Practice Schedule

Ben-Hur Practice Schedule 2013

                                   Participants must be at all practices and performances.

Feb 4 - call backs as needed,  Scenes 6,7,8 (Judah, Sheik, Iras, Esther, Balt., Simon.,Amrah)

Feb 11 - Scenes 1,4,5,9 (Miriam, Tirzah, Amrah, Judah, Messala, Sheik, Druscilla)

Feb 18 - lines memorized, catch up scenes + 2,3 (Judah, Festus, Quintus, Thord, Irmin), Jeremy W?

Feb 25 - off book, mime Theo?, Scene 9,10,Epilogue (Anna, Martha, women)

March 4 - all props/swords used, all cast in Act 2

March 11- begin to use sound, all cast in Act 1

March 18-(Nationals) - set completed, music completed

March 25 - scene changes

April 1 - run show

April 8 - costumes done, run show

April 12 (Friday) - Dress rehearsal

April 15 - Dress rehearsal

April 17(Wed) - Dress rehearsal or work what is needed

April 19 (Friday)- Final Dress rehearsal

Performances:  (Be there 75 min. prior to time listed - show run time is about 90 minutes)

Monday, April 22 at 9:00 AM - St. Johns in West Bend

Monday  night - __________________(church)

Tuesday, April 23  PM - school TBA

Tuesday night - __________________(church)

Wednesday, April 24 at 7:00 PM - Wooded Hills Church

Thursday, April 25 at 12:30 PM - Silverbrook Middle School

Friday, April 26 - setup and dress rehearsal at Crossway Church in Germantown

Friday, April 26 at 7:00 PM - public performance at Crossway

Saturday, April 27 at 1:30 PM and 7:00 PM - public performances at Crossway Church in Germantown

Mime, stage combat and dance

I am still working on getting people plugged into slots as best I can in this very complex play. In the next few weeks we will have very wonderful people working with us in mime, stage combat and dance.

Mime with Theo/Jolie Williams will be all galley slaves, Festus and Judah.
Also mimed will be the rock throwing in scene 9 - Courtney E, Bradon K, Luke Pallo, Heather Erickson, Moriah George and Aimee Steffenhagen

Jeremy Woods will be helping us again with stage combat - great guy and fun times. Here are the people for that day: Judah, Thord, Irmin,Festus, Norseman, Caleb Vagnini, Isaiah Gumness(dragging), - this is the heavy combat section.
Also for some light pushing and shoving - scene 1 Tirzah, Miriam, Caleb V, Matthias, Luke Guagliardo, Judah, Messala.

Our own lovely Hannah Nelson will be the dance instructor. And the dancers are Sarah Guagliardo, Aimee S., Kellan V., Abbi Englund, Sarah Erickson, Moriah Hensler, and Sarah Bagin

Parent's Meeting Change

The parent's meeting will be postponed until tomorrow. Community Church, 6:30-9. Spread the word!

Parent's Meeting

Congratulations everyone! This is just a quick reminder to bring your $25 payment, plus $9 if you wanted a script, to the parents meeting. Checks can be made out to HIS Players. Thanks!

Ben - Hur Apprentices

Apprentices (the * means leader of the team)
Stage Managers - Jesse Dauster* and Nicki Schneider
Sound - Stephen Bagin*, Jacob Pollnow, Ryan Mikul
Set Captain - Jonathan Sitzman
Hair - Abbi Englund*, Katie Nelson
Makeup - Sarah Erickson*, Moriah Hensler, Micaela Wells(Combat makeup consultant)
Accessories - Heather Erickson*, Chastis George
Shoes - Aubrey Wilke*, Maegan Martinez
Costumes - Katrina Donahue*, Theresa Donahue

Audition info. - female

There were many of you middle school aged girls that did a very strong audition. But there was also a very strong group of high schoolers who were given preference for the speaking roles. If you have questions on your role or choose not to accept, feel free to call me on Wednesday. Speaking for the audition panel, I hope you do accept because it is going to be a great year.

