News & Notes #15-2010 Festival-Still More Photos

Ms. Walker


Mr. Easton


Mr. Alepuyo

Mr. Alepuyo, Mr. Foster, Mr. Easton

Photos courtesy of Sibylla Leon Guerrero

News & Notes #14-2010 Festival-More Photos

Jackilyn





Christina


Dowen

Photos courtesy of Sibylla Leon Guerrero.

News & Notes #13-2010 Festival-More Photos

Rochelle & Rozette


Maria


Mrs. Barja


Kevin


Mr. Foster





Photos courtesy of Sibylla Leon Guerrero

News & Notes #12-2010 Festival-Photos

We welcomed TEAM CNMI back from the International Thespian Festival when they arrived today at 1 AM. (Also heard that the NJFL team arrived back, too.)

Now that they are back, we should have more news and reports and all that good stuff. Photos will be posted here, as people share. Here are the first photos!


Addie & Jenella Photo by Dowen

I love that the tee shirt this year is a lovely green. Wish I had one!!!

In the Narita airport. Photo by Sibylla.

News & Notes #11-2010 Festival-College Audition Feedback

We know that some of our students did very well in college auditions(the technical theatre students in particular) and some of our students generated some interest, but not as much as WE think they deserve.

Why is that?

Here's some insight directly from one of the auditioners (from Florida International University). It may be too late for this year's students, but it is important to keep this accessible for our students who will audition next year and in the years to come.

News & Notes #10-2010 Festival-More News

AUDITIONS:
The 11 callbacks on Performance auditions went as follows:
Dowen-6
Wilden-3
Rochelle-2

On Technical Theatre auditions, there were 30 callbacks!
Rozette-15 UPDATE--22
Rochelle-15 UPDATE--22

PRE-FESTIVAL ACTIVITIES:
The weekend before Festival started, the TEAM 2010 has visited the University of Nebraska Museum of Natural History and toured the Nebraska state capitol.

FESTIVAL ACTIVITIES:
They continue to be busy during Festival attending workshops, main stage shows, chapter select and freestyle shows (one acts), and other activities. They are also rehearsing for Saturday's performance of PULLMAN CAR HIAWATHA at the chapter select showcase. I haven't heard if any of our team have gone to any of the dances.


EXTRA
Want to see what an ITS WORKSHOP is like? Watch this small bit of pop/rock musical theatre workshop:



Updated 6/28/2010 (Per Tina Foster's latest e-mail).

News & Notes # 9-2010 Festival-early reports

For the students in Lincoln--it seems they may be having lightning.
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I've heard from both Mrs. Tina Foster and Mr. Harold Easton.

Tina's report (in part):

It's a big festival! The new kids were excited and nervous, but after a couple of days of going to some activities the nerves have settled down a bit. ... All the kids had IE's today. ... They've all been to some workshops and we continue to run our lines and practice whenever we have a break between activities.

Our lay over in Japan (7 hours) was put to great use. Dowen had the kids practicing and practicing. We put up our play on Saturday and by then they should all be ready.

Tonight we saw another play and it was amazing. The "oohs and aahs" I hear from the kids makes me realize that this is a great opportunity for kids from the CNMI to come to. ...

Hal's report (much shorter and bare-bones):

Junior College Auditions are done for the performers-tech yet to go. The three students garnered 11 call backs. In addition, when they visited the call backs, they went as a unit, and attracted further interest from the call-back colleges for the entire threesom.

IE's done, students seem satisfied with their work

"How To Succede in Business without Really Trying" was a great show, we had seats main floor center. Back to the balcony tomorrow.

And then online I found this You Tube video. The comments from the woman who adjudicated six (6) hours of monologues are insightful.



A great big thank you to adjudicators--I can't imagine six hours of student monologues.