Stagecoach

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SHOW TIME AND LOCATION

Our Tenth Anniversary show for all main school Yarm and Darlington students will take place on Saturday evening July 14^th 2007 at :-

The Oakwood Centre
Cleasby Way
Eaglescliffe
Stockton.

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The Oakwood Centre is an evangelical Church and a conference centre. It has been a happy home to us during many Summer Workshops. We would ask you to make its status clear to your children, so that we can show the building and its people proper respect.

REPLIES

Some people still have not told us whether they will be with us on the night. IF THIS IS YOU, PLEASE DO THIS AS A MATTER OF URGENCY - telephone 01325 337667. If anyone has lost their original letter or not received one then please ring on the above number.

TICKETS

This performance is not part of what Stagecoach normally provides, where tickets are free. It is an extra opportunity, so we are making it into a charity fundraiser. Audience tickets cost £5 per adult and £3 per child, with all the profits going to the NSPCC - see NSPCC link . If any families are unable to attend the event but would like to make a donation to the NSPCC then please go to the link.

The seats in the Oakwood Centre are not numbered, so members of the audience can choose their own seats. Each performing student is assured 2 tickets each but there may be extras on sale, after these have been allocated. Please let us know your requirements, in writing, if you would like extras.

TICKETS CANNOT BE BOUGHT ON THE DOOR, BUT THEY CAN BE RESERVED BY PHONE, THEN PAID FOR BY POST, IF NOT ALREADY ORDERED - 01325 337667

Tickets will be distributed to the students on the last week of term and posted out to anyone who is absent on that day.

REHEARSALS

All students will be required to attend rehearsals for the show during the daytime. For individual students, we will try to keep the timings as close together as we can, for the ease of parents. But we cannot guarantee it, particularly where some students are involved with more than one project. ALL students must be on the premises for 5.30pm for the rehearsal of the finale and will remain with us then, until the show starts at 7.00pm. Therefore food and drink will need to be sent with your child for the teatime period.

Any student who has a very disrupted timetable of rehearsals, will be able to stay with us between rehearsals, but this can obviously not apply to everyone, or we would get nothing done, nor would we have the required number of chaperones to cope legally.

PARENTS MUST REQUEST AN EXTENDED STAY AT REHEARSALS AND NOT JUST LEAVE CHILDREN WITHOUT PERMISSION.

A rehearsal schedule will be issued very shortly and will arrive with your end of term newsletter.

PARKING

The Oakwood Centre has a huge car park to the rear of the building.

CHAPERONES

We have an awful lot of chaperones to find. They have to have CRB clearance. If you, or a relative, would be able to volunteer as a chaperone, then could you please photocopy your CRB clearance form, or at least get hold of the number, (if you are an NHS worker), and send it to TRUDY HINDMARSH, 71 WOOLSINGTON DRIVE, MIDDLETON ST GEORGE, DARLINGTON, DL2 1UL, together with details of when you would be available.

The work is not onerous. It involves being responsible for up to 10 children, whilst they are sitting with you, in the auditorium, during rehearsals and the show. You will have a running order and will need to get your children into position at the required times.

In return we will give you 1 free ticket. This is in addition to your 2 ticket entitlement and will mean that you will be able to seat 4 people at the show (including yourself) without having to apply for extra tickets for these four.

COSTUME

Because we want all the students to be able to see all the show, we are keeping costuming to the absolute minimum, so that we do not need changing facilities and everyone can be in the auditorium at all times.

ALL STUDENTS NEED TO WEAR BLACK JAZZ SHOES OR DANCE TRAINERS and be in Stagecoach uniform or plain black T shirt and trousers - boys and girls.

Some show numbers may require a single piece of costume or a prop. A slip outlining any needs will be issued on the last day of term, along with the tickets. These items should be stored under the student`s chair during rehearsals and performance, so carrier bags would be useful to prevent confusion.

PHOTOGRAPHY AND DVD RECORDING

In keeping with your agreed parental policy on the subject, NO filming or photography will be allowed. RightclickProductions will be recording the show and taking stills shots (RightClickStudios), with their usual high standards for the making of a DVD. This web site has also been designed and is managed by RightClickProductions. This is another aspect to their business if anyone needs a web site creating. Footage from the site will be selected to show at the performance and may be included on the DVD.

PARENTS WISHING FOOTAGE OF THEIR CHILDREN NOT TO BE INCLUDED IN THE SHOW, OR DVD, SHOULD MAKE THEIR WISHES KNOWN, IN WRITING, IMMEDIATELY.

Copies of the DVD may be ordered in advance, either by the form issued with my recent letter, or by application from this web site (info@RightClickProductions.com). If your order has already been placed with me, then please do not place a duplicate an order. ALL ORDERS MUST BE PAID FOR IN ADVANCE AND ALL QUERIES REGARDING DVD`s MUST BE DIRECTED TO RIGHTCLICKPRODUCTIONS AND NOT MYSELF.

Now the formalities are over, we can get on with organising the “good bits”.

See you all soon.

Trudy

Early Stages are to have their own celebration show for the 10^th Anniversary, at the end of the Autumn Term 2007. This is in recognition of the fact that my first Stagecoach school opened in Yarm in the Autumn term 1997 and broke Stagecoach records by being the first Stagecoach to open with a main school and an Early Stages class simultaneously. By the end of that term we had 2 Early Stages classes.

Yarm will have a separate show from Darlington and, as we have done previously, we will group three, or four, classes together in each performance, therefore giving 2 performances at Darlington and one at Yarm. These will take place on our own premises, because we cannot get the Arts Centre because it is the Christmas busy season.

The number of Early Stages classes based here in Yarm and Darlington has now jumped to 10, which is also another record because nowhere else in the Stagecoach network has that number of Early stages classes. Hence our theme for the shows - “Record Breakers”.

We have trawled through our student data-bases to see how many of our existing students were original to our Early Stages openings at Yarm and Darlington. We have one boy and one girl, both now in Stage Three, who came as Early Stages and are still with us now. They are Jonathan Harrison (Yarm AM school but formerly of Darlington PM school) and Louise Sowerby (Darlington PM school) We will include these two in our celebrations.

It should be a nice treat for Christmas!

Best regards

Trudy

For those parents who are trying to book tickets and have lost their list:-

RED TEAM

Tues evening

Wed matinee

Thurs evening

Friday 5pm

Saturday 5pm

BLUE TEAM

Wednesday evening

Thurs matinee

Friday evening

Saturday 2pm

Saturday 8pm

BOTH TEAMS NEED TO BE AT THE THEATRE ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON FOR REHEARSALS