There were many wonderful auditions from the past week, often for the same parts. Mr. Waibel, Mr. Stanforth and Ms. Smart enjoyed sitting in and listening to your auditions. After all of the auditions were completed, there was much discussion and deliberation regarding who should go in what role. This was by far the most difficult casting we have ever had to do as a team because there were so many great auditions and only a limited number of roles. Please keep in mind that if you did not get the part you auditioned for, that this should not deter you from auditioning in the future.
If you got an understudy role, it would be best if you could show up for all rehearsals for that character in case the actor/actress is sick or unable to attend. Some of you will be double cast for the roles of munchkin, flying monkey, poppy, and fighting tree. If you are not listed as a tree, poppy etc. and would like to help fill out the stage, that would be great, tell us at a rehearsal
Without further adieu, the cast list is as follows:
Dorothy
Sydney Myers
Ruth Holland (Understudy)
Toto
Lindsey Salyer
Boq
Sierra Adams
Munchkins
Cooper Benavides
Chelsea Bowling
Katie Chilton
Kyla Colwell
Heather Hatzer
Emily Hill
Hannah Kilbride
Miranda Linscott
Kristen Mullins
Ruth Salini
Kaila Struble
Glinda
Coleen West
Wicked Witch
Shellie Moore
Makayla Stewart (Understudy)
Scarecrow
Amanda Reed
Kenzie Chilton (Understudy)
Tin Woods(Wo)man
Kaitlyn Salyers
Audrey Penwell (Understudy)
Cowardly Lion
Aaron Greve
Erin Chess (Understudy)
Poppies
Heather Hatzer
Emily Hill
Hannah Kilbride
Kristen Mullins
Kaila Struble
Fighting Trees
Cooper Benavides
Tyler Cooper
China Princess
Emily Thompson
Guardian of the Gates
Taylor Huffman
OZ
Boston Gregg
Winged Monkeys
Cooper Benavides Monkey 2
Katie Chilton Monkey 1
Tyler Cooper Monkey extra
Aunt Em
LeAnne Jones
Congratulations to everybody! We are looking forward to starting production on this play! :)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Cast List Announced
New art!
Mr. Graham from the HS has once again provided us with some fantastic artwork for this year's play production!! Check it out!
2010 School Year
Audition packets for the Wonderful Wizard of Oz can be picked up in the High School office. There was some miscommunication with the sign up sheet but it is now posted for you to sign up for your audition time slot:)
Next Year
Next year's play will officially be The Wonderful Wizard of Oz!
We decided to go with another well known story to help us continue to draw in an audience. Next year will be slightly different from a logistical standpoint.
Due to our anticipated overwhelming number of students interested, we are thinking about doing a short One-Act play (that has yet to be determined) to help get more people involved. This is all contingent on the numbers of people that come out for auditions
There will be ample opportunities for folks to help behind the scenes as well as we are planning on officially creating a Publicity Crew, Lighting/Tech Crew, Costume Crew, Stage Crew and Stage Design Crew.
Our last play brought in much more money than we expected and we are currently in the paperwork stages of spending that money on new wireless headset mics! These will not be the end-all-be-all of our sound production however. We still have two great sets of mics that pick many of you up.
We hope that everyone is still as excited about this past year's production and hope that this excitement carries over into next year.
Be on the lookout at the beginning of the year for information surrounding the audition process. The Facebook and Blog will still be our major source of communication as well as schedule changes.
Thanks again to everybody for their hard work and continued enthusiasm!! Have a great remainder of the year
End Scene
Great job folks!!!! We pulled a lot of money from the past three nights!!! Very impressive numbers! not sure on exactly how much we actually "made" on this year's show, but a big thanks goes out to MS Student Council for donating ALL of our candy for the event!! Great to have organizations willing to help out when they can:)
A few notes:
Monday is a clean up day. If you can make it, please do.
While SEVERAL of you stuck around to help clean up, there were a few of you that did not. Things like this do not go unnoticed and play a big role in future casting sessions....Just sayin'....Big thanks to those that did do as they were asked
Recordings were made. My goal is to make a DVD of all three nights performances (as long as they are OK). Provided everything works out well, I will have these DVD's available to "purchase" by donation. Them minimum amount would be $1 to offset the cost of the disc, all other money would go directly to the Drama Department.
If you have any pics, please put them onto a CD for me so I can create discs of pictures for everyone to have. Memories like this are great to have from many perspectives. Just get them to me on a CD format please:)
Stay tuned to the sites for upcoming announcements about next year's events. As we know, we are going to attempt a musical in March (You're a Good Man Charlie Brown). The play portion of drama may be slightly, (read SLIGHTY) different from the past two years. Keep your ears open and your eyes.....uhhh....open for details.
Again, great job!!!!!!!
Twitter and more
For next year, I am toying with the idea of using Twitter as a means of mass communication for the Drama Program. With Twitter, you would need to subscribe to Triad_Drama and link your phone to receive updates via text. This will allow us to communicate with you whenever we need to make a change to rehearsal due to weather, announce reminders for upcoming Drama events, or just get out various information. Let me know your thoughts about this. Obviously, only members of the play/musical would need to sign-up next year. I think this would be the best way to get any messages out without you needing to utilize the website/Facebook all the time. Thoughts?
And then there was 1...........At this time next weekend, we will be rolling along in the first performance!!! Great work so far! Keep looking at those lines though! I know we are all tired but the hard work we are going to need next week willhelp make everything so worth it! Great jobs to everybody! A big thank you to our new crew members and Stage Manager for making the movement of set around on stage seem seamless! Chad and Andrew for doing Lights and Sound control! All of the cast for taking on their characters and really making it their own! We are almost there!!!
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