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Calling All Encore Alumni! Reconnect, Relive & Make Memories with Us.
- May 9, 2014
As the warm season approaches, college students return, workloads become lighter, and summer memories are made! Rising 10th graders and older, college students and adults are invited to audition for Encore’s summer production of Once Upon a Mattress. If you’re an Encore alumni returning the area, summer is the perfect time for you to gather up your friends and join us like old times either onstage, backstage or in the audience for this exciting musical version of Princess and the Pea!
Auditions are Tuesday, May 27 and Wednesday, May 28 between 7-9 pm at the Thomas Jefferson Community Theatre (125 S. Old Glebe Rd. Arlington, VA 22204). Click here to learn more about auditions.
We’ll soon be celebrating our Encore Seniors Class of 2014 both high school and college. Not only will you become alum of your school, but also an alum to Encore as well! Here to share what’s to come for Encore Alumni is Board of Directors Member and Development Chair, Kate Thomas.
Kate Thomas: As someone in my early fifties, and a relative newcomer to the most social of media -Facebook – it occurs to me that social media truly serves many purposes. It certainly allows people to follow the day to day events of friends and family. (I learned this from my daughter, who began her “relationship” with Facebook about nine years ago while still in middle school.) But it wasn’t until I signed up myself, and was invited to join a private alumni group from my high school, that I realized the extent to which it can reconnect me to my life. Suddenly, I’m back in discussions with people I haven’t seen in decades and swapping memories about some of the best years of my life.
Now some of you reading this blog might think, “Wow – she’s in her fifties – she’s old!” or “Now that’s a lot of life to reconnect…” but guess what? Guess who else is almost in their fifties? That’s right… Encore Stage & Studio will be celebrating it’s fiftieth season in just three short years! And that means that there are multitudes of alumni out there, from my daughter’s age to mine, that have built memories and relationships with and through Encore (or formerly The Children’s Theatre of Arlington).
In honor of that upcoming milestone, we would like to formally invite you to join Encore’s Alumni Facebook page. While we can get things started, our hope is that as you see some of our postings of shows done over our history (our Throwbacks, Flashbacks, Waybacks and more!) and current Encore happenings, you’ll share your memories, pictures, and friendships with us. Help Encore reconnect with our past participants by inviting your friends to the Facebook group, tag your cast and crew mates, and spread the word about Encore’s golden jubilee. Each production only takes us a few short months; from auditions, to set construction, to rehearsals, and finally – to opening night and the last curtain call. But packed into those short months are little morsels of magic you can enjoy remembering for a lifetime. Please join us!
Interested in becoming a board member or donating to the organization? E-mail info@encorestage.org to learn more about how you can get involved and leave your legacy.
Take a look at some of our productions from past decades! Past photos and more will posted on our Encore Alumni Facebook Group:
Encore Stage & Studio’s production of Alphabet Ark in 1967.
Encore Stage & Studio’s production of Sing Ho for a Prince in 1977.
Encore Stage & Studio’s production of Robin Hood in 1987.
Encore Stage & Studio’s production of The Reluctant Dragon in 1997.
Encore Stage & Studio’s production of High School Musical in 2007.
Thank you to our blog contributor: Kate Thomas. Photos taken and provided by Larry McClemons