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Here you'll find all the news sent by Carol to the mailing list! Accidently miss one? delete one? Find it here! Newest emails on top, scroll for the rest of the month.
April 24, 2008
Hi, Everybody! Kenai Performers have been performing LIVE THEATRE STORYTELLING every month at the Kenai Library all year thanks to the Friends of the Library and Agrium. The FINAL STORYTELLING For this (school) year will be in May.
Because the Second Sunday of May falls on Mother's Day this year, Kenai Performers STORYTELLING will be performed on MAY 4, the FIRST SUNDAY at 1:00. Stories are always fun for adults and kids alike, so bring your whole family and enjoy LIVE THEATRE STORYTELLING!It's FUN, it's FREE, and it's FANTASTIC!!
If you would like to tell a story in May, please let me know, and if you'd like to work the story with me, I'd love to get together with you whether you are a new storyteller or an experienced one!!! Email me, or call me at home (776-8308) or if I'm not there, call my cell (398-0756)
This month's theme is "Favorites Past and Present" If you have a story you'd like to hear ME tell, let me know, as I have TONS of favorites, and can only perform one, or maybe two. If you haven't made it to STORYTELLING this year, come on over to the KENAI LIBRARY on SUNDAY. May 4 at 1 and ENJOY!!
Carol
April 23, 2008
Hi, Everybody! Time to sign up for Theatre Camp for the summer! Kenai Performers will be holding our Summer in the Playhouse during the month of June, and I can hardly wait! We have a few changes this year, and updated info on your feedback from what I sent out earlier. I will be attending a family reunion Outside right up to the day before camp, so questions and comments should be made to me before I go. Questions or comments can be emailed through the web site between May 4 and May 26.! www.kenaiperformers.org
Two camps are offered:
**one camp is for kids coming out of first grade through sixth grade - This camp meets weekdays from 9 AM to Noon, and runs four weeks beginning on Tuesday, May 27 through their show, which will be performed Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June 20, 21 and 22.
**the other camp is for kids coming out of sixth grade through 12th grade -This camp meets weekdays from 1-4 PM, and runs four weeks beginning on Monday, June 2 through their show, which will be performed Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June 27, 28 and 29
Both camps meet and perform at the Playhouse in Kenai, and include experiences in all aspects of theatre from sets, costumes, makeup, tech, and all stage craft to acting, singing, dancing and writing. Each camp will create its own musical out of a story the campers choose and develop together.
The fee for each camper is $400 for the four-week camp. This includes tuition for classes(four paid staff members), a camp t shirt, dance shoes provided if necessary (to be kept by Kenai Performers for future use),and a comp ticket for the camp show. We will have a table at the Playhouse Garage Sale, May 16 and 17 for registration and questions, or send registration forms and check to Kenai Performers PO Box 914 Kenai, AK 99611, or register and pay online at www.kenaiperformers.org We will keep camp numbers to 25, so early registration is suggested.
We will be hiring a choreographer, a director's aid, and a backstage coordinator for each camp to work with campers on learning aspects of stagecraft and performance. If you are interested in any of these positions, please contact me (Carol Ford) before May 1. 776-8308, or, if I'm not home, 398-0756, or email me. I will be going out of town on May 4, so I need to have heard from you before I go. PLEASE CONTACT ME BEFORE MAY 1! That's only one week, so get right on it if you're interested in being hired to work the camp this year.
Here is a registration form to print out and send in.
Welcome! to Kenai Performers Summer In the Playhouse 2008!
Session 1 is open to kids coming out of first through sixth grade. 9 am to noon weekdays May 27 through June 22
Session 2 is open to kids coming out of sixth through twelfth grade. 1:00 to 4:00 June 2 through June 29
*sixth-graders have the option of choosing either camp Siblings may choose an older or younger camp under advisement.
Each session will create and produce its own Show. Shows will be performed Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the end of each camp.
Total cost per student -- $400 Family prices for three or more siblings. Class size is limited.
