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| Year Four Update
As many of you know, our year began with family
medical issues that kept us out of town for several weeks, and then, of
course, we flew
overseas. Thus, the Booster Club had a slow start and a
hurried musical season! Greg and I want to offer a sincere
thank you to everyone for your extra help in covering for us in our
absence!
"Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat" had an Amazing
run, selling over 4100 tickets for six shows! This helped our
sales in flowers and such as well. The Pancake Breakfast was a
great success! We did twice the ticket sales and four times the
profits from last spring, so we are learning! It is definitely a
better choice over the dinner theater even though it was a sad decision
to make. The slow housing market unfortunately hit our sponsors
pretty hard, and we lost many of our realtors and bankers.
Hopefully they will be back when the markets turn around!
The Cast Pizza Party was
very well attended! We ran out of pizza for the first time ever!
The Pit Band received a personal invitation this year, as they always
seemed to miss out. We hosted the All Day rehearsal meals for about half
of the cast and crew. They were happy with meals and the cost. When we get amounts of food to purchase
down, we should to okay hosting that meal as well. All in all, the
Fall Season was a great beginning to our year.
The One Act Season has just run its course.
Our annual Community Tea was held last week. We had several
hundred people in attendance. Serving Blue food, with a Russian
themed menu, we tied our meal into the performance of
"The Atomic
Adventures of Nikolai Nikolaevich". After the Sub-Section meet
in northern Minnesota, the Stage Brigade treated the entire One Act cast
and crew to a meal at Tobies in Hinkley as a reward for all of their
hard work. The team earned a Star at the Conference Meet for only
the second time in the eight years I have been following the team!
The Stage Brigade hosted the first of several concessions at the Meet on
January 20, as Mr. McG. had CIHS hosting several of the different One
Act and
Speech events for his final year before he retires!
We are coming up on two more concession stand
in the next couple of weeks for the different variety shows at the high
show. The ovens will keep the houses warm during this upcoming
cold spell! More to come.........
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| Year Three Summary
March 2006--We have finished another year! Three
years and still growing! The community has, and continues to support us
in many ways. We filled out our Program Coupon space with 20 advertisers
on our first attempt!! Thanks Art and Greg for your hard work! This
seems to be a fundraiser that will work very well for our group.
The 2005-06 Theater Season began with
"Anything Goes". We joined in the festivities with a Dinner Cruise
complete with life preservers and cruise photos. Starr did an amazing
job preparing the meals. Changing our thinking from fundraising on this
event to theater enhancement helps to justify our narrow black line.
Alumni Nights continue to gain strength. This year we gave a flower to
all of the Alumni members in the audience, in addition to our after show
social.
We went all the way to Norway to create our One
Act Meal for
"A Bright, Clear Sky". With salmon spread and Norwegian cucumbers,
Krum kakas, snowballs, cherry cookies and more, we created quite a
feast; all in honor of a handful of starving immigrants (humm). Our meal
served about 270 people. Each years our little meal gains a third more
people. Sounds like they like us! The Boosters also took the One Act
Team to the Princeton Frontier Steak House to honor their hard work!
The
Blue
Jackets Speech Invitational was given to us this season, after three
years of waiting! Expectations were high! The only complaints we heard
were from the other teams coaches saying that we had set the bar very
high, indeed. (That, of course, was a complement, too!) Great job,
everyone. This year we have donated money, once again, to rent a coach
bus to take the speech team to Duluth for sections.
The Spring Three Act production was actually a
two act production--
"Alice in Wonderland" ! We have flower sales, which this year also
included "A Message in a Bottle" which was very popular! The alumni
night and a PANCAKE BREAKFAST! We had three past scholarship recipients
and families come and help support our scholarship fund! It is nice to
see them want to help support what they benefited from! We earned enough
to add a third scholarship again this year!
Until later, Mary |
Year Two Summary:
Our Second Year began with our first (and possibly last) Stage Brigade
Calendar sales. It was very successful as far as business advertising
was concerned, but there was a reluctance by the club to go out and sell
the calendars.
