IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR INTERESTED MUSICAL FAMILIES

THIS IS THE WEBPAGE TO SAVE FOR ALL FUTURE UPDATES!

First, thank you to those that came to yesterday's informational meeting. Please email me as questions come up.

IMPORTANT POINTS TO NOTE:

• March 3rd (Wednesday) is the last day to sign up for auditions and IT IS AUDITION DAY!
• Auditions will be held via ZOOM I will put that link here on the webpage on Tuesday the 2nd.
• There are two slots for auditionees. Your child only needs to attend ONE of the two sessions on the 3rd.
• The first slot is 4:30PM - 6:00PM
• The second slot is 6:30PM - 8:00PM
• We will select students from these two groups for callbacks.
• Callbacks will be on March 4th from 5:30 - 7:30PM 
• The callbacks will have a separate ZOOM ID and will be emailed to those students asked to come to callbacks.
• If you are unfamiliar with the callback process, callbacks simply mean "we need to see more" from your child, it does not guarantee a principal role.
• The Cast list will be posted at 3:00PM on Friday the 5th ONLINE ONLY so that all students can be present for the posting.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR FULLY REMOTE/HOMESCHOOLED/OTHER SCHOOL INVOLVEMENT:

• Yes, your student can be a participant in this year's production.
• You must agree to follow Vermont travel guidelines regarding single-family gatherings, and quarantine.
• Contracts are required to participate, they are available via email per request, as is the music for auditions. Please reach out ASAP!
• To sign up for a time to audition please email Ms. Chapman (chapmank@hartfordschools.net) BEFORE next Wednesday so that she adds you to the session of your choice and gets you the correct ZOOM ID.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR IN-PERSON STUDENTS:

• BEGINNING TODAY 2/25/21, Thursday, Friday(2/26), Monday (3/1), and Wednesday (3/3) will be available in-person sign-ups outside Ms. Chapman's room.  Please make sure to sign up for ONE of the two times offered for auditions.
• Contracts are available outside of Ms. Chapman's room for you and your parent to sign. Parents can also email and request an electronic copy.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR ALL STUDENTS:

• You must sign up for a time to audition in one of the two ways listed above.
• You are responsible to learn the audition piece for either the soprano (traditionally girl) or baritone (traditionally boy) roles. 
• You can choose the part that you are most comfortable with.
• Soprano's you do not have to sing both parts of the audition piece with Troy and Gabriella you can sing just Gabriella's part, whatever is easiest for you
• Do your best!
• You are responsible to learn the dance audition piece.
• Both the song instrumental and the dance audition will be posted on Monday the 1st. 
• You must sign and return your contract, either through email to Ms. Chapman or in-person to Ms. Chapman.

BREAK A LEG! ~Ms. Chapman

CLICK THIS for contract for HSM Jr

HOW DO I GET TO THE PARENT INFORMATIONAL MEETING 2/24/2021 for 6PM?

 THIS MEETING IS GOING TO BE HELD TOMORROW EVENING February 24th at 6PM via ZOOM.

STEP 1) Go to zoom.us

STEP 2) In the upper right of the screen click the words JOIN MEETING

STEP 3) It will ask for a Zoom ID and a passcode. 

They are:

Zoom ID: 953 6706 5243

Passcode: HMSMusical

STEP 4) This will get you to a "waiting room" I will let you in for the meeting.

STEP 5) Once in the meeting, you can opt to turn your camera on or not, everyone is automatically muted, please use the hand raise function to interject, or the chat bar. There will be time for questions at the end of the meeting.

STEP 6) That's all there is to it! Hope to see you there! Thanks, Kristen Chapman

So excited to announce...

This year's Spring Musical will be High School Musical Jr.

Our first order of business will be an informational ZOOM meeting that we hope you'll attend on Wednesday evening February 24th. 

Zoom ID: 953 6706 5243

Passcode: HMSMusical

This meeting will begin at 6PM.

Please come with your questions about this year's musical.  We can tell you it will look different from past years but we will do our best to make this a fun and exciting experience for all those students interested! 

Hope to see you on Wednesday at 6PM. Thank you for your interest in this year's musical!

We will need help with costuming and set building (though not in the same capacity as past years) if you are interested in helping at all please consider the April break week as a big participation week.

