Great opening weekend!

CONGRATS my lil Seussy creatures!

I am very proud of my cast & crew...and you should all be proud of yourselves. You did a great job, but don't slack off! The buzz is out there - now we need to impress three more audiences!
And sell sell sell! We have an amazing show that shouldn't be missed!

WEDNESDAY, JULY 13
6:30 BRUSH-UP
Please be there & ready to run-thru the show at 6:30. We will be running lights & sound to give the tech crews a review as well. No costumes are necessary unless you have a quick change.
Also, no orchestra. Just MB on the keys.
I am all for having "lots of good fun that is funny" but please keep goofing around during the Brush-Up to a minimum. Use it as a refresher for all your songs & dances.

Opening Night

This is it!

Today's the day!

Your mountain is waiting

So...get on your way!

We made it to opening night! Yay! I am very proud of each & every one of you...
You all bring something very special to the show. I am overjoyed you decided to spend your summer sweating away in the Jungle of Nool with me.

Now the real adventure begins!...
Audiences will love our show. Give them the same Seussilicious show we have been rehearsing. Give them energy! & diction! & projection! & precision! Be wild & crazy & your wonderful Seussy selves!
And make sure you THINK! andthinkandthinkandthinkandthinkandthinkandthinkandthink JUST THINK!

BREAK A LEG TONIGHT!

Rehearsal Schedule

Tuesday, July 5
6:00
Arrive, get into costume
6:30
Warm-up/Sound Check
6:45
Run Show - Tech
Adding Lights, Costumes, Sound & Orchestra
This may be a long night. There will be stopping to set specific lighting cues. Please come ready to work, we need to step it up to performance quality. Only two more chances to run the show before we have a small audience on Thursday!

Wednesday, July 6
6:00 - Call, please arrive no later than this. Feel free to arrive earlier if you know it will take you longer to get into make-up & costume
6:15 - Vocal warm-up
6:30 - Notes
7:00 - Run show
8:00 - BREAK. Performance at Taste of Talent - "Amazing Mayzie"
Then continue with show.

Thursday, July 7
6:00 - Call
6:30 - Vocal warm-up/Sound Check
7:00 - PHOTO
7:30 - Run Show

Friday/Saturday, July 8/9
6:00 - Call
6:30 - Vocals
7:10 - Circle
7:30 - Show

Rehearsal Update

Friday, July 1
6:00 - EVERYONE!
DANCE REVIEW

Please be there at 6 & be ready to work.
This is our last chance to review before Tech week.

Unless someone like you

cares a whole awful lot,

nothing is going to change.

It's not.

Thank you everyone for your hard work so far, but don't give up yet...I need to see energy & excitement on that stage! Be weird! Be wild! Be extreme! Now is the time to make it happen...only 5 more rehearsals before we have a paying audience!

Schedule Update: THURSDAY, JUNE 23
PHOTO CALL - Horton, Cat, JoJo, Gertrude, Mayzie, Wickershams, Birdgirls.
Martha would like to start taking pictures around 6. Please try to arrive early & get into costume & make-up.
Everyone else in cast, please plan to still arrive at 6:30. Thanks.

Rehearsal Schedule

Monday, June 27
6:30 Vocal Review
7:00 Fix any ACT II problems
7:30 - 9:30
Run ACT II, review ACT I choreography

Tuesday, June 28
6:00 Run Show with Orchestra

Wednesday, June 29
6:30 Run Show - Tech

Thursday, June 30
6:30 Run Show - Tech
PHOTOS for publicity. Please make sure your costumes are ready, together & if bringing any additional personal items of your own (shoes, hats, tights, etc.) please make sure they are at the theatre.

Friday, July 1
TBA
Save this date in case we need an additional rehearsal.

Saturday, July 2
UPDATE
8:00 Decorate Barrow Float. Martha will be at Barrow Warehouse at 8 to put decorations on float if anyone would like to help.
4:30 All Float riders meet at Theatre. Get into costume. Then we'll walk to float location, either warehouse or parade line-up position. If raining, please wear anything red, white, or red & white. If you are going to be late, please let us know.
Parade begins at 6

WORK CALL ALL WEEK!
10-6! Please help if you're available!

Rehearsal Update

Congratulations! We made it thru the entire show YAY!
No work call this weekend...there's a comedy show on the stage Saturday night.

Sunday, June 26
6:00
We will be working thru the show, fixing any problems & filling in any holes.
After some touching up, we will be running ACT 1

Thanks again for all your hard work!

