The Motown sound reverberated through a standing-room-only crowd in the Sherman Elementary School gym this morning.
Principal Stephen Rizzo said it was the largest turnout for the annual dance show in his four years at Sherman.
The parking lot confirmed Rizzo’s statement. Cars were everywhere, filling the large parking lot and both sides of the drive in front of the school. Nearly 20 vehicles were parked along the north side of Springmill Road.
Mansfield city police officer Todd Vanausdale, the resource officer at Senior High School, was on the scene to assist with the parking situation.
Inside, parents, grandparents and others applauded and cheered as children in preschool through third grade danced to more than a dozen Motown songs that included “Sugar Pie Honey Bunch (I Can’t Help Myself,” “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” and “Tears of a Clown.”
Physical education teacher Margaret Voedisch selects a theme, designs the annual program and choreographs all of the numbers. The weeks of rehearsals encompass a full range of physical fitness standards.
Several members of the Sherman staff concluded the program by dancing to “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.”