After over 27 weeks of school, MSMS’s Drama Club has yet to have an official club meeting besides its interest meeting and has yet to elect officers for the year. There was a meeting intended for March 29, but it was postponed.

It is arguable that MSMS holds its diversity of clubs as one of its most alluring factors, but some of the clubs that the school takes pride in do not meet very regularly or at all.

Drama Club falls under this category.

“Haley has been focusing on Mu Alpha Theta and other clubs, and I have been focusing on Film Club. We just never got around to Drama Club, which is very much a shame,” said Griffin Emerson, co-president of Drama Club.

Drama Club had its first and only official club meeting on Aug. 24 and has still yet to elect its officers for next year. Despite this vacuum of meetings, not all Drama Club officers have been sitting idle for the past few weeks.

Senior Landry Filce, Drama Club secretary, has been steadily working on the musical performance “21 Chump Street” for months, but after losing many cast members and running into other extraneous hiccups, the performance does not look likely.

“One of the tough things about doing a performance in a club is there is no way to compel people to perform,” said Dr. Thomas Easterling, Drama Club sponsor.

Due to how late it is into the school year, the club officers do not feel hopeful on starting any new projects that will be performed by the end of the year. Instead, the club looks forward to preparing the club for the next school year both financially and instructionally.

“We have to help to determine the club’s future. We were going to decide on doing a fundraiser with pie the teacher, but we found out that we actually have a lot of money in our account. And we’re hoping to clear it with the club because Dr. E wants to spend that money on getting curtains for Shack Auditorium,” said Haley Hsu, co-president of Drama Club.

Emerson gives next year’s officers, whoever they may be, a piece of advice: “Don’t put it off. Drama Club is something you need to really dive into in the beginning and keep your motivation going throughout the year, otherwise you won’t get anything done.”