Spring Musical 2014: Suessical the Musical!

Auditions will be next week for the spring musical. Please sign up outside the choir room. If you want to be considered for a lead, you will want to prepare a short solo. Everyone should come ready to dance! Hope to see you there :)

IMPORTANT INFO

Hello parents and guardians of “The Little Mermaid” cast and crew, Show weekend is upon us! Finally all the hard work of learning lines, dances, and prop placement will pay off! The kids have put together something special and we expect audiences to be blown away by the sights and sounds. A reminder of show times: Show start at 7pm on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and at 1pm on Sunday. Tomorrow (Thursday), students will take the bus from school directly to the High School. With the complexity of the show, combined with the amount of time it takes to style them all, we need all the minutes we can get. We will provide the kids with dinner this one last time. It will be sandwiches and chips. These sandwiches WILL have turkey and cheese on them. If your student does not eat turkey and/ or cheese we ask that they pack their own sandwich. Students will NOT be allowed to leave to go to McDonalds. If anyone would like to donate dessert for dinner on opening night, we would welcome cookies :) Water will not be served as ALL STUDENTS SHOULD HAVE THEIR OWN WATER BOTTLE. On Friday, please make sure your student is at the High School NO LATER than 5pm. This is also the call time for Saturday. On Sunday students should arrive by 11am. On Sunday, all members of the cast and crew must stay until the stage and dressing rooms are completely clean. LIL ZUMBERGE WILL DISMISS EVERYONE ONCE THE JOB IS DONE. Students should NOT take their photo boards home, as we will be hanging them up at school next week. It is so, so important that students bring a water bottle with their name on it. As I’m sure they’ve told you, it gets hot backstage! This year we have something a little different about ticketing. On Thursday night you can purchase a WEEKEND PASS. Essentially it’s 4 tickets for the price of 3. We are selling adult weekend passes for $18 and student weekend passes for $12. Once you get your weekend pass, show it to the ticket takers at the doors and then hang onto it for the remainder of the weekend. We hope these weekend passes make it a little easier on the pocketbooks of families who have students in the show. All checks should be made out to SLP JH Theater. Finally, there will be a cast party on Thursday, May 30 in the cafeteria after school. We are asking kids to either bring a snack to share or provide $5. If your student will bring a snack to share, please email Jessica Edelheit so we know how much is coming, versus how much we need to buy. We will send a final email about this cast party next week, as well as make announcements in school. On behalf of Lil, Ryan, myself, and the whole creative team, we so appreciate your involvement in your student’s extracurriculars. This year’s musical process has been fabulous-and all of your are contributors to that. Please let us know if you have any questions.

Little Mermaid Rehearsals

The Little Mermaid has been cast! We are very excited about working on this show. Please see the rehearsal calendar below for a basic idea of the schedule. MANY CHANGES WILL BE MADE to this calendar, but this at least gives you a basic out line of what most weeks will look like.

Rehearsal Calendar

AUDITIONS!!

Auditions will be held for the fall play, "The Phantom Tollbooth" on Tuesday, 10/9 and Friday, 10/12. Students should sign- up outside the choir room in groups of 6. Come prepared to present a short poem, though you don't have to memorize it. We are particularly interested in poems with complicated word play- think "Jabberwocky, humor- think Shel Silverstein, or fun rhyming/ rhythms- think Dr. Seuss. All auditions will run until 4:30 both days, though students finishing early may be picked up. Cast list will be posted on Monday, 10/15 and there will be a reading for those cast on Tuesday, 10/16. Kids may be cast even if they are playing a sport- schedules can be accommodated in most situations. Performances are 12/7-12/9.

Saint Louis Park High School Theatre
Presents “Idiot’s Delight” April 27-29

Written in 1936, Robert E. Sherwood’s “Idiot’s Delight” provides a prescient prediction of the start of World War II. The play takes place in a floundering ski chalet on the Italian-Austrian-Swiss border at the peak of European political turmoil. An array of international guests, stranded when Italy closes its border, takes refuge at the Hotel Monte Gabriele. An American showman and his bevy of burlesque blondes provide a brief distraction before global tension crests and the guests’ true national colors emerge.

Evening performances of “Idiot's Delight” are April 27 and 28 at 7:30 p.m. The April 29 matinee begins at 2:30 p.m. All performances will be held in the high school auditorium, located along the West 33rd St. entrance. General admission tickets will be available at the door: $5 for students and seniors, $7 for adults.

Hello, We will have NO REHEARSAL on MONDAY this week!! Tuesday, Thursday and Friday will all be FULL CAST rehearsals! Hope to see you all at Tuesday's meeting :) Thanks!