Please check out performance of Tuck Everlasting by fellow PHA students by clicking on links below:
Festival Cast
and
School Cast
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
More Tuck Pics
Tuck Everlasting is the story of a girl named Winnie and a family who she meets, the Tucks. The Tucks have a secret, they're immortal.They drank water from a spring that was actually a fountain of youth. Till the end of time, they will stay that way. Winnie must choose between being immortal and being with Jesse or following the circle of life and dying someday. The Tucks try to teach her how she shouldn't fear death, how they would give anything to die. It teaches the importance and understanding of life and death.It shows that you should not fear death, but to fear an unlived life.
Festival Cast
Festival Cast
Tuck Everlasting goes to festival!
We are almost ready to get on the bus and go to the Festival. We have a great script, wonderful costumes an almost portable and detailed set and wonderful actors and amazing stage crew ( yay Jackson!) We will perform for family meeeting 5/6 on FRI MAY 15th and evening performance on MAY 19th 2009 at 6PM.
Prospect Hill Academy Charter School - Drama Club, presents “Tuck Everlasting” a novel by Natalie Babbitt
Original adaptation for stage by Mark Frattaroli and excerpted and adapted for Drama Festival 2009 by Branigan LaCount.
The cast and crew will meet at PHA at 6:45 AM on MAY 9th to take our play to the the 15th Annual Middle School Drama Festival. We will pack up all costumes,props, and sets and travel by bus to Walsh Junior High School www.framingham.k12.ma.us 301 Brook St Framingham, MA 01701 (508) 626-9180
We will not get home until the evening sometime after 7 pm. We are most grateful for the extraordinary generosity and genius of Natalie Babbitt. She gave us her script, her permission to mold her play to fit drama fest rules and her blessing. All this free of charge in appreciation of the work we do at PHA.
And we are most appreciative of the support of Trevor Wrankmore, the amazing kindness and flexibility of PHA parent and professional costumer, Liz Perlman of Costumeworks and Sheila Leavitt, cardboard wizard. Also a shout out and big thanks to Luis Rivera and Joe Harris who have gone over and above to help us.
Prospect Hill Academy Charter School - Drama Club, presents “Tuck Everlasting” a novel by Natalie Babbitt
Original adaptation for stage by Mark Frattaroli and excerpted and adapted for Drama Festival 2009 by Branigan LaCount.
The cast and crew will meet at PHA at 6:45 AM on MAY 9th to take our play to the the 15th Annual Middle School Drama Festival. We will pack up all costumes,props, and sets and travel by bus to Walsh Junior High School www.framingham.k12.ma.us 301 Brook St Framingham, MA 01701 (508) 626-9180
We will not get home until the evening sometime after 7 pm. We are most grateful for the extraordinary generosity and genius of Natalie Babbitt. She gave us her script, her permission to mold her play to fit drama fest rules and her blessing. All this free of charge in appreciation of the work we do at PHA.
And we are most appreciative of the support of Trevor Wrankmore, the amazing kindness and flexibility of PHA parent and professional costumer, Liz Perlman of Costumeworks and Sheila Leavitt, cardboard wizard. Also a shout out and big thanks to Luis Rivera and Joe Harris who have gone over and above to help us.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Drama Fest and Spring Play Cast
Tuck Everlasting Casts
Thank you all for your great work at the open casting calls this week! Ms. Dooley and I appreciated seeing your wonderful talent and the time you took to share it with us. We are planning to perform this play in two ways, so we have two casts: the Festival Cast will perform at the drama festival in May and the School Cast will perform at PHA soon after the festival. We are also doing some neat movement and vocal work with the Voices, but you will hear more about that during rehearsals. We are excited to give everyone the chance to work on different parts and hope that each student will enjoy working on the play!
It is important that each cast member is able to commit to being at rehearsals, so we ask that you take February Vacation to have a great time, but also to really make sure you will be able to do your best with rehearsals and the performances. IF YOU WANT TO BE PART OF THE PLAY YOU MUST RETURN YOUR PERMISSION SLIP, SIGNED BY A PARENT TO MS. DOOLEY OR MS. LACOUNT BY TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24 (RIGHT AFTER VACATION). We need to get started as soon as possible, and we need to know who we are going to be working with.
Congratulations to you all and have a fun and safe February vacation! If you have any questions, please ask Ms. Dooley or Ms. LaCount.
Festival Cast
Tuck: Catello Batinelli
Mae: Garlyn Colas
Jesse: Justin von Bosau
Miles: Elizabeth Pierre
Winnie: Rebecca DiTucci
Grandma: Illyana DePierro
Stranger: Alyssa Wong
Constable: Olivia Porte
Voices: (Captain) Lyndsay, (Captain) Crystal, Hannah, Joelle, Lorena, Jackson Manz-seik, Rebecca, Emily, Imani, Grace
School Cast
Tuck: Hannah Eyoub
Mae: Joelle Bueno
Jesse: Lorena Cruz
Miles: Jackson Manz-seik
Winnie: Gabby Ferriera
Grandma: Emily Goldstein -McGowan
Stranger: Imani Abraham
Constable: Grace Montiero
Voices: (Captain) Lyndsay, (Captain) Crystal, Catello, Garlyn, Justin, Elizabeth, Gabby, Illyana, Alyssa, Olivia
Thank you all for your great work at the open casting calls this week! Ms. Dooley and I appreciated seeing your wonderful talent and the time you took to share it with us. We are planning to perform this play in two ways, so we have two casts: the Festival Cast will perform at the drama festival in May and the School Cast will perform at PHA soon after the festival. We are also doing some neat movement and vocal work with the Voices, but you will hear more about that during rehearsals. We are excited to give everyone the chance to work on different parts and hope that each student will enjoy working on the play!
