Jane Matson performed in Camelot and My Fair Lady on the stage of Newtown High School as a student in the early 1980s before enjoying a career as a professional singer in national tours and stage productions.
Matson has given up a life on stage to play a role that’s tailor made for her. Matson is the choral director at Newtown High School, from which she graduated in 1983. She teaches choral music, directs the school’s freshmen choir, concert choir, chamber choir and after school a cappella group called The Singers. She also directs the school’s two musical theater productions each school year.
“I really didn’t want to teach in the classroom,” Matson said. But someone convinced her to try it in another community “and I immediately loved it,” said Matson, who went back to school to get teaching certification. She jumped at the chance to return to her alma mater when the choral director position opened in Newtown two years ago, and she’s already made her mark.
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