Rehearsal Schedule - Week #1

Circus Olympus Rehearsal Schedule

WEEK ONE

Location - HS Stage

Monday 11/28/11 Rehearsal 3-5pm 

*Everyone is called.

(Parent meeting to follow 5-5:30pm)

Wednesday 11/30/11 Rehearsal 3-5pm

*EVERYONE is called!
~If you have a sport and can stay until 5pm please let Ms. Hall know, and come after practice; if you must take the late bus at 4:15pm let Ms. Hall know as soon as you get to rehearsal.

Thursday 12/1/11 Rehearsal 3-4:15pm

*5 "Ringleader/Greek Chorus" Characters & Demeter VS The Underworld Character.

~Ms. Hall

Parent Packet Info

Parent Information for Circus Olympus

by Lindsay Price

Parent Participation

1. Our online blog - http://circus-olympus-gcsms.blogspot.com/- is THE place to find all information regarding the show!  Rehearsal info, set/costume/prop and other info will be posted here.  Please check it regularly as I am aware that not everything said to the students in rehearsal gets home.  :o)
2. Props: We have three students from the HS Drama Club acting as our Props Designers.  They will be in charge of ‘designing’ and finding/creating the props.  However we may need help in sourcing or creating some pieces.  Be sure to label anything you are lending, so we can return it to you after the last performance.  Props list will be posted on the blog.
3. Costumes: We have hired a professional Costume Designer, Dakotah Horan.  She is in charge of designing and making sure all things needed for the production are found or made.  However, we still need parent help!  Any parent who is able and willing to lend their sewing skills will be greatly appreciated and utilized!  Dakotah will provide the fabric and patterns.  Please let me know who you are!
4. Scenery: Fred Raskopf is designing our set, however, parents who can help build/make and paint scenery will be greatly appreciated.  Stage crew and cast members will also be asked to help paint on several designated days.
5. Hair and Make-up: 4-5 parents are needed to help the students get into make-up/hair before the show each night.  There will be specific instructions on what is needed for each character, given by the Costume Designer, as well as how to properly apply it.
6. Concession table: 2-3 parents are needed each night to sell concessions during intermission, as well as 2-3 parents who will monitor the doors so that food does not enter the auditorium after intermission.
7. Ticket Sales: 1 parent is needed to be in charge of the binder, and another 2-3 parents to help sell tickets the night of the shows.
8. Show T-Shirt’s: we need someone to design them and then one parent to be in charge of placing the order and picking them up – or having them delivered.
9. Video of the show: We hope to have the HS Video Club recording the show, as we have in the past, and producing a DVD for those interested in purchasing it.  They will be $10.
10. Strike & Cast Party: All cast members are required to help with strike – striking the set, following the final performance.  Parents willing to help, please let me know who you are.  Students will have some time to meet and greet after the show, then we will strike for half an hour or so, and then we will have our Cast Party.  For the Cast Party we need a committee of parents to help organize, chaperone, set up and clean up the party.
11. Publicity: 2-3 people are needed to contact newspapers/TV/radio, and to put up posters. 
12. Stage parents: 2-3 parents each night who will be in the Band Room with the kids who might need to be helped with a costume change, and to keep an eye on those who are not on stage.

Special Points of Interest

• REHEARSALS:
• ~Rehearsals will run from 2:50pm - 4:10pm OR 2:50pm – 5pm Monday - Friday.
• ~We will also run some Saturday rehearsals from 10 am – 1 pm.
• ~All Friday / Saturday rehearsals, as well as any weekday that runs until 5 pm, require parent provided transportation.  
• ~Tech Week – the week right before the production weekend – is mandatory for the entire cast!  
• *January 23rd thru January 28th, 2012.  

• Students participating in sports: we have worked out a rehearsal schedule that allows students involved in sports to attend their sporting practice and then rehearsal, by keeping rehearsals going until 5pm.  We have also implemented some Saturday rehearsals to compensate.  I have done, and will do, my best to schedule kids accordingly – later if they are in a sport, etc.  

*We may occasionally ask that they go to their sporting practice for half an hour and then come to us for half an hour to ensure all can ride the late bus home.

• Our schedule is very time consuming - students failing 2 classes at any time will not be allowed to attend rehearsal / perform in the show.  Therefore, students should always stay for extra help if they need to, that way ineligibility does not become an issue. Please let Ms. Hall or Mrs. Raskopf know, and they will be excused from rehearsal. If we are running rehearsals past 4:15, students can come to rehearsal after extra help.  

• Our attendance policy continues to be 3 unexcused absences from rehearsal and the student will not be allowed to perform.  You are the ONLY ONE with your role, and YOUR role is vital to our performance.  Therefore, you need to be at your rehearsals!

An excused absence is one that is accompanied by a note from the parent or guardian or is documented by a teacher or coach.

