“The Winter Wonderland Student Talent Show” featured singers, dancers, actors, and musicians all competing for cash prizes and the bragging rights of being the most talented student at Moorpark College Friday Feb. 20 in the Performing Arts Center.

The student emcees hosting the night were Ray Hebel, 21, communications major, and Brooke Fiss, 20, theater arts major, as Craig Niederlander and Sheila, a magician and his assistant. Fiss and Hebel, both part of the improvisational comedy troupe Improv-a-Sutra, wanted to challenge their acting skills and winged the whole show.

“The whole thing was improved,” explained Fiss. “We didn’t script anything. Ray and I came up with all the magic tricks and stuff on the spot.”

“We came up with the idea of a magician and his assistant 2 hours before call time,” Hebel said.

Fiss and Hebel kept the audience cracking up throughout the show. To see more of their antics, Fiss will be starring as the title character in the upcoming show “Lysistrata” and Hebel can be seen in “Secret of the Chile,” a show he wrote, directed and will appear in for the “Original One Acts.”

Many participants competed in the talent show, however, only first, second and third place were given.

First place was taken by the Stankis and Bain Duo made up by music majors Rebecca Stankis, 19, and Brent Bain, 32, for their dueling piano duet.

Monica Magdaleno, 23, a psychology major, and her accompanist Tony Amicangelo, 22, a music major, received second place for their own piano/ vocal duet, while Sarah Markus, 20, and Brent Ramirez, 23, both musical theater majors, won third place for performing a scene from the musical “The Fantasticks.”

According to Markus, the $75 she and Ramirez won is “nice extra pocket money.”

“We’ll probably go out and have a nice dinner to celebrate.”