Hopewell Valley Central High School

Performing Arts Season 2016-2017

Our Fall Play this year is Michael Frayn’s hilarious farce, Noises Off!  From the Roundabout Theatre Company revival: The Opening Night performance of the farce Nothing On is just hours away, and as the cast stumbles through their final dress rehearsal, things couldn't be going any worse. With lines being forgotten, love triangles unraveling and sardines flying everywhere, it’s complete pandemonium… and we haven’t even reached intermission! Can the cast pull their act together on the stage even if they can't behind the scenes?

Audition Dates: September 14-15, 2016; Callbacks: Friday September 16, 2016.  

Performance Dates: November 4-5, 2016.

The 2017 CHS Winter Musical is Damn Yankees.  Based on the novel The Year The Yankees Lost The Pennant by Douglass Wallop, Damn Yankees the Broadway mega-hit and winner of 7 Tony Awards including Best Musical hits it out of the park! The winning score by Adler and Ross and a devilish book by George Abbot have made this sporty musical comedy a true American classic. Middle-aged baseball fanatic Joe Boyd trades his soul to the Devil, also known as Mr. Applegate, for a chance to lead his favorite team to victory in the pennant race against the New York Yankees. As young baseball sensation Joe Hardy, he transforms the hapless Washington Senators into a winning team, only to realize the true worth of the life he's left behind. Joe ultimately outsmarts Applegate, returns to his former self, and shepherds the Senators

to the World Series.

Audition Dates: Monday and Tuesday November 28-29, Dance: Wednesday November 30th.

Callbacks: Friday December 2, 2016.  

Performance Dates: March 3-4, 10-11, 2017.

Thespian Troupe Shirts Are On Sale Now!

Hi Guys!

Are you planning on attending this year's trip to NJ State Thespian Festival?  Are you a newly inducted member of troupe 7964?  Our troupe shirts are now available for purchase via the link below

Click Here For Shirt Order Forms

We wear our troupe shirts for thespian events, on the first day of State Thespian Festival and as a psyche the week before our trip.

All orders complete with payment are due to Ms. Rochon no later than Friday, February 12th.

Pippin Featured Roles

Here are the featured roles for Pippin (so that you can start marking your scripts accordingly) Also, please check where these roles are found in the script and make note of that in your scene breakdowns. You are responsible for knowing when you are called for any scene blocking!

A Head:  Uri Zerbib

Soldiers (beginning of Glory):  Uri Zerbib and Ethan Seftor

Female Courtier:  TaylorRae Carter

Player with Guitar:  Donovan Kazakoff

Baron/Peasant:  Thomas McLaughlin

Newscaster 1:  Ethan Seftor

Newscaster 2:  Madeline Carleton

Newscaster 3:  Luke Nash

Monk 1:  Zac Fletcher

Monk 2:  Owen Harrison

Monk 3:  Donovan Kazakoff

Noble:  Julia Rutman

Player with Torch:  Jimmy Waltman

Petitioner:  Alyssa Roman

Join the CHS Thespian Remind 101 List

Hi Guys,

If you are planning on attending State Thespian Festival this year, or are a member of Thespian Troupe 7964, you need to sign up for our remind 101 list.  You can do so by clicking the link below.  Periodically, I will send out updates and reminders to check the blog when new information becomes available, so be sure to sign up now!

Join Troupe 7964 Remind Group

Online Sign Up for Thespian Competition Pieces

This year, we are expecting a larger turn out for Thespian competition pieces.  In order to keep track of who is doing what (and to know if we will need to hold auditions for any categories prior to sending in our forms), you will need to click on this link to register your pieces with US (not with Thespians-Ms. Rochon and your troupe officers will take care of that).

Please sign up on the link below no later than Tuesday January 5th, 2016 so that we will know if any auditions will be necessary.  We will let you know any further info as it becomes available.

Click Here to Register Your Thespian Pieces

Thespian Point Resources

Hello Thespians,

I've been getting a lot of requests for Thespian Point sheets and the point chart.  I have extra copies in my office, and will have them at our meeting on Wednesday, but I wanted to give you direct links to the materials online.

Point Information

Sheet to Record Points

School-wide Shakespeare Competition

In order to prepare for the English Speaking Union's State Shakespeare Competition on February 28, 2016, we will be holding a school-wide competition in January 2016, date and time TBD.

You must prepare the following things, in order to be eligible to compete:

A Shakespearean Sonnet

A Shakespearean Monologue, which must be no more than 20 lines in length.

Both pieces must be fully memorized by our school competition in January.  If you need help finding pieces, please see me (Ms. Rochon) for assistance.  Good luck!

Here is a link for the info on the Shakespeare competition:

http://www.esuus.org/esu/programs/shakespeare_competition/about/documents/

You can find all of the info you need there under student forms.  I will have hard copies for you tomorrow as well.  Basically, you need to have a monologue and a sonnet.  The monologue may be no more than 20 lines long, and the sonnet must be the full length.  Here is a list of suggested monologues:

monologue first line index

and here is a document with all of the monologues in their entirety:

click here for monologues