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Thespian IE Conference Saturday Feb. 11th!!! Student directions are attached
Posted By: Beth Orme, Tuesday 2/7/2012
Attachments: IE student directions.doc
Nanette Tap Dance sequence
Posted By: Ruben Van Kempen, Wednesday 2/1/2012
 
Go to You Tube.
search rubenvankempen tap
Once you see the still clip, click on account (balletisbomb) and both selections will come up. Happy Tapping and learning.
QUILTERS
Posted By: Ruben Van Kempen, Thursday 1/19/2012
 
The production of Quilters will open and play:
Jan. 26, 27, 28 - 7:30 p.m.
Tickets available for festival seating at the door only. Box office open at 6:30 p.m.
Snow closures and Quilters/Leading Ladies
Posted By: Beth Orme, Tuesday 1/17/2012
 
As snow is a possibility in the near future, here are several schedules. If school or after school activities are closed-rehearsals and performances of both Quilters and Leading Ladies will be cancelled. If school is 2-hours late, rehearsals and performances will happen on schedule. So join me in thinking RAIN!!!! Please e-mail me at baorme@seattleschools.org with other Quilters related questions.
QUILTERS
Posted By: Ruben Van Kempen, Sunday 1/8/2012
 
Combining music, dance movement and scenes of vivid dramatic intensity, the play pays eloquent tribute to the courage and spirit of our nation's pioneer woman. "Who would have thought that quilts, quilting—quilters—had so much joy and pain, laughter and tears, so much life, beauty and drama in them?" —Drama-Logue. "…an unqualified success, as bright as the colors used in the quilts themselves." —Hollywood Reporter. "QUILTERS is a show pieced together with love and stitched with pride…a thing of beauty, comfort and joy." —NY Post. "…a tender and moving theatre work, a human patchwork rippling in the breeze of memory." —Newsweek.
TICKETS Festival seating, available at the door only.
Box office opens one hour before curtain.
JANUARY 19, 20, 21 - 7:30 p.m.
Roosevelt Theatre


Roosevelt High School has the only full time drama program in the Seattle School District, offering eight periods of drama per day including acting, directing, technical theatre, production, design, and a full musical theatre program with four private voice teachers, a vocal director and a choreographer for the yearly musical.

Their annual production calendar includes:
  • the annual drama festival of student directed one-act plays
  • an original work developed by intermediate/advanced theatre students through a professional theatre company residency
  • a playwright residency with the Seattle Repertory Theatre - student written/acted and directed by staff from the Rep.
  • the winter production (usually two plays) of a straight play.
  • participation in the annual state high school theatre festival through WA State Thespians.
  • one or two musical reviews
  • spring production of a big Broadway musical
Along with the annual theatre program work, special opportunities are created for the students to broaden their experiences. The theatre program performed at the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, travelled to Hawaii Preparatory Academy to lead workshops in theatre sports and musical theatre and also performed a musical review. They have travelled to New York City to take workshops taught by broadway actors/directors/agents through Broadway Classroom and have also participated in the International Thespian Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Named one of the top ten high school theatre programs in America in 1996, Roosevelt Theatre has created a world class, internationally recognized model for theatre education. The students of Roosevelt High School receive outstanding training and many have gone on to further training at such prestigious institutions as New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Carnegie Mellon and Yale University. Alumni of this program have performed on Broadway in Never Gonna Dance, Chicago, Into the Woods, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Oklahoma, Life With Albertine, A Chorus Line, Good Vibrations and the upcoming production of Lennon, the new John Lennon musical. They have also been in national tours of Fosse, Chicago, Sunset Boulevard, Evita, Swing and Civil War. Alumns have also found careers in television with roles in Friends, Felicity, The Practice and Spin City, and they have performed on the Tony Awards and many television commercials. International productions in London's West End and Europe have seen grads in The King and I, Miss Saigon, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, West Side Story and Cats to name a few.




Leading Ladies
Our second Winter Production, directed by Ben Briggs!


Roosevelt High School
1410 NE 66th Street
Seattle, WA 98115
(206)252-4810

Box Office:
(206)252-4967

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