Macbeth Cast List

I was so impressed with all of your auditions!  Casting this show was tough!  Thank you all for trying out, and please continue to do so in the future!

Here is the cast list:

Assistant Director: Brooklyn Crosby

Macbeth:  Hayden Phillips
Lady Macbeth: Stephanie Triptow
King Duncan: Lyndsey Kay Nelson
Malcolm: Jordan Allred
Macduff: Nate Brown
Banquo: Isabelle Siebeneck
Lady Macduff: Emma Apsley
1st Witch: Sophie Brown
2nd Witch: Abbey Hardy
3rd Witch: Gwyn Fowler
Ross: Sara Holbrook
Servant: Hailee Mumm
1st Murderer/Seyton: Gracie Awerkamp
2nd Murderer/Messenger: Lindsey Brown
3rd Murderer/1st Apparition: Dylan Thomas
Donalbain/3rd Apparition: Addison Horrocks
Porter: Rachel McHenry
Lennox: Maya Williams
Menteith: Lauren McHenry
Angus: Alyssa Larsen
Captain/Caithness: Lucas Olsen
Fleance: Sara Riches
Siward: Trevor Smith
Young Siward: Caleb Christiansen
Doctor: Sydney Trauba
Son/Apparition: TBD


Ensemble:
Sophi Jefferson
Abram Berry
Jorja Smith
Dylan Schreiber


For those who I was unable to cast:  I AM STILL LOOKING FOR DESIGNERS!!!  Please check out the applications a few blog posts back and consider being a designer.  You can email me your application, or bring me a hard copy on January 2nd.  I'd still love to have you be a part of this team.  Cast members can also apply to be designers.

CAST:  Please click on the following link to access the script.  You need to print it and start memorizing IMMEDIATELY.  The first rehearsal is January 2nd, 2018.  I expect you to be memorized.   I'm asking this of you so that we can be ready for stage combat.  Memorization has to be there if you really want to develop your characters fully, play with choices, and use pointy objects. 

Macbeth Script

For those of you with few, or no lines: you will be used a lot throughout the play.  You will be used as ghosts, in battles, and as extras in various scenes.  Be EXCITED!  I am.  Be familiar with the whole script.

TIPS ON MEMORIZING SHAKESPEARE:

1. Print a hard copy of the script
2. Highlight your lines (with an actual highlighter)
3. Translate your lines into normal speak. Spark Notes Macbeth is a great resource for any lines you're really struggling with.  You'll have to dig through it though, because our script is abridged.
4. Say your lines OUT LOUD EVERYDAY. Don't let a day go by that you don't go over your lines, whether you have 2 or 2,000.
5. Have someone help you by reading your cue lines before you say each line.
6. Read over your lines before bed so your brain will process them while you sleep.
7. Give yourself plenty of breaks.  Don't burn yourself out.  Make sure you enjoy your break!  Go laser tagging or something! 

Those of you with lots of lines:  Go over all of them everyday, but focus on one scene at a time with actual memorization work.  Say and practice your lines while moving...walking, running on a treadmill, etc. 

This is going to be a FANTASTIC CAST!  Please be excited and supportive of each other, but remember to be careful not to rub it into the faces of those who may be disappointed they didn't make it.

HAVE A GREAT BREAK!

Macbeth Callback List

Here is the callback list for Macbeth:

Macbeth/L Macbeth:
Stephanie Triptow
Isabelle Siebeneck
Jordan Allred
Hayden Phillips
Emma Apsley
Sara Holbrook

Macduff:
Hayden Phillips
Jordan Allred
Nate Brown

Witches:
Abbey Hardy
Sophie Brown
Lyndsey Nelson
Sara Riches
Lauren McHenry
Sydney Trauba


I will see you bright and early tomorrow morning at 7:30 am!  Callbacks will begin promptly at 7:45!!!!!  Please look at the sides (scripts) in the blog post before this so that you can be prepared to read at the callback.   

I would encourage everyone called back to look at the Macduff slide.  A lot of you will be asked to read for Ross and Malcolm. 