Teacher/Director: Carol Ford (with special guest teachers)
Please fill out the following information so we can begin to schedule our classes according to the interests of the campers. Comments on back>
Name ________________________ 2007/08Grade _______
Address_________________________________________
Phone Number(s)___________________________________
Email________________________________________________
Do you play a musical instrument? _______Sing?___Dance?____
Registration AT THE PLAYHOUSE
Friday and Saturday, May 16 and 17
from Noon to 4:00
- OR -
Mail this form with check to Kenai Performers
PO Box 914 Kenai, AK 99611
- Or -
register on line at www.kenaiperformers.org
April 18, 2008
Hi, Everybody! OH BOY!!! It's that season again! KENAI PERFORMERS GARAGE SALE! This can be one big wonderful get-together for donators, helpers and shoppers alike - as well as a much-needed boon to Kenai Performers and our ongoing quest to acquire a permanent home for Community Theatre! So PLEASE Pitch in -- and ENJOY!!!
General Notice to donate or help with garage sale
Kenai Performers is holding a garage sale the weekend of May 16. If you have stuff that you would like to donate please bring it by the playhouse during the evenings of May 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 - 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
If you would like to help with the setup for the sale or help at the garage sale, please call Sharon at 776-8254. Proceeds from this sale will be used toward acquiring a permanent home for the Performers. We will have receipts for any donations you care to make.
(don't forget Little Shop of Horrors! It opens tonight - April 18 and runs this weekend and next at the PLAYHOUSE!)
April 15, 2008
Hi, Everybody!
The Kenai Performers present LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, at the Old Town Playhouse in Kenai directed by Terri Zopf-Schoessler. Based on the cult classic, Terri has blended humor, a singing plant, a sadistic dentist, and sweet love between two skid-row denizens into a rollicking musical well worth watching again and again.
Terri says: "For the past six weeks, your community members have been leading double lives: Teachers, lawyers, students, mechanics--you name it--by day and talented performers by night! You are invited to see the result as Little Shop of Horrors plays Friday-Sunday, April 18-20 and 25-27--7 PM on Fridays and Saturdays; 3 PM on Sundays. Since seating is limited, and we hope to be sold out every night, we recommend getting your tickets in advance! Tickets are $10 and $12 from our staunch supporters at River City Books and Charlotte's in Kenai.
"The show is campy, twisted, a little suggestive, and it features outstanding '60s girl-group harmonies and rhythms. It also has a man-eating plant, a sadistic dentist, and a heroine "with a past," so use your best judgment about bringing children. For adults and kids with a warped sense of humor, it's laugh out loud funny!
"We would love to see you there!"
Tickets are available at River City Books and Charlotte's, and will be sold at the door. All performances will be held at the Old Town Playhouse in Kenai.
April 12, 2008
Hi, Everybody! I'm back from my trip, and looking forward to seeing all of you at the SECOND SUNDAY STORIES tomorrow, April 13 at the Kenai Library at 1:00! It's LIVE THEATRE storytelling, it's free, it's fun, it's FANTASTIC!!! Our theme this month is ADVENTURE STORIES! We always have stories that appeal to ALL AGES, so bring your family, and come enjoy an hour of FUN with us tomorrow at 1:00!
For those of you who are interested in CAMP, I will be working on the details of that now that I'm back, so if you have INPUT, Please email me and let me know what you think!
Carol
March 23, 2008
Hi, Everybody! A little more info on Theatre Camp, as I ve had a lot of questions:
Summer in the Playhouse is the name of Kenai Performers annual Theatre Camp. Just some info for those of you who are new to the list: Summer in the Playhouse is actually two camps running at the same time. In the morning we do a camp with kids finishing first through sixth grades, and in the afternoons we do one with kids who have just finished sixth through 12th grades. (Sixth graders can choose if they want to go in with the older or the younger camp.) Siblings of different ages can go to whichever camp the parents choose, if they want to keep them all in the same camp.
