BLITHE SPIRIT & THE SHADOW BOX AUDITIONS

AUDITIONS - 01/05/10
Brief meeting for called back actors - 01/06/10
CALLBACKS - 01/07/10

Please see Ms. Malo in K-5 for audition material. Any questions - maloa@howellschools.com

HOLIDAY HOOPLA!!!

Our annual Holiday Hoopla will be Monday, 12/21, 2:30-4:30 in K-5. Food and fun will be provided! Entrance fee is $3 BUT if you wear an ugly sweater you receive $1 off admission. THERE WILL BE A PRIZE FOR THE UGLIEST SWEATER!!!

Spring Plays Information!!!

Our informational meeting for our Spring plays - Blithe Spirit & The Shadow Box - will be Thursday, 12/17, after-school in K-5.
Auditions - 01/05
Callbacks - 01/07

DRAMA DATES

11/12 - Script Circle - 'Blithe Spirit'. We will be reading from our spring play!
11/20-11/22 Zombie Prom
12/10 - Script Circle - 'Shadow Box'. ITS will be presenting 'Shadow Box' by Michael Cristofer in March. The show will be directed by Nicole Onderchanin.
12/17 - Info Mtng for 'Blithe Spirit' and 'Shadow Box'
12/21 - OUR CHRISTMAS PARTY!!!!! Come join us for improv and mayhem (school appropriate of course)
1/5 - Auditions for 'Blithe Spirit' and 'Shadow Box'

Zombie Prom Cast List

If you do not want your part, please let Malo know ASAP. First rehearsal will be Friday, 10/02/09.

Strict Cora Wellman
Toffee Laura Fleming
Candy Kendall Suggs
Ginger Erin Radick
Coco Kaitie Ferguson
Jonny Evan Norton
Josh Chris Brandt
Jake Tyler Chinn
Joey Caleb Wimbrow
Eddie Jeremy Grunn
Ramona/Chorus Sierra Lane
CHORUS:
Rebecca Moore
Kayla Raymond
Che Robinson
Ariel Goodrich
Abby Deierlein
Lauren Sommers
Karli French
Brittany Liebert
Haille Mega
Bob Barker
Brian Weinburger
Henry Tessmer
Justin Schnute
Matt Cain
Zach Klaus

Zombie Prom Callbacks

Please see Ms. Malo for your sides after school on Tuesday, 9/29.

**Please check the cast list on Wednesday, 9/30/09 for all roles.**

TOFFEE
Cora Wellman
Laura Fleming
Erin Radick
Kaitie Ferguson
Kendall Suggs
JONNY
Evan Norton
Jeremy Grunn
Chris Brandt
Caleb Winbrow
EDDIE
Zach Klaus
Tyler Chinn
Caleb Winbrow
STRICT
Karli French
Cora Wellman
Laura Fleming
Hailee Maga
Brittany Liebert

OCTOBER ITS

10/01 - SCRIPT CIRCLE - 'Wiley & the Hairy Man' by Suzan Zeder
10/15 - ITS Meeting.
- Discussing EMU Drama Day
- ITS nominations
10/24 - EMU Drama Day

ZOMBIE PROM AUDITIONS!!!

Auditions for Zombie Prom!!!!
Where: HHS Auditorium
WHEN: 09/28/09 @ 2:30
WHO: YOU!!!!!!!

WELCOME 2009-2010!

This is going to be a terrific year!

Our informational meeting for this years fall musical, 'Zombie Prom', will be Wednesday, 09/16/09, after-school in K-5. Please come learn about this exciting new musical. We need performers AND backstage folk.

ITS - The International Thespian Society will hold our first meeting, Thursday, 09/17/09, after-school in K-5. Come help us plan our exciting year and prepare for the HOMECOMING parade!

Any questions please see Mrs. Malo in K-5 or email at maloa@howellschools.com

What do these things all have in common?

- The Liberty Bell arrives in Philadelphia
- Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, is discovered
- The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America
- Rod Bushey, choir director extraordinaire is born
- The Advanced Drama class of 09-10 comes to K-5 for fun, merriment, lunch and setting up the room

Perplexed? Puzzled? Baffled? Bamboozled?