REMEMBER:  just because you were not called back, does not mean you will not be cast.  Please check the blog again on Tuesday at 5:00 pm to see the final cast list.

Macbeth Callback Scripts

Macbeth/Lady Macbeth Script
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KAlSI5hZ9psv67mQqGXrwWXON2Pjshr_/view?usp=sharing


Macduff Script
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JQmXt7EafaPaglBNEkWZQahYUEE8Zoyk/view?usp=sharing


Witch Script
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pDG6SuLVN0HBrPXCle7OqOLZe_oCE4pq/view?usp=sharing

Macbeth: Artistic Team Applications

Take a look at the application questions below, fill them out for the position(s) you're interested in, and send them to Mrs. Barker at emily.barker@canyonsdistrict.org by December 13th, 2017.  Those holding these positions will receive 1 complimentary ticket for their hard work and dedication, a shout-out in the program, and a lot of thank-yous from Mrs. Barker and Miss Struiksma!  I look forward to hearing from you, and please feel free to email me with questions! 

COSTUME DESIGNER 

Name:

Grade:

Email Address:

Have you been involved with Alta Theatre before, and if so, in what way?

What experience do you have with costume design? (Don’t hesitate to apply if this is minimal!)

Why do you want to be a part of this show?

This show will have a unique kind of costume design.  I’m looking for someone creative, who can think outside the box.  Why do you feel you would be a good fit for this position?

With this position, you would be required to meet with Mrs. Barker and her assistant director frequently. Additionally, you would have to do a certain amount of research about costuming for this show and hit certain deadlines of getting pieces together. You would need to be able to make calls directly to rental places, parents, etc. and speak with adults as an Alta Theatre Representative. You need to plan an extra 1-2 hours of work a week outside of rehearsal time for fittings, picking up costumes, etc. Do you feel like you could fulfill these tasks in an effective and timely manner?

  

HAIR & MAKEUP DEISGN

Name:

Grade:

Email Address:

Have you been involved with Alta Theatre before, and if so, in what way?

What experience do you have with hair & makeup design? (Don’t hesitate to apply if this is minimal!)

Why do you want to be a part of this show?

Why do you feel you would be a good fit for this position?

With this position, you would be required to meet with Mrs. Barker and her assistant director frequently. Additionally, you would have to do a certain amount of research about hair/makeup designs for this show and hit certain deadlines of getting drawing finished and presented. You may need to be able to make calls directly to stage makeup places, parents, etc. and speak with adults as an Alta Theatre Representative. You need to plan an extra 1-2 hours of work a week after school during the first three weeks of November to teach some techniques to actors and demonstrate ideas. You may need to be there for an hour and a half before each show performance to help with hair and makeup too. Do you feel like you could fulfill these tasks in an effective and timely manner?

LIGHTING DESIGNER

Name:

Grade:

Email Address:

Have you been involved with Alta Theatre before, and if so, in what way?

What experience do you have with lighting design? (Don’t hesitate to apply if this is minimal!)

Why do you want to be a part of this show?

Why do you feel you would be a good fit for this position?

With this position, you would be required to meet with Mrs. Barker and her assistant director frequently.. Additionally, you would have to do a certain amount of research about lighting design for this show and hit certain deadlines of getting lighting plots and set-up completed. You may need to be able to make calls directly to lighting or tech places, parents, etc. and speak with adults as an Alta Theatre Representative. You need to plan an extra 2-3 hours of work a week outside of rehearsal time during October/November for lighting cues, setting lights, adjusting colors, problem solving, etc. You also will be required to run lights for the show itself and rehearsals leading up to the performances, three weeks out. Do you feel like you could fulfill these tasks in an effective and timely manner?

SOUND DESIGNER

Name:

Grade:

Email Address:

Have you been involved with Alta Theatre before, and if so, in what way?

What experience do you have with sound design? (Don’t hesitate to apply if this is minimal!)

Why do you want to be a part of this show?

Why do you feel you would be a good fit for this position?