To your interested students, please have them sign up on the board outside of Ms. Chapman's room on either their Red or Blue days regarding interest in the show, the sign up will look different because of Covid restrictions please give them an email that I can send an invite and invitation to for auditions. Auditions will be held on ZOOM as well, on March 3rd. On the 4th we will hold callbacks, also on ZOOM.

The audition selections have been posted outside my room but I am attaching two YouTube clips of the pieces that the students are to sing for the auditions. Get Your Head in the Game is the baritone/boy selection and What I've Been Looking For is for the Alto/Sop/Girl selection. These tempos are the intended tempos of the audition however when practicing What I've Been Looking For auditionees do not have to pretend like they don't know what they are singing as in the example here. We will be using boxed (meaning pre-recorded) versions of the songs. Hope these help!

Thank you, see you soon, Ms. Kristen Chapman

Get Your Head In The Game

What I've Been Looking For

There are always lessons...

I am so grateful for my cast and their willingness to try new things with me.  This past weekend's event was certainly a learning experience.  I am sorry to those whose children were not seen because of my not fully understanding how the stream was going to happen.  I wish you saw my screen, it was perfect by the end, with those that were performing filling the screen, and I realize now that that isn't what you were able to see, I have learned so much through this asynchronous learning process.  We put out one fire with the sound not coming through consistently and loud enough and ended up creating another hazard...isn't that always the way.  Nevertheless, the process was really more for the kids and on the backside they could see, interact and share this moment with each other and I do believe they enjoyed it!  It filled my heart for sure but my sincere apologies that it didn't translate exactly as intended. 

The last piece of the puzzle and to experience their real time singing (this weekend's show was them acting to the rehearsal tracks).  However, I will need their buy in to produce individual singing videos and submit them to me by Thursday the 14th.  I will send the backing tracks via the Musical Google Classroom.  This will give you, and them, one final keep sake with ALL of the submitted videos compiled to produce what has been toted as a virtual chorus experience.  

Thank you for bearing with me in this odd musical year...sadly, I think virtual chorus might be a sneak peek at the coming days.  I pray I am wrong, for there is nothing that can replace the community and singing experience together and in person.

I hope everyone is well, that all the moms had a wonderful Mother's Day, and that for better or worse you were able to tune in and enjoy a little of the theater magic on Saturday evening.

Thank you everyone, Kristen Chapman

THANK YOU FOR TONIGHT!!!

Well, it wasn't a perfectly seamless production (live performances rarely are) but thank you so much Aiden Bettwieser for trouble shooting the sound and for my wonderful cast for making it work tonight. It was a lot of fun and I'll go to sleep feeling a little happier for this time we spent together, to include a quarantine cast party, virtual of course! I love you all! <3 Here's to better times ahead and making real life music together again!

Thank you to those that tuned in! Thank you also, Cody for capturing some images from tonight, it almost felt like running the show from the booth.

TONIGHT 5/9/2020 7PM

Celebrating what would have been the end of our run with Disney's Little Mermaid Jr.

Please join us for some fun and levity in the midst of all the cancelled events!

Be our guest...oh wait...wrong Disney show, but you no doubt get the point! 

Enjoy the Show!

~Kristen Chapman

TONIGHT's SHOW!

CELEBRATING WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN SHOW WEEK...

Good Morning -

Very important if you haven't done so, please take a head shot of your child and email it to me right now, please and thank you, I want a "cast photo compilation" in the yearbook but this can only happen if I have everyone's sweet face in that image.

Also, ON SATURDAY NIGHT MAY 9th (what would have been our closing show) we are going to do a Google Meet live read/sing through of our show.  It will be online, I will be recording the meet.  There are other instructions I will lay out in the Musical Classroom.  Please make sure your child has accepted the invite to the Musical classroom and email me with questions. 

Our "show" will begin at 7PM (what would have been the actual time).  Hair and makeup isn't required but if you are so inclined to feel fancy and have good lighting please do anything to make it feel special. 

We will be staying online (those that can) following the show to catch up and to have a "cast party" to say thanks and share out what we missed most and also to wish our 8th graders the best.

It is not ideal, none of this is.  It is my hope that in doing this we can at least feel like we had something special and unique to our cast.  This is a year I will never forget, though I would like to forget the angst all of this has caused everyone :(!!!

Thanks for checking in and sharing this information with those not on Facebook.

See you all online, much love, Ms. Chapman