IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THOSE WORKING HOUSE DUTIES
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* EVERYONE working house duties must come to the theatre at least 1 hour
before the performance. It's a lot of work to set up and we need your help.
FOR FRIDAY (OPENING NIGHT), PLEASE COME AT LEAST 90 MINUTES EARLY TO HELP
WITH SET UP.
* Everyone working the front of the house (concessions, flowers, telegrams,
ushers) please wear black bottoms and white shirt. Concessions are sold
outside so dress appropriately.
* Everyone working the back of the house (chaperones, stage crew) please
wear all black.
* You're expected to work the entire performance - before the show, during
intermission, and for a short time after the audience departs.

RESPONSIBILITIES
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CONCESSIONS – Before: Set up tables, arrange food, ice beverages.
Intermission: Refresh food and beverages, sell concessions. After: Sell
concessions for 20 minutes. Help clean up and store concession supplies.

FLOWERS/TELEGRAMS/RAFFLE – Before: Prepare (set up your table, tie
cards/ribbons on flowers) and sell Flowers, Telegrams and Raffle tickets.
During: Sell items. After: Clean up and store Flowers, Telegrams, & Raffle.

USHERS – YOU MAY BE REASSIGNED if they need additional concessions or flower
folks. Head usher will assign you to a strategic seat during the
performance. Before: direct audience to seats; distribute programs. Handle
any noise disturbance issues in theatre. During: 2 ushers to help sell
concessions during intermission; other ushers stand by door to prevent
patrons from taking food into the theatre. After: Go through the theater to
pick up trash and recycle programs.

WILL CALL – Before: Distribute pre-paid tickets before performances. Try to
get patrons to sign up for the mailing list. During: Help sell concessions.
After: Help sell concessions and clean up/store concession supplies.

CHAPERONES – Supervise cast in Green Room/wings as they wait to go onstage.
Help cast members with costumes. Supervise the clean up of Greenroom.

LISTED BELOW IS THE NAMES of the folks working house duties for each show.
Stage Crew: I believe you all know the shows you are working... If you don't
please ask Valerie or Leslie for the most up-to-date list. WEAR ALL BLACK
for the shows.

PLEASE show up ready to work for all the times listed below. DON'T ASK ME
TO SWITCH YOUR DAYS, I can't handle the stress:)

Fri Nov 2
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CONCESSIONS
Joanne Spetz *
Shannon McEnery *
Wendi Upchurch *
Sue Dooley

USHERS
Debbie Berger
Carol Velez
Harry Olson
Mark Dooley

LOBBY
Raffle: Frankie Hebert
Flowers/Telegrams: Melissa Spaulding
Runner (kids): Jake Sims
Runner (kids): Micah Light

CHAPERONES
Cheryl Herrera *
Amy Lampson *
Helen Murphy
Costumes: Jeanne McCaleb *
Allison Twaddle

Props - Rosie Issel
Props - Taryn Issel
Lightboard Operator: Sam Alavi

Sat Nov 3 Eve
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CONCESSIONS
Sara Steppe *
Wendi Upchurch *
Shannon McEnery
Sue Dooley
Will call also:Jeanne McCaleb

USHERS
Debbie Berger
Harry Olson
Mark Dooley

LOBBY
Raffle: Frankie Hebert
Flowers/Telegrams: Jordan Hiller
Runner (kids): Eve McNalley
Runner (kids): Camille Halley

CHAPERONES
Cheryl Herrera *
Carol Phillips
Keely Reynolds
Costumes: Kathy Croft *
Allison Twaddle

Props - Rosie Issel
Props - Taryn Issel/Melissa Spaulding
Lightboard Operator: Sam Alavi

Sun Nov 4 Matinee
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CONCESSIONS
Joanne Spetz *
Shannon McEnery *
Wendi Upchurch *
Sara Steppe *
Will call also: Harry Olson (moved from Usher)

USHERS
Debbie Berger
Judith Blum (Ragsdale mother)
Paul Hammond
Lisa Hammond

Raffle: Frankie Hebert
Flowers/Telegrams: Robert Fore/Jordan Hiller
Runner (kids): Mac Upchurch

CHAPERONES
Annette Kranzler *
Stacy Fradkin *
Helen Murphy
Costumes: Jeanne McCaleb *
Allison Twaddle

Props - Sharon Vinick
Props - Melissa Spaulding
Lightboard Operator: Mara Hammond

COSTUME UPDATE
Some of the costume changes in this show will be EXTREMELY quick (particularly at the end of the show when the entire cast has less than 2 minutes to take off their pants/skirt & shirt and put on their Megamix outfits (white pants/skirts and Joseph Show shirt).

It would help if EVERYONE wore something UNDERNEATH their costumes that they wouldn’t mind being seen in. They probably will not have time to get to the dressing room and might be changing in the backstage hallway. Examples include white or tan shorts, white/tan/nude camisole/tank/undershirt/leotard, etc.

SHOES
An email was sent last week about ALL CAST (except narrators) wearing TAN SHOES for the show. Jazz shoes, ballet shoes, sneakers, sandals, whatever you are most comfortable will be fine.

