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What are the odds one show employs four performers in four separate productions—who have all graduated from the same high school—in the same calendar year? Such is the case for K.J. Hippensteel, Jevares Myrick, Billy Harrigan Tighe and Ryan Breslin, who each “served a Mormon mission” in 2014, with Hippensteel, Tighe and Myrick still performing in a version of the show. All four actors graduated Pebblebrook High School’s magnet program: Cobb County Center for Excellence in the Performing Arts (CCCEPA) in Mableton, GA.

The four rising talents explain how CCCEPA set them up for Mormon success and what it’s like to perform alongside your longtime buddies.

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