• There will be an in-school call board of information for the play backstage in the theatre.  The weeks rehearsal schedule will also be posted right outside the MS Office every Monday.  However, don’t forget about our blog which can be accessed by all students and their parents by going to the following web address:

http://circus-olympus-gcsms.blogspot.com/ 

Ticket Sales:

• We will be selling reserved seats for the show. These tickets are first come first serve, so if you want specific seats please get your order in quick. 
• Student tickets are available for ages up to 18. Children who will sit on an adults lap are free and do not need a ticket.
• If you want to buy extra tickets after your original purchase, you may not be able to get the tickets right next to the ones you purchased originally, we’ll do the best we can.
• Please check the blog for the ticket sale start date.

***There are a few other things in the email, which I will attempt to get CORRECT emails from all tomorrow - and if yours is a household without email then I will get hard copies of everything to your child (which means you're probably not reading this, ha ha).

It's Rehearsal Time!

Hi all!
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!

Tomorrow - Monday November 28th - is our FIRST rehearsal.  

***3-5pm EVERYONE IS CALLED***

Parent Meeting to follow --> 5-5:30pm

~PARENTS: 
I'm sorry I haven't gotten the Parent Packet to you yet, the holiday weekend went by so fast, here it is Sunday already!

I will be emailing it out - to the email addresses the kids wrote down on Monday/Tuesday of last week - in just a bit.  I will also be posting the Parent Packet right on here for everyones convenience, and in case anything gets lost.

If you can not make it to the parent meeting, or do not have any questions for me tomorrow, feel free to shoot me an email at

margaret.e.hall@googlemail.com

Looking forward to our first rehearsal and getting our rehearsal process underway!!!
~Margaret

First Rehearsal

Hi All,

We are going to have our First Rehearsal on Monday November 28th from 3-5pm. This will be a read thru of the play, and some other fun information about our particular production from Ms. Hall.

PARENTS: I will be emailing you all over the Holiday Break (hopefully, as I'm attempting to acquire contact info from the kids in the Main Office tomorrow and Tuesday).  The email will contain our "Parent Info Packet" - yeah for saving some trees this year - and a projected rehearsal schedule!!!

Any questions about the information or the production in general can be addressed to me in person directly after our first rehearsal, or via email:

margaret.e.hall@googlemail.com

So ...

Monday November 28th, 2011 FIRST REHEARSAL 3-5pm with a Parent Meeting to follow!


HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!


~Ms. Hall

We Have A Cast!!!

CONGRATULATIONS:

Sean McAneny, Bryan Drossel, Paul Mitchell, Liam Williams, Cody Bryan, Jared Spring, Mike Roth, Will Connolly, Mark Whittaker, Daniel Mackey, John Dubois, Chenoa Cox, Charlotte Hutchins, Urja Bhatia, Alyssa Hopkins, Elaina Spahmer, Stella Yelich, Emily Lewis, Annonda Sanders, Jessica Scarlata, Kaitlyn Krasney, Brie Statham, Lacie Hotaling, Carley Estep, Elise Dubois, Katie Herron, Elizabeth Duker, Joanie McAneny, Victoria Wilson, Hannah Holznagel, Maddison Ackerman, Evelina Welch, Julia Evola, Natalie Louban, Isabelle Caffero, LIly Ann McQuillin, Kennedy Foster and Kayla Murphy,

on making it into the cast of Circus Olympus!

And thank you to all who auditioned! It was - as it always is - tough to cast with all the talented auditions we witnessed! If you did not make it into the cast you can still help out, and we hope you will, with the costumes, props and sets.

*Those in the cast: this is an ensemble show! Everyone cast will get at least one speaking part. The show has many characters in several different myths as well as a Greek Chorus (who are kind of like narrators). We will be doing it sort of like a troupe of traveling actors who know all the parts and could play them all. Some people will play the Greek Chorus and others will play the different characters and such in the different myths.

*Your specific, or individual parts in the individual myths, will be revealed during the first few rehearsals.

*Ms. Hall and Mrs. Raskopf are looking forward to starting rehearsals - and having an informational meeting for parents - next week (hopefully)!

*Parents & Students please check the blog regularly for continual information!

~Ms. Hall

Fantastic Auditions!

Auditions went really well!
The kids did great.
Now the hard part, selecting the cast...cast list will be posted in school on Friday 11/18/11!

At Your Audition

Hi all,

Hope you've had a chance to look at the audition sides!

Oh, and I'm sorry, I just realized that the third set of lines was not on here for the past week, though they are now, between Arachne and Athena.

And, FYI, you may be a girl and read the lines of a male character (ie: you can be a girl and read Zeus's lines) if you would like.

Remember that the most important part - aside from having fun - when auditioning is to show Ms. Hall that YOU CAN PLAY A CHARACTER! It's no longer you but the character you are playing.

Good luck all!!! :)