Downloading

While trying to walk a crew member through downloading something through mediafire.com, it dawned on me that a problem some of you may be having is not knowing were to click because it doesn't stand out much...



If you do not even get that screen, email me and I will work with you.

Updates

All documents on mediafire.com (Contact/Cast list, Pictures, and schedules) have been updated. The cast list will be updated again tomorrow.

THE SCHEDULE HAS BEEN REVISED - Many people did not seem to catch the vocal rehearsal schedule, so I added it to the calendar.

Finally, the contact information of out "child wrangler", Juliet Hermens is 503.449.9670, julieth4@gmail.com

Cast Fee Due

2/3 of the cast still needs to pay their $65 cast fee. It is due IMMEDIATELY. Thank you to all who have already paid.

If you are the parent of an elementary or middle school actor, please do not give your actor the responsibility of turning in your check. She or he may forget, or misplace it. Please walk your check into the building.

Give your check to Kathy (lead parent) or Connor (the stage manager....and yes, you can really trust Connor with your checks), or put it in Jim's teacher mailbox in the main office (office is open until 4:30). Connor is ALWAYS there at EVERY rehearsal, so he's easy to find.

Please make checks out to LHS Drama. Remember, an Annie t-shirt is part of this cast fee. If you need to do a payment plan, or need a financial scholarship to cover any or all of your cast fee, please see Kathy or Jim. We will work it out.

Cast Breakfast

Even though the schedule says that cast members are not called until noon on April 26th (Sunday), but we are planning on having food avaliable at around 11:00-11:30 for a cast breakfast. In past shows, this has proved to be a nice cast/crew bonding experience. Hope to see you there.

Schedule Updated

The rehearsal schedule has been updated to say that the Boylen Sisters are called to run the NYC harmonies on Thursday, April 2nd from 5:00-6:30

For The Saturday (04/04) Work Party

This Saturday, April 4, Marychris will be present at 11:00 to work on some costuming things with any parents or students that would be willing to come in to help. It would be much appreciated for people to show up to that.

Also, we now have a new way of taking attendance at rehearsal. We will have a Spreadsheet up with everyone's name. You should sign in when you get there (with your initials) and sign out when you leave (with a check or something). You may not have a friend sign in or out for you, but a parent can.  An example of how I might sign in/out would be: "CA / X". You'll see what I mean when you see it.

A few thing to consider - UPDATED

First, please do not comment on posts to tell me something directly. Comments should only be used if it is something that you feel everyone should know, not just that someone is going to be absent. You should email me those things.

Also, I have been getting a number of people saying that they have conflicts that were not on the conflict sheet. This, I understand, cannot be avoided all the time, but keep in mind that we have over 100 people to take into consideration, and we are not going to change the schedule just for your conflicts. That actor will just not come to rehearsal that day, and hopefully, come show time, they have rehearsed enough to be ready to go on stage.

Finally, the images of all schedules and such have been updated.

Update (03/30)

Due to the number of times I will be updating the information on mediafire.com (contact list, cast list, etc.), I will not be notifying people when that is updated. I imagine I will be doing it once a day or so. When I make an update to the schedule, however, there will be an announcement about that. The pictures will not be updated unless there is a change in schedule or if someone asks me because they cannot open a Microsoft Word file.

Servants Called Tomorrow

All Servants are called tomorrow (03/30) to rehearsal.

The servants are...

Women: Malia Naman, Amanda Lyche, Susie Yungler, Alonza Vance, Hailey McDonald, Chaconne Martin-Berkowitz, Sophia Levenson

Men: Lavell Allen, Sam Selbie, Nick Fernandez, Tarrek Hassan, Brazil Morgan, Soren Carr, Ian Andeson

We Need to Beg/Borrow/Donate These Things for Annie Set

Do you have connections to get, donate or or borrow the following item for the Annie set? If you do, please let me know (connortanderson@gmail.com)

We need:

• A fake Christmas Tree, at least 12 feet tall. The bigger, the better
• One beautiful, substantial looking desk for Daddy Warbucks
• Multiple pneumatic tools - Staple Gun, Nail Gun, Air Compressor
• Cordless Drills
• 5 twin size mattresses
• Donation or big discount for digital photo imaging. We are trying create a 4 foot by 6 foot replica of the image on a $100 bill.

Headshots and Bios

We need all head shots and Bios emailed to Natalie at nataliefloss@gmail.com by APRIL 11th

Thank you

Updated Downloads! - Updated 03/29 - 7:35

I have taken down the songs. I hope to have a better version for rehearsing up sometime.

