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MUSICAL THEATRE
The MT department will start the year with its annual volunteering for the Neptune Festival Sand Sculpting Tent September 28-Oct. 7. Be sure to check your email to sign up. This is a terrific honor for the school to be one of the designated charities of the Neptune Festival. All MT students must participate.
Our first musical will be A Gentleman’s Guide To Love
& Murder on January 11-13, 2019 at ODU University
Theatre. A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder is the
knock-'em-dead, uproarious hit and the most-nominated show of the 2014 season.
MT continues it’s more than 20 year internship program with Virginia Musical Theatre offering internships both onstage and backstage during their 4 productions. La Cage, Seussical, Mary Poppins & Sister Act.
We are very excited about a co-production with the Virginia Stage Company for our spring musical- Matilda. Our students will have an opportunity to perform on the stage of the beautiful Wells Theatre and work with equity and professional actors.
THEATRE & FILM
The Governor’s School for the Arts Department of Theatre & Film is thrilled to welcome the largest first year class in over a decade! We welcome our new performers, design/tech students and filmmakers! We also would like to welcome a new Director of the Design/Tech program. Sean Blue, who has taught for us for two years as a part time instructor, has stepped into the role and we’re very excited to have him as a full time member of the Theatre & Film Family!
We have six performances scheduled this year as well as the annual Film Festival. We will kick it all off with two shows—Playing With Fire (After Frankenstein) will open in the
GSA Dalis Black Box on October 25 and will be directed by department chair, Steve J. Earle. Our one act offering this year for the Virginia Theatre Association Conference High School Theatre Festival will be the play, Anonymous. It will be directed by Ron Newman and will also play on Oct. 25 at the VTA Conference. Our second main stage show will
be The Wolves directed by ODU professor, Katherine Hammond in December. We also have two exciting field trips planned for the semester—one to Washington D.C. to see An Inspector Calls at the Shakespeare Theatre and another to The Virginia Film Festival on the campus of UVA scheduled for early November!