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RE: Hello

Posted By Rebecca Fahning 03-21-2019 14:17
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Hey, what is your program like, and how are you finding your theatre teaching experience? ------------------------------ Rebecca Fahning Desert Pines High School Theatre/ Tech Director ITS Troupe 6125, Troupe Director Las Vegas NV ------------------------------

RE: Student Casting: best for role vs most potential for growth

Posted By Rebecca Fahning 03-21-2019 13:56
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It is my practice to always consider the potential for educational experience over comparative talent. If two students are being considered for the same role, I am weighing whether they have had opportunities in the past, whether they are good ensemble performers (generous and kind with peers), whether ...

RE: The Sound of Music - Chorus Options

Posted By Rebecca Fahning 03-21-2019 13:45
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A large program is a perfect opportunity to cast freshman in roles for which they will have relatively little stage time, and in chorus roles. It's a good opportunity for them to learn the expectations, make mistakes with little consequence, and get used to the time commitment. They are also able to ...

Code of Conduct for Production Contracts

Posted By Rebecca Fahning 03-21-2019 13:07
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If you have code of conduct conditions in your production contracts,what kind of behavioral stipulations do you put in them? I'm not interested in weighing the pros and cons. I already have behavioral conditions in my production contracts, I'm just interested in what other teachers consider important, ...

Licensing Question

Posted By Rebecca Fahning 01-17-2019 17:40
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Does anybody know if The Play That Goes Wrong is available for licensing, and if so from whom? ------------------------------ Rebecca Fahning Desert Pines High School Theatre/ Tech Director ITS Troupe 6125, Troupe Director Las Vegas NV ------------------------------

RE: Make-Up Resources for MS

Posted By Rebecca Fahning 01-16-2019 14:00
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If you use cheap haloween make up, and bake it in with powder(the process of applying excessice face powder, letting it set, then brushing off the excess) you might be good. The kdis will have to be extra good about make up removal at the end of the show, but the problem of the grease make up melting ...

Musicals with a Mystery theme

Posted By Rebecca Fahning 01-16-2019 13:57
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Hey Folks! Next year we will have a mystery theme for all of our shows, and I am looking for a musical title with the theme of a murder mystery. Its for high school theatre. Thanks for your suggestions! ------------------------------ Rebecca Fahning Desert Pines High School Theatre/ Tech Director ...

RE: Working with C.I. Students

Posted By Rebecca Fahning 09-16-2018 12:24
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I've taught a class with C.I, non-verbal students before. By non-verbal, I mean a percentage of students said words,or made verbal sound, but did not communicate in speech. We worked with puppets, mime, and movement. Each year my students and I picked a theme for a show it took us all year to produce. ...

Fine Arts Advocacy and Support

Posted By Rebecca Fahning 09-16-2018 11:02
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On another thread, someone asked what we could use for our programs, and personally. I need more comprehensive things than what they are offering, but I still need them, so, a seperate thread seems appropriate. What would help me this year, and really every year, is advocacy, both from administration, ...

RE: what would help support you and your program this school year?

Posted By Rebecca Fahning 09-16-2018 10:44
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What a great question. I could use help with show selection. ------------------------------ Rebecca Fahning Desert Pines High School Theatre/ Tech Director ITS Troupe 6125, Troupe Director Las Vegas NV ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------- Original Message: ...

RE: One Act Drinking and Driving

Posted By Rebecca Fahning 08-06-2018 11:48
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My school invited Toe Tag Monologues to come to perform. They had their performers, plus they selected performers from my troupe. Toe Tag Monologues is a group of ex-police who have worked with at risk teens to create a show with various monologues and scenes involving potentially life shattering choices ...

RE: I'm getting a Full Tech Class!

Posted By Rebecca Fahning 07-25-2018 11:51
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I start my first year, first quarter students off with tech jobs, hierarchy/employment opportunities. In middle school this means they can recreate an organization chart, make want ad posters, hold mock interviews. They can write reports about each tech job, or create presentations in groups which highlight ...

RE: Tips for Balance and Success

Posted By Rebecca Fahning 07-25-2018 11:34
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This will be a pot/kettle conversation, because I'm often overextending myself, but here are my two cents: 1.)Put a cap on the number of musicals you will produce and stick to it. Doesn't matter how many, just don't add to the number. You will be able to count the days until the end of your season, ...

RE: Teaching to a Standard

Posted By Rebecca Fahning 07-13-2018 17:43
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The handy thing about this standard is that it opens the door for requiring your theatre students to attend at least one of each of your yearly performances. You can then assign whatever length and type of written critique you feel is appropriate. It also fulfils often required literacy standards. ...

RE: Hoarders

Posted By Rebecca Fahning 07-13-2018 11:27
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My school has the opposite problem, I showed up to a scene shop with zero set pieces, and spent the year slowly rebuilding the stock only to have the facilities admin try and throw it all away over the summer. I have to explain every time that we need a stock of sets, props, and scenery so we don't have ...

RE: Magical Realism-Latino Titles

Posted By Rebecca Fahning 07-11-2018 10:34
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Hey Phillip, A simplified definition of Magical Realism is that it is a literary art form which supposes that magical, strange, and fantastical things are a part of real, everyday life, and not relegated to the supernatural world. In an interview Gabriel Garcia Marquez, he uses an example of an iron ...

RE: Technical director AND set designer?

Posted By Rebecca Fahning 07-10-2018 13:29
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The school where I teach does not at all understand the difference between Theatre Arts and Tech Theatre, let alone the nuances between specialized tech jobs. My students are often misplaced in Theatre when they are natural born techies, or in a Tech class when they long to be front and center, onstage. ...

Magical Realism-Latino Titles

Posted By Rebecca Fahning 07-10-2018 13:11
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Hey Folks! I am setting my season up and very much would like for our kids to produce a Latino Magical Realism title. It's been a while since I studied the genre, and I'd love a list of titles to read through. The school where I teach theatre has a population of about 85% Latino students, many ...

RE: Two things, Fairy tale Scripts and Letters to parents

Posted By Rebecca Fahning 04-25-2018 10:30
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Dianne, I am looking for a letter to parents explaining the value of IYS and the time kids and parents invest. Of course I can write my own letter, but it would be convenient if I didn't reinvent the wheel. ------------------------------ Rebecca Fahning Theatre Teacher Las Vegas NV ---------- ...

Two things, Fairy tale Scripts and Letters to parents

Posted By Rebecca Fahning 04-24-2018 13:01
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Hey All, First, I am looking for titles of fairy tales that are not exactly disney/musical/kids, but are fairy tale related. Second, I have seen people ask for parent letters before, but no letter has been a convincing argument for why parents should allow their kids to be members of ITS troupes ...

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