Week of April 21--25

SPEECH

Date	Topic and Homework
Monday, 4/21	Demonstration Speeches
Tuesday, 4/22	Demonstration Speeches
Wednesday, 4/23	Demonstration Speeches
Thursday, 4/24	Demonstration Speeches
Friday, 4/25	Demonstration Speeches
Announcements:

DRAMA I

Date	Topic and Homework
Monday, 4/21	MDT
Tuesday, 4/22	MDT
Wednesday, 4/23	MDT
Thursday, 4/24	MDT
Friday, 4/25	MDT
Announcements:

DRAMA 24

Date	Topic
Monday, 4/21	MDT
Tuesday, 4/22	MDT
Wednesday, 4/23	MDT
Thursday, 4/24	MDT
Friday, 4/25	MDT
Announcements:

2007-08 District 5, Troupe #2449

Congratulations—we’re going to State!

Ashley Paine Best in Show!

Solo Musical: “Always True To You in My Fashion”,

Kiss Me, Kate

Patrick Hurlburt, Kailey Billings, Jonathan Burnett,

Diego Canizares, Ellie Davila, Michael DuPont,

Zac Gobetz, Kristin Hardy, Rachel Holderbach,

Bailey Hurlburt, Aubrey James, Alexa Lytle,

Danielle Thibault, Delaney Thompson, Hillary Watson

Large Group Musical: “Trouble”, The Music Man

Kristin Hardy, Neil Candelora, Diego Canizares,

Alexa Lytle, Emily Schwartz, Delaney Thompson

Small Group Musical: “Coffee in a Cardboard Cup”,

70 Girls 70

Kailey Billings, Delaney Thompson

Duet Musical: “If Momma Was Married”, Gypsy

Patrick Hurlburt, Bailey Hurlburt

Duet Musical: “The Doctor Is In”, You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown

Sophia Khan

Costume Design: Everyman

Congratulations also to the following events that also earned Superior marks and Excellent marks at District!

Superior!

Kristin Hardy, Solo Musical

Dakota House, Monologue

Emily Schwartz, Solo Musical

Paul Brownlee, Student Directed

(Actors—Dakota House, Ashley Paine,

Neil Candelora)

Excellent!

Zac Gobetz, Monologue

Julia Manchester, Monologue

Acting Ensemble with Paul Brownlee, Neil Candelora,

Rachel Holderbach, Danielle Thibault,

An aesthetic to ponder:

“What is the difference between Drama and Theatre?”, Tom Stoppard (playwright extraordinaire of The Real Inspector Hound, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Arcadia, The Real Thing, The Coast of Utopia, and more) told the following story at the Univ. of Penn in 1996:

Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water—the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view.

And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone.

When you look up the stage directions, it says, “Exit Ariel.”