Work Call

Our illustrious Tech Director Ben Geibel will begin constructing the Seussical set on Monday. Anyone available or willing to help please join Ben at the theatre anytime from 10-6, Monday thru Friday!

Choreography Review

My Uncle Terwilliger waltzes with bears
It's a terrible, terrible state of affairs.

Every Saturday night, he creeps down the back stairs,

Sneaks out of the house to go waltzing with bears!

My Uncle Terwilliger waltzes with bears

Uncle says "It's more fun than just sitting in chairs,

and I'm not going to stop it," my Uncle declares,

"It keeps my mind off of my worries and cares!"

Keep working on your dances, just like Uncle Terwilliger...

"Having a Hunch"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEYcE7Uekic&h=fc3b4&refid=0

"It's Possible"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W5rdwapX1g&h=fc3b4&refid=0

Rehearsal Schedule June 19-23

Sunday, June 19
6:00 - 7:30 ALL
Sing thru ENTIRE show
7:30 - 9:00
Work thru ACT I

Monday, June 20
6:30 - 7:00
MUSIC REVIEW
7:00 - 9:00
Work thru ACT II

Tuesday, June 21
6:30 - 7:00
MUSIC REVIEW
7:00 - 9:00
Work thru ACT I

Wednesday, June 22
6:30 - 7:00
MUSIC REVIEW
7:00 - 9:00
Work thru ACT II

Thursday, June 23
6:30 - 7:00
MUSIC REVIEW
7:00 - 9:00
RUN SHOW

This is going to be a long week...we'll be finishing all blocking and choreography, as well as reviewing everything we've learned. Set pieces and props will start to show up. Costume fittings and alterations have already begun. We're getting close! Keep up the hard work!

Show Sponsors

We are still looking for SPONSORS for the show!

I know this show is going to be AMAZING...and I want the sets and costumes and props to be fantastic, and Seussy, and just as amazing as my oh-so-talented cast! I have a lot of ideas (and I'm told by my Producers they are "expensive" ideas) so we need all the help we can get!

Please ask around & see if any local businesses or employers would be willing to be a sponsor for our show...they get advertising in the playbill & on the marquee, as well as tickets to the show! What more could you ask for!?

Martha has Sponsorship Information Forms with all the details.

Sell it! This is going to be the SMASH HIT OF THE SUMMER!

UPDATE: All Sponsorship $ and Ads must be in by Friday, June 25

Rehearsal Update

Thursday, June 16
We will be having Caricatures done Thursday night to use outside the lobby in place of headshots. Our artist would like to start at 6:00 so if anyone is available, please come then. She will also pull cast members briefly from rehearsal throughout the evening.

Reminder: BIOs are due this Wednesday, June 15! Please get those to Martha or myself as soon as possible.

Reheasal Schedule June 12-16

Sunday, June 12
No Rehearsal

Monday, June 13
6:00
General & Things
"Military"
6:30
ALL Principals
BLOCKING ACT II
& MUSIC REVIEW

Tuesday, June 14
6:00 DANCE
JoJo, Cat, Hunches "Having a Hunch"
Hunches: Victor, Ben, Joe, Mallory, Chrissy, Lindsey,
Alyssa D, Jordan, Jenna, Alyssa Z, Critter, Deanna
7:15 DANCE
JoJo, Cat, FISH
"It's Possible"

Wednesday, June 15
6:00-7:00 ALL
MUSIC
7:00-9:00 ALL
BLOCKING - ACT II

Thursday, June 16
6:30 ALL
DANCE REVIEW

Choreography Review

Please keep reviewing your dances...Check out the choreography for "Biggest Blame Fool":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd-_MYPPOLg

Choreography Review

To review the choreography for "Oh the Thinks You Can Think" check out the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBC5Zo_0Q6g

Rehearsal Schedule June 5-9

Sunday, June 5
6:00 DANCE
Jungle Creatures, including Kangaroo, Bird Girls, Wickershams, Horton

Monday, June 6
6:30 - 7:15
MUSIC REVIEW - ALL
7:15 - 8:30
BLOCKING - ALL
7:15 - 8:00
MUSIC - Wickershams
8:00 - 8:30
MUSIC - Bird Girls

Tuesday, June 7
5:30 - 7:00 Principals
MUSIC REVIEW


Wednesday, June 8
6:00 - 7:00 Whos, Mayor of Whoville & Mrs Mayor, Grinch
BLOCKING - "Here on Who"
7:00 - 8:30
MUSIC - ALL
"Courtroom"

Thursday, June 9
6:30
DANCE
Mayzie & Bird Girls
"Amayzing Mayzie"

