What shows are you doing this year?

[Scott Parker]

Hey gang,
So, what does the year look like for everyone? What shows are you
doing this year? What positions/duties are you taking on?

I'm sitting here at a tech table during a dry tech for Streetcar Named
Desire at the moment. Serving as TD.

Scott

--
Scott C. Parker
Lighting Designer
http://scottcparker.com/
Georgia & New York City

[jblight...@gmail.com]

I have taken on the roll of technical director and producer for an emerging middle school in Connecticut, my 3rd year as tech. Director at the school and 1st as producer. I have been subscribed to this list for a few years, but look forward to contributing more to the list over the year!

Jared B.
From CT
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

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From: Scott Parker <scpa...@gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:40:52
To: hstech group<hst...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [hstech] What shows are you doing this year?

[wuth...@aol.com]

Hi Everyone,

We are building and rehearsing our first show "Moon Over Buffalo". It's going to be in our Black Box Theatre.  Next we will do "The 11th", our competition piece.  We are finishing the year with the musical "All Shook Up".

 

Looking forward to hearing what others are doing.

 

Gary Weatherly

MBHS

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From: Scott Parker <scpa...@gmail.com>

[dalex...@oakschristian.org]

I am TD for a theatre shared by our High School and Middle School campuses.
HS is doing "The Man Who Came to Dinner" in Fall and "South Pacific" in Spring.
MS is doing a little show called "Happy Daze" in Fall & a Christian themed musical "Lightshine" in Spring.
Plus we present a combine HS/MS Dance Concert in Feb. This year's theme is "Hide n Seek"... Our new dance teacher has some awesome ideas on how to present our dancers before the Lord and witness to their fellow students.

Cheers
David

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

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From: wuth...@aol.com
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:38:42 -0400
To: <hst...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [hstech] Re: What shows are you doing this year?

 Hey gang, So, what does the year look like for everyone? What shows are you doing this year? What positions/duties are you taking on?  I'm sitting here at a tech table during a dry tech for Streetcar Named Desire at the moment. Serving as TD.  Scott  --  Scott C. Parker Lighting Designerhttp://scottcparker.com/ Georgia &  New York City  

[JeffVanVelsor]

I just finished our first build night here at Princeton Day School
where I am the Tech Director/Theatre Manager by profession and Set
Designer by choice. I serve as that for the Upper School (Julius
Caesar/A Chorus Line) the Middle School (Alice in Wonderland/The Wiz)
and the Lower School (...the 5th Grade show is always a highly guarded
secret known only to the teacher who writes it. I keep trying to tell
them if they would only tell me, I could design a better set for
them....ah tradition!) I just had about 20 new faces join us tonight
and only a handful of veterans, but we actually worked past what I
expected and was prepared to do, and I actually had to send everyone
home an hour early. Now I am sitting here eatting leftover pizza, too
tired to walk to my car and go home...

On Sep 25, 8:40 pm, Scott Parker <scpar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey gang,
> So, what does the year look like for everyone? What shows are you
> doing this year? What positions/duties are you taking on?
>
> I'm sitting here at a tech table during a dry tech for Streetcar Named
> Desire at the moment. Serving as TD.
>
> Scott
>
> --
> Scott C. Parker

> Lighting Designerhttp://scottcparker.com/

[Leffel, Lindsey]

Currently TD and scenic designer for our musical, Disney's Beauty & the Beast...and going out on maternity leave next Friday. Needless to say our artistic director is a bit paniced!
We are doing The Miss Firecracker Contest for our competition piece, and are in talks about branching out and adding a spring show to our season as well.

Lindsey Leffel
Wakeland High School
Director of Technical Theatre
469-633-5736

"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."
~Oscar Wilde
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[Robert Ullinger]

I've been volunteering at Stanton Middle School in Kent, OH, teaching
the kids how to run the lights and sound systems in their "Auditeria",
since it opened and our 4th child was a student there. Since then,
our 5th has graduated HS last year, but I seem to be stuck at the
middle school. Working with these enthusiastic and talented kids and
teachers keeps me young.

