BioShock High School Musical Was So Good It Swept the Competition
A musical adaptation of BioShock, performed by California's John Burroughs High School Powerhouse choir, recently swept the Hart Encore 2022 competition. The beloved first-person shooter combines a 1950s aesthetic with sci-fi technology within the underwater dystopia of Rapture. While BioShock Infinite brought players to the flying Columbia, and leaks suggest a new setting and time period for BioShock 4, Rapture continues to be the franchise's most iconic and beloved locale.
Established as an objectivist utopia by business tycoon Andrew Ryan, Rapture is in an apocalyptic state when players visit in BioShock. The underwater metropolis was built to allow artists, industrialists and scientists to live outside of government control, leading to great technological and cultural strides. However, the population of Rapture became reliant on gene splicing technology, and civil unrest led to a bloody civil war which broke out on New Year's Eve of 1959. BioShock and BioShock 2 let players explore the water-logged ruins of this once beautiful society, and fan projects like a BioShock mod for Half-Life: Alyxdemonstrate ongoing nostalgia for the submerged setting.
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The Powerhouse choir from Burbank, California's John Burroughs High School recently swept the Hart Encore 2022 competition with a show based on BioShock. According to Showchoir, Powerhouse's performance won first place for Musicianship, Showmanship and Best Soloist, sweeping all three Mixed Division categories. A video of the performance, posted to YouTube by Rob Arroyo, shows exactly why Powerhouse was so well-received. The stage design and wardrobe perfectly capture BioShock's 1950s aesthetic, and
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