Ushers needed for High School Musical

Contact Laurie Cassman for details about ushering. Tell your friends!!!

Guthrie Trip

Please remind your musical cast and crew that I will be coming to practice on April 11 to pick up permission slips and $15 for the April 17 Guthrie Field Trip. If they want a ticket, they need to have these items on Wednesday!

Sandy Nieland
John Marshall High School
Speech, Drama, English
Department Chair

Great River Shakespeare Festival YOUTH AUDITIONS

The Great River Shakespeare Festival is looking for young actors for the roles of Donalbain (Duncan's son), Fleance (Banquo's son), Macduff's children and Young Seward in this summer's production of "Macbeth." Director Doug Scholz-Carlson will audition boys and girls from age 8 through high school on Wednesday, April 11th [NOTE: CONTACT HIM FOR ALTERNATE TIMES] from 4 to 6. Students do not need to prepare anything and should dress to move. We may read from Macbeth Act 4 scene 2.

We will have a full rehearsal schedule available at the audition. In general, rehearsals for these roles will take place on a negotiable schedule mainly in the evenings from May 15th to June 17th. There is a significant time commitment days and evenings during tech rehearsals from June 17th to 27th, and the show runs from June 29th to July 28th. The performance schedule is online at www.grsf.org. Students must be available for all rehearsals during tech week and all performances.

A note to parents: "Macbeth" is a violent play. Students in these roles will be involved in professionally choreographed theatrical violence with swords, knives, spears and perhaps even a battle axe. Macduff's children and Young Seward are murdered on stage. The play also includes witchcraft in forms not taught at Hogwarts.

For an audition appointment, please email Doug Scholz-Carlson at dougsc@grsf.org, or come to the black box theater in the Performing Arts Center at Winona State University between 4 and 6 on Wednesday, April 11th.

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Be ready for a long rehearsal, pack some fruit or energy bars! If you own a basketball, bring it to rehearsal Monday. It's exciting as it gets closer!! I don't know how your conversations have been going, but pretty much everyone I know is coming to see this - we've gotta work hard to give them the show they deserve!

If you have rehearsal photos, get them to info@theatrejm.com as soon as possible!