Updated Scene Breakdown and Schedule

All Problem spots may be announced as late as the day before. It is hard to plan these. Also, as to what cast is performing/having dress rehearsals when, that will be up shortly.

Contact Information and Cast Lists

Please look over this and check that you information is correct. Again, let me know if you want yours taken off.

Update (03/29 - 7:35)

All Documents are now in Picture-form for those of you who are having trouble. They are all GIF's so you should be able to read them.

Also, all documents have been updated

Actors/Parents: Complete Set of Contact Information Needed for Cast/Crew/Parents

We've discovered the information on our Annie contact list has mistakes (oops, because it's not always easy to read your handwriting on audition forms), and lacks important information. We need to get complete contact information of our cast/crew for communication purposes. Please immediately email the following information to me, at connortanderson@gmail.com THANK YOU!!!!!

Actor Name
Home phone number
Actor Cell phone number, if any
Actor email address, if any
Parent/Guardian name(s)
Parent/guardian cell phone number
Parent email address

Conflicts

Many people listed conflicts such as "soccer" or "Dance". We cannot work with this. If we call you and you had a previously unlisted conflict and you say you can't go, there's nothing we can do about that. We have over 100 people's schedules to take into consideration, we can not easily fix something that you did not list earlier. This includes unspecific conflicts such as "I may have to leave early" or "I have to work". If you have an unlisted or unclear conflict, you must honor your commitment to this show. If there is anything you would like to revise, email it to me by the end if the break.

Also, there will be a dress rehearsal on April 27 and 28th. You CANNOT MISS Yours. Also, on the 29th, you are called at 5:00 for a cast dinner. This is also important so try to get out of conflicts. Finally, you can not, obviously, miss your performances. We will know soon which cast is preforming/having their dress rehearsal when, so plan around when you find out.

Attention Annie Parents.....Volunteer Needed to Head Online Ticket Sales

Can you head up an online ticket reservation system for Annie?
Ticket Turtle www.ticketturtle.com is a Portland-headquartered, national company that offers an online reservation system that organizations can use to sell reserved, assigned seating. Since assigned seat reservations produce 20-30% more ticket sales, Jim would like to pursue using Ticket Turtle for Annie. An enthusiastic volunteer parent is needed to immediately head up this Ticket Turtle project. Preferably, we need a volunteer parent who has the time to git 'er dun for Annie, and also carry on this ticket reservation process into next year's (and the following year's) Lincoln theatre season (so 8th grade parents, and Lincoln underclassmen parents are preferred). Deadlines for successful execution of using Ticket Turtle for Annie are looming, and need a quick turn around. If you're interested, please email or call Kathy Weidenbaum (willowcomm@aol.com) for more details. 503.327.8990

Head Shots and Bio's

THIS APPLIES TO ALL CAST MEMBERS, PRODUCTION TEAM, AND CREW!

Please send the following to Natalie McDonald at nataliefloss@gmail.com

• A roughly 50-word biography (3RD PERSON) about yourself including your previous theater experience, hobbies, anyone you want to thank, and anything else you'd like to include.  (For our younger cast members, a bio written by a parent will do) Please do not include jokes as these will be deleted in the editing process. KEEP IT PROFESSIONAL.
• A picture of you.  It can be a professional head shot, but doesn't have to be.  It is also okay if you are not the only person in the picture, because we can easily crop it. Keep this one somewhat professional as well.

The biographies and head shots will be featured on a slideshow that will be playing in the theatre lobby prior to each performance and during intermission. We are using this strategy so we don't have to use so much paper in our program.

For example, part of mine might be "Connor is a Junior at Lincoln. This is his 11th show. Previous credits include Stage Managing "Blitz" earlier this year as well as Sound Board Operator for "High School Musical", "Love/Song", and the "Tin Pan Alley Theatre Company"'s productions of "Pippin" and "Annie Warbucks."

Another example is Colleen Smyth's (Assistant Stage Manager): "Colleen is a sophomore who has preformed in 5 LHS shows and is doing tech work for the 2nd time.  When not camping out in the theatre Colleen works on Lincoln's literary arts magazine, Polyglot, runs LHS K.N.I.T.S., and raises money for PPS' high school music programs with the Music in the Schools committee."

If you have any questions, email them to the above address.

First Week

This first week has been quite hectic, and I'm sure I speak for others as well when I say that I am looking forward to catching up on my sleep. The scheduling has been very unclear, and we will fix that for the weeks to come. You have all been doing wonderfully. Work on some of your lines, go over your songs and dances and have a great break.

See you all in a week.
-Connor Anderson

NOTES!!!!