Rehearsal May 31 - June 2

Tuesday, May 31
MUSIC
6:30 - 8:00
JoJo, Cat, Ensemble
"It's Possible"
"Having a Hunch"
8:00 - 9:00
JoJo, Horton
"Alone in the Universe"
"JoJo Alone"

Wednesday, June 1
6:00 ALL
BLOCK/DANCE
"Oh The Thinks You Can Think"
7:30 - 8:30
MUSIC REVIEW

Thursday, June 2
6:00 MUSIC
General/Thing 1 & 2
6:30 ALL
BLOCKING - ACT 1

Schedule Change

Tonight, Tuesday May 24

MUSIC - Lobby
5:30 - Horton
6:00 - Mayzie
6:30 - Bird Girls
7:15 - Gertrude

Please come at times shown, but plan on staying to work with others as they arrive.
Horton should be done by 7:15. Everyone else should finish up around 8:30.

Let us all SING!

Let us all sing!
It's good for almost any thing.
It's good for dusty musty throats
to let out gusty lusty notes!


I am so impressed with my singing elephant & birds & monkeys & kangaroos & whos & things & creatures...everyone did a FABULOUS job last night! Keep up the hard work this week. We have lots of music to get through, but after last night I'm confident we'll succeed. Yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three quarters percent guaranteed!

Schedule: May 22-26

Sunday, May 22
MUSIC - ALL CAST
6:00 Little Theatre
"Oh The Thinks You Can Think"
"Horton Hears A Who"
"Biggest Blame Fool"
"Green Eggs & Ham"

Monday, May 23
MUSIC
6:30 Lobby
Sour Kangaroo, Bird Girls, Wickershams, Cat, Horton, Ensemble
"Monkey Around"
"Chasing the Whos"
"Circus McGurkus/The Circus on Tour/How Lucky You Are (Horton reprise)"
7:30 Little Theatre
Everyone listed above plus JoJo, Mayor & Mrs Mayor, Yertle
"The People Verses Horton the Elephant"

Tuesday, May 24
MUSIC - Little Theatre
We're covering many songs tonight, starting with only Terri & gradually adding the other characters into the mix.
6:00 - Mayzie
6:30 - Bird Girls
7:00 - Gertrude
7:30 - Horton
"How Lucky You Are (Mayzie Reprise)"
"Mayzie in Palm Beach"
"Amayzing Mayzie"
"Amayzing Gertrude"
"All For You"
"Amayzing Horton"
"Notice Me Horton"
"Alone in the Universe (Horton reprise)"
"One Feather Tail"

Wednesday, May 25
MUSIC
6:30 Lobby
Sour Kangaroo, Bird Girls, Wickershams, Ensemble
"Egg Nest & Tree"
7:00 - add Horton and Gertrude
"Horton Sits on Egg" "Finale Act I: How Lucky You Are (2nd reprise)"
8:00
"Notice Me Horton"
"Alone in the Universe (reprise)"

Thursday, May 26
MUSIC
6:30 Little Theatre
Mr & Mrs Mayor, Ensemble, Horton
"Here On Who"
"Christmas Pageant"
"Solla Sollew"
8:00
Mr & Mrs Mayor
"How to Raise a Child"
"Solla Sollew (reprise)"

Welcome

Cast of FCOA's production of SEUSSICAL!

Cast List:
Horton the Elephant - Jacob Krupitzer
JoJo - Chase Upchurch
Gertrude McFuzz - Janelle Chambers
Mayzie LaBird - Terri Gilmore
Bird Girls - Gracie Burwell, Sarah Creighton, Bryana Delany, Abby Preston, Kathryn Teeters
Sour Kangaroo - Carissa McClintock
Wickersham Brothers - Victor Aponte, Ben Bodamer, Joe Perrotti
Mayor of Whoville - Stephen Teig
Mrs. Mayor - Susan Seth
General Genghis Kahn Schmitz - Ted Smith
Grinch - Tim Gilbert
Yertle the Turtle - Jeri Bolton
Thing1 - Andrew Ritsig
Thing2 - Aaron Ritsig
The Cat in the Hat - Bret Sloan
Ensemble:
Lane Behe, Margaret Bernecky, Lindsey Downing, Alyssa Dreihaup, Critter Fink, Jenna Fulkerson, Anne Marie Hutchinson, Lucy Hutchinson, Lizzy Ivell, Reagan Lashinsky, Tish McClintock, Mallory Piercy, Jordan Plymire, Katherine Thompson, Chrissy Wolfgong, Deanna Wolfgong, Karen Wolfgong, Alyssa Zlotnicki

Seussical comes to the Barrow-Civic Theatre