Stage Notes - Performance With A Purpose!
A CHORUS LINE and 2017-2018 Closing Notes!
We have exciting news for you.
Support of the arts and philanthropy education are the two cornerstones of Stage Notes. Our 2018 show season will support local performing arts scholarships, providing assistance to the aspiring performers in our community as they pursue their dreams.
Stage Notes will be making the following donations to these local performing arts scholarships:
Watertown Lyric Theater - $1,500
· Up to 4 scholarships are available for non-Lyric Theater sponsored summer theater, music camps, workshops, or learning programs.
· 5 annual scholarships are awarded for higher education. Funding amounts will vary depending on the returns from Lyric's annual productions, sponsorships and fundraising efforts. These scholarships are for higher education, for those pursuing a career in music, theater, acting, directing, technical support, music education or other aspects of the performing arts. Preference will be given to those who have performed with our company in the past but all applicants are welcome.
Danny Burgess Memorial Scholarship (Little Theatre of Watertown) - $1,500
· This scholarship is open to applicants enrolled in an accredited college/university in the coming school year and majoring in a performance art or have been actively involved in community theater in Jefferson or Lewis County, New York.
Patrick R. Farmer Scholarship for the Arts – $1,000
· Graduating students majoring in the fields of arts and music with first preference given to students graduating from Watertown High School and second preference for Jefferson County graduates. Students with a B average preferred. This is a four-year award of $500 annually.
Ann B. Northrop “You’ll Never Walk Alone” Scholarship - $250
· To provide scholarships to Jefferson County (NY) students pursuing post-secondary education. The ideal student will have been active in music or music programs, either through school or extracurricular, including, but not limited to Watertown Lyric Theater. When practical, preference will be given to Watertown High School students.
Watertown Morning Musicales Scholarship - $250
· A graduating senior from Jefferson County who is pursuing a career in music.
In living our motto, Performance With A Purpose, the Stage Notes Foundation is proud to announce additional contributions to our community.
- We have continued our commitment to The Watertown Urban Mission by collecting 453 school supplies for their backpack program at our production of A Chorus Line.
- We are making a donation of $750 to Paws4Potter, a canine walk to support canine cancer.
- $500 to The Antwerp Food Pantry
- $200 as a hole sponsor for the Friends of Farm Memorial Golf Tournament which benefits the Patrick R. Farmer Scholarship of the Arts
- Earlier this year we purchased two ABC Fluency Kits for the Malawian Early Readers program through the Malawi Early Literacy Team.
During our school year our students were proud to volunteer for WPBS at their All-Star Auction and Family Fun Day at Boldt Castle. Our students shared their talents at the Samaritan Medical Center volunteer recognition dinner, The Heart Walk recognition event and Lessons and Carols at St. Patrick’s Church. We volunteered at Watertown Lyric Theater’s production of The Addams Family and sang the National Anthem for the Watertown Fire Department’s Charity Hockey Game.
Stage Notes began in 2009 out of a desire to teach our students that their talents can make a difference in our community. Ten seasons later, thanks to families like YOU, Stage Notes has donated over $50,000 to local organizations. It is because of YOU that we are able to provide students with rich theatrical experiences, as well as life lessons in philanthropy. THANK YOU from all of us at Stage Notes!
I hope you are as proud of your accomplishments as we are of you!! WAY TO GO TEAM!
Much love and respect always,
Ticia Aumell, Artistic Director & the Stage Notes Board of Directors
Stage Notes presents A Chorus Line HS Edition
Don't miss this production of the 1975 classic. A Chorus Line still stands as the 6th longest running show in Broadway history, and is one of the most well-known and well-loved productions ever. With a score by Marvin Hamlisch, direction and choreography by Michael Bennett, and the real-life stories of Broadway "gypsies", the show follows an out-of-the-ordinary audition and gives you a look at these performers "on the line"
Tickets are $15 for general admission and $12 for students and senior citizens. Go to any Watertown Kinney Drugs and get yours today before they are all gone! See you at the show!
STAGE NOTES ANNOUNCES DONATIONS FROM WORKING AND DISNEY’S HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL, ON STAGE
Watertown, NY: In living our motto, Performance With A Purpose, the Stage Notes Foundation is proud to announce the following contributions to our community. We will join forces with the Northern New York Community Foundation to empower area middle school students to identify the way they would like to see their community enhanced. Stage Notes has dedicated $5,000 of our show proceeds, combined with $5,000 from the Community Foundation. By the time we enter the season of gratitude and giving in November and December, a total of $10,000 will have been awarded to area nonprofit organizations. We have also made a charitable donation of $2,500 to benefit the WPBS-TV endowment fund and a matching donation to Stage Notes own endowment fund, both administered by The Northern New York Community Foundation, thus investing in the future of the arts in our area. We have continued our commitment to The Watertown Urban Mission by collecting 321 school supplies for their backpack program at our production of Disney’s High School Musical and 136 perishable food items at our production of Working.
We hope you will stay tuned for exciting news from Stage Notes as we enter into our tenth season. It is because of the tremendous support of our community that we are able to provide students with rich theatrical experiences, as well as life lessons in philanthropy.
THANK YOU from all of us at Stage Notes!
Stage Notes 2018 Summer Musical - A CHORUS LINE
Stage Notes is proud to present A CHORUS LINE on July 19, 20, and 21 at The Dulles State Office Building Auditorium. A CHORUS LINE tells of the poignant ambitions of professional Broadway performers as they bare their souls and put their lives “on the line” at an audition for an unnamed Broadway musical. It is a celebration of the chorus dancers– those valiant, over-dedicated, highly trained performers who are the backbone of America Musical Theater. The 1975 original production won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Musical. It currently stands as the 6th longest running Broadway musical in history.
Stage Notes will be presenting A CHORUS LINE – HIGH SCHOOL EDITION which is a full-length version of the musical, adapted for performance by high school students with family audiences. Every aspect of the show has been developed specifically for high school performers: dialogue and content are age-appropriate, dance sequences are of a length befitting high school dancers, and allowances are made to feature actors of any race or ethnicity. The materials have been prepared with the authors’ approval. We are excited to share this iconic piece of musical theater with our students, while maintaining a level of comfort for our family audiences who have come to look forward to attending our July performances each summer.