ATTENTION 8th GRADE STUDENTS AND PARENTS:
This is the Schedule for the remainder of the musical.
Important Dates
Monday March 12th, Prop Making Day, all 8th Grade is welcome, Stage Scenery crew is required.
Starting Thursday March 8th, Crew Heads are expected to be at all rehearsals.
Starting Tuesday March 13th, all crew positions are expected to be at all rehearsals.
Monday March 26th is Set Up 3-4:30pm, the following crews will be needed: Props, Costumes, Stage Manager, Technical Head, Backstage Crew,Lights, Sound, Stage Scenery.
CREW POSITIONS
Ushers Vaennessa Seith, Claire Hinckley
Props Madelyn Reiff, Jack Dahill
Costumes/Makeup Paola Fuentes, Olivia Vranek, Vaennessa Seith
Student Photographers Claire Hinckley, Mark Laghi
Student Stage Manager Ivana Escobedo* crew head
Student Technical Head Amanda Sadowski* crew head
Backstage Crew – Jack Luxem* crew head, Ryan Kelly* crew head, Tommy Lombardo, Brendan Jacobs, Ian Farnan, Chase Nacker, Keith Lenz, Peter Garvey, Cullen Sheridan, Michael McAndrew
Student Choreographers Teresa Finucane, Jenna Chesswas, Molly Rogan
Lights – John Hurley* crew head, Steven Heim, Sebe Valdes, Thomas Nelson
Sound Riley Frisbie, Charles Jankowski
Publicity Jocelyn Arciniegas, Dominic Riccione, Celia Alejandre, Hannah Hornacek, Meg Kern, Emma Decker
Stage Scenery Margaret Cole, Karoline Orloff, Marina Gonzalez, Megan Kern, Emma Decker
MARCH 2012
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
| 1Rehearsal 3-4pm
Scenes 5, 6, 9, 10, 12b
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2 Rehearsal 3-4pm
Scenes 13, 14, 15, 20 |
3 | ||||
| 4 | 5 | 6Rehearsal 3-4pm
Scenes 16, 17, 18, 19 |
7 Rehearsal 3-3:45pm
TBA |
8Rehearsal 3-4pm
RUNTHROUGH Prologue—Scene 12 CREW HEADS |
9Rehearsal 3-4pm
RUNTHROUGH Scenes 13—20 CREW HEADS |
10 |
| 11 | 12Prop Making Day
3-4:30pm Stage Scenery Crew |
13 Rehearsal 3-4pm
RUNTHROUGH Prologue—Scene 12 ALL CREW
|
14Rehearsal 3-3:45pm
RUNTHROUGH Scenes 13—20 ALL CREW |
15 Rehearsal 3-4pm
RUNTHROUGH Prologue—Scene 12 ALL CREW |
16 Rehearsal 3-4pm
RUNTHROUGH Scenes 13—20 ALL CREW |
17 |
| 18 | 19 | 20 Rehearsal 3-4pm
RUNTHROUGH Prologue—Scene 12 Add 6th and 7th Grade ALL CREW |
21 Rehearsal 3-4pm
RUNTHROUGH Scenes 13—20 Add 6th and 7th Grade ALL CREW
|
22Rehearsal 3-4pm
6th & 7th Grade Only |
23
No School |
24 |
| 25 | 26
3-4:30pm Play Set Up Morrissey Hall Gym |
27
Play Rehearsal During School Day |
28
4pm Performance |
29
7pm Performance 9pm Play Take Down |
30 | 31 |
Spring Music Update
Preschool Music
St. Cletus Preschoolers are such good listeners! I can definitely see them growing each week. In music we have been learning songs about the letters of the alphabet as well as some bugs! Ask your child to sing about “Uncle Underwear” or “Grumpy Gorilla” and I’m sure you will have a little chuckle. We have so much fun singing about our letters.
Kindergarten
We have contiuned our musical expolartions with lots of fun songs and games as well as time to play instruments. Recently we have been singing about Spring. Coming up we will be singing songs about Bees!
1st and 2nd Grade
Our 1st graders have been busy reading and playing rhythms. They can identify and play quarter and eighth notes and qurater rests. We have been using these skills with our singing, body percussion, and instrument playing.
Our 2nd graders have been very busy learning their songs for First Communion. They are such strong singers, I am sure your homes must be filled with music all the time. We have also been singing songs about Spring and playing games with rhymes. Coming up we will sing songs in Spanish to celebrate Cinco de Mayo as well as sing about animals in the zoo!
3rd and 4th Grades
We have been busy with instruments in 3rd and 4th grades. Our 4th graders have been busy playing recorders since January and our 3rd graders just started them this past week. I like to use a curriculum called Recorder Karate. Each child has their own recorder and there are a series of songs of varying difficulty. During class they have time to practice and test when they are ready. If you can play the song independetly with few or no mistakes they receive a “belt” or piece of colored yarn. We start with white belts and work our way up to black belts. Our 4th graders are moving right along. I am very proud of all of them, whatever level they are at. 3rd grade is just starting out and I hope to focus on the first three belts until the end of the year.
5th Grade
Our 5th graders did such a wonderful job on their musical “The Granny Awards” this past February. Following our performance we studied Opera in preparation for their field trip to the Civic Opera House. Currently we are broadening our musical horizons. We have looked at the Music of Jamaica and Trinidad with Reggae and Claypso. We will begin looking at Mariachi Music of Mexico as well as other Latin American styles of music. We will culminate the year with some African drumming.
6th Grade
Movies and Music is our focus until the end of the year. We have been looking at how music affects the movies we watch. This 6th grade is so much fun to work with. They always ask great questions and have so much to offer to class.
7th Grade
We are trying something new with 7th grade. I am teaming up with Mrs. Flickinger in TLC to create Mash-Ups. Your students will be creating a 90 second “mash up” of two or more songs of their own choosing. They will be using Audacity to mix the music. I am excited to see what new combinations they come up with.
8th Grade
I am so proud of our 8th graders and the wonderful job they did with our musical, “Willy Wonka Jr.” This was such a great group to work with as my first musical. They are definitely theatrical! I truly hope that they will continue on in the musical and dramatic arts in high school and beyond. We will be preparing a class song for graduation as well.