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Tapping Away Chantilly Toddler Westfield Summer Stage to Present Fights Against Nd Neuroblastoma Chantilly ❖ Fair Oaks ❖ Fair Lakes ❖ Oak Hill NORTHERN EDITION JULY 15-21, 2010 “Spurred into Action” 25 CENTS Newsstand Price Volume XXIV, NO. 28 Remaining Hopeful for Rachel Tapping Away Chantilly toddler Westfield Summer Stage to present fights against nd neuroblastoma. Broadway musical “42 Street.” By Bonnie Hobbs rable music; you go out of the the- By Bonnie Hobbs Centre View ater humming the tunes.” Centre View Joan Brady Photography Set in the 1930s, the story’s eaturing a cast and crew of about an aspiring chorus girl who olding their more than 100, a 15-piece gets her big break when she fills breath and hop- F orchestra and dazzling cho- in for an injured star in a Broad- H ing for the best, reography by Yvonne Henry, way musical. The 1933 movie gave Chantilly’s Westfield Summer Stage presents hope to Americans suffering Rebecca and Jon D’Andrea con- the musical, “42nd Street.” through the Great Depression. tinually worry what each new It taps its way into the Westfield Then the 1980 Broadway show day will bring their 2-and-a- High theater, Thursday-Sunday, won Tony Awards for Best Musi- half-year-old daughter, Rachel. July 22-25, at 7:30 p.m., with a cal and Best Choreography and They want her cancer to get A few moments of happiness: In a July 2 outing away July 24 matinee at 2 p.m. Tickets ran for nine years, followed by a into remission so she can live from the hospital, Rachel D’Andrea laughs with glee, are $10 in advance at critically acclaimed revival in at home, instead of spending embraced by the love of her parents, Jon and Rebecca. www.westfieldtheatreboosters.com 2001. most of her time in a hospital. or $12 at the door. Seating is re- In this production, Westfield se- Most of all, though, they want have to stay behind a lead wall for let counts were at .7, but they served. nior Avery Hobbs portrays ingénue her to live. 36 hours while Rachel’s body takes need to rise above 1 for her “It’s the quintessential, Broad- Peggy Sawyer. “She’s shy and “We have been in a holding in the radiation. It is a very diffi- treatment to move forward. way musical,” said Director Lori meek, but eventually comes out of pattern for almost three months cult process for Rebecca and I. Not Meanwhile, said her dad, “The Knickerbocker. “Everybody’s famil- now, and since her last MIBG being able to hold Rachel, play doctors at Memorial Sloan- iar with the show and its memo- See Westfield Page 10 therapy — liquid radiation,” with her or love on her is excruci- Kettering have abandoned the said Jon D’Andrea. “This is the ating.” thought of chemo; their belief process where Rebecca and I On Tuesday, her blood and plate- See Scared Page 4 Local Students Star Jewelry Fund-Raiser for Rachel In Play, ‘Tom Jones’ By Bonnie Hobbs upcoming fund-raiser for the Centre View D’Andreas will mean so much. “My goal is to raise at least Chantilly’s Matt $1,000 for them,” said Adrienne he plight of Chantilly Calvert in the by Photo toddler Rachel Bergquist of Centreville’s Rocky T by Photo Run community. “I know it’s not D’Andrea continues to title role. touch people’s hearts in the lo- a lot, but I figure everything By Bonnie Hobbs Bonnie Hobbs cal community. Nearly 3, she’s helps.” Bergquist works for a Dallas- Centre View been battling neuroblastoma — Adrienne Bergquis based, jewelry company called an as-yet-incurable form of hantilly High sophomore childhood cancer — for a year Premier Designs. She does jew- elry presentations in people’s Matt Calvert plays the now. C View /Centre title role in Ovation Sum- She and her mother, Rebecca, homes and, in exchange, the host- esses receive free jewelry. mer Theater’s production of “Tom have spent most of that time at Jones” at Robinson Secondary. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Can- She’s been keeping up with t Rebecca’s entries on the Filled with comedy, romance and cer Center in New York, where adventure, the show takes the Rachel’s receiving treatment. Blair Bergquist wears a CaringBridge Web site, as well as stage Friday-Saturday, July 23-24, Hannah Bunting and Matt Meanwhile, her father, Jon, has necklace featuring 17-inch, following the stories about Rachel at 7 p.m. Tickets are $5 at the door Calvert rehearse a scene held down the fort at home, run- two-strand, faux turquoise in Centre View. And these things See Westfield Page 10 for “Tom Jones.” ning their small, accounting and beads separated by antique spurred her into action. bookkeeping firm in between silver beads. It has a “I have donated a little to the visits to the hospital. matching pendant, plus D’Andrea family in the past, but 7-15-10 home in Requested earrings that come in two was so inspired by the story about material. sensitive Time But $2,400/month, health-in- Postmaster: Attention surance costs, plus Rachel’s sizes and four finishes. the family who lost their daugh- mounting medical bills — not to ter and donated $10,000 to the #322 PERMIT D’Andrea family [in her memory],” said Bergquist. MD Easton, mention an air conditioner on the blink in the PAID midst of the recent heat wave — have pretty much “You look at your own family — [daughter Blair, Postage U.S. See Jewelry Fund-Raiser Page 4 STD PRSRT wiped out the family’s finances. 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