Thursday, March 20, 2014

Get Text Message Announcements


Do you have a text plan and want to keep up with the latest announcements for our spring play via text? Sign up to receive text announcements. To help direct the texts to the right people, we've created two announcement groups -- one for actors and the other tech. Follow the instructions below to sign up:

For Actors:
1) text @PR16andMoreActors  to  23559
2) or, you can join by visiting this link: http://cy.tl/1dfstM9

For Tech:
1) text @PR16andMoreTech  to  23559
2) or, you can join by visiting this link: http://cy.tl/1dfswrl

Monday, March 17, 2014

Final Cast List

After much work and collaboration with all the directors, we've finalized that cast list. Again, I wish I could cast everyone in a role to showcase your talent, but each play unfortunately has its limits.

If you're cast for a role and you'd like to accept it, please place your initials next to your name on the list outside of the choir room. If you don't accept your role for some reason, just speak to me privately or, if you can't connect with me, send me an email so we can make other arrangements. In order to allow students to sign their approval and work out any changes, we'll set our first read-through for Tuesday at 3:00. We'll meet in the theater.

If you're not cast for a role, there are so many other valuable and fun ways to get tied into the theater community, show your creativity, and make this show awesome -- from lights, sound, set, costumes, props, makeup and more. Come to our tech meeting this coming Wednesday in the theater from about 3:00-3:45 to learn more.

Thanks to everyone for your amazing auditions, work during callbacks, and your interest and participation in the theater program. 
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Final Cast List
Women in 16 in 10 Minutes or Less
Piper (Friend Request, Bench Warrant, Status Update): Lexi Viegas
Piper (Brace Yourself): Olivia Jensen
Cindy (Friend Request, Bench Warrant, Status Update): Kasey Theil
Cindy 2 (Double Click): Meg Orr
Samantha: Sophie Murk
Laura: Hannah
Right Eye: Jordyn Preusker
Left Eye: Gigi Relic
Mom (will be on stage): Elaine Bieschke
Operator (will be on stage): Jessica Hillman


Women in More
Jen: Grace Pontius
Karen: Cecilia Smith
Extras in school dream and funeral: 
-Brittney McHugh
-Elizabeth Routzhan


Men in 16 in 10 Minutes or Less
James: Aidan O’Connor
Vance: Reilly Branson
Brody: Neil Pretkelis
Dad (will be on stage): Nick Wills


Men in More
Ted: Andrew Nuno
Jeff: Michael Morones
James: Jason Kovalic
Marty: Adrian Nuno
Janitor: DJ Lima
Extras in school scene and funeral:
-Rami Halabi
-Jimmy Bossemeyer
-Austin Comstock

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Cast List by Play/Scene


16 in Ten Minutes or Less
  1. Friend Request: (3M, 4W)
    1. Piper: Lexi Viegas
    2. Cindy: Kasey Theil
    3. Sam: Sophie Murk
    4. Laura: Hannah
    5. James: Aidan
    6. Vance: Reilly
    7. Brody: Neil
  2. Double Click: (1M, 1W)
    1. Cindy: Meg Orr
    2. Vance: Neil
  3. Brace Yourself: (1M, 1W)
    1. James: Aidan
    2. Piper: Olivia
  4. Lazy Eye: (2E)
    1. Left Eye: Jordyn
    2. Right Eye: Gigi
  5. Fireworks: (1M, 1W)
    1. Brody: Reilly
    2. Sam: Sophie
  6. Pay Phone: (2M, 1W, 1E)
    1. James: Aidan
    2. Mom: Elaine Bieschke
    3. Dad: Nick Wills
    4. Operator: Jessica Hillman
  7. Bench Warrant: (4W)
    1. Piper: Lexie Viegas
    2. Cindy: Kasey Theil
    3. Sam: Sophie
    4. Laura: Hannah
  8. Wheels: (2M)
    1. Brody: Reilly
    2. Vance: Neil
  9. Tumblefur: (1F)
    1. Laura: Hannah
  10. Status Update: A Symphony (3M, 4W)
    1. Piper: Lexi Viegas
    2. Cindy: Kasey Theil
    3. Sam: Sophie Murk
    4. Laura: Hannah
    5. James: Aidan
    6. Vance: Neil
    7. Brody: Reilly
  11. More
    1. Ted: Andrew
    2. Jeff: Michael
    3. James: Jason
    4. Marty: Adrian
    5. Jen: Grace Pontius
    6. Janitor: DJ Lima
    7. Extras at funeral and in school dream: Brittney, Jimmy B., Rami, Austin, Elizabeth
Karen: Cecilia

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Final Cast List Coming Soon

Happy Sunday evening, PR theater students!

I hope you all have had an enjoyable and restful weekend. Throughout this weekend, I poured over the director notes from the auditions and callbacks, went through the script, and, with great thought, formulated the final cast list. Since you all have amazing talent and we have a limited number of roles, this process becomes even more challenging. The last step to solidify the cast list is to review it with the other directors. I've shared it with them via email and will get verbal feedback from them tomorrow morning.

Once all is set, which will certainly be before noon tomorrow, I'll post the list to the website and outside of the choir room. If you're cast for a role and you'd like to accept the role, please place your initials next to your name on the list. If you don't accept your role for some reason, just speak to me privately or, if you can't connect with me, send me an email so we can make other arrangements. Again, I wish I could cast everyone in a role to showcase your talent, but each play unfortunately has its limits. In order to allow students to sign their approval and work out any changes, we'll set our first read-through for Tuesday at 3:00. We'll meet in the theater.

Thankfully, if you're not cast for a role, there are so many other valuable and fun ways to get tied into the theater community, show your creativity, and make this show awesome -- from lights, sound, set, costumes, props, makeup and more. Come to our tech meeting this coming Wednesday in the theater from about 3:00-3:45 to learn more.

Thanks for all of your help and interest in our theater program!

--Mr. Kennett

Friday, March 14, 2014

Callback List

Congratulations, once again, to everyone for performing wonderful auditions. To help us in the casting process, we're asking the following people to come to the choir room today at 3:00 to dramatically read some portions of the script. Thanks so much for your interest and for sharing your talents!

Women

Brittney McHugh
Cecilia Smith
Elaine Bieschke
Elizabeth Routzahn
Gigi Relic
Grace Pontius
Hannah Jones
Jessica Hillman
Jordan Preusker
Kasey Thiel
Lexi Viegas
Meg Orr
Olivia Jensen
Sophie Murk

Men
Adrian Nuno
Aidan OConnor
Andrew Nuno
Austin Comstock
DJ Lima
Jason Kovalic
Michael Morones
Neil Pretkelis
Nick Wills
Rami Halabi
Reilly Branson
Will Hartnett
Will Restrepo

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Auditions and Callbacks -- A Great Night

Wow. What a talented group of students. We had a total of 54 students audition and, throughout the audition process, we couldn't stop commenting about how impressively talented you all are. After auditions, the directors discussed notes and I'll be posting the callback list to the website and outside of the choir room in the morning. While the audition is used to initially show your talent when working and crafting a character, the goal of callbacks is to help the directors see some of those actors play some specific roles in the script, helping to clarify casting.

During callbacks, the directors will ask you to briefly review a scene and then act it out with some other actors. You may be asked to act in several scenes, switching to a different character each time. This helps directors to see your flexibility and ability to take direction. We'll describe more of the process to those of you who are called back tomorrow.

Callbacks will start at 3:00 and may go until about 5:00. Keep tuned for the list in the morning.

Again, great job to all who were involved. Thanks for all of your hard work and for sharing with us your talent and skill.

--Mr. Kennett