They all happened on September 1st!!!

That’s right – it’s time. We will be setting up K-5 on Tuesday, 9/1. Please email me at maloa@howellschools.com if you plan to join us. I will be there from 10-2 and will be ordering lunch for everyone. I need a head count so PLEASE let me know if you are coming. It should be a lot of fun and a great way to start off the year.

It's coming.......

Brace yourself drama nerds, school is starting soon!

Advanced Drama 09-10, the meeting to set up K-5 will either be Monday, 8/31 or Tuesday, 9/1. I will post it ASAP and mail out a letter.

2009-2010 Season - Return of the DEAD!

Howell High School Performing Arts Department is proud to announce our 09-10 season. This years theme - Return of the Dead!



Zombie Prom -Music by Dana P. Rowe, Book & Lyrics by John Dempsey

Auditions: TBA - Probably 3rd week of September
Show Dates: 11/13-11/15.
This girl loves ghoul rock and roll Off Broadway musical is set in the atomic 1950s at Enrico Fermi High, where the law is laid down by a zany, tyrannical principal. Pretty senior Toffee has fallen for the class bad boy. Family pressure forces her to end the romance, and he charges off on his motorcycle to the nuclear waste dump. He returns glowing and determined to reclaim Toffee's heart. He still wants to graduate, but most of all he wants to take Toffee to the prom. The principal orders him to drop dead while a scandal reporter seizes on him as the freak du jour. History comes to his rescue while a tuneful selection of original songs in the style of 50s hits keeps the action rocking across the stage.

Blithe Spirit - by Noel Coward
Auditions - 12/08
Workshop - 12/09
Callbacks - 12/10
Show Dates - 03/19-03/21
The smash comedy hit of the London and Broadway stages, this much-revived classic from the playwright of Private Lives offers up fussy, cantakerous novelist Charles Condomine, re-married but haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira who is called up by a visiting "happy medium", one Madame Arcati. As the (worldly and un-) personalities clash, Charles' current wife Ruth is accidentally killed, "passes over", joins Elvira and the two "blithe spirits" haunt the hapless Charles into perpetuity.

How To Succeed DVD

If you are interested in ordering a 'How To' DVD, please get $18 to Ms. Malo by Wed, 5/27. It is a little more, because they are on 2 DVD's

Farewell Advanced Drama 08-09!!!!

This has been an AWESOME year! I consider myself privileged to have been part of such a terrific class. Please let us know what your plans are for next year!

How To Succeed In Business.......

Power, sex, ambition, greed... it's just another day at the office. From the authors of “Guys And Dolls” comes one of the most delightfully irreverent musicals of all time. A satire of big business and all it holds sacred, “How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying” follows the rise of J. Pierrepont Finch, who uses a little handbook called "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying" to climb the corporate ladder from lowly window washer to high-powered executive, tackling such familiar, but potent dangers as the aggressively compliant "company man," the boss' whiny, nepotistic nephew, the office party, backstabbing co-workers, caffeine addiction and, of course, true love.

Tickets are available at Eclectic Twyst & the HHS main office.

Show Times
5/8 & 5/9 @ 7
5/10 @ 2

Advanced Drama Final

Please join us for the 2008-2009 Advanced Drama, Our Town, by Thornton Wilder.

Received with mixed reviews at its premiere in 1938, but awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Our Town has become one of the most popularly produced plays of the twentieth century. It is quite possible that on almost any given day of the year, somewhere in the world, Our Town is being performed by either a professional company or an amateur troupe of actors.

The show is Tuesday, 04/28 & Wednesday, 04/29 at 7:00 pm in K-5. Hard to believe, but the show is FREE!!!

Happy Birthday Shakespeare - YOU'RE DEAD!

Come join ITS in celebrating the birth - and death - of William Shakespeare! We will be having snacks and playing Shakespeare games on the Bards Bday (and death day) on Thursday, 4/23, in K-5. Come join us, it will be ELIZABETHAN!

ADVANCED DRAMA 09/10

Thank you to everyone who auditioned. This is never an easy decision.


