UPDATES TO SCHEDULES!!!!

Dear Cast, Crew and Parents,

Updated Schedules with Call Times for the Shows

Attached are updated and modified rehearsal schedules with the call times for each show.  The highlighted items represent a change or addition.

This Sunday

We are looking forward to another great Sunday practice. 

Please note that Mechina – 2^nd grade cast is not called for this Sunday.  Enjoy the extended weekend.

Early Call                              9:00 – 10:00 (All MS member of GASTON song)

3^rd Grade – 5^th Grade           10:00 – 2:30

6^th Grade – 8^th Grade           10:00 – 3:00

Extended Call                      3:00 – 4:30    (Belle and Beast)

Pizza

This Sunday all cast and crew will be able to purchase pizza for lunch, if they so choose. Please bring $1.50 per slice.

·         Drop off begins at 9:45 for the crew and 9:55 for the cast. If you arrive before these times, please have your student wait with you in your car as we are setting up the rehearsal spaces and have no supervision available for the children before this time.

·         The entrance for play rehearsal at the middle school is located around the back of the school at the gym doors by the playing field. Please take the side stairwell of the school by the playing field down to the gym doors located at the back of the school.

·         Please pack a lunch and drink for Sunday. Snacks will be provided (Starting this Sunday, we will have pizza available for those that wish to purchase lunch)

·         Please bring a sweater/sweatshirt as it is sometimes cool in the gym. Make sure your sweater is labeled.

·         Should you arrive after 10:10 a.m. or need to pick up early, you will need to come around to the back of the gym, to pick up your child and sign your child out.

·         For Sunday pick up you will not need to leave your cars, as we will come up to the carpool lane for carpool as a group. Please form a single file line in our carpool lane for pick up.

Please see the link below if you have not yet secured tickets for the shows. 

All tickets will be purchased through an online ticketing system, using the following link. http://www.seatyourself.biz/davisacademy

SCHEDULE CHANGES!

As we rapidly approach our show dates, the need for extra rehearsals is upon us.

TODAY- TUESDAY 2-7(as mentioned in Sunday play practice) is rehearsal for:
 Beast, Belle, Narrators from 3:30-5:00.

THIS SUNDAY 2-12:
 9:00-10:00
CALLED EARLY IN: GASTON, LEFOU, BELLE, BEAST, SILLY GIRLS, MADAME DE LA GRANDE BOUCHE, POTTS, BABETTE

We are hard at work getting ready to put on a fantastic show!  The enthusiasm is great and the songs and verses are coming along very well.  However, with 6 weeks until show time, rehearsal attendance is absolutely vital.   Although we released the rehearsal information in  late Fall and in the production contracts, we are now inundated with a plethora of early out/late in/missing entirely Sunday rehearsal requests which causes duress on the children and all involved in the production. 

If all of these requests were to be granted, we would never have a full cast rehearsal.   In fact, with the volume of requests, only 60-70% of children would be there for a full rehearsal at any given time.   Absent students cause cast consistency problems, and makes putting on a production extremely challenging.  When cast members are absent, other children cannot learn the proper moves or staging. And  every time even one child comes in late or leaves early, we have to re-block and re-adjust the entire stage of over 160 actors.

Parents, please understand that a show is a team effort and relies on every child being present for the duration of the time for which their part is called.  We only have several Sunday rehearsals left to accomplish blocking and all of the dances. There is no time to relearn what is missed or to place those missing actors.

We recognize how busy all of our talented children are with other events and activities but, as stated in the production contract, each child is only allowed a certain number of absences. So please chose which rehearsals or activities your child will miss with this in mind.  In addition, it is vital to each child’s confidence and  critical that every child stay for the entire time he or she is called for rehearsal.  If a child is not present for the scenes that are blocked, readjusted, or polished, he/she will sit out for those scenes and/or curtain call. 

We thank you greatly for your understanding and cooperation.   The children are working so hard and doing a phenomenal job so far.

ALSO, KEEP CHECKING BACK THIS WEEK FOR UPDATES ON COSTUME AND SIZIGN INFORMATION AS WELL AS COMMITTEES AND VOLUNTEER SCHEDULES & INFO!

Welcome all Cast and Crew to your Beauty and the Beast Jr. Blogspot!

We are off to a wonderful start as rehearsals are now underway at both the lower school and middle school!

This blog will house all schedules, forms, and important communications or other information that you  may need to access.

Also, stayed tuned for pictures and video that will be posted throughout the rehearsal process leading up to SHOW DAY!

All of us on the production team are looking forward to another fabulous show.

With a song in my heart and happiness in my feet,

Ms. Kendrick