A major change to the scheduling of fine art shows for this year means that musical will be taking place in April instead of December.The change is hardly unfamiliar ground for musical director Joseph Wolfe.

“When I first started with the program in 1996, the date of the musical was usually the second week of May,” Wolfe said. “We changed it to winter [four years ago] because there were too many conflicts for students.”

The December dates, however, have not fared much better.

“We thought, as a staff, that changing it to December would be beneficial to kids,” Wolfe said.

“We realized [later] that the conflicts were still as great.”

The change also hit the musical in a much more significant way.

“The number of people in our audiences dropped,” Wolfe said. “We’re trying to go back to spring to see if that will be better for our students, and the community in general.”

With the show involving so many different parts of the school, other key figures in the fine arts department, such as band teacher Ron Fiorito, choir teacher Sarah Catt and House Manager Sue Montemayor, were involved in the decision.

“I really took their feedback,” Wolfe said. “It was not my decision as much as their decision.”

The moving of dates, however, has the potential to throw the theater’s schedule into turmoil.

“The theater… is pretty much booked almost every week of the entire school year,” Wolfe said. “We have to be very creative in moving these things around to make sure it doesn’t inhibit any of the other programs and their success.”

The variety show has flip-flopped months with musical, taking musical’s former December slot; co-directors Miguel Sanchez and Fiorito were more than willing to make the adjustment.

“[They thought] their program would not be impacted,” Wolfe said. “It might benefit their ticket sales.”

Musical’s spring scheduling is symbolic, according to Wolfe.

“Most of the people like the musical in the spring,” Wolfe explained. “It becomes a capstone of the entire school year in terms of the fine arts program.”