Belmont secondary students are gearing up for the final cabaret to ever be performed at the secondary school on Jacklin Road.

The next time a cabaret is performed it will be at one of the new high schools being built at Glen Lake or in Royal Bay.

The theme for the 2014 cabaret is Changing Times: If These Walls Could Talk.

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The cabaret is a collaboration from about 200 music, theatre, dance and art students.

Many of the characters in the cabaret performance have been inspired from photos in the year books.

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The students and teachers have also spoken to former teachers and administrators and read old newspaper articles on the school.

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The story starts with a scene of a teacher packing up yearbooks as they are gearing up to move to the new Belmont. The story is then told through historic events of the school including a 1950s Sadie Hawkins Dance, a 1980s pep rally for the senior boys basketball team and the first 10,000 Tonight fundraiser in 2003.

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The large production of a cabaret hasnB次元官网网址檛 been tackled by Belmont students since 2011. All of the proceeds go towards scholarships for students taking music or art lessons, camps or post secondary courses.

Last year $2,800 was awarded to 10 students.

The cabaret runs Feb. 27, 28 and March 1 at 7 p.m. with a matinee performance at 2 p.m. on March 1. The show is at Belmont secondary school in the spotswood gym, 3067 Jacklin Rd.

Admission is $12 for adults and $10 for seniors, students and children.