It is important that each cast member is able to commit to being at rehearsals, so we ask that you take February Vacation to have a great time, but also to really make sure you will be able to do your best with rehearsals and the performances. IF YOU WANT TO BE PART OF THE PLAY YOU MUST RETURN YOUR PERMISSION SLIP, SIGNED BY A PARENT TO MS. DOOLEY OR MS. LACOUNT BY TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24 (RIGHT AFTER VACATION). We need to get started as soon as possible, and we need to know who we are going to be working with.
Congratulations to you all and have a fun and safe February vacation! If you have any questions, please ask Ms. Dooley or Ms. LaCount.
Festival Cast
Tuck: Catello Batinelli
Mae: Garlyn Colas
Jesse: Justin von Bosau
Miles: Elizabeth Pierre
Winnie: Rebecca DiTucci
Grandma: Illyana DePierro
Stranger: Alyssa Wong
Constable: Olivia Porte
Voices: (Captain) Lyndsay, (Captain) Crystal, Hannah, Joelle, Lorena, Jackson Manz-seik, Rebecca, Emily, Imani, Grace
School Cast
Tuck: Hannah Eyoub
Mae: Joelle Bueno
Jesse: Lorena Cruz
Miles: Jackson Manz-seik
Winnie: Gabby Ferriera
Grandma: Emily Goldstein -McGowan
Stranger: Imani Abraham
Constable: Grace Montiero
Voices: (Captain) Lyndsay, (Captain) Crystal, Catello, Garlyn, Justin, Elizabeth, Gabby, Illyana, Alyssa, Olivia
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Drama Club is on!
Drama Club meets on WED and FRI from 3:05PM - 4:15PM . We are excited and so lucky to have Branigan LaCount, an Emerson College senior in Theater Education join us for Drama Club as well as performing arts classes. Ms. LaCount, a graduate of PHA, has been teaching theater since her senior year in high school when she taught some 2nd graders at the LowerSchool, who are now students in the 6th grade. She will be with us until JUNE. She is a fine actor and singer and brings many gifts to our work.
Drama Club members are reading plays as we look for a piece to bring to the Middle School Drama Fest in MAY. We must commit to a play by FEB 15.
FRI drama club will be for 7th and 8th graders ( 5th and 6th graders may attend club on FRI if okayed by director) We also play theater and improv games. Students may need to come to both rehearsals closer to performance date. Looking for an organized person to be the Stage Manager
UNIT 3 Script Reading + Theater Arts: Some Essential Questions
5th graders are learning basic theater arts vocabulary while they learn to read and perform from a script.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
First Night Performance in Boston 2009 - 5th grade student
Berline and three other PHA students performed at Boston's First Night Children's Festival with Andrea Lovett Storytelling Ensemble. Check in at 6th and 7th grade blogs for more videos.
HAITIAN FOLKTALES
“The Magic Orange Tree”
Storytelling is an important part of Haitian life. The elders in a family or in a community often tell stories that have been passed from one generation to the next. It is very common for Haitian children to learn life lessons and moral instruction through storytelling. As night falls in Haitian homes, one will frequently hear a loud “Crick?” and soon a loud “Crack!” “Crick?” is shouted by an elder ready to tell a story. This is a storyteller’s method of finding out if anyone is interested
in hearing a story. Those interested in hearing a story respond eagerly and loudly with “Crack!” This tells the storyteller to begin his or her story.
In the Haitian culture, it is common for new parents to save and dry the newborn
infant’s umbilical cord. After the cord has been dried, they put a pit from a fruit tree with it and bury the two in the earth. The tree that grows from this belongs to
the child who was the owner of the umbilical cord. After a period of five or six years, this tree will begin to bear fruit. This fruit is considered the property of the child and he or she may barter with the fruit, sell the fruit, or do whatever he or she desires with the fruit. Often this is a child’s introduction to economics and finance. Young Haitian children are commonly economically active.
HAITIAN FOLKTALES
“The Magic Orange Tree”
Storytelling is an important part of Haitian life. The elders in a family or in a community often tell stories that have been passed from one generation to the next. It is very common for Haitian children to learn life lessons and moral instruction through storytelling. As night falls in Haitian homes, one will frequently hear a loud “Crick?” and soon a loud “Crack!” “Crick?” is shouted by an elder ready to tell a story. This is a storyteller’s method of finding out if anyone is interested
in hearing a story. Those interested in hearing a story respond eagerly and loudly with “Crack!” This tells the storyteller to begin his or her story.
In the Haitian culture, it is common for new parents to save and dry the newborn
infant’s umbilical cord. After the cord has been dried, they put a pit from a fruit tree with it and bury the two in the earth. The tree that grows from this belongs to
the child who was the owner of the umbilical cord. After a period of five or six years, this tree will begin to bear fruit. This fruit is considered the property of the child and he or she may barter with the fruit, sell the fruit, or do whatever he or she desires with the fruit. Often this is a child’s introduction to economics and finance. Young Haitian children are commonly economically active.
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