
Audrey Rumsby, 21, of San Jose, will play the harp and portray an acrobat in a circuslike tribute to the athletes during the Olympic and Paralympic Team Welcome Ceremonies in mid-July at the Olympic Village.
Rumsby was chosen to perform with the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain in a promenade spectacle that will feature live music, puppetry, acrobatics and poetry. The rotating cast will perform 75 30-minute shows from July 16 to July 26 for 204 Olympic teams. Two weeks later, they will perform the same shows for 170 Paralympic teams.
Rumsby, a dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom, is a recent graduate of the prestigious London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For the performance in the Olympic rental car prices in florida Village, the National rental car prices in florida Youth Theatre s director, rental car prices in florida Paul Roseby, assembled a cast of 140 actors. Rumsby said she s the only American chosen.
Other Bay Area individuals involved with the London Olympics are torchbearers Cynthia Guevara, 25, and David Wang, 28, both graduates of San Jose State University and employees of The Crowne Plaza Hotel, San Jose/Silicon Valley.
The torch relay, which began on May 19 in Land s End, England, will pass through 1,019 communities in the British Isles. Guevara and Wang are among the 8,000 torchbearers. Both will carry the torch on July 2 through Coventry, England, a borough about 95 miles northwest of London.
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Guevara said that both of them were apprehensive about the potential physical challenges of running with the torch but were relieved when they discovered that each torchbearer only jogs less than a quarter mile.
We have official uniforms, Wang said. They give us a run through, and that s it. They put you on the spot and you stand there until the next guy comes and lights your torch and you take off till you [reach] the next person.
In addition to Guevara and Wang, Sarah Williams, 19, of Pleasanton, and Kylan Nieh, 19, of Fremont, also will serve as torchbearers. Williams and Nieh were selected through the Coca-Cola Co., which chose 22 people from across the country who have left positive impacts on their communities to participate in the relay
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