On Saturday, January 7th, there is a mandatory parents' meeting at 9AM and should run for about an hour. One parent/guardian for each child/family represented needs to attend!
An updated rehearsal schedule is available for download (here or here): there's no school on January 17th, so there's no rehearsal that day. Oops!
Great Valley Middle School Musical Theater
Monday, December 26, 2011
Friday, December 23, 2011
Happy holidays!
A great big THANK YOU!! goes out to our cast for an amazing first two rehearsals! You all really impressed not only our new team members, Ms. Sunnergren and Mrs. A, but you impressed Mrs. Taylor and Ms. Neville, too!
A few notes before you rush off to open presents and eat lots of yummy food with friends and family (oh, AND get some rest and stay bundled up and don't get sick!):
The rehearsal schedule is available for download at two different places: through ge.tt and through mediafire (both are file-sharing sites -- click through the links and click on the "2011-2012 GV Musical Schedule" to download the schedule). If you have trouble with both of them and still cannot download the schedule, please drop us an email and we will email it to you.
Rehearsal tracks are also available for download at either the ge.tt page or the mediafire page. Again, if neither site works for you for some reason, email us.
Principal characters and understudies: start memorizing your music and dialogue! We are jumping right in to blocking and vocal rehearsals and need for you to be on your A game! Thanks :)
Storytellers: do your best to be familiar with all of the storyteller songs and dialogue. You do not need to memorize it all, but we want rehearsals to run smoothly, and if we can just throw lines or song pieces at you and you already know them, that'd be awesome! We know you can rise to the challenge :)
Featured villagers: do your best to be familiar with the songs "Pray" and "Pray (Reprise)," as they are YOUR songs :) We will not get to them right away, but we want you all to be prepared for when we start singing and blocking those songs. The first "Pray" is available for download. The reprise has the same tune and the lyrics are in your scripts.
Ensemble: start listening to the songs that are available for download (links are above!), and get into the island groove!
A few notes before you rush off to open presents and eat lots of yummy food with friends and family (oh, AND get some rest and stay bundled up and don't get sick!):
The rehearsal schedule is available for download at two different places: through ge.tt and through mediafire (both are file-sharing sites -- click through the links and click on the "2011-2012 GV Musical Schedule" to download the schedule). If you have trouble with both of them and still cannot download the schedule, please drop us an email and we will email it to you.
Rehearsal tracks are also available for download at either the ge.tt page or the mediafire page. Again, if neither site works for you for some reason, email us.
Principal characters and understudies: start memorizing your music and dialogue! We are jumping right in to blocking and vocal rehearsals and need for you to be on your A game! Thanks :)
Storytellers: do your best to be familiar with all of the storyteller songs and dialogue. You do not need to memorize it all, but we want rehearsals to run smoothly, and if we can just throw lines or song pieces at you and you already know them, that'd be awesome! We know you can rise to the challenge :)
Featured villagers: do your best to be familiar with the songs "Pray" and "Pray (Reprise)," as they are YOUR songs :) We will not get to them right away, but we want you all to be prepared for when we start singing and blocking those songs. The first "Pray" is available for download. The reprise has the same tune and the lyrics are in your scripts.
Ensemble: start listening to the songs that are available for download (links are above!), and get into the island groove!
Keep yourselves healthy, have a great holiday
and a happy new year and see you after school on January 3rd!!
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Rehearsal schedule
Hello everyone! Hope you're enjoying your weekend and getting ready for our first two rehearsals next week.
As we start to learn the music in rehearsals, it would be a big help if our cast members got familiar with the Once On This Island soundtrack on their own. Our rehearsal period is two months, so the more you learn outside of rehearsals, the more we can get done when we're together. I will be uploading songs from the Once On This Island Jr. version to the blog for you all to download, listen to, and get familiar with (the Jr. version songs are slightly different than the Original Broadway Cast recording for any of you who own that CD).
Also available is the finalized rehearsal schedule for January and February. It is very similar to the tentative schedule we gave you with your audition packet. There are a few changes to the small group/principal rehearsals (some moved from Monday night to Wednesday night), and we canceled rehearsal on Wednesday, January 11th since so many of you are going to be at the instrumental concert that night.
Click here to download a Word Document version of the schedule.
Please let us know if you have any questions, and we'll see you at our first two rehearsals this week:
Tuesday, December 20th from 2:30 - 4:45 - FULL CAST
Thursday, December 22nd from 2:30 - 4:45 - FULL CAST
See you soon!!!
As we start to learn the music in rehearsals, it would be a big help if our cast members got familiar with the Once On This Island soundtrack on their own. Our rehearsal period is two months, so the more you learn outside of rehearsals, the more we can get done when we're together. I will be uploading songs from the Once On This Island Jr. version to the blog for you all to download, listen to, and get familiar with (the Jr. version songs are slightly different than the Original Broadway Cast recording for any of you who own that CD).
Click here to download the first few songs from the show:
Prologue/We Dance
One Small Girl/Waiting for Life
And The Gods Heard Her Prayer/Rain
* As always, leave us a comment below if you have any questions or trouble downloading the music
Also available is the finalized rehearsal schedule for January and February. It is very similar to the tentative schedule we gave you with your audition packet. There are a few changes to the small group/principal rehearsals (some moved from Monday night to Wednesday night), and we canceled rehearsal on Wednesday, January 11th since so many of you are going to be at the instrumental concert that night.
Click here to download a Word Document version of the schedule.
Please let us know if you have any questions, and we'll see you at our first two rehearsals this week:
Tuesday, December 20th from 2:30 - 4:45 - FULL CAST
Thursday, December 22nd from 2:30 - 4:45 - FULL CAST
See you soon!!!
Friday, December 9, 2011
Rehearsals & scheduling conflicts
We hope you're as excited to get started with this year's production as we are! Don't forget, our first rehearsal is after school on Tuesday, December 20th, followed by another rehearsal after school on Thursday, December 22nd. It is crucial that you not only attend these first two rehearsals, but that you are committed to our rehearsal schedule.
We have not yet finalized the rehearsal schedule for January & February, but it will be very similar to what was handed out with the audition packets:
We have not yet finalized the rehearsal schedule for January & February, but it will be very similar to what was handed out with the audition packets:
- Full cast: Tuesday and Thursday rehearsals after school
- Full cast: Saturday morning rehearsals
- Small groups/principal roles: Monday or Wednesday night rehearsals (depending on the week)
The schedule will be finalized & posted here on the blog by December 20th.
As we looked at your audition packets, we noticed some of you had conflicts that you could mold around our rehearsal schedule, and some of you had one or two conflicts, which is fine. However, we also noticed some of you who are interested in the ski trips sponsored by Ski Club...
Please note: you are allowed a total of 3 absences and only ONE of them may be a Saturday. Missing more than 3 rehearsals or more than 1 Saturday will cause us to re-evaluate your role in the show. Please adjust your calendars accordingly. Thanks!
Of course, we understand if you are sick or have a family emergency, but otherwise, you must be committed so we can put on the best show possible! Contact us at gvmusical@gmail.com if you have any questions.
Thanks and see you soon!
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