However, in our efforts to get ads for the Calendars, we hooked up with
the Sinclair Dinomart Grand Opening! Our group pumped gas for 4 hour and
received many tips for customers, as well as a generous donation from
the Sinclair Organization. Thus, our club is back in the black!!
"Hello
Dolly" has a wonderful six show run! The Boosters hosted the all day
rehearsal meal and the cast party. We also put on the set destruction
meal as a last minute rescue for the musical directors! The Alumni
performance was very successful with almost 40 alumni attending the
show. Afterwards we hosted a snack social and tour for interested former
theater members.
Our musical dinner was catered by
"Famous Dave's Rib Joint" There were 100+ dinners served.
Entertainment was provided by former and current CIHS choir members.
Profits from the silent auction will again go towards senior
scholarships in the spring.
Our most successful fundraising event has
turn out to be our flower sales. The profits from each show's flower
sales have gone into cast dinners, the one act cast dinner and a special
tour bus for the speech to go to Grand Rapids for subsections.
Our second "English Tea" , hosted for the one act play
"All in the Timing" served almost 170 audience, cast and crew
members. After performing at the Sections meet, the Actors were treated
to a meal out a "Tobies Restaurant and Bakery" in Hinkley, sponsored by
the Stage Brigade.
"Charley's
Aunt" performed in March at the CIHS Spring three Act production.
Once again, our booster's hosted the cast party for the cast and crew.
Alumni Night was held during the Saturday Night performance.
Three senior Scholarships were presented by the Stage Brigade for the
Dollars for Scholars Awards. At the
"Night of the Stars" we also presented the Theater Department, CIHS
Choir any Play Inc.
generous checks to help support their organizations.
Thanks everyone for all of your hard
work. Without you, there would not be a Stage Brigade Booster Club! Mary |
Year One:
"Les Miserables"
was a brilliant success both for the CIHS Theater Department and our
Stage Brigade events. Our first event as a club was to host the Cast
Pizza Party! 120 cast, crew and band members attended the event. The
Alumni Night had a 23% alumni attendance. Over 150 Tickets were sold for
the Dinner Theater with $539 going towards Senior Scholarships from the
Silent Auction. Clinton Labeau and Kyle Kokesh were our first
Scholarship Recipients. Flower Sales were a smashing success with total
flower purchases close to 500 roses and carnations by parents and
patrons, boosters and directors.
"The
Bald Soprano", CIHS's one act won sections and went to STATE, making
them one of the top eight school in the state in our category. The
Boosters hosted an English Tea for the parent performance, complete with
scones, biscuits and 120 plus assorted tea cups. The twenty below zero
temperatures didn't hurt our crowd at all. You have to love Minnesotans!
Finally, the Stage Brigade provided a Famous Dave's Feast to the Cast
and Crew in honor of their work!
"You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown", the mini musical 3 Act performed
it's March run with a Dinner Theater, Cast Dinner, Alumni Night, Flower
Sales, sound familiar? Again, the audience appreciated our extra
touches, including a Lemonade Stand and Doctor's Office created by the
"Greg Committee" for the event. The
Isanti
Lions Club hosted a Pancake Breakfast for the boosters in January.
The graciously donated $750 toward the club in thanks for our work
there. We used some of that donation to help the Drama kids go to New
York City over Spring break. Many of our member joined the trip as
chaperones. Several of us saw four Broadway show in four days, including
"Wicked", "Phantom of the Opera", "Gypsy", "42nd Street" and Wonderful
Town". The students also took a drama workshop and worked for a couple
of hours with
Sean McCourt, who performed the
part of the Wizard in "Wicked" this summer.
Photos of the famous and almost famous in NYC.
Was it time to sit back and enjoy our successes, of course not. Summer
brought us the
Junior Theater Troupe performing "Honk Jr." and the
Yaebo Players Review of "Broadway Through the Years". In addition to
the costumes committees, which magically form out of our ranks, we also
ran Concessions and a Brat Wagon out of the "Charlie Brown" Bus.
Ducknotes were sold for cast and crew in place of flowers. They included
small toys and candy as congrats for the show! We completely sold out of
them all!
Check the calendar for the next Booster Meeting Date; we need you!! |
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