Each year, Woodrow Wilson High School’s drama teachers — John Beaird and Sean Morrison — following the tradition of the school’s famed drama teachers before them, announce the 2008 musical with considerable flourish and anticipation following the school’s fall mini-school. This year, after tempting the crowd with a few tidbits about how the mystery musical was selected and how they were excited about doing things that they had never done, Beaird punched a button on the portable CD player, cueing up Julie Andrews singing "the hills are alive…with the sound of music" to the claps and cheers of perhaps 100 gathered Woodrow parents and students. On the heels of last year’s hugely successful "Fiddler on the Roof" honoring Woodrow’s 50th musical, I’m looking forward to seeing the mountains of Austria recreated right here in Lakewood by the hundreds of student and parent volunteers, along with many of Woodrow’s education professionals, too.