Thank you, Spring.
It’s May 1st, 2013. NO class due to snow. What!?
April 17th, 2013. NO classes today because of weather and poopy roads. Please be safe and see you next week.
Rule of thumb – if school cancels or let's out, no la-de-da.
2013. La-de-da begins its 15th year of bringing joy to the youth of America. (Only slightly exaggerating.)
Lots going on! See Into The Woods at Poudre High School and Peter Pan at Lincoln Center.
Auditions
Sunday, October 21 at la-de-da. 2-4pm
Auditions are open to all ages – toddler to adult. Prepare 16 bars. Bring sheet music for the accompanist. Numerous non-singing roles available, as well. Come anytime between 2pm and 3:30pm. Prepare a schedule of your conflicts late October to December 23rd. Rehearsals will be on select Monday and Wednesday evenings and Sunday afternoons.
Saturday, September 22: CSU Theatre Open Audition Call
Colorado State University Theatre Program is seeking children to audition for the children's roles in CSU's holiday production A Christmas Story by Philip Grecian. Each child auditioning will be asked to read his/her choice of pre-selected poems by Shel Silverstein. All children auditioning Sat, Sept 22 must be accompanied by an adult who should be available for the full 90-minute session. When & Where: Sept. 22, 1:00-2:30 p.m.. UCA, Rooms 238, 240, 242. – All Children currently in the 3rd & 4th Grades. 2:30-4:00 – All Children currently in the 5th & 6th Grades. Read more for further information or to view selected readings.
The artists of tomorrow are not made through funding an elite, but by funding at the bottom of the pyramid – a pyramid that we have created and sustained during the good times but now seldom question, even though the landscape will look very different in the coming years. It's always those at the top of the pyramid that are most likely to attract private sponsorship, and who are best equipped to survive a downturn. When a member of the board of one fashionable London theatre told me that any cut to their funding will mean a cut to their education work, I knew that was a theatre that had got its priorities wrong.
Education, community and participatory work is not an add-on. It should be at the heart of every arts organisation. It is the future. We can't afford to just play lip service to that idea. We need to make it a reality, which means we need a fundamental rethink.
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian 2012.

