighted to see the return of former principal Paul Glynn, who took to the stage performing as Andrew Carnes.<\/p>\n

Cast and crew had been rehearsing since August, which the school said paid off through their hard work and commitment. The show was coordinated by Ciara Spellman and was directed by Eoghan Fingleton, choreographed by Clodagh Donohue and featured musical direction from Denise Brennan-Hughes.<\/p>\n

The leading cast included Matthew Byrne, Gemma Kavanagh, Jasmine O\u2019Donoghue, Finn Standing, Matt Carroll and Ellie Twomey, who treated audiences to a number of vocal performances.<\/p>\n

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Some of the cast at Creagh College Presents Oklahoma in The Gorey Little Theatre. PHOTO: Sabrina Ffrench<\/p>\n

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Jasmine O Donoghue as Aunt Eller at Creagh College Presents Oklahoma in The Gorey Little Theatre. PHOTO: Sabrina Ffrench<\/p>\n

The school said audiences were especially entertained by Gary Butler\u2019s comic portrayal of Ali Hakim, which drew plenty of laughter throughout the show\u2019s run.<\/p>\n

Principal Declan O\u2019Toole further thanked staff for their commitment to the students. \u201cI also want to sincerely thank all our amazing staff who volunteered so much of their time to guide, support and encourage the students throughout this journey.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir dedication and generosity made this production such a memorable success,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Byrne as Curley and Jasmine O Donoghye as Aunt Eller at Creagh College Presents Oklahoma in The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[807,18,19,17,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-154665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-alan-white","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115467049281864910","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}