With this position, you would be required to meet with Mrs. Barker and her assistant director frequently. Additionally, you would have to do a certain amount of research about sound design for this show and hit certain deadlines of getting sound effects chosen and mixed appropriately. You may need to be able to make calls directly to sound or rental places, parents, etc. and speak with adults as an Alta Theatre Representative. You need to plan an extra 1-2 hours of work a week outside of rehearsal time for setting cues, mixing sounds, problem solving, etc. You also will be required to run sound for the show itself and rehearsals leading up to the performances, three weeks out. Do you feel like you could fulfill these tasks in an effective and timely manner? 

Wizard Cast! FINAL Notes!!!

Dearest Wizard of Oz Cast,
A huge thank you for an amazing run and productive strike-the-set! I greatly appreciate all of you and am forever thankful I had the opportunity to direct this piece with you! A few items of house business: I sincerely NEED your scripts (copied or original) turned back into me by Wednesday! I have to ship them back by then or we get a huge fine. Please stop in to the theatre room, sign the cast poster, and drop off your script today or tomorrow!

Also, a huge shoutout to our first-round acting nominees: Addie Wray, Nate Brown, Kenna Armstrong, and THE CROWS for recognition in outstanding performance for the HS Musical Theatre Awards! :)Remember all, you have had the power all along... you just had to learn it for yourself! :)

Murder Mystery Cast List

For realz...this was so difficult.  We are so sad that we could not use all of you.  Please keep coming to improv club and PLEASE audition for our Spring Showcase!!!


Here is the cast list for the 2017 Alta Murder Mystery Dinner:

Main Cast:

Gerald Glin:  Lucas Olsen
Inspector Flic: Dylan Thomas
Marguerite Dubois: Stephanie Triptow
Marlene De Trique: Abby Coleman
Paul E. Tischan: Kirby Balding
Samantha Heriton: Emma Apsley
Walter Wingfield: Jordan Allred
Charlotte Gaffe: Gracie Awerkamp


Servers/Actors:

Elaine:  Natalie Hood
Betty: Sophie Brown
Agnes: Jorja Smith
Gladys: Heather Jensen
Chester: Carson Spencer
Ingrid: Abbey Hardy
Vera: Alyx Rees
Frank: Trevor Smith
Claire: Sami Carpenter


Singers:

Addie Wray
Heather Bodine
Kenna Armstrong

We are so excited to help you all build your characters and put together a fun, interactive show. 


THE FIRST REHEARSAL WILL BE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27TH at 2:45 in the Theatre room. We are excited to see you ALL there! ON TIME!

Dress Rehearsal Notes!

Here are some thoughts from tonight's run and a few specific notes...

Overall, HAVE FUN!  Don't be in your head... enjoy the process and if a moment doesn't go as wanted originally, let it go and give in to the next moment on stage.  Be in the MOMENT on stage! You're all doing fantastic, so believe in yourself.

Find the light!  Make sure you are always having your face in the light.

ACT 1

Shoutouts to Parker for having GREAT comedic timing!  Word of caution, don't spike out of nowhere - the anger over them not being hitched yet seems very heightened with no growth to there.  Don't throw the shovel cause it's a bit too harsh.

Sydney was  a STAND-OUT tonight for me!  Great character and timing and genuinely engaged in each scene - loved watching you today cause you stole the show and really took the notes I gave you to heart.  One thing to watch is making surety cheat out ALWAYS! Reminder: "Name of THE star!"

Jordan - awesome and honest reactions today!  Watch your diction cause it was rough in both Kansas and Oz... really take time to taste and experience words.

Nate - some really, really nice reactions to things today!  I love what you've chosen to do so often with your ax.  We all believe in you - believe in yourself!  You have come so far and are doing fabulously!  Keep working on biting your words and then having reactions bigger when a focal point on stage.

Kenna - CHEAT OUT. :)  I know, that's the bane of your existence.  Think of this - you get to decide how much the audience sees and engages with you.  Your character is AWESOME - if you nail down cheating out and diction, you can be a standout or me.  Diction is still really rough on first lines in each scene.  Really bite the LOW tones... when you run to your rock, let it be your "safe zone."

