Theatrefest~Illinois

I might go this year if our school is picked to perform

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I've been to Illinois Theatre Fest the past two years and am going again this year. Going to Theatre Fest gives you access to great workshops for both acting and tech and you get to see shows by schools all over the state. I would definately go if given the opportunity. This year, our school is entering a full-length play, so I may not get to do as much as I'd like. However, getting to see Les Mis done by the best theatre students in the state will definately make the trip worthwhile.

WC-yes, they're doing Les Mis. I might go just for that(J/K). I turned in my permission slip and money today so I can go on the trip! I'm very excited. Our school is hoping to take our fall play. We're doing Twelfth Night, so it should be fun.

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Awesome! It's being held in my town this year and I'm going with our thetare troupe. We're not entering anything though. Are any of you in Les Mis?

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We did Les Mis here right before auditions for all-state. A bunch of my friends from that tried out and a few got in. I can't wait to see them!

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Which town is it being held in? I need to see le Miz haha I dont care about The Nerd, only 7 people made ours..

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I love the Illinois Theatre Fest! The world's largest and oldest high school theatre festival!

I'll be in the All-State Les Miz!!! I'm the Bishop/ensemble. We have rehearsals for one weekend each month, and then all week come festival time. We've already had two weekends, and let me tell you - it will probably be the the best show you'll see for years! Everyone is just amazing. Everytime we do "One Day More!" I start to get chills in my spine. I won't say too much more, except you will not be disappointed. BTW, if any of you saw Pippin last year, the two leads are both inLes Miz - Pippin and the Leading Player, who's Eponine. We keep telling her she's practically a celebrity in Illinois!

Also if anyone's interested (especially Chicagoland people), we plan on having an "open non-dress rehearsal" on the Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend. We won't be in costume, but the amazing (and ORIGINAL, that's my favorite part!) set will be in use, the lighting will be appx. what we'll have at U of I, and of course all of our amazing performances. It'll be at Deerfield High School. If you would like to know more, PM me, though what I said is just about all I know at this time.

BTW, anyone who's going to the Fest should make sure you see Children of Eden. It'll be our school's show (minus me, of course, due to Les Miz). I don't want to seem too full of myself (our?), but 1) it's a musical, 2) we're from southern Illinois (just outside St. Louis), and 3) we are quite good. Those are all in our favor. So get your tickets before the "That's-the-guy-who-did-Wicked" syndrome kicks in. Of course, Pippin would have been the big ticket without the Wicked-factor.

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I didn't realize it either doll. I thought that this thread would sink to the bottom of the page and then end up being lost for all eternity, but I'm glad to know that there are so many people from Illinois here.

dollwitamission-You're from Bloomington/Normal? My brother goes to Illinois Wesleyan

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I've never been to theatrefest. My school is considering going this year, but it probably won't happen.

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Krannert is pretty awesome. Much superior to anything at ISU. I loved seeing Ragtime there a couple years ago. I'm really very familiar with ISU because our school is a "lab" school for it, and we're right on the campus.

Dancinqueen- Wesleyan's a great school! I don't have any idea what your brother might do, but our drama teacher is an alumus from there, and she loves to tell us how awesome their theater program is. We took a "field trip" there for our Intro to Theatre class last year to learn about set building and stuff. It was pretty sweet.

Hehe...I just read through jam man's post. Pippin was performed last year at theater fest in my school. I appologize if springs were poking out of anyone's seats. Actually, what really makes it funny is that our auditorium hasn't been approved for fire since the seventies...our director had fun with that...

Oh, and one of my friends loved Pippa-Sue (he put a picture of her on his myspace...), so I'm definately passing this on to him. I'm so excited already.

I thought of another reason that Theater Fest is awesome: You get out of school, at least I do. We come back from winter break on Wednesday and leave for Theater Fest Thursday night.

I've got it even better. My school come back on Tuesday, but we start our final week of rehearsals that day - I miss the whole first week of second semester!

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