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Shoes for Lurch Addams Family

Posted By Paula Flautt 03-08-2021 07:57
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Anyone who has done the Addams Family musical, can you tell me what (and from where) you purchased to attain Lurch’s height? We are having challenges finding something. Many thanks!!

Addams family

Posted By Paula Flautt 01-24-2021 19:16
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Anyone have wisdom to share on the Addams Family (school edition)?

RE: Season Schedule

Posted By Paula Flautt 05-24-2020 11:23
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Kristin: i was where you are 29 yers ago and now we are building an arts building that we move into this school year. What you are doing matters in kids lives and will bear fruit! We have classes that are foundational, classes that have  Mainstage and Blackbox Performances, And we have performances ...

RE: Your Favorite Shakespeare Comedy for H.S.

Posted By Paula Flautt 01-12-2020 09:39
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I love doing Midsummer with students. Created a cut one act version, and produced the full length twice. Ran pwriod if I did was last concept. Also have done Twelfth Night twice. Set that in the 20's Jazz era including som music ("If Music be the food of  love..." inspired that) and it translated really ...

RE: Play Search

Posted By Paula Flautt 10-27-2019 08:21
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Joel, i m not sure it is in the style you requested, but the one act Children's Story is a good dramatic piece for student actors. It can be quite chilling. Another Director did at our school and it was so powerful the administration had it remounted for all faculty and staff at an inservice. -- ...

RE: Midsummer Night's Dream versions

Posted By Paula Flautt 08-26-2019 10:18
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Hurray that you are doing Shakespeare. I have staged the full length twice with high school students (a mix of experiences and just raw talent). One we set in a Middle Ages fairytale wood and one we set in the Raj period of British Colonial India. The kids (seasoned and newbies) were very engaged with ...

RE: First year

Posted By Paula Flautt 08-26-2019 10:08
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Matthew, my advice is to keep the "head" stuff to the most important and keep their bodies and imaginations moving. That doesn't mean that you eliminate depth, but you keep them in the mode of creating and connecting. I have found that fires their energy for the depth and to keep going. Also, if you ...

RE: Holiday Play or Musical

Posted By Paula Flautt 07-05-2017 12:24
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Two favorite plays are:  The Man Who Came to Dinner (a side-splitting comedy by Kaufman and Hart, that despite the period references, if played well, the audience loves) and It's A Wonderful Life. ------------------------------ Paula Flautt CPA Artistic Director Nashville TN ----------------- ...

RE: Restarting-starting a program with little to no school interest

Posted By Paula Flautt 06-23-2017 09:32
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You are in a challenging spot, but that you are courageous and up to it comes through your words!  My original launch of our program was in a similar situation... students hadn't had classes or extracurricular experiences so it was a whole new world for them to discover.  Do I understand correctly that ...

RE: First Show in New Schol

Posted By Paula Flautt 07-24-2016 07:50
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You Can't Take It With You is tremendous. Pulitzer Prize winner, still relevant, student actors love it and the audience is filled up with the laughter and the heart of it.

RE: Mary Poppins

Posted By Paula Flautt 05-30-2015 08:30
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I just produced and directed Mary Poppins this past April. It was an incredible show to put up and energized our whole school community drawing record crowds and much lasting enthusiasm. My best advice is to not feel compelled to reproduce a set similar to any of the professional shows, like the rotating ...