Heather - really great vocal variation, as always - a little more bite in Oz scenes.  Way to keep Gultch scenes going overall.  Make sure things are discovered... this is the first time you think of Poppies to get the girl, for example.

Ensemble:  Getting better, but still PROJECT MORE!  I want everyone to hear you out there!!! Your characters are so great - seriously everyone is doing great with character there.  Make Munchkinland WAY bigger in movement to match the bigness of those dresses.  Shoutout to Lucas for massive improvement and to Giselle for ALWAYS having character! Oh, and Abbey Coleman... GREAT diction! ;)

Trees - nice facial reactions! Can one of YOU pre-place the oil can?  Decide and let me know who!

Crows - Be louder!  Great, great character and much better bending and twisting.

Poppies - Analisa had glitter in her hair... can you ALL?!  It looked amazing! Way to be louder - keep it up!  Remember.... dreamy happy.  MOST are doing this, but you ALL need to ALL the time!

PLEASE, fix the end of ACT I.... PLEASE?!

ACT 2

Can backstage singers up their game a bit more?

Jaren - still looking mad... save it for the Winkies!

Lindsey and Dylan - come further to the front to look at the cloud with Dorothy's name so you can yell lines out from the front.

ENSEMBLE:  Lines in general, but really as Ozians, when you curve, HAVE to curve outward to include ALL the audience... It's like cheating out.  You are cutting off half the audience.  Also, PLEASE don't talk back stage!!! Go out and say what you need to, then slip back in... or WAIT to say it. Great reactions in balloon scene!

PACING!!!! Pick it up overall in this act!

Emma - don't break if Heather gets in your face... really nice reactions to other dumb Winkies!

Lyndsey Nelson - GREAT BA face during Winkies time.

Hide the limbs better....

Freak out with the sparks - be real in your reactions ALL on stage!

Kenna - new tactic on "telegraph line."


OVERALL - amazig job today!  I'll see y'all in a few hours and I'm stoked for our run!  The kids will LOVE it!  Let's conquer character, projection, and transitions tomorrow! :)

Thanks for being an incredible cast!!!!!! :)

Act Two Notes from 11/11

ALL

• Nice timing with breaks out of dance numbers 
• The wall must move before the box and rack on stage left AND BE ON SPIKES
• Don’t make it clear that you messed up
• Pacing
• Set pieces need to be on spikes
• Bend and twist and avoid straight lines
• Group pictures need to be cheated out as a whole
• Fill the gaps and spaces with reactions and character

Addie

• Bite on “I thought I could go home” line (after guard says wizard won’t see anyone)
• Nice reaction to Kenna’s faint
• Only said “Oh no!” during jitterbug, try different things
• Face in Jitterbug
• Run to the curtain and kind of push toto offstage then say “he got away from you”
• Keep being on the upstage side of the bench in witch’s castle
• Be sad when you realize “there’s nothing in that bag for me is there”
• Try using the stairs when yelling for the professor to come back
• Kiss on scarecrow’s forehead was awkward, he’s too tall - go for the cheek
• Wait longer to enter in cyclone
• Overall, really nice character; had a nice youthfulness to it
• DICTION
• DOVETAIL
• Good job handling toto
• Good reactions overall

Sydney P.

• Enter oz at the end on your hoverboard
• Move more downstage with Dorothy
• Play with tactics on, she had to find out for herself
• You can’t hang out in the house visibly to the audience before you enter

Parker

• Keep your head up
• Wear black church shoes for the guard
• Don’t stand right in front of Dorothy and cheat out
• When you get the dog for Dorothy, get the same basket that Dorothy was using earlier

Christian

• When the guard won’t let you in, your Dorothy line is a realization of name-dropping will probably work 
• Nice thinking of plan 
• Bite on “why didn’t you tell her before”
• PACING

Nate

• If you’re already down when everyone kneels, stay down
• Let go of the rope when Christian drops it

Kenna

• Face out more on king of the forest
• Bite on first courage sentence more
• Bite on permanent line
• Look out on “talk me out of it”
• Bite on sitiation line
• “Stay with us Dorothy” line was a little creepy
• DICTION

Heather

• Hat on hour glass looked nice
• Bite on the Ks in niKKo
• Pull your mic bac from your face
• Bite on pleasant flight
• Lots and lots of practice was nice and sad
• When you replace the hourglass after flipping it, put it at the front of the table
• Is the sleeve causing problems for entrances?