Camps run for three hours a day five days a week for four weeks. In the past, we had the younger camp only run for three weeks, but we are thinking of going four weeks with each camp, and offsetting the camps so that we start with one, then bring the other on after a week, and that makes the shows come out on two different weekends.
In each camp we do a full musical, though the kids themselves decide what they want to do, and one year the older camp went with a non-musical. We create the musical ourselves from a story and the kids we ve got, their favorite music, dances, personalities and ideas. The shows are performed for three shows on the weekend at the end of the camp. They are Kenai Performers-quality shows, and we sell tickets to them. They are always packed.
I have been asked often about younger kids, and am considering a one-week camp for kids who have NOT been through first grade yet. Let me know what you think.
I am the teacher/director, and we have many Kenai Performers who come in and work with the kids on sets, costumes, dance, music, make up, lights, painting, etc. This is the only Kenai Performers show where some people are paid to teach, so there is a fee for the camp.
Price for the camp MAY have to change this year, but it has been $75 per week, though you have to go to the whole camp. The price per week just meant that the younger kids paid less because their camp was shorter. If we go with the longer camps for both ages, they will each be $300 for the whole four-week camp, unless in planning the camp we find we need to add teachers, and thus change the price this year. We have not had that planning meeting at this point, but this is what we ve done in the past. But it s worth it!. Kids learn all aspects of theatre including work on sets, costumes, lights, make up, dance, music and acting. Not to mention that it s REALLY FUN!
The following message was sent a few days ago to see about timing. I ve just added a bunch of names to my list, so I m sending it again for those who didn t get it yet. If you already got this, sorry!
It's time to start thinking about Summer In the Playhouse - Kenai Performers' Summer Theatre Camp! I need to set some dates, and I know a lot of you have been asking me about it, so could you give me some feedback?
School is out on May 21, a Wed. I am thinking of starting on Monday, May 26 with the younger camp, and on Monday June 2 for the older camp. Each camp will run four weeks, giving the younger camp a little more time for theirs, and still offsetting the shows by a week. That would put the younger camp show on June 20, 21, 22, and the older camp show on June 27,28 and 29.
If people prefer the 3 week younger camp, we could start on May 26 and do the show on June 13, 14 and 15. One thing we're thinking is that it would be good to have the first planning/writing week just to ourselves with the younger camp, then start the planning and writing with the older camp.
I don't have the exact dates of the Triumv. camp, but he plans to start mid-June. I don't know how long they go. (I think to mid July) If there are those of you who want to do both camps, please let me know, and we can factor that in.
We have a WHOLE BUNCH of exciting ideas for shows this year, and a lot of people wanting to come, so please let me know what times and situations YOU would prefer, and I will let you know very soon so we can all plan together. Please let me know if June works for you, and if you prefer a three or four week camp for kids in Grades 1-6.
THANKS!
Carol
PS Also if you would be interested in a one-week camp for pre-first graders.
And also if you would like to help with the camps this year. THANKS!
March 16, 2008
Hi, Everybody! It's time to start thinking about Summer In the Playhouse - Kenai Performers' Summer Theatre Camp! I need to set some dates, and I know a lot of you have been asking me about it, so could you give me some feedback?
School is out on May 21, a Wed. I am thinking of starting on Monday, May 26 with the younger camp, and on Monday June 2 for the older camp. Each camp will run four weeks, giving the younger camp a little more time for theirs, and still offsetting the shows by a week. That would put the younger camp show on June 20, 21, 22, and the older camp show on June 27,28 and 29.
If people prefer the 3 week younger camp, we could start on May 26 and do the show on June 13, 14 and 15. One thing we're thinking is that it would be good to have the first planning/writing week just to ourselves with the younger camp, then start the planning and writing with the older camp.
I don't have the exact dates of the Triumv. camp, but he plans to start mid-June. I don't know how long they go. If there are those of you who want to do both camps, please let me know, and we can factor that in.
