The Class of 2025 kicked off Homecoming week with its performance on Monday, Sept. 25. The skit followed the iconic Subway Surfers video game characters Tricky and Jake — played by Maya Pullara and Nathan Chiang, respectively — as they vandalized a skit deck backdrop, and were chased by Monty and El Toro who wanted to reprimand the two troublemakers.
Furthermore, there were three dances throughout the skit’s 18-minute run-time: a girls dance, co-ed dance and an additional segment featuring MVHS Dance Team juniors. According to junior and Class Officer Peter Chen, dances were the homecoming skit’s biggest strength, further enhanced by a short routine featuring the MVHS dance team.
“I think our dancers are the strong point, not just co-ed [but everyone],” Chen said. “Last minute we had the boys dance cancel on us, so we actually got MVDT [to dance]. That was something new that we tried this year. It was really fun [and] I think we did really good.”
However, there were also technical difficulties during the skit, with the microphones malfunctioning near the beginning of the skit, causing the music to cut out during the girls’ dance. Junior and dance lead Allison Chang voices her disappointment in this, stating how she believed this undermined the work they had put into the dance.
“I was extremely disappointed because the music serves a big role in routines, since it helps keep everyone together so they know what they’re doing,” Chang said. “When we didn’t have that, we [accidentally] did the same part of the dance at least twice.”
Following the last line of the skit, junior and voice actor Siyona Kathuria improvised saying that the speakers had been malfunctioned with spray paint, allowing the girls dance to perform again without the auditory problems.
While these difficulties were hard to deal with at first, Chen describes how the skit ultimately brought people closer together.
“Most of these people, they’re [part] of many different friend groups, but because of HoCo, we all come together to socialize and hangout,” Chen said. “I think that’s what’s so cool about Homecoming. It’s like one big group of people having a good time.”