So first of all, everyone was called to rehearsal today (Thurs, 03/19). Many of you did not show up. The schedule says "Bows". This means EVERYONE IN THE CAST! I know that most of you probably did not know this, which is why it's okay that many of you were absent. However, we will be running the Bows again the first half hour of rehearsal tomorrow, and EVERYONE MUST BE THERE!!!!!!!!

Also, Marychris Mass, our costume designer will be there tomorrow to answer any questions.

And just so you know... just about every document I have posed via mediafire.com is about to be updated in the next few days.


-Connor

Contact Information and Cast List

First of all, I am still missing contact information from Anna DeVoe, Ward Smith, Gracie Heacock, and Officer John. Would you please be so kind as to email that to me as soon as possible.

Also, I need to have a contact sheet for my own personal records, but if anyone wishes that their information be taken down, let me know and I will do so promptly

Also, I have a cast list, in case you need it.

REMEMBER: with each file I upload, when I update the document itself, I will repost.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=64a878780f91a753e5c3dee5769931ec2fcaf8d0fdadc0e05621d66e282a0ee8

Notes (03/17)

Okay, so... a few guide lines... because people obviously did not read my previous post about this.

1. Read EVERY post thoroughly. There may be some things hidden in there that pertain to you.
2. I moderate every comment before it gets published. Don't post it twice because you don't see it go up the first time and anonymous comments will not be posted!
3. Check this as often as possible, every day if you can.
4. Don't ask me every little question you might have. I have over 100 people to deal with, I do not know the specifics of each person. If you are unsure whether or not you are called and the schedule is not clear or something that's one thing... but things that have been repeated over and over again or I know are on this blog are things you should not need to text/email/call me about.

And don't comment with apologies or excuses, my inbox is insane enough as it is.


Another thing to keep in mind: I am a student... I have classes, so things may take me a little while to get to if I am in a class.

Actual Crew List

THIS IS LENGTHY - READ CAREFULLY (TECH CREW ONLY)

This is how the tech crew is AS OF RIGHT NOW... it will change.

Stage Manager: Connor Anderson
Assistant Stage Managers: Colleen Smyth, Allison Dobscha
House Manager: Kevin Weidenbaum
Assistant House Manager: Linneas Boland-Godbey
Light Board Operator: Liz Fitzgerald
Sound Board Operator: Connor Anderson
Assistant Sound Board Operator: Hayden Wilcox
Fly Rail/Arbor Operators: Lorenzo Caputo
Costume Crew: Gavriella Wolf, Claire Christy, Ceara Adamson, Liz Cave (?), Michaela Dilbert
Hair/Makeup: Stephanie Klein (?), Maddie Patton, Tovah Siegel
Props: Rose Owen

Run Crew
Actor Cues: Amanda Schenberger
Stage Hands: Gina Scalpone, Amanda Schenberger, Eliese Dorsay, Juliet Hermens
Curtain Operator: Eliese Dorsay
Child Wrangler: Juliet Hermens



Some of you may be confused why you are two or more things... trust me, it's not hard.
Also, a (?) means that I do not know if you are on my crew or not because I have yet to recieve what I requested from you which is PHONE NUMBER AND CONFLITS THROUGH THE FIRST WEEK OF MAY!!!!!!! I cannot put you on my crew without this my FRIDAY!!! I will track all of you down tomorrow with this.

EMAIL IT TO ME, my address is connortanderson@gmail.com

This will be updated and reposted when I get more information.

YOU MUST ALSO COME TO ALL OF/MOST OF THE SATURDAY (and possibly Sunday) WORK PARTIES... see schedule for details. Also, you will be required to be there EVERY DAY starting with the Saturday before April 30th



Thank you,
Connor Anderson
Stage Manager

Parent Meeting

Reminder: There is a parent meeting Tomorrow (The 18th) at 7:00 in Room 169. It is directly to the right before you walk in the auditorium doors.

Kathy's Contact Information

Kathy Weidenbaum (spelling?) is our lead parent volunteer for this show. Her contact information is...

willowcomm@aol.com

503.327.8990 (Home)

210.823.0027 (Cell)

ATTENTION - NEW CAST LIST!!!

The previous cast list was incomplete. Here is a revised one.





Orphans: Isabel Garcia, Kate Lambert, Emilia Massa, Lara Evans, Sienna Fox, Jordan Cohen, Lucy McMath, Grace Gholston, Ella Jefferies.