ALBERT, JACQUELYN
BEHAN, JOSEPH
BRANDT, JUSTIN
BUSH, JACLYN
CANTWELL, DANIELLE
CANTWELL, DAWN
CHAPPEL, KIMBERLY
CHESHIRE, KALEIGH
CHINN, TYLER
CRUZ, KEVIN
DEIERLEIN, ABIGAIL
DENNY, DANIELLE
DILWORTH, MARY
DOWDLE, MALORY
DZIERWA, SHANE
FLEMING, LAURA
FRENCH, KARLI
GRUNN, JEREMY
HOWELL, ANDREW
LIEBERT, BRITTANY
MALIK, HANNAH
MOORE, REBECCA
ONDERCHANIN, NICOLE
PELOQUIN, THOMAS
PETERSEN, TYLER
RADICK, ERIN
RAYMOND, KAYLA
ROBINSON, CHEHALLIS
SCHMIDTKE, HANNAH
SECORD, KYLE
SELMI, BROOKE
SMART, TYLER
TECHENTIN, JESSE
VANDERVENNET, ED
WELLMAN, CORA
WILSON, EMMALEIGH

DELECTABLE DRAMA DATES

ITS Presents - An Evening of Ives - 03/31 & 04/01 @ 7:00 in K-5. Only $5!!

ITS Workshop - Stage Combat!!!! Come join us Thursday, 04/02, afterschool in K-5 for a workshop on Stage Combat led by an instructor from LCC. Please come prepared to move.

ITS Party - Happy Birthday/ Death Day Shakespeare! Come get medieval with us for our first Shakespeare party in K-5 on April 23rd!!! We will play Shakespeare games and eat pizza! There will be a slight fee if you are eating.

Advanced Drama 08/09 final. Advanced Drama is proud to present 'Our Town' directed by Stephanie Onderchanin. 04/28 & 04/29 @ 7:00 in K-5.

'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying' - 05/08-05/10!

Final ITS Meeting - 05/13

Any questions, please email Malo @ maloa@howellschools.com

Advanced Drama 09-10

The informational meeting for Advanced Drama 09/10 will be held on Tuesday, March 17th!

Advanced Drama is an opportunity to further progress your skills in: acting styles and character analysis, Shakespeare, auditioning for musicals and theaters, voice, preparing monologues, scenes, play direction and play production. If you are interested in developing yourself as an actor and learning more about Theatre, this class is for you! However, this is an audition only class.


Requirements
Drama 1 and 2 or Equivalent Theatre Experience
Permission of Instructor
Audition
Junior or Senior


Auditions:
Each student will be required to perform a one minute monologue. The monologue needs to be from a published play. The audition panel will be comprised of the instructor and other teachers/ individuals with a theatrical background.

The student will be evaluated on the following criteria and receive 10 pts for each category:
Characterization
Memorization
Volume
Energy
Focus


Auditions will be held on Tuesday, March 24th afterschool. If you are unable to make the above dates, or have any questions, please feel free to contact Malo in K-5.

Our Town

Advanced Drama 08-09 is proud to present 'Our Town' by Thornton Wilder on April 28th & 29th at 7:00 in K-5.

Stage Manager Elly Mikula
Stage Manager Becca Moore
Stage Manager Erin Volz
Joe Crowell Valerie Sartor
Rebecca Gibbs Cassy Kotynski
Dr. Gibbs Matt Radick
Mrs. Gibbs Anna Wyatt
George Gibbs Hayden Jackson
Emily Webb Liana Grimes
Mr. Webb Steven Bard
Mrs. Webb Jessica McIntyre
Wally Webb Jeremy Grunn
Howie Newsome Megan Cook
Professor Willard Kaylen Aldridge
Mrs. Soames Veronica Van Loon
Simon Stimson Andy Howell
Constable Warren Andrea Conroy
Si Crowell Kaylen Aldridge
Mrs. Morgan (soda shop p.52) Mara Berton
Minister (SM – p.63) Michael Cieslak
Joe Stoddard Jesse Luttermoser
Sam Craig Thomas Peloquin
1st Dead Woman Brianne Brincat
2nd Dead Woman Kim Chappel
1st Dead Man Jim Rutkowski
2nd Dead Man AnneMarie Rhode


Music/ Choir - Man in auditorium/ Artistic Lady/Woman in aud/ Baseball Players

Justin Brandt
Laura Fleming
Skip Harvey
Derek Ridge

'How To Succeed' Cast List

‘How To Succeed…’ Cast List
Thank you to everyone who tried out. This was a very hard decision and we appreciate everyone’s hard work and effort.
IF YOU DO NOT WANT YOUR ROLE, PLEASE LET MALO KNOW ASAP. You can get your script from Jenn at our first rehearsal, 02/18/09.
It is Howell High School Performing Arts Department policy to not discuss casting for 24 hours.

