PAW Drama

This is for 4th & 5th grade students interested in auditioning for PAW Drama Club. Unfortunately, there are limited spots in the play, so auditions will be required to help with selecting a specific number of students to participate. Please review the information below for all additional details and information. This year’s goal is for the Drama Club to be participating in the Veterans’ Day program, the Christmas concert, and the Spring Play, which will be announced at a later date.

 

IMPORTANT INFORMATION BELOW, PLEASE READ CAREFULLY:

IMPORTANT NOTES:

• Students CANNOT audition if they do not have reliable transportation to and from any rehearsals or performances.
• Students CANNOT audition if they cannot commit to the weekly rehearsals and the date(s) of the performances.
• Students CANNOT audition if they have other activities which conflict with rehearsals or performance times.

• 1st Performance: Veterans’ Day - Wednesday November 11th @ 7:45am in the school gym

• 2nd Performance: Christmas - Thursday December 10th @ 6pm in the school gym

• 3rd Performance: Spring Play - 1st showing - March 24th @ 6pm in the Gym

• 4th Performance: Spring Play - 2nd showing - March 25th @ 6pm in the Gym

• Rehearsals will be every Wednesdays 2:30pm - 3:45pm, and pick up in the car rider line.

• Tuesday rehearsals are added at a later date and will be from 3:00pm - 3:45pm, and pick up in the car rider line

• Wednesday rehearsals are in the Music Room, and Tuesday Rehearsals will be in Creative Movement.

 

AUDITION PROCEDURES - READ CAREFULLY

• AUDITIONS ARE WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 16th, 3PM-4PM @ THE MUSIC ROOM 

• Students MUST dismiss from school as normal and parents need to bring them back for their audition during the 3pm-4pm window time frame.
• Auditions will consist of PERFORMING A POEM TO MEMORIZE & ACT (attached). DO NOT just read the poem. Students are expected to provide their own ACTING interpretations to the poem.
• Parents wait in the cafeteria while the students wait in line at the Music Room to audition. First come, first serve…each audition will be approximately 3 minutes or less if the student is prepared.
• Once a student is finished with their audition, the student will rejoin their parent(s) in the cafeteria to go home.
• First rehearsal date will be shared with the students that are accepted into the PAW Drama Club.
• Audition results will be provided within a week's time from the audition date.
• NOTE: If accepted students are late from being picked up from rehearsals, they may be sent to the afterschool program (KidZone) which may result in paying a fee for their attendance in that program, even if a student's attendance at KidZone is only for a short period of time.

 

Choose one of the following poems to audition with:

 

FOR SALE

One sister for sale!

One sister for sale!

One crying and spying young sister for sale!

I’m really not kidding.

So who’ll start the bidding?

Do I hear a dollar?

A nickel?

A penny?

Oh, come on, isn’t there, isn’t there, isn’t there any

One kid who will buy this old sister for sale,

This crying and spying young sister for sale?

Do I hear anything?

Okay.

I’ll keep her till next Wednesday.

 

 

RAIN

I opened my eyes

and looked up at the rain,

and it dripped in my head

and poured into my brain

so pardon the wild crazy thing I just said

I just ain’t the same

since there’s rain in my head.

I walk kinda careful

I turn around slow,

I can’t run or jump

‘cause I might overflow,

and all that I hear as I lie in my bed

is the slishity-shlosh of the rain in my head.