Our fall play this year is a cute little piece, "Jolly Roger and the
Pirate Queen".

I also work for a company that does sound for shows and concerts, and
after a busy concert and festival season it's nice to get back to the
kids.

Rob Ullinger
Tech Volunteer
Stanton Middle School
Kent, OH

[Johnson, Laurie]

After reading the playbills of my worthy colleagues, I am happy to join their ranks. I am starting my first year as theatre director at my high school, Fruita Monument HS in Fruita, CO. I have been teaching here for 20 years and building the sets for the other directors for 13 years. Finally, the admin hired someone who has the theatre degree, not that that is imperative. Anywho, we open Oct 8 with "Fools". Our December show is "The Canterbury Tales," the Lindsay Price (?) adaptation. We are hoping to do "Once Upon a Mattress" for our musical; this show is dependent on money being available in December to secure the rights and scripts. If not that musical, we will do "Anybody for Murder?"

Laurie Johnson
Fruita Monument HS
Fruita, CO

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Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 6:41 PM
To: hstech group

[Hotmail]

Hey everyone. Hello from Canada. Only  a few weeks in and Ive got a cold already. I don't get it. I exercise, eat properly, get sleep.  A fellow teacher told me that's my problem. He said to get back to fatty foods and beer. I'm trying that cure this weekend. It may not help but it's certainly more fun.  This year I'm doing Dream and some musical on the mainstage. Has anyone ever dome the phatom toll booth or Studs Turkels Working?  I like a good ensemble show so if anyone has any suggestions Id be grateful.  In the studio I'm considering doing Dear Edwina and into the woods Jr with the grade 9s and Tens respectively. I'm hoping that this is my once a year cold done early, because like all of you that is a crap load of work. Good thing for th million dollar salaries we get...wait...no that's bank employees..

I wish you all the best. Send along some photos of your work as your year progresses

Cheers

Andrew Dolha

Head of Drama/Dance

Westmount Collegiate Institute

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On 2009-09-25, at 10:45 PM, dalex...@oakschristian.org wrote:

I am TD for a theatre shared by our High School and Middle School campuses.
HS is doing "The Man Who Came to Dinner" in Fall and "South Pacific" in Spring.
MS is doing a little show called "Happy Daze" in Fall & a Christian themed musical "Lightshine" in Spring.
Plus we present a combine HS/MS Dance Concert in Feb. This year's theme is "Hide n Seek"... Our new dance teacher has some awesome ideas on how to present our dancers before the Lord and witness to their fellow students.

Cheers
David

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

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From: wuth...@aol.com
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:38:42 -0400
To: <hst...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [hstech] Re: What shows are you doing this year?

Hi Everyone,

We are building and rehearsing our first show "Moon Over Buffalo". It's going to be in our Black Box Theatre.  Next we will do "The 11th", our competition piece.  We are finishing the year with the musical "All Shook Up".

 

Looking forward to hearing what others are doing.

 

Gary Weatherly

MBHS


-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Parker <scpa...@gmail.com>
To: hstech group <hst...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Fri, Sep 25, 2009 7:40 pm

Subject: [hstech] What shows are you doing this year?

 Hey gang, So, what does the year look like for everyone? What shows are you doing this year? What positions/duties are you taking on?  I'm sitting here at a tech table during a dry tech for Streetcar Named Desire at the moment. Serving as TD.  Scott  --  Scott C. Parker Lighting Designerhttp://scottcparker.com/ Georgia &  New York City  

[Tom]

Hey

This is my third year on Tech. (I replied to Gary Weatherly because a
few years ago, my high school did the New England premier of All Shook
Up, although it was before my time. I just thought it was kind of cool
that that show has "circulated.")

I am the lighting designer for two one act Moliere plays, "The Miser"
and "The Imaginary Invalid." The thing about having two one acts is
that we have something of a leadership void. Both have different adult
directors, and different student stage managers, and different student
assistant stage managers. There is no sound because we're not going to
use microphones for this show. Therefore, I am the only tecchie who
has direct involvement in both one acts (as the lighting designer).

I'd be interested to hear any comments on this situation.

