Granger was born in San Jose, California, and first appeared on a school stage aged five.
A drama teacher who engaged in sexual activity with a 14-year-old pupil was caught on CCTV footage which showed him emerging from under a school stage with her, a tribunal has heard.
On one level, it's an "inspirational teacher" tale, a real-life "Stand and Deliver" or "Mr. Holland's Opus," about Conrad Johnson, a teacher who, in the late 1960s, formed a school stage band at Kashmere High School in Houston.
Caught up in a school staging of "War of the Worlds," she doesn't recognize at first that her daughter — who has recently transferred to the school — is being bullied.
The musical hinterland has been eclectic and impressive, family music-making playing a vital part: the brass players who come from the band tradition, the cellist who also plays folk fiddle, the trumpeter who learned jazz at his father's feet, the violinist equally at ease singing in a school staging of Les Mis.
But there was Gov. Jan Brewer, who is seeking a full term in a crowded, competitive primary, beaming to supporters from a middle school stage Tuesday night.
Imagine, if you care to, a high school stage packed with fresh-scrubbed Oklahoma teenagers, shrilly belting out a ballad of tribute to a woman of mystery whose passions they can't conceive, whose name they can scarcely pronounce: "Mata Hari, Mata Hari — oh what a wicked girl was she! That's the kind of girl I'll never be!" What were her crimes?
In a sense, every romantic relationship you will ever have goes through a "high school" stage in the beginning, during which you're just getting to know each other and it's OK to find some unforgivable deal-breaker, and break up with caring, but without much else owed to the other person.
In late July, eager to claim credit, the president bounded onto a high school stage in Raleigh, N.C.
and "Saving Private Ryan," Steven Spielberg cut his teeth as a high school stage manager in Phoenix, feeding lines to forgetful actors in "Guys and Dolls" and trying to keep the members of a large "Brigadoon" cast from turning into bumper cars.
This is a man who is clearly walking the talk, which is why he chose to be on a high school stage in the Bronx while heads of state were on stages in UN headquarters.
