"HATS!" Is Off To A Good Start!

UNCLE SAM IS WHO I AM

The first after school practices for our whole school musical "HATS!" were held Wednesday and Thursday this week.  Both casts are off to a good start!  There are 32 speaking parts for each night, meaning 64 students total!  Many students came to the practice already knowing their lines.  The goals for this first practice are:  1) meet the other cast members; 2) discover when the speaking parts occur in the script; 3) learn which microphone to go to, and in what order to stand; and 4) speak "two-fingers away" from the microphone -- can we hear you?  Other goals are to sing the songs, although most of that work happens during music class.  This is the time to work out the speaking parts. 

Students are invited to come into the music room any day from now until the performances during lunch recess and just say their lines into the microphones and then leave.  I do not want them to miss recess!!  But the more comfortable they are with saying their lines the better.  Students need to memorize their lines and learn to project their voices so they may be heard.  I love this part of the process!!