<p>i feel very snobby after reading that post i am sorry for being my first post i am off to a bad start.</p>
<p>don't worry. there's nothing wrong in being proud of what your program has to offer. that does sound like an amazing program and i would be proud of it also.</p>
<p>a... four... foot... pool....</p>
<p>?!?!?!?!?!</p>
<p>wow....</p>
<p>is there a way to post pictures here?</p>
<p>In the past, our school has only had one straight play in the fall and one musical in the spring. However, this year we put on our first ever drama club show. Next year if time permits, we may even do two!</p>
<p>02-03:
Cheaper By the Dozen
South Pacific</p>
<p>03-04:
A Christmas Carol
Scarlet Pimpernel</p>
<p>04-05:
The Diary of Anne Frank
Into the Woods (Cinderella's Stepmother)
Lysistrata (understudy to Lysistrata)</p>
<p>05-06:
?
? I hope it's really good!
? I'm pushing for Lady Windermere's Fan, but even though I'm pres of drama club, I don't know if the choice is up to me.</p>
<p>I have just returned from a conference of high school and middle school drama teachers in NYc. 3 Days, 4 shows and a lot of dialog. One thing we all had in common was how much we really care about our students and how we want to make their H>S> experience meaningful and fun.
One thing I was amazed to discover was how many schools were lucky enough to have theater in their curriculum, ie. a funded teacher. Well at my school on Long Island only 40 minutes from Broadway we have no theater classes. OK. we do have great shows because "arts professionals"in our community stepped in and decided to make a program! Our mainstage shows are 2 musicals and 1 drama a year. We also have a Drama club that has a youing playwrights festival, a one act festival, an avant garde play and a student directed play. We have realized that because we offer such great programs as extra curricular activities, that the district doesn't have to fund in school programs. This is all very frustrating, but... at least our kids benefit! I'd love to hear from other districts with this problem!</p>
<p>2004-5 Once Upon A Mattress, one Act Play festival, Romeo and Juliet,
Importance of being Ernest, Shakespeare Day, Anne Frank project, City of Angels, Young playwrights festival.</p>
<p>Camge, at our high school, there is no drama teacher or classes either. We do put on excellent dramas and musicals (one of each per year so not as much as you guys) but like you, they are ECs (after school). For the dramas, an English teacher had been directing them though she is now retiring and I do not know what will be next year though my kids are now out of the school. For the musicals, we have a director who does not work at the school but he has been on Broadway, is Equity, used to be a soap opera star and runs a summer professional theater, among other things. Our music department happens to be very good though that is not theater, but it is related and my kids were very involved in music. The past two years, my daughter initiated and created the first student run musical theater cabarets which were successful but I have no idea if that will happen again because it was her thing, so to speak, though it would be nice if other kids were able to continue this because it had been something that all involved really loved. But that's it. For my child, while she was involved in the music program and did the school dramas and musicals, all her training was outside of school. This meant it cost money and involved many hours after school and at night and on weekends and very far mileage (being a rural area), unlike what it might be like in a performing arts high school where some of the training goes on during the school day. </p>
<p>Susan</p>
<p>Ughh... Why doesn't my stupid high school do musicals?!</p>
<p>lets see:</p>
<p>My high school. Bowie High School....</p>
<p>Before i got there: Sweeny Todd and A Chorus Line..they did a bunch of others, but, i wasnt there. so ya.</p>
<p>At Bowie, we do a crazy amount of productions per year.</p>
<p>Freshman Year : Trojan Woman and Bury the Dead (fall shows)
Childrens shows (tons of em)
Into the Woods (musical)
UIL SHOW (All The Way Home)
Senior One Acts (tons of em..)</p>
<p>Sophmore Year: Julius Ceaser and House Arrest
Childrens Shows
Evita (musical...it was friggen AMAZING)
UIL Show (The Women)
Senior One Acts </p>
<p>And im going into my junior year as an officer for the theatre company. I am the webmaster :). heres the site : <a href="http://www.bowietheatre.org%5B/url%5D">http://www.bowietheatre.org</a></p>
<p>theater is the cool thing at my school. and it's not an arts school. all girls catholic</p>
<p>Cadget,
I was reading your posts and you sound a lot like me from the standpoint of wanting a MT school near a large city and with a strong liberal arts component. I am curious what made you choose Northwestern over CAP21 because these are my two most desired programs (I will be applying for 2006). Just cuz everyone else is doing it I am gonna put up my high school shows too:</p>
<p>Freshmen:
Les Miserables (Thenardier)
Our Town
Brighton Beach Memoirs</p>
<p>Sophomore:
Working (Mike, the steelworker)
Marisol (Lenny, Scartissue)
Songs for a New World (Man 1)
The Ruby Sunrise (Paul, Henry)</p>
<p>Junior:
Play (man 1)
Ohio Impromtu (listener)
Urinetown (Bobby Strong) </p>
<p>Senior (upcoming):
The Last Five Years (Jamie) -cast this summer
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged
The Cradle Will Rock
Tick....Tick.....BOOM</p>
<p>Mitch, I am impressed with the musicals that your high school did or is doing....particularly, Urinetown, Last Five Years, Songs for a New World, and Tick Tick Boom! I am curious....is this a performing arts high school, a private school, or public? My D would have died to have that line up of school musicals! </p>
<p>Best of luck to you on the audition process. If you are drawn to BFA programs with a strong liberal arts component.....besides NYU/Tisch and Northwestern, look into UMich. I have a kid about to enter Tisch (CAP21) and she also was drawn to programs that had strong liberal arts connected to a BFA conservatory approach. </p>
<p>Susan</p>
<p>yeah im really impressed with the last five years considering it's a 2 person show........</p>
<p>OMG - I saw the complete works...abridged (etc) at a community theater in CT and it was the most HYSTERICAL play I ever saw. Tears were rolling down my eyes; the actors were unbelievable! (And I HATE Shakespeare!)</p>
<p>Hey,
Ya we have gotten really lucky. I go to a private school just north of San Diego, CA and they pretty much let the drama teachers put on whatever they want without much censorship from the administration. I should qualify though that Songs for a New World was a senior project I was involved in and acting in and directing Tick...Tick...BOOM is going to be my senior project.</p>
<p>We are very blessed to have some talented and enthusiastic directors at both the HS & Middle schools in our community. The middle school has two directors that work very closely together [one focuses on music direction, the other on acting direction], the two years my d attended ms they produced:</p>
<p>Fiddler on the Roof [D in chorus]
Into the Woods [D was Cinderella]</p>
<p>At the HS there are three productions [2 dramas and one musical] and the two directors alternate years as to who does the musical and who does the dramas. Recent years have seen:</p>
<p>Evita
Blood Brothers
Grease
Joseph
You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
Laramie Project
Of Mice & Men
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Wizard of Oz</p>
<p>This coming year the musical is Seusical, D has been rehearsing her audition all summer...fingers crossed everyone :o</p>
<p>Hi, I'm new to this thread.
Last year our drama production class did:
Mirrors XIV (A student written comedy show)
The Taming of the Shrew
Bang Bang You're Dead
Broken Hearts and Mended Dreams
Spoon River Anthology
Disney's Beauty and the Beast (So much fun ... I was Lumiere!)</p>
<p>Next year we are probably going to do:
Mirrors XV
Bang Bang You're Dead (again)
Spoon River Anthology (again)
Hidden: The Story of Anne Frank
Moliere's The Miser
Either Fame, Anything Goes or 42nd Street for the musical</p>