IMPORTANT SATURDAY UPDATE

The plan for tomorrow:

• All cast members should arrive with hair and makeup ready (directions can be found here).
• As soon as you arrive, go to the make-up room to have your make-up approved and/or touched up.
• Once you are approved, come sit in the auditorium.
• Featured villagers need to be approved FIRST, as we need to work on the Wedding Sequence with you while the rest of the cast is getting their make-up approved.
• DO NOT GET INTO COSTUME RIGHT AWAY.

Once everyone's make-up is approved, we will clean up and run Act II to make sure we iron out transitions and feel comfortable with the most recent staging.

You will not be getting into costumes until after lunch. This is also when you will start getting souvenir photos taken. We will address this tomorrow.

Get some rest tonight! Snuggle up with some tea and a good movie and VOCAL REST VOCAL REST VOCAL REST! Please take care of yourselves!!

Stay healthy, please! And some important notes...

Please take care of yourselves! Make sure you're getting enough protein (the basis of your immune system) and eating your fruits & veggies for all those yummy vitamins and minerals that will keep you healthy and happy!

Unless you are sick, there are NO excused absences from now until closing night. We need everyone at rehearsals so we can work our best as a team! 

Storytellers & Little Ti Moune: if you can arrive 10 minutes early to rehearsal tonight, please do. Ms. Neville wants to run through "Some Say" before we start our full cast rehearsal.


IMPORTANT -- Friday night's rehearsal: Friday night is our sound check with our sound system gurus. We will only need the following cast members to attend:

• Ti Moune
• Mama
• TonTon
• Little Ti Moune
• Storytellers
• Asaka
• Agwe
• Erzulie
• Papa Ge
• Daniel
• Andrea
• Daniel's father

Everyone else, PLEASE take Friday night off (including understudies and swings!). Rest your voices, and load up on your Vitamins C and E!

Saturday is EXTREMELY important. We will be running the show and completing a FULL dress rehearsal. Everyone must be IN THE BUILDING PROMPTLY at 9:00AM, and follow the instructions mentioned below regarding getting into costumes, hair, and make-up.

EVERYONE MUST READ 

THIS POST ABOUT COSTUMES, HAIR, AND MAKE-UP

IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, 

PLEASE BRING THEM TO REHEARSAL TONIGHT

Stay healthy! See you tonight! 

CAST MEMBERS: Important make-up information!

“ONCE ON THIS ISLAND” MAKE UP & HAIR INFORMATION

BEFORE ARRIVAL:

1. Eat, shower, dry your hair, and apply deodorant (please!)
2. All performers: Apply foundation one shade darker than your own skin color to face, neck and ears.  If you have a low neckline on your costume, don’t forget your chest.  The foundation make up should be applied so as to look natural.    
3. If your skin is sensitive, consider putting on a primer lotion to protect your skin before you apply foundation. This can be found at a drug store, cosmetic counter, or Ulta.  
4. IN A PLASTIC BAG WITH YOUR NAME, please bring your own personal:

• Comb and/or brush
• Mascara & eyeliner
• Natural lipstick – NO FIRE ENGINE RED OR BRIGHT PINK LIPS!

Bring Baggie to  Dress Rehearsal on Saturday, 25 February 2012.  

This will stay in your Costume Bin.   

HAIR:  

Peasant women – Braids or cornrows (More island natural look)

Peasant men – Natural/messy/wind-tossled 

Grands hommes women - Buns or half buns (More sophisticated look)

Grands hommes men – Slicked down (we have gel in Make Up Room)

If you or someone at home like to braid hair, please do your hair at home.  Bring hair accessories for your hair style.  The peasants who transform into GH need to bring hair items to use at intermission.  We will also put more make up on you at that time to give you that sophisticated look.

UPON ARRIVAL:

1. Go directly to changing area and retrieve your bin.  Find your costume.
2. Change into your costume taking care to not get foundation make up on your costume, return hanger to the rack.  Place your street clothes in the bin.  Leave nothing on the floor.
3. Bring your Make Up Baggie to the Make Up Room.
4. There will be stations for:
1. Peasants
2. Grands Hommes
3. Storytellers
4. Gods
5. “Older Islanders”
6. Featured Dancers  

AT THE END OF THE SHOW:

1. All costumes go back on their hangers on the correct rack.
2. Make sure everything is there BEFORE you leave.
3. Bins are to be replaced after each show with your Make Up Baggies inside.
4. Let’s all work together to clean up and account for all costumes and make up!

WE CAN'T WAIT TO GET STARTED!!

To download a Word .doc of these instructions to print out, 

click here.

Parents: good with make-up?

Dear Parents of "Once On This Island" cast,

We are thrilled to have the following volunteers on the Hair & Make-up Committee and look forward to working with you:

-  Julia Tseng - Co Chair

-  Wendy Leland - Co Chair

-  Nicole Sakowitz - Designer

-  Kim Stillwell 

-  Dee Pancoast

-  Sunita Baghele

-  Caroline Ellis

-  Suzanna Morgenweck

-  Sharon Ford

As you may know, most of the time spent on this committee is during the dress rehearsal (Saturday, 25 Feb) and right before performance time (1, 2, 3 March). 

But we will have one short meeting at 6:30 on Wednesday, 22 February at GWES in the Make Up room.   

Please let us know your availability for the dress rehearsal and the shows at that time.

We have almost 100 actors to be made up within one hour prior to the show. 

No one will have to work every show, but we are in need of more volunteers. 

This is one of the great positions where you get to be with the excited kids right before performing and join in their energy!  

This year's production does not require elaborate hair or make-up. Everyone is qualified!  

For those of you volunteering, please let us know if you prefer to work with hair or make-up. We will be doing some various braids on the peasant women and more sophisticated styles on the townswomen. 

Call/email Wendy/Julia if you have any questions or concerns.  Wendy: 610.983.9032 (home) or 610.952.1973 (cell); Julia: 610.608.8967

Thanks again for volunteering!

Julia Tseng & Wendy Leland

IMPORTANT REMINDERS: REHEARSAL LOCATIONS

PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO THE FOLLOWING NOTICES 

REGARDING REHEARSAL LOCATIONS THIS WEEK:

Tuesday's rehearsal is full cast, 2:30 - 4:45PM at Great Valley Middle School.

Wednesday's rehearsal is full cast, 6:30 - 8:30PM at General Wayne Elementary School.

Every rehearsal from Wednesday (2/23) on is at General Wayne Elementary School.

Due by the end of the week are the following forms:

• DVD order form
• Make-up & hair permission slip
• Cast party permission slip
• By clicking one of the links above, you will be brought to mediafire.com, where you click the link in the yellow box: "Click to begin download.." and you can save the file to your computer!

Thanks! Rest up, stay healthy, and see you on Tuesday after school!!

Ms. Hrap & Ms. Neville