Jordan

• Get nervous in wizard’s chamber when they refuse to come back tomorrow
• Bite diploma line
• Watch cadence and weird pauses
• Bite on “like an ostrich egg”

General leads

• Nice “Seeing” the city
• Move through the gate A LOT QUICKER
• Come farther downstage for “Merry old land of Oz”
• ‘f SHE
• Don’t stand in front of each other 
• Nice hustle from wizards chamber to emerald city 
• Quartet sing “Watch out for that bug”
• React when the witch comes near you
• Dance is looking a lot better!!!
• Tinman and lion must move the back of the witch’s stairs 
• Knock right after “sand” line (make that scene quicker
• “Li-on”
• Enter the wizard’s chamber at the end of the transition music
• Create a picture in wizard’s chamber (Nate thanks for sitting)
• Dorothy and Glinda, move downstage for slippers
• Where is the oil can (not in Dorothy’s basket)
• Stop ad lib at the actual lines in Kansas
• Nice picture on the haybale
• Bend and twist
• Watch out for curtains 
• Find the light (Wagon in Kansas, runway, wizard’s chamber)
• FREAKING CHEAT OUT
• Don’t prereact
• Freak out more at fire parts

Tech

• Paint the doorbell
• Don’t lock the gate after it’s moved back 
• Get sheet for the wizard’s chamber
• Add detail to the gate
• Lights need to come down sooner 
• Stage manager on book
• Put a new tarp under the surviving hay bale
• Fix the skull
• FAKE LIMBS
• Paint the edges of the Periaktoids
• Ribbions for dorothy’s hair
• Another glove for heather when she has the fire sleeve on
• Emma’s mic
• Curtain needs to move faster and be at spike
• Mics should come on a split second before actors begin their lines
• Dim lights on fire parts
• The projection cuts as soon as the curtain is peeked around
• Second and/or third needs to block the wall during the balloon scene

Ensemble

• Have black character shoes and tights by Monday (If not tights, leggings and black socks)
• Some still look uncertain while dancing
• First group of girls need to run their dance 
• Do not touch the periaktoids
• Bring the chairs out sooner (Tinman)
• At the end (with the hands) continue to vocalize
• Hahaha movements need to be WAY bigger
• Those with lines project
• Winkies leave after the dance
• Crowds around the door need to be more open
• Alyssa, nice choice trying to go through the door anyway
• Dancers in king of the forest had weird spacing
• Emma, nice knocking over winkies
• Abbey C and Ashleigh had nice facial expressions
• Emma, be more scared of heather
• Good entrance three winkies
• Winkies should each grab  one of the trio people
• Sing into the mics for winkies (backstage)
• Winkies, if you have an undershirt underneath your black shirt, tuck it in
• If you go on to move something off, and you go on with nothing, take on something that hasn’t been moved on yet and then take off whatever you take off (If taking something on does not interfere with taking the item off)
• Winkies had nice character when transitioning out of the Wizard’s chamber
• If the broom is still on stage, pick it up
• Kansas transition
• The color flowers on the fence bases face out
• Fences were not on spike

D.C.

• Thank you for sweeping up the hay
• Nice faces
• Great vocalization, but add some more
• During the freezes EXCELLENT facial expressions

Monkeys

• Kenedy, when you leave, move behind the periaktoid so we can’t see you crouching
• Wait until the end of jitterbug to move onto the stage
• Still sing louder
• Exit the witch’s castle sooner
• Kenedy, thank you for pretending to move the haybale