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Side by Side Dessert Cafe and Show, a benefit for the Charlotte High School Theater Department, featured more than 200 Charlotte High performing arts students Friday evening at CPAC, both in the main theater and the Black Box. Here, members of Charisma, a specialty chorus, sing and dance dressed as nerds on the main stage.

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Justin Harmon, sophomore and member of the Charlotte High Silver King Jazz Band, performed a short solo on his alto saxophone during the band concert portion of the benefit.

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It looked real but it was actually an acting duet performed in the Black Box by CHS senior Vicki Martin and junior Brielle Collands during their version of Spy School.

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Sophomore drama student Kendra Henshaw listens as junior Jesse Howard and his stuffed monkey ramble on and on during their Boy Meets Girl duet acting scene on stage in the Black Box.

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Alley Pope during the Rules of Comedy performance in the Black Box.

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The Rules of Comedy, an ensemble act performed in the Black Box, featured Shawn Lamphier, Chandler Williams and T.J. Barksdale and the “brown hat” that suspiciously causes trousers to drop.

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Beginning women’s chorus and advanced women’s chorus sing side by side, led by music teacher Jaci Cushman on piano.

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Beginning women’s chorus and advanced women’s chorus sing side by side, led by music teacher Jaci Cushman on piano.

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Dressed as nerds, members of Charisma sing and dance on the main stage for the Side by Side Cafe & Show to benefit the Theater Department at Charlotte High School.

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Dressed as nerds, members of Charisma sing and dance on the main stage for the Side by Side Cafe & Show to benefit the Theater Department at Charlotte High School.

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Marcella Brown, Bobbie Sue Morris and Samuella Martial with the Stars being sold and signed for the performers, yet another fundraiser going on at the Side by Side benefit.

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Charlotte High Vocal Department, under the direction of Jaci Cushman, first performed as one, then each specialty chorus performed for the Friday evening benefit.

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Calvin Rotering, 2012 graduate and former member of the Theater Department, along with 2011 alumna Kellie Hart, volunteered in the Black Box helping to raise funds.