Female:
Mary, mother of Jesus(Hebrew) - Kellan Vagnini
Tirzah (Hebrew) - Chastis George + singing
Miriam (Hebrew) - Katie Nelson +singing
Amrah (Hebrew servant) - Micaela Wells + singing
Esther (Hebrew) - Aliesia Wilke or Katherine Pollnow
Iras (Egypt) - Katherine Pollnow or Aliesia Wilke
Drusilla (Roman) - Moriah Hensler
Maid (Roman house slave) - Sarah Guagliardo
Ruth (Hebrew servant) - Aimee Steffenhagen
Anna (Hebrew) - Courtney Englund
Martha/ Mary (Hebrew) - Hannah Nelson/ Anna Weimer
Arab woman - Abbi Englund
4 Children(Hebrew) - Lydia Weimer, Moriah Bagin, Makayla Dedert, Jenna Wilke
6 gray choral members (timeless) - Anna Weimer, Moriah George, Joy Mueller, Heather Erickson, Sarah Guagliardo, Hannah Nelson
Musical Hebrews - Sarah Mueller, Kellan Vagnini, Aimee Steffenhagen, Sarah Erickson, Moriah Hensler, Sarah Bagin
Hebrew women - Courtney Englund, Heather Erickson, Moriah George, Joy Mueller, Hannah Nelson, Anna Weimer
Extra Arab woman - ????
Extra Roman maid - ????

Audition Info.

Thanks again everyone for coming out to audition. Here are the results. Just remember many of you will be playing multiple roles (see a previous blog)which will be fleshed out in the next months.

Ben-Hur Cast List Male
Judah Ben-Hur (Hebrew-Rom) - Abe Newhouse
Messala (Roman-Heb) - Jason Miller
Roman Captain - Caleb Vagnini
Simonìdes (Hebrew) - Drew Dauster
Bálthazar (Egypt) - Caleb Hummel
Sheik Ilderìm (Arab) - Kody Powers
Quintus Arrius(Roman) - Isaiah Gumness
Festus - Luke Pallo
Gladiator Thord - Josiah Gumness
Gladiator Irmin - Matthias Hensler
3 Roman Soldiers - Domingo Pasillas, Luke Guagliardo, Matthias Hensler
Norseman - Domingo Pasillas
Melchior (India) - Jeremy Wells
Gaspar - Brenton Schimp
5 Galley slaves - Luke Guagliardo, Jeremy Wells, Bradon Koepke, Caleb Hummel, Josiah Gumness
Toddler Jesus - Britain Gumness
Jesus the Man - ?
Hebrews - Brenton Schimp, Bradon Koepke

Wednesday Parent Meeting

Danielle and I are keeping an eye on the weather for tomorrow night. We surmise many of you have rearranged your calendars to make it to the Wed. meeting and we desire to honor that. Of course we really won't know until tomorrow afternoon, so stay tuned to the blog for the information. If we were to push it back to Thursday, how many of you would be unable to come ---please comment in the comment section if you would be unable to make it on Thurs.

(I will be posting results of the auditions this evening.) Deidre

Role development

Thank you everyone for a great audition yesterday. I am still in the process of sorting out the pieces, but I wanted to give you information to help you decipher your role when it comes down. Mrs. Newhouse and I have added quite a bit between the scenes. There is one Roman captain and 3 more soldiers - They appear in or around scenes 1, 2, 7,and epilogue. 6 grey, timeless people will lend some artistic flair to scene 2 and 9. Singers - there are 6 songs in Hebrew and maybe an Arab one in scene 6. Extras not mentioned in the script are an additional Arab woman and an additional Roman maid. There will be a singing dancing group of Hebrews in scene 9. Hebrews are needed in scenes 1, 3, 4, 7, 8 9, 10 and epilogue. Hebrew children are in scenes 4,6,7,9. All this to say there are many parts in the script not listed, so be patient and that will be developed beginning in late Feb /early March. Mrs. Wells

Thanks for getting this up and running, Jesse. I like your choice of photo and title. Yes, Ben-Hur is epic! And I am looking forward to an epic year in HIS.