We have a WHOLE BUNCH of exciting ideas for shows this year, and a lot of people wanting to come, so please let me know what times and situations YOU would prefer, and I will let you know very soon so we can all plan together. Please let me know if June works for you, and if you prefer a three or four week camp for kids in Grades 1-6. THANKS!
Carol
March 07, 2008
Hi, Everybody!
WOW!! You should SEE the PLAYHOUSE!! Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre has brought Tennessee Williams' ultimate show, CAMINO REAL, to the Old Town Playhouse for THIS WEEKEND ONLY! In this classic, Williams spent years putting together elements of theatre that had never been used in conjunction with each other before in a successful attempt to create new theatre forms! 25 musicians, actors, directors and tech team have completely transformed the BIG SIDE of the Old Town Plahouse to bring you this intense theatrical experience! The Live Band is not the least of the powerful presentation! Playing three times only, tonight's show was at 7:00, and tomorrow, Saturday, March 8, there will be two opportunities to see CAMINO REAL - one at 2:00 and one at 7:00! Tickets are available at the door - Students, Seniors and Military $8 General Admission $10. Asked about the "rating" for Camino Real, FST gave us this info:
"We are calling it PG13 here due to some adult situations...there is no nudity or really foul language...but it is a complex play that might be difficult to follow for younger folk."
"Make voyages! Attempt them! There is nothing else."
Unlike anything else he wrote, Tennessee Williams' Camino Real is filled with symbolic images that speak directly to the subconscious as literary figures Don Quixote, Lord Byren, Camille and others pass through the Camino Real, a way- station for lost souls. The play provides a ringside view into the fears and emotions he wrestled as he faced the invevitabilities of mortality.
Twenty-nine years in the making, the play is Tennessee Williams' most thoughtful and challenging work. Played on Broadway in 1953"
On SUNDAY at 7:00, FST will be presenting a one-woman show, I WROTE THIS PLAY TO MAKE YOU LOVE ME. performed by author, Anne Thibault. Anne has performed this in many venues to rave reviews!!! Showtime is 7:00. Show contains strong adult language and situations. For more information about these two amazing performances, please check it out on the FST website, www.fstalaska.org
Three times we have had the pleasure and privilege of enjoying SHAKESPEARE done by these amazing Fairbanks folks! Now we have this brief opportunity to see them in modern MODE! Hope to see YOU at the PLAYHOUSE this weekend!
Here's a bit of information you might enjoy about "I Wrote This Play to Make You Love Me":
Here is a bit about Anne Thibault's one woman show:
"I Wrote This Play to Make You Love Me"
by Anne ThibaultI Wrote This Play to Make You Love Me is a one-woman memory play about motherlessness and promiscuity and their intersection in the life of Lysette, an itinerant actress playing Nora in a Doll's House.
It's been twenty-five years since Lysette's mother left her family, but her desertion still haunts them.Lysette, an itinerant, marginally successfull New York actress, fills the void her mother left behind with a procession of one-night stands with faceless men and short term acting jobs performing the classics for sparse audiences in the hinterlands. When faced with the challenge of playing Nora in A Doll's House, another woman who leaves her chidlren, Lysette faces the family inheritance: surrender. As she trades instant intimacy for brief companionship, her solitude becomes even vaster and more irreparable. With her only sibling dead, her period three weeks late, a married boyfriend nowhere to be seen, and a houseful of overprotective maternal New England lesbians, Lysette struggles with the enigmatic and incaluable continuum of love.
I Wrote This Play to Make You Love Me has been performed at NC Stage, the Clarence Brown Theatre company, and has had readings at the New Yourk Theatre Workshop, the Boston Peabody Theatre, and the Lark Playwright's Festival.
Anne Thibault's plays include: bile, No Place to Look for a Mother, and an adaptation fo Madaleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time. She is a NYC-based actor/write/director and currently writes the column "the best book you never read" in the magazine Beyond Race.
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