Also, our spring musical will be "Beauty and the Beast." That should
be fun!

On Sep 25, 9:38 pm, wuther...@aol.com wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>

> We are building and rehearsing our first show "Moon Over Buffalo". It's going to be in our Black Box Theatre.? Next we will do "The 11th", our competition piece.? We are finishing the year with?the musical "All Shook Up".

>
> Looking forward to hearing what others are doing.
>
> Gary Weatherly
>
> MBHS
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Parker <scpar...@gmail.com>
> To: hstech group <hst...@googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Fri, Sep 25, 2009 7:40 pm
> Subject: [hstech] What shows are you doing this year?
>
> Hey gang,
> So, what does the year look like for everyone? What shows are you
> doing this year? What positions/duties are you taking on?
>
> I'm sitting here at a tech table during a dry tech for Streetcar Named
> Desire at the moment. Serving as TD.
>
> Scott
>
> --
> Scott C. Parker

> Lighting Designerhttp://scottcparker.com/

[MeLinda Tatum Kaiser]

I've done Working with a community theatre and have seen at least 2 other high schools do it.  I've been trying to get one of the colleges that I work for to do it for years.  It's biggest selling points - can be very abstract as far as set goes - you can do as much or as little as you have space or budget or imagination.  Some great monologues and solos.  Also you have great flexibility in casting.  If you want to feature a bunch of people or like doing an ensemble show, it's a good choice.  Small cast, many actors taking on multiple roles; large cast, spread it around.  Depending on your school board's sensitivities, there are one or two monologues that might not work in an educational situation - just depends.  Diverse, but contemporary music.  Characters are real.  I've seen it simple, I've seen it flashy - worked both ways.

Phantom Tollbooth was on our short list last year.  GREAT BOOK!!!  Again, many, many characters.  More demanding from a costume perspective, but I think an abstract set would serve this play well too.  We never heard the music, and ended up doing something more 'commercial', but it looked promising.  

Other ensemble shows - Into the Woods (but EVERYONE has to be a soloist), The Laramie Project, Lend me a Tenor, Noises Off - just off the top of my head.

Good Luck!

MeLinda 

Philadelphia, PA - via Shanghai China

[Andrew Girling]

On Sep 25, 2009, at 8:40 PM, Scott Parker wrote:

>
> Hey gang,
> So, what does the year look like for everyone? What shows are you
> doing this year? What positions/duties are you taking on?

My one school is doing "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" this fall, with
"Thoroughly Modern Millie" and "12 Angry Jurors" in the spring. The
other is doing "Rumors" this fall, with "Hello Dolly" and student
written one-acts in the spring.

With my other work, I have my hands in 8 shows through the end of
December alone. Many hats.

Wishing everybody the best of luck with their productions!

--
Andrew Girling
Technical Director; Auditorium Facility Manager
Williamsville North High School

[Tony Johnson]

We're (Brentwood School, Los Angeles) in rehearsal for Fiddler On The Roof.  We don't open until November.  I'm working as the Production Manager and LD.  Lots of merde to everyone and their respective shows!

Tony


Tony Johnson
Performing Arts Production Manager
(310)889-2654








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Date: 9/25/2009 5:41 PM Subject: [hstech] What shows are you doing this year?

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[donnaofcobalt]

We rent backdrops nationwide to high schoolsso I talk with many high
school teachers. Some of our most popular requests are backdrops for:
Thoroughly Modern Millie, Anything Goes, Annie, Little Shop of Horrors
and (of course) Beauty and the Beast. We have backdrops that are
suitable for all these shows. The one that seems to have fallen off
the radar is High School Musical (all versions of it).

Donna Wymore
rental manager
Cobalt Studios

On Sep 25, 7:40 pm, Scott Parker <scpar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey gang,
> So, what does the year look like for everyone? What shows are you
> doing this year? What positions/duties are you taking on?
>
> I'm sitting here at a tech table during a dry tech for Streetcar Named
> Desire at the moment. Serving as TD.
>
> Scott
>
> --
> Scott C. Parker

> Lighting Designerhttp://scottcparker.com/