Seussical Cast!

Well, I have gone through the very hard process of play auditions and the casting process. Yesterday, I posted the cast and created quite and excitement around school. Here is a list of the cast for the show this year. Not that any of these names will mean anything to most of you, I just want you to see the large amount of people that I have for the show.

Our Cast!

The Cat In the Hat- Brian Visscher

Horton the Elephant- Chad Adkins

JoJo- Kaleb Beelen

Gertrude McFuzz- Anna Edwards

Mayzie LaBird- Krysta Altvater

Sour Kangaroo- Leah Bartlett

Mayor of Whoville- Paul Hontz

Mayor’s Wife- Abbie Hagger

General Schimtz- Tyler Joldersma

Bird Girls-

Sarah Bartlett

Amelia Ozios

Julie Schultz

Wickersham Brothers-

Julianne Brown

Chevy Gilliam

Jordan Steele

The Grinch- Sean Little

The Whos-

Kallie Baumann

Leah Ebbers

Rachael Ozios

Shanice Taylor

Becky VandenBerg

Judge Yertle the Turtle- Stephen Field

Ensemble/Dancers-

Bethany Folkert

Hannah Hagger

Ashley Joldersma

Rhea Kosten

Lydia NyKamp

Rachel Renzema

Alissa Visscher

That's it! A total of 29 people! Auditions were awesome and we are all so excited to get started on this show. I will be posting a video from auditions soon! Stay tuned!

Musical in Audition Stage!

Yes, it's that time of year again for me! The audition stage for our next school musical. Last year's play was such a hit that our executive director here asked me to produce and direct another musical this year.

Unfortunately, there are not a lot of really good, family-friendly shows that have small casts like Charlie Brown. So we are having to go BIGGER this year.

"Seussical the Musical" is an extremely fun show and I am really excited about it. This past Wednesday, I had my first meeting for those students that are interested in auditioning this year. I was expecting 20 people tops from our little school. Much to my surprise, I walked into the meeting packed with 46 STUDENTS! I can't believe how many people are excited about this show! Last year, we had about 18 students audition for Charlie Brown, so this was a HUGE increase! I can only guess that it comes from the awesome show we had last year. People have a new excitement for our theater program. YAY!

Auditions are next Saturday, September 16, so you all can pray that God will give me wisdom in picking our final cast!

The first week of school is almost over and it has gone very well. Enrollment is up again at our school. We topped off the year with 261 students! Last year we had about 245, so this is a big increase! Lots of new students.

Thank you to all of you who left comments for the last post. I guess I was just feeling alone in the blogger world and comments always make me feel like people care and what I am writing and posting is being viewed. So thanks. Pray for Sarah and I as we begin this new school year. I am extrememly excited about what God has in store for us.