J. Pierpont Finch Derek Ridge

Gatch Chris Callaway

J.B. Biggley Tyler Chinn

Rosemary Hannah Schmitdke

Bratt Joe Hillier

Smitty Kim Chappel

Bud Frump Justin Schnute

Miss Jones Laura Fleming

Mr. Twimble Kyle Radabaugh

Hedy Mary Dilworth

Krumholtz Andrea Conroy

Toynbee TBA

Jenkins TBA

Tackaberry Max Wellington

Peterson TBA

Ovington Chris Callaway

Policeman Max Wellington

Womper Alex Drew

SECRETARIES:
Valerie Sartor Sierra Lane Becca Moore
Jackie Bush Caitlyn Eldred
Alaina Sciberras Erin Radick

Callbacks for 'How To Succeed...'

Callbacks for ‘How To Succeed In Business….’
Thank you to everyone who auditioned. Just because you were not called back does not mean that you are not cast. Please check the cast list on Thursday, 2/12.

Sides will be available afterschool, 2/10/09 from Ms. Malo in K-5. EVERYONE will be reading and singing.

Callbacks are Wed, 2/11/09 in the auditorium. Please be prepared to stay until we are done.



Tyler Chinn
Joe Hillier
Derek Ridge
Justin Schnute
Max Wellington



Jackie Bush
Kim Chappel
Andrea Conroy
Megan Cook
Mary Dilworth
Caitlyn Eldred
Laura Fleming
Sierra Lane
Becca Moore
Ali Murphy
Erin Radick
Valerie Sartor
Hannah Schmidtke
Alaina Sciberras
Brooke Sutherland

An Evening of Ives Cast List

An Evening of Ives Cast List
Thank you to everyone who tried out. This was a very hard decision and we appreciate everyone’s hard work and effort.
Please initial if you accept your role. IF YOU DO NOT WANT YOUR ROLE, PLEASE LET MALO KNOW ASAP. You can get your script from your director at any time. First meeting will be 02/04.


VARIATIONS ON THE DEATH OF TROTSKY

Trotsky – Thomas Peloquin
Mrs. Trotsky – Erin Volz
Ramon – Jacob Fisher



LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY

Laura – Che Robinson
Gus – Tyler Smart
Jack – Bob Barker
Landlady – Laura Fleming



BABEL’S IN ARMS

Groph – Jesse Luttermoser
Cannaphlit – Tyler Smart
Business Woman – Abby Deierlein
Priestess – Valerie Sartor
Eunuch – Tyler Chinn


ENIGMA VARIATIONS

Bill I – Thomas Peloquin
Bebe I – Nicole Onderchanin
Bill II – Jesse Luttermoser
Bebe II – Anna Wyatt
Fifi – Brianne Brincat

SPRING MUSICAL INFO!!!!

Power, sex, ambition, greed... it's just another day at the office. From the authors of “Guys And Dolls” comes one of the most delightfully irreverent musicals of all time. A satire of big business and all it holds sacred, “How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying” follows the rise of J. Pierrepont Finch, who uses a little handbook called "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying" to climb the corporate ladder from lowly window washer to high-powered executive, tackling such familiar, but potent dangers as the aggressively compliant "company man," the boss' whiny, nepotistic nephew, the office party, backstabbing co-workers, caffeine addiction and, of course, true love.

Informational Meeting - 2/2 - K-5
Learn the songs - 2/3 - K-26
Auditions - 2/9
Callbacks - 2/11

For more information on the show - http://www.mtishows.com/

Hope to see you there!!!