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CAPPIES NEWS: 2007 Season The 2007 Cappies Gala was
held on May 27, 2007 in the Concert Hall of the And the winner is . . . Chelsea Cook for Best Rising Critic, and the
HITS! Critic Team for Best Critic Team.
Chelsea Cook, Rising Critic
Elizabeth Angel, Leila Giles, Taylor Hart, Sarah Hayes and Alex Badley, HITS! Critic Team. (Not
pictured - Chelsea Cook) Our
Production:
"Once Upon A Mattress" is the classic Broadway musical about a
medieval kingdom's search for a proper princess to marry the hapless Prince
Dauntless the Drab. Everyone wants to see the lonely prince engaged – no one
else can get married until he does. Everyone, that is, except the
domineering Queen Aggravain, unwilling to cut the
royal apron strings. Enter Princess Winnifred the
Woebegone, loud, brave and dripping wet (having swam
the moat!). She boldly declares herself a contender for the Prince's hand. But
to show she is a true princess, she must prove that she is too delicate to sleep
on 20 mattresses if there is even a tiny pea underneath them. What happens
next? Our cast: Minstrel - Leila Giles
“The Pale Pink Dragon” - The “The Great
Pandemonium” - Drama coach Jarred Nusthorp REALLY
needs to get through his tech rehearsal of Richard the Third. If only his
cast and crew would FOCUS a little bit. It’s
enough to drive him mad! Filled with funny moments, hysterical musical
mishaps, and a surprise ending, this show is so full of historical, musical,
theatrical and pop culture references, that it’s an education all by
itself. (And we provide a cheat sheet to the references and their
answers!) “The Ugly Duckling” - The King and Queen
are having a hard time marrying off their plain daughter. When a scheme to
marry her to a prince from a far away land doesn’t work, Princess Camilla is
disguised as her maid Dulcibella, while Dulcibella pretends to be Princess Camilla. However,
Prince Simon has also switched places with his servant because he feels a
little ordinary. Will the real prince and princess find true love?
Written by A. A. Milne, author of “Winnie the Pooh,” this sophisticated fairy
tale is for adults as much as children.
2006 Season The 2006 Cappies Gala was held on June 11, 2006
in the Concert Hall of the And the winner is . . . We were thrilled as the first award of the
night was made to Chelsea Cook as the Best Rising Critic for 2006. Her
thank-you speech was televised the next day as part of the Cappies story on
WUSA-9, and her picture appeared on the cover of the week's Burke Connection
newspaper.
Our 2006 HITS! Cappies production was "
Click here to read the Cappies' reviews of "Harvey" and "Once Upon A Mattress" on the National Capital Area Cappies' website.
ABOUT STAR COMPANY: STAR Company (Success Through
Arts Repertory Company) and HITS! (Homeschool
Instructional Theatre Society) were founded in February 2005, with a goal of
providing serious theatre training, quality productions, and competitive
opportunities for young actors from the ages of 9 to 19. In May 2005, STAR Company held their first
one-day workshop, focusing on improv, monologues, and
scenes. Eleven kids attended the workshop. A second workshop took
place in June, and by July, the company was able to hold two summer camps,
“Vaudeville to Video” and a Summer Teen Theatre Seminar. “Vaudeville to
Video” resulted in an original musical production comprised of sketches and
songs compiled from the Vaudeville era, with over 100 audience members in
attendance. The Summer Teen Theatre Seminar focused on teen actors, and
included Stanislavski and Meisner techniques, comedic
and dramatic scenes and monologues, and an original collaborative scene written
by the teen actors. They chose a topic of social relevance to them –
stereotypes and images held about women. As STAR Company’s first summer was wrapping up,
we applied to the Cappies program (www.cappies.com) to provide homeschooled students the opportunity to take part in this
prestigious high school theatre awards program. The application was approved (a first for a homeschool group), and HITS! began
operation with a Cappies Critics team and a cast for their first Cappies show,
“ Additionally, HITS! has
formed an improv (Theatresports)
team that competes with local high schools. The team's first meet was at
Robinson in January, and they attended their second competition in March. Please click on the buttons on the left for
information on our programs.
NEW ADDRESS! For more information, contact:
Laurel Summerfield Right-click here to download our
registration form in Microsoft Word format. |
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