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Our Spring Production is Stuart Little

VPA is excited to announce our 2025 Spring theatre production for 4th-8th graders.

Complete this registration form by March 8, 2025.

Cast Participants

Auditions will be Tuesday, March 11 and Wednesday, March 12 from 3:30-5:00 at the Sherwood Middle School Auditorium. Sign up for your audition time slot here.

Please prepare a one minute monologue. If you would like, you may choose a monologue from this document.

If you do not want lines and would just like to participate as "ensemble" (passengers, spectators, school children), you do not need to audition. Please put "I want to be in the ensemble" in the comment section below.

Callbacks will be by invitation on Thursday, March 13 from 3:30-5:30 at the Sherwood Middle School Auditorium. Students will be provided with parts from the script to perform. While not everyone who auditions will get a callback, everyone who auditions will be cast in a role.

Read-through and Family Meeting will be Thursday, March 20. The read-through will be from 3:30-5:00 and the Family Meeting will be from 5:00-5:30.

Rehearsals are April 1-May 1, Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays from 3:30-5:30.

Tech Week is May 5-7 from 5:30-8:30pm daily.

Performances will be May 8 at 7:00PM, May 9 at 7:00PM, and May 10th at 2:00PM and 7:00PM. Call time for evening performances is 5:30-8:30pm , and call time for the afternoon performance is 12:30-4:00PM.

A detailed schedule will be provided by March 20.

Tuition for the production will be $195. This helps us cover t-shirts, costumes, make-up, scripts, production rights, and more. We do believe that theatre is for everyone! So if this will be a hardship for you, scholarships are available. Please email and ask.

Putting on a theatrical production is a lot of work and a labor of love and teamwork. In able to put on a high quality performance and provide our families with a great experience, it's important that we are all doing our part as best we can, including committing to coming to all scheduled rehearsals unless previous arrangements have been made. Thank you for your understanding!

Each production is run almost entirely by volunteers. It's a whole lot of fun but a whole lot of work, and every piece of the puzzle is necessary and important. It takes a village, as they say, and theater productions are no different. We love our volunteers and couldn’t do it without you. Each family must volunteer at least 8 hours per student for this production, or you may opt out by paying $80 in addition to tuition. Volunteer opportunities include chaperone, costumes, props, house help, set-up, tear-down, etc. There is something for everyone! There are several key roles in our Production Team that are open. These Production Team roles are essential to the show and require a bigger commitment and/or specific skill set. If you have some applicable skills, are looking for a deeper level of involvement, hope to make friends yourself, and want to be part of something pretty amazing, consider joining our team! One of these roles would cover all of your volunteer hours. Because these jobs go above and beyond the volunteer hour requirement, they also come with a 50% tuition reduction. Please reach out to us if you are interested in any of the following. For roles with an * some experience is preferred. If you are interested in one of these roles, please reach out to Shannon at theatre@vpafoundation.org.

Musical Director*
Technical Director*
Sound/Light Designer*
House Manager
Assistant Box Office Manager
Set design/construction*
Volunteer Coordinator
Stage Crew Lead

Health & Safety/Absences

VPA is committed to the health and safety of our students and volunteers. If you will be out sick, please notify us as soon as possible at theatre@vpafoundation.org.

We understand that students will occasionally have conflicts--a sporting event, orthodontist appointment, etc. But we have a limited amount of time to rehearse, and we need every minute. So we ask that you have no more than two conflicts during the rehearsal window.