Drama Update

Our next drama meeting will be Tuesday, 10/2 after school.

We will be attending EMU's drama day on Saturday, 10/20. Please submit your course selection & registration fee to Malo by Friday, 10/5. The EMU fee is $12 and there is a $5 fee for the bus ride. Checks should be made out to HHS. Mailloux will be joining us. Sorry, I tried to stop her but you know how she is!

Drama Day Duel!

I have been sent information on two upcoming drama days. We need to decide which one to attend. Please email me or post if you have a preference!

10/13 - LCC. The cost is $10 and it is from 9-3. This includes lunch.
Drama Day - Workshops for high school students in acting, musical theatre, movement, stage makeup, lighting and more!
Workshops offered:
Acting Auditions
Theater Games
Improv
Makeup
Acting Shakespeare
Intro to Lighting
Stage Comabt
Musical Theater
Intro to Scene Painting
Stage Management
Set on a Budget


10/20 - EMU.
The price for students is $12 each. This includes the cost of workshop materials, lunch, and a ticket to the production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
SAMPLE Schedule (2006)
8-8:55 a.m.
Registration and orientation
9-10:10 a.m.
First workshop
10:15-11:25 a.m.
Second workshop
11:30-12:30 p.m.
Lunch
12:35-1:45 p.m.
Third workshop
2:00 p.m.
Curtain time for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, followed by post-show discussion
We estimate the day ending by 5 p.m., groups needing to leave before the talkback should be done by 4:30 p.m.
SAMPLE WORKSHOPS (2006)
Auditions: Tips and Types
Musical Theatre Performance
Acting Fundementals
Improvisation
Costumes: Crusader Bags
Stage Manager's Challenge
Movement & Dance for Actors
Shakespeare Performance
Creative Prop Building
Stagecraft: Focus on Lighting
Characterization
Directing: Contentless Scenes
MakeUp: Scars, Wounds &Bruises
Dialects: British & Russian

Cast List

Thank you to everyone who tried out. This was a very hard decision and we appreciate everyone’s hard work and effort. The auditions for 'Once On This Island' will be in January.
IF YOU DO NOT WANT YOUR ROLE, PLEASE LET MALO KNOW ASAP. You can get your script from Malo at any time. Our first rehearsal will be 9/24. Rehearsal will go from 3:00-4:45. Everyone is called all 9/24-9/26.

Galen Gray - Aaron Reed

Rebekah Muldoon - Krystin Searle

June Muldoon - Emily Olrich

Phineas Wingfield - Cory Lakatos

Tiny Wingfield - Stacy Kizyma – Brewer

Belva Collins - Stephanie Onderchanin

Crutch Collins - Hayden Jackson

Maggie - Nicole Ronald

Homer - Derek Ridge

Soloists – TWP
Jeremy Grunn
Emily Fleming
Laura Fleming
Robert Lane


TWP
Michael Arthur
Matthew Ogg
Matthew Radick
Anna Wyatt
Nicole Zwerlien

Anatomy of Gray Cast List

The cast list should be posted by the end of the day Thursday, 9/20. The cast will be able to pick up their scripts at that time. Everyone is called 9/24-9/27 3-4:45

Please remember that it is Howell High School policy not to discuss casting for 24 hours.

ITS Parade Info

If you are interested in designing a t-shirt for the homecoming parade - come meet up with us on Thursday, 9/20 in the Black Box theater. You bring the t-shirt, we will provide the decorating materials.

If you would like to walk in the parade with us - you can either meet us in the theater after school on Friday or at Page Field at 4:30. You are responsible for getting yourself home after the parade.

CALLBACKS

Thank you to all who auditioned. If you do not see your name on this list, it does not mean that you are not in the show. Please check the cast list at the end of the day Thursday.

You can pick up your callback sides from Malo anytime after 2nd hour. I will also be available during all lunches if you have any questions. If you are NOT interested in the role you are called back for – LET ME KNOW ASAP. No harm, no foul.

JUNE
*Stephanie Onderchanin
Emily Olrich
Brooke Bayliss

GALEN
*Aaron Reed
Derek Ridge
Hayden Jackson

REBEKAH
Anna Wyatt
*Krystin Searle
Angela Dzeriwa

PHINEAS
*Aaron Reed
Bobby Kraft
Cory Sakatos

BELVA
Nicole Zwerlein
Cora Wellman
Laura Fleming

CRUTCH
Cory Sakatos
Matt Ogg
Kevin Leahy

TINY
Stacy Kizyma-Brewer
Nicole Ronald
Brienna Schroeder

MAGGIE
Brooke Selmi
Kaitlyn Charette
*Kaitlyn Estes

HOMER
*Derek Ridge
Thomas Peloquin
Matt Radick

SINGER – You will go first. Please be prepared to sing A Capella
Krystin Searle
Robert Lane
Cora Wellman
Laura Fleming
Emily Fleming
Jeremy Grunn

*Please come read during C lunch on Wednesday. Then ALSO come after school. This doesn’t mean anything. Aaron is not available after-school and I need people with C lunch to read with him. Don’t read into it.

HOMECOMING PARADE!

ITS will be walking in the homecoming parade! All HHS thespians are welcome to walk with us. Since we don't have access to our costume collection, we will be meeting after school on Thursday, 9/20 to decorate t-shirts. You bring the shirt, I will provide the supplies. It's ok if you can't come on Thursday. Just decorate a t-shirt at home and then meet us either at the black box theater at Parker High School after school on Friday or at 4:30 at Page Field (the one off of Barnard). The parade starts at 5:00. We will all be wearing masks which will be provided to you at the