A bunch of people found great tanish/brown men’s sandals at Payless for $24.99 each (buy one, get one half price).
http://payless.resultspage.com/search?w=jupiter
This is a great shoes for the brothers and any other male cast members. There are a bunch on hold at Payless in San Mateo until tomorrow (size 8, 7, 5.5) under the name Wendy Sims. Feel free to go check them out. I also have a list of the larger sizes and which Payless stores carry them. Come see Wendy tomorrow for specifics.

For females, any tan dance shoe/sandal is great! Jazz boots, pedinis, ballet slippers, anything comfortable. Some of the little kids found adorable comfortable dress shoes at payless.

Wives/butler/baker, please try to get the GHILLIE dance shoes. I know many already bought them, which is great. They can be found at Dance Attire in Mt View (limited sizes, so call first), www.Sfdancewear.com, www.discountdance.com. One cast member found them at a huge discount on ebay.

We also suggested the Hermes Sandal in the last email. However, PLEASE DO NOT PURCHASE THE HERMES SANDAL SINCE MANY FOUND THEM UNCOMFORTABLE.

RAFFLE
Here's a partial list of our prizes...
2 1-day passes to Disneyland
A Pier 39 Family Fun Pack for 4
5 tickets (including parking) to a Giants game at Pac Bell Park
2 3-day general admission tickets to the Kawasaki AMA Superbike Showdown at
Infineon Raceway
3 1/2-hour acting lessons with Leslie Stupple (PPP artistic director)
A birthday party for the birthday child and 7 friends at Bel Mateo Bowl
A Sony 13" or 20" TV
A $50 gift certificate to McCormick & Kuleto's Seafood restaurant in
Ghiradelli Square
And there are lots more....

Raffle tickets are $3 each or 6 for $15.
There will be will 2 BIG envelopes at the rehearsals next to the sign in sheet.

One will contain extra raffle tickets and the other will have Raffle Pre-Sales written on it and this will be for ticket stubs and money.

Please take only what you think you can sell. Since the cardstock for printing the tickets is expensive, please be sure to return any unsold tickets so we can sell them at the performances.

When you have sold your tickets, please put the money and stubs in an envelope together and put them in the Pre-Sales Raffle manila envelope when you sign in at rehearsal.

We'd like to set a goal for this show of having each cast member sell at least 12 tickets. The money from raffle sales is used to help fund the various community programs that PPP is involved in, so please help us make this raffle a very successful one.

Recap of parent meeting

Load into the Theater.
· The first part of load-in will be on Sunday, October 28 from beginning around 12:00 at the Greenhouse.
· The second part of load-in will be on Monday, October 29 beginning around 1:00 at the Greenhouse.
· The set construction crew will handling most of this. If you can volunteer to help load the sets into the theater, please let me know ASAP.

Tech Week
· Review the attached “Surviving Tech week” for suggestions to make this week easier.
· Expect rehearsals to begin at 5:00 each night (Oct 29-Nov1).
· Realistically, we probably won’t begin that early for everyone… Some might be called at 5; others at 6; Details will be send out closer to tech week.
· Expect to end at 9:00 for Monday and Tuesday.
· Expect to end 10:00 or until they are done for Wednesday and Thursday.
· Wednesday is Halloween. We will begin at 7:00pm. 7:00 means 7:00 and not 7:20. Please arrive in costume and ready to go at 7:00pm.
· Wendy’s cell number is 650-218-4995. Please program this number into your phone. There will be a message by 8:25pm each night of tech week with an updated end time.
· During tech week, all cast members will wear costumes for Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday. Make up & Hair should be done for Thursday.
· Tech rehearsals are Closed Rehearsals (meaning no one can stay to watch), except for stage crew, chaperone chairs, costume committee.
· If you are available to help during tech week (and are not part of stage crew, chaperone chairs, costume committee) please email me… I have other projects that week.

Hair & Makeup
· Traditional stage makeup for this show (simple foundation, blush, eye liner, mascara)
· Long Hair should be neatly brushed and away from face. Back ponytail; braid, partial updo are great!

Costume Basket/Container
· Please provide your cast member with a Laundry Basket or Large Container to bring to the theater each night.
· You can put the following items in the LABELED Basket: Costume, Makeup, brush, Water, Snacks, book or quiet game, checklist of items in the basket. Each item should have their name on it.

Show T-Shirt
· All cast members received a show t-shirt at rehearsal.
· These t-shirts WILL BE WORN IN THE SHOW FINALE, so please take care of them and make sure they are in your Costume Basket for every performance!
· You cast member can wear them to advertise the show in the next few weeks.

Sign Up For Show Hours
· THANK YOU to every family for signing up to work 4+ shows. We REALLY appreciate everyone signing up so generously! I am working on finalizing the sign ups.
· Please note that we may need to move some people around (from 1 area to another) based on where the need is greatest. We are doing to our best to fit everyone in where they need to be.

Strike
· Mark your calendars now! Strike (tearing down of sets) will be immediately following the last show on Sunday, Nov 11 (around 4:00).
· ALL CAST MEMBERS and AN ADULT FAMILY MEMBER need to be there.

Cast Party
· It is following Strike. Temple Beth El, San Mateo. Sara Steppe will be providing details soon!

Dinner in between show
· On Saturday, Nov 10, Pizza will be provided for any cast member wishing to stay at the theater between shows. Janice Herweigh will be providing details soon.

Ticket Forms
· For best seats, order your tickets early! You can leave your completed ticket order at any of the WEEKEND rehearsals.