Chorus: Francie Smith-Korn, Hannah Chen, Josephine Savara-Watson, Paulina Kuchepator, Maya Lamanto, Ovidia Ramos, Sophie Wilson, Kira Rodriquez, Ali Peterkort, Ellen Oh, Maya Caulfield, Elizabeth Fox, Maya Hally, Simone Hally, Fiona Smith, Reegan O’Keefe, Emma Parker, Claire Clapp, Paige Talbot, Gina Scalpone

Street People: Kendall Fleshman, Isabelle Catania, Carmen Rose Fiallo, Addison Jackson
Elleri Pontius, Natalie Shershow, Michaela Yuthas, Georgia Hastie, Katie Hastie, Elsie Kloepel, Allya Flammini, Katie McClannan, Rose Salveit, Anna DeVoe, Kate Kelly, Jane Gamble, Emily Gamble.

*Dance Captain

Assistant Director: Emzy Mulkey, Anika Kulander

Cast List

Many of the roles have been double cast as you will note below. We will go over any questions you have at the read/sing through today which will start at 3:30 in the auditorium. For those who can’t be there right at 3:30 due to getting out of school later than Lincoln, please get there as soon as you can. We will conclude by 6:30. Thank you to everyone who auditioned! We’re going to have a great show.






Orphans: Isabel Garcia, Kate Lambert, Emilia Massa, Lara Evans, Sienna Fox, Jordan Cohen, Lucy McMath, Grace Gholston, Ella Jefferies.

Chorus: Francie Smith-Korn, Hannah Chen, Josephine Savara-Watson, Paulina Kuchepator, Maya Lamanto, Ovidia Ramos, Sophie Wilson, Kira Rodriquez, Ali Peterkort, Ellen Oh, Maya Caulfield, Elizabeth Fox, Maya Hally, Simone Hally, Fiona Smith, Reegan O’Keefe, Emma Parker, Claire Clapp, Paige Talbot, Gina Scalpone

Street People: Kendall Fleshman, Isabelle Catania, Carmen Rose Fiallo, Addison Jackson
Elleri Pontius, Natalie Shershow, Michaela Yuthas, Georgia Hastie, Katie Hastie, Elsie Kloepel, Allya Flammini, Katie McClannan, Rose Salveit, Anna DeVoe, Kate Kelly, Jane Gamble, Emily Gamble.

*Dance Captain

Assistant Director: Emzy Mulkey, Anika Kulander

Costume Information

As you know the time frame is 1933, but there are lots of things out there we can adapt. Most of the kids will only need one costume, some of the girls in the orphanage might also need sleepwear. I strongly suggest you do NOT use your own clothes as we will have to make things look ragged and dirty. I strongly suggest the Goodwill Outlet Stores (the bins), Value Village, Red, White and Blue stores or any other thrift stores in your area. What we need are: flannel nightgowns, night shirts, overalls, pinafores, aprons, bandannas and head scarves, newsboy caps, thermal leggings, tights and knee socks, leather shoes with ties or ankle boots (really old converse sneakers could work also, the very classic style), wool scarves and gloves we can cut the fingertips off, prairie style cotton dresses or very simple shifts. No bright, neon colors or bold patterns, but faded calico type patterns or checks would be OK. Boys can wear old suit pants we can cut off, overalls, flannel shirts, henley type under or thermal shirts, old sweaters and sweater vests (argyle plaid is always good...) Both boys and girls can have old cardigan sweaters, oversized is good or barn coat type jackets, or old wool coats. If pants are a little too big, that's a good look with an old leather belt to cinch them in. I suggest watching the film and just googling photos of the 1930's or photos of other productions of Annie to get ideas. And like I said, you can contact me anytime with questions. Between the main cast and my other jobs on a big show like this, I have to rely on your help and do appreciate it.
Thanks,
Marychris Mass
Costume Designer

Guidelines

I figured that I would set fourth a few ground rules for this blog

• Any member of the company (Cast or crew) must check this blog DAILY. This will be my main way of communicating with you, so this is very important.
• Read EVERY post thoroughly.
• Anonymous comments will be deleted. If you want to leave a comment (sometimes I will even ask for everyone to comment because I want to make sure people read the post), either get a blogspot account (blogspot is part of Google, so it will be the same as a gmail account) or leave your name in the comment.

A few other notes:

• There are some high school cast members that I know might feel a bit angry towards some of our non-high school cast members. People have already been questioning to me why we are having younger cast members. This is your director's decision. We have non high school cast members because he feels it necessary. I DO NOT want any feelings of animosity within the cast just because of this.
• This is a high school show. Annie may be the epitome of innocence, but it's being done at a high school. During past shows, there have been incidences where some strong language has come out during the process. We will try to hold our tongues around our younger cast members, but sometimes, things slip out.
  

-Connor Anderson

Welcome

Welcome to Annie at Lincoln Drama. This blog will follow the entire process of our Spring Musical, so make sure to check back often!

-Connor Anderson
Stage Manager