2013 SPRING MUSICAL SELECTION

For those who are familiar with our school's drama program, we hope you will be pleasantly surprised with a change in scheduling.  For the last 10 years we have held our Spring musical in May.  This year, in an effort to make the life of the student body and their families easier, we have moved our Spring musical to March 7 and 8.  The program will still follow the basic layout we always have, just earlier in the year!  Auditions will be open for students K-12.  ALL Upper School students who audition will participate.  Our room for Lower School students, however, is much more limited.  We will let all students audition, but will probably have to make some cuts.
With all that said, we have a few dates of which to make you aware.
AUDITION WORKSHOP
Thursday, December 13, 2:00 p.m. (for Upper School ONLY)
Lower School Students can pick up an audition packet at the Lower School Office on December 13
PARENT INFORMATIONAL MEETING (For parents of ALL students, UPPER and LOWER School)
Thursday, December 13, 12:30 p.m.
Eastwood Sanctuary
AUDITIONS
Wednesday, January 9, 2-5:00 p.m.

Now last, but not least, this year's musical will be.....................
Rogers and Hammerstein's
CINDERELLA.
Please encourage your students to participate!  This play is large and contains many male and female roles, many of which are comical.  Take a chance to watch the 1957 version of the movie ( with Julie Andrews as Cinderella), available on Youtube.  This version is quite different from the Disney version and is very entertaining.

Any sports teams whose activities coincide with those of the play, will be able to work around participation in both!  We want everyone to take part who is willing.

We are excited to begin a little early this year and we hope you will be as well!  Please email or call us with any questions you may have!

UPDATES

The following is the link to the soundtrack your child will need to practice their songs:
http://www.amazon.com/Fiddler-Roof-2004-Broadway-Revival/dp/B00023GFYK/ref=sr_1_5?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1331661241&sr=1-5
It is also located in the sidebar area.
This should only be $9. I am sorry for adding another cost, but this is the easiest way to get this music in your hands.
Also, please be sure to turn in your covenant and $.
It has come to our attention that some students are playing tennis on Tuesdays and Thursdays. They will be able to continue this, but will have to miss the last lesson in April. That day will be our first complete run thru.

NEW SCHEDULE!

Please view the schedule in the sidebar. If you ever are unable to view it or you see that there is an error, please let us know!

Also, please let us know asap if you intend on serving in the area of set construction or painting. We need to assemble that crew as soon as possible. Andrew Leuthold, our set designer, is moving, and we will need to attack this portion of production immediately, so that we can accomplish what he has planned in a timely manner! If you know of someone in our Eastwood family that is not already involved in the play and who would be interested in helping in this area, please tell them to contact us and we will plug them in. Andrew has faithfully designed our sets for the last 5 years (maybe 6?) and has never had a child involved in the play, he just enjoys what he does! We know there are others out there just waiting to jump in and join!

Aditional Cast Members

Even though these characters have now been named, you do not attend Main Roles practices, unless instructed to do so.

Rabbi-Frank Compton Ellis
Mendel-Noah Verble
Avram-Sam Hodge
Nachum-Jackson South
Constable-Sean Swedenburg
Shaindel-Emily Macalily
Woman#1-Kendall WIlliams
Woman#2-Mary Agnes Geiger
Russians-Justin Lunsford, Alex Foxx, Cory Cothran

We will be evaluating who will dance it what scene at our first full cast rehearsal. Please let us know if you are interested in dancing anything particular and we will see what can be done.

You will also be receiving instruction on chorus songs and how to get your recording of the music to practice.

Covenants and Money

Please take the time to download the covenant from the sidebar and turn in the completed form asap, along with your participation fee. You may turn them in to either the Upper or Lower School Offices.
If you need to make other arrangements for paying your fee, do not hesitate to let us know.
Thank YOU!

SCHEDULE

Here is an attempt at an early schedule. This goes out 2 weeks. I will try and update as soon as I finalize Music and Dancing practices. Please check back later this weekend for the revised version which will include some Upper School Chorus practices for week 2.
WEEK 1
Monday, March 5
Act I, Scenes 1, 2, and 3
ALL MAIN ROLES 2-5 p.m.

Tuesday, March 6
Act I, Scenes 1,2,3,4,5
ALL MAIN ROLES 2-5 p.m.

Thursday, March 8
Act I, Scenes 3,4,5,6
ALL MAIN ROLES

WEEK 2

Monday, March 12
Act I, Scenes 5,6,7,8
ALL MAIN ROLES

Tuesday, March 13
Act I Scenes 7,8,9,10
ALL MAIN ROLES

Thursday, March 15
Act I, Scenes 9,10 and Act II Scenes 1,2,3
ALL MAIN ROLES

READ-THRU

We will have a read-thru for upper school cast members this Thursday, March 1st, from 2-4:00 p.m. Main roles will receive scripts on this day. ALL upper school participants are encouraged to attend. It is a lot of fun!
Also, our first week of practice is next week, for Upper School Main Roles. Those roles are the ones listed with actual names for each character. The days for practice will be Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, from 2-4:00 p.m. in the sanctuary.
A full schedule is forthcoming.