My name is Andrew Lococo and I am participating in the ensemble for the 2015 musical, The Mikado. Starting out in musical theatre in middle school, I found this production to be a new challenge to embrace. The beauty of musical theatre is the ability to weave every form of the arts into one final masterpiece. … More Meet the Artist: Andrew Lococo
For the past month the cast has rehearsed in our Black Box Theatre with the outline of the set taped down for us. While this is very typical for professional theatre companies, we at HHS traditionally are spoiled and get to work on stage as the set is built around us. For the Musical, it … More First Rehearsal with the Set
To win a bet, Phileas Fogg and her acrobatic sidekick Passepartout must circle the globe and return to London inside of 80 days. Unknowingly pursued by a tireless detective convinced Fogg is a robber on the run, the fast-minded, fleet-footed pair traverse 4 continents and 3 oceans in a white-knuckled sprint. Homestead High School’s One … More Around the World in 80 Days in 40 Minutes
This Friday, 17 Homestead Students set out for their first Competition of the year. It was a day of many firsts. First time they’ve competed on a Friday, first time they performed the play for an audience, first time they went to Oshkosh West, first time anyone in District 9 saw a set as large … More Around the World in 80 days… in 38 minutes and 23 seconds
It’s 9pm on a Friday night and I’m in the presence of 30 Drama Club students watching Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland.” It’s Drama Club movie night! Everyone is snuggled in blankets, perched on couches or sitting on pillows with piles of food around them in our wonderful Black Box Theatre. But don’t worry, this … More Filling Friday
Devised Work is kind of hot right now, but it’s also not especially well defined, because it seems to be both a method of constructing theatre and an aesthetic that work created through that method tends to adhere to. As a method, it’s basically a play that is created without a written script as a … More Alice in Wonderland Workshops
I’m putting together the audition packet for the fall show and wondering how I can get across the importance of reading the books before we start. I always encourage that students read the play before auditions, but in this case if you don’t read the books you will be left in the dust. For our … More Doing your Homework before the show begins
Homestead High School Theatre Department Presents: Dodgeball The 3rd hour Acting 2 class spent a month adapting, auditioning and rehearsing their own version of the cult classic “Dodgeball.” Please enjoy this 40 minute rendition of this funny story. Globo Gym is a beacon of human physical prowess and perfection, a shining example of … More Acting 2 Presents: Dodgeball
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