WOW!!!!!! GREAT OPENING EVERYONE!

I'm kind of overwhelmingly happy with how well our first weekend went!  ALL of you were fabulous!  BRAVO!!

 

Our SCHEDULE FOR THIS WEEK:

 

Monday -- understudies afterschool with Mr. Buno

 

Tuesday -- 6pm call -- 7pm Understudy PERFORMANCE

 

This is a performance for an invited audience.  PLEASE feel free to invite anyone you'd like for this performance.  DRESS CODE:  If you are an UNDERSTUDY -- please wear "Voices" like attire (Tux or gown).  If you are in the ENSEMBLE -- please wear all black.

 

Thursday -- PERFORMANCE.  3:30pm CALL -- We need to go over notes and review some blocking and choreo that is starting to look sloppy.

 

Friday -- PERFORMANCE.   4:30 pm CALL

 

Saturday -- PERFORMANCE  3pm CALL (SENIOR SPEECHES)

                 CAST PARTY -- In order to attend the cast party, YOU MUST have a signed permission slip turned into Jake.

 

Sunday -- STRIKE -- 9am - 4pm.  STRIKE IS NOT optional!!!!  Failure to attend strike AND be productive while there, will result in your ineligibility to work on the musical next year.

 

ALSO:  Please read the note below from Mrs. Sullivan RE:  COSTUMES

 

Sunday is strike and I'd like to do something a bit different with costumes. The volume of costumes is just too much to be handled in the way we did in the past. I would like every actor to be responsible for cleaning their own costumes and take them home Saturday night after the last performance.

If something needs to be dry cleaned (i.e. the women's dresses and the men's suit jackets, etc.,) I will have dryer sheets for those costumes and will hand them out accordingly. THE GENERALS' UNIFORMS MUST BE BROUGHT HOME TO BE CLEANED (please get a dryer sheet from me before you leave.) The DRYER SHEETS work best in your home dryer at low temperature. Please remember that many of these close are vintage and are borrowed. For best results, hang dry your garments immediately after taking them out of the dryer to reduce wrinkling.

I believe we do not have to clean the soldiers uniforms. Those can be left at the school Saturday night. All hats can be left at the school as well.

If there is a question of what should be done for each costume, PLEASE ASK ME OR MS. MULQUEEN.

We will need all those costumes back on SUNDAY BEFORE 1:00. If this is impossible for anyone, please let me know immediately.

 

THANK YOU!!!

ALL HANDS ON DECK!!!

Hi all,

Hopefully everyone had a nice break and is ready to enter the last few weeks of production.

Since the you guys were away for the past ten days, I was pretty shorthanded most of the week, so we are a little behind schedule in terms of where I wanted to be for Monday.   We have some great stuff going on, but miles to go before we sleep!!

CREW STUDENT LEADERS:

A gentle reminder --- we are now in the place where I really need you guys to focus on the commitment you made to be leaders for this production.....I literally spent every day of the April Vacation working on tech stuff for the show....I need your help.   I know you are busy....we all are...but we are in the crunch of production week!  All hands on deck! 

MY GOALS FOR THE WEEK: SO....what I was hoping to do is to use Monday as a catch up day for tech.....including finishing the program materials, finalizing run crew, finishing painting and dressing a few set pieces, repairing the door revolve wheels, going through the completed props run sheet, assigning hats/accessories, finalizing hair and make-up designs, finishing the projections, etc. My goal for the rest of the week is to concentrate on the scene changes and run schedule of the show (not necessarily in full costume -- rather I'd like to just concentrate on the quick changes), and to have the kids start incorporating props, using the set, and trouble shooting. I also need to do some MINOR re-staging of Santa Evita and Another Suitcase to accomodate some running concerns.

Jake. I will post this on the blog but if you could forward this information to ALL student leaders and crews and impress upon them the importance of having everyone available tomorrow (Monday) that would be great. I know that we have 5 - finish on the call sheet, but it would be great if folks could get there early, and then be out by 5pm. If that's not possible, I don't have an issue with having people coming in at 5pm and working till done. After tomorrow, the schedule will be as posted.

Mike & SOUND folks. -- I know you guys are in good shape. I have the recording of the opening track that I'd like to use and I also have access to the mac laptop that you guys need. I sent an email to Jim to get you guys batteries. I'm not sure what you have scheduled for the kids for this week, but if you guys (or Alex or Liz) could get me your schedule, I"ll be sure to have a more concrete type of list re: the runs etc. ready for you. I"m also happy to have the sound guys working all week re: mic assignment practice etc.

Allison and Karolina -- let's review hair and make up and wig stuff and dressing room assignments!

Emily and Rylee -- Running crew is a huge priority for me this week. We need to walk through each change together and have a choreographed plan for how you guys are going to organize this. We also need to finalize who is operating the revolve for "Goodnight...."

Nancy and June and Lia-- I am going to need lots of help with getting a clear idea of who the dressers will be for each quick change. We also need to look at the spaces where these quick changes will happen. I'd like to touch base about this for Monday so we can be all set on Tuesday.

Paige, Peggy, Christa -- I'd like to go over your lists and to do a properties review with you guys. I did a bunch of stuff collecting and getting things for you guys this week, but I'm going to need more concrete details re: prop table organization and assigning things (e.g. the signs for New Argentina) etc.

Alex and Juliana -- I have some things for the lobby for the run of the show. I'd like to meet re: lobby set up and displays ASAP.

Thanks so much!

SATURDAY APRIL 14

Yes!  There is TECH today!!!!

Most important today is lighting tech.....

Please note:  Today is a brown bag lunch day!!