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Thomas Lupfer

Pascack Valley High School

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RE: Costumes for Addams Family

Posted By Thomas Lupfer 01-22-2023 09:17
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Hi Wendy, I recommend reaching out to Dan @ On Cue Costumes in Montclair. He'll have what you need, and he's much more reasonably priced than the larger rental houses in the area (The Costumer, Norcostco)​. On Cue Costumes: (973) 747-7517 Break legs, Tom ------------------------------ Tom Lupfer ...

RE: All Female 1776 cast

Posted By Thomas Lupfer 04-15-2021 09:44
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Our gender netural production of 1776 was COVID canceled last March on opening night. We had men as Adams, Jefferson, Dickinson, RH Lee, and a couple of the minor characters, but women in all other roles. The kids loved it!  There was a need to rearrange some of the vocals, but it was pretty easy to ...

RE: Musical Production Organization

Posted By Thomas Lupfer 02-21-2021 12:24
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My most important organization tool is a Shared Google Drive. All "paperwork", forms, and other items needed to track every part of our process is done through Google Forms, Spreadsheets, etc. And I can archive all of it once a show is over, and still access it later if needed. We use SignUpGenius for ...

RE: Dealing with Difficult Parents

Posted By Thomas Lupfer 09-20-2018 09:49
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You are doing everything right! Using rubrics, having a casting panel-- these are the necessary things that we use to make our subjective art form objective. I would question why they are allowed to bring an attorney to a parent/teacher meeting-- can't your principal refuse to allow that? And, if you ...

RE: Museum, Tina Howe

Posted By Thomas Lupfer 07-22-2018 07:43
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Did it in 2008- loved it, can't wait to do it again someday. Took the cast & crew to MoMA for research- every cast member found their character within an hour- and the crew based our 'museum' off details we found @ an exhibit. Get the art teachers to help create some of the art. Have fun with it! ...

RE: Middle School Musical Rehearsal- curricular time?

Posted By Thomas Lupfer 02-09-2018 12:50
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At my MS, the school musical is a class ("Musical Production") that meets last period of the school day every day-- 40 minute period. There are three teachers present for every rehearsal (Drama teacher-director, Vocal Music teacher- musical director, Dance teacher- choreographer). We work in our auditorium, ...

RE: Play suggestions needed

Posted By Thomas Lupfer 09-16-2016 09:55
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Take a look at LETTERS TO SALA- beautiful story, meets your casting requirements (almost exactly!), lots of opportunity for movement work. I've worked on several titles on your list- this falls in line with most of them. ------------------------------ Tom Lupfer Pascack Valley HS Hillsdale, NJ ...

RE: The search for the perfect play

Posted By Thomas Lupfer 05-17-2016 09:38
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I can't recommend LETTERS TO SALA by Arlene Hutton highly enough. It's a beautifully written, moving story about little known part of the history of the Holocaust. Next to THE LARAMIE PROJECT, it was the most powerful drama I've been lucky enough to direct thus far. Especially great if you, like me, ...

RE: Videotaping auditions?

Posted By Thomas Lupfer 11-20-2014 09:24
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Every time! I've never shared it with the students for feedback (though that's a good idea). Our production team uses it to review-- particularly if we can't recall something based on our notes. We make it clear to the kids that it is for "internal use only"-- not something that we'll share widely. ...

RE: Strong Female Lead?

Posted By Thomas Lupfer 10-30-2014 08:32
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Two Lillian Hellman titles immediately came to mind-- The Little Foxes and The Children's Hour. Best of luck. ------------------------------------------- Tom Lupfer Director-Pascack Valley HS--Hillsdale, NJ Drama Teacher/Director-Glenfield MS--Montclair, NJ ------------------------------ ...