Behind the Scenes of the MS Fall Play

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 The Middle School After School Drama Elective will be presenting "A Wrinkle in Time" on Wednesday, Nov. 16th at 1:15 and Thursday, Nov. 17th at 7PM.  The students have been hard a work over the last seven weeks working on auditioning for parts,  technical designs for scenery, sound and costumes, staging the scenes and working on lots of tongue twisters as well as focusing and acting exercises.

Students in the tech program afterschool start their rehearsals with the cast doing the warm-ups and exercises together.  Many of the MS students work tech for one show and then act on stage for another during the season.  This way everyone has a chance to gain some acting skills as well as building team cooperative skills. "This week in tech we did a lot with the help and supervision of Mike and we built set pieces." - Arlo Rogloff - 8th Grade.

 Students work with Tech Director, Mike Finke on the proper and safe use of power tools and use these tools to build many scenery pieces.  The last two weeks of the rehearsal process is the busiest time as everything gets finished and painted and then the students learn how to move all the scenery quickly between scenes.  Again, being a team player is a big part of working backstage.

Cast and Crew had a chance to learn make-up application by Kindergarten teacher, Rachel Liptz who has a theater background and a talent for stage make-up.  All students learned about proper skin care before and after the make-up application.  

"Two weeks ago, we had a different type of rehearsal in the theater department. Instead of

reading lines, blocking scenes, building sets, and making sound cues, we learned about theater

makeup in our makeup workshop! We learned the essential, basic skills and variants of makeup

to use when performing (an example of this is having darker makeup than you would usually

wear due to the bright, white lights hitting your face, washing out your features). Since this was

the first time doing the makeup workshop since our production of Dr. Dolittle in 2019, it was a

fun experience for everyone." - Oliver Levitt, 8th Grade Student



Blog submitted by Bonny Parlee, Arlo Rogloff - 8th Grade and Oliver Levitt - 8th Grade


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