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COSTUMES - Monday Emergency Measure Day

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This Monday, 3/19 is last call for ALL measurements. I have to have all measurements on Monday. If your child did not get measured Thursday, 3/15, I need their measurements Monday. I will be measuring 4 - 5:30 pm.

IMPORTANT: If your child is not in scenes 1 - 4 and called for rehearsal on Monday, they must be accompanied by an adult. 

I will have help with the measurements and we will get them measured and release them to you as soon as possible. If you cannot have your child at the school accompanied by an adult on Monday, you can print off the forms and measure them yourself or have someone you know familiar with clothing measuring do it for you. Please read the instructions carefully, they are very particular. Please make sure you print the correct gender form (Not the gender of the role, the gender of the actor). Please use the Harris Costumes Form. They can be turned in either to me in the computer lab or in the Martin Musicals box at school on Monday morning. Thank you so much parents for helping us out with this!

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Important Dates!

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We have some upcoming SATURDAY rehearsals...

March 24 - will be our chorus camp, afternoon choreography rehearsals, headshots and first Parent work day. This is a HUGE day for Martin Musicals. ALL HANDS ON DECK!
 
April 14 - second Parent work day and choreography rehearsals as needed! 

April 21 - all day tech run through at Durant! We are so excited to have this opportunity to get our mics up and running before the first evening rehearsal at the Durant!

Specifics and times will be coming soon, but I wanted to make sure you had those dates on your calendars!

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Alumni & Parents of Alumni

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For all returning alumni and rookies your application fee of $10 is due March 24.

Returning Alumni - You do not have to stay for the meeting but please drop your application and $10 fee off so I can place you for Wizard of Oz.

First Time Alumni - If you did not go to the first meeting you and your adult representative must be present to be a part of the show this year. The brief meeting is at 1:00 pm.

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It's Playbill time!

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If you are interested in having an ad in our playbill, here is the form. Please note - If you are interested in a Director's Circle package please email me ASAP. Space is limited. If you are interested in a Business ad or Congratulatory Ad you can turn in those forms with payment to the musicals mailbox. ALL ADS ARE DUE BY APRIL 6

Scripts

All students should be off book after Spring Break. I will spend this week making sure some of the kiddos who don't have scripts get their pages copied so they can study those lines. Thye should bring their scripts to rehearsal for studying and taking notes during down times but no scripts in hands while acting after Spring Break. We will have Gracie G there to cue and dropped lines and making notes of where the dripped lines are so you can study. Thank you!

Rehearsal Notes - Please Read!

ALL CHARACTERS: PLEASE START COMING TO REHEARSALS IN YOUR CHARACTER SHOES/JAZZ SHOES/TAP SHOES ASAP!

Leader of Winkies - Please be prepared to do lead step routine this week during rehearsal. Click here for the Practice Video

Ozians and Emerald City Chorus - You should come any time either of those groups is called. We put them together into a larger group rather than two smaller groups.

Aunt Em - Please come with a bun and if you have round the house any clunky heel you could use just for rehearsal and an apron until we get your real costume in, that would be great. Don't buy anything special, we should have your real stuff soon.

Glinda -  Please bring tiara and practice scepter from now on and come in character shoes.

Wicked Witch - Please begin coming to rehearsal with some kind of green makeup and a rehearsal cape and character boots. Please bring rehearsal broom.

Dorothy -  Can you please start coming to rehearsals with hair braided in two loose braids, character shoes, and lip gloss. We need to add fake lashes at some point when it's feasible so you can practice in them. Rochelle said she can apply them for you. We may have loaner character shoes you can use for rehearsal. Also, please get some very thin white ankle socks (kind of like dress socks) to be worn under character shoes and taps for rehearsals.

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Chorus Camp applications

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We have over 40 kids signed up for Chorus Camp and we are excited for our biggest group yet! In order for costuming and choreography to be its best we are unable to accept any more CC applications. Thank you for your understanding!

If you have already turned in paperwork we will see you March 24th at 10:00 am!

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PLEASE keep your kids home if they are sick

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We will catch them up - I don't want anyone to feel pressure to attend rehearsals while they are sick!

We are making some changes to this week's schedule to make the best use of everyone's time. (A lot of kiddos are sick so we are working around missing folks).

Tues, Feb 6th until 5 pm - Dorothy, Tin Man, Lion, Scarecrow, Wizard

Wed, Feb 7th until 5 pm - Ozians, Emerald City Chorus

Thu, Feb 8th until 4:30 pm - Winkies

Fri, Feb 9th until 5 pm - Ozians, Emerald City Chorus

Thank you for being flexible!

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Here are all the Chorus Camp forms that have been received

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** Reminder Chorus Camp Day (and CC Parent Meeting) is Saturday, March 24 10-noon. Meeting is at 10 am

Bruton (2), Burnett, Byrd, Cade, Carney, Corbin, Cox, Crowley, Elliott, Franz (3), Green, Jensen,
Kidd, Neal, Nelson, Nykaza, O'Neill (3), Ortiz, Poston, Sabin, Seago, Smith, Sutton (2), Tidwell,
Tucker, Vantine, Walters

These were all in the musicals mailbox. If your name is not here please check with your child's teacher and see if they might have it (Sometimes they like to hide in backpacks too!)

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Alumni!

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After the meeting last week it became clear that we needed to reorganize the Alumni application/meeting process. The new policy is here.

****Our makeup Rookie meeting will be Saturday, March 24 at 1:00 pm at Martin (That is Chorus Camp Day). Rookies - Please make every effort to attend! If you have questions please contact me or Jamie Strittmatter

We are excited about this group of Alumni!

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It's Chorus Camp Time!

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If you would like to sign your child up for Chorus Camp, click on the title of this post to access the form to download. Just print, complete and return to to the Musicals mailbox along with $75 by February 2nd!

FOR THOSE ALREADY SIGNED UP PLEASE NOT THAT CHORUS CAMP DAY IS NOW SATURDAY MARCH 24 (NOT APRIL 14)