Kaleidoscope
Theatre Newsletter
October 2005
www.kaleidoscopetheatre.com
kaleidoscope@kaleidoscopetheatre.com
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Hello and welcome, to Kaleidoscope Theatre
Newsletter, Issue 1.2!
Thank you to all of you who spread the word
about our newsletter!
We have had several new subscribers in the
past month, and we are
very excited that so many people are
interested in what we do!
In our newsletters, we will inform you of
many things, including:
upcoming Kaleidoscope Theatre performances;
special offers
involving discounted tickets or merchandise;
new sale items; how
to bring Kaleidoscope Theatre’s
award-winning school-touring shows
to your school; updates on Kaleidoscope
Theatre company members;
and much, much more!
In this issue, you will be able to read
about…
1. Upcoming Kaleidoscope Theatre
performances
2. A Special Offer for “Cinderella’s
Christmas”!
3. Newsletter archives available online
4. School-Touring News: the creation of “B.U.L.L.Y.”
5. Kaleidoscope Theatre Q&A
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1: UPCOMING KALEIDOSCOPE THEATRE
PERFORMANCES!
In this section, we will let you know about
any upcoming
performances we have that are open to the
public. This will NOT
include performances at schools, private
functions, or events
that the public would not be allowed to
attend.
***PINOCCHIO
*Friday, October 7, 2005; 10:00am & 7:00pm
Stadium Theatre, Woonsocket, RI
Box Office: (401) 762-4545
*An amazing series of adventures awaits
Pinocchio in his quest to
become a real boy. Will he take the Blue
Fairy's advice and listen
to the smart little cricket? Or will he end
up as a donkey on the
Isle of Joy? Come and find out! It's a show
the whole family
will enjoy, no strings attached!
***SNOW WHITE
*Friday, November 4, 2005; 10:00am & 7:00pm
Stadium Theatre, Woonsocket, RI
Box Office: (401) 762-4545
*Amazing things happen when Snow White finds
the little cottage
in the woods. Come along as Snow White
discovers that true love
is the most potent magic of all! Beautiful
costumes, lots of song
and dance, plus the opportunity for several
youngsters to directly
participate in the show make this an event
the whole family will
not want to miss!
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2. A SPECIAL OFFER FOR CINDERELLA’S
CHRISTMAS!
***CINDERELLA’S CHRISTMAS
*Sunday, December 11, 2005; 2:00pm
Robert’s Hall Auditorium, Rhode Island
College, Providence, RI
Box Office: (401) 456-8144
Tickets: $7 in advance, $8 at the door
*In order to show our appreciation to those
of you who have
supported us in the past, we have a special
offer just for you!
Purchase your tickets on or before November
11th, and receive
your tickets at $6.00 each! When you
purchase your tickets, be
sure to mention the word “NEWSLETTER” in
order to receive this
discounted price! This offer is only valid
for the performance
of CINDERELLA’S CHRISTMAS at Rhode Island
College.
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3. NEWSLETTER ARCHIVES AVAILABLE ONLINE!
Did you recently subscribe to our newsletter
and miss our first
issue? Or maybe you wanted to re-read an
article, but
accidentally deleted the issue from your
mailbox? Well, now the
Kaleidoscope Theatre newsletters are
available online at:
www.kaleidoscopetheatre.com/Newsletter.htm
At this page, you can view past newsletters
or become a
subscriber for free. Enjoy!
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4. SCHOOL-TOURING NEWS: THE CREATION OF “B.U.L.L.Y.”!
As we briefly mentioned in last month’s
issue, Kaleidoscope Theatre
is in the process of mounting a new
school-touring show entitled
“B.U.L.L.Y.” (Better Understanding by
Listening and Learning
about You), which helps schools deal with
the ever-present and
often dangerous issue of bullying. This show
is a sensitive,
participatory presentation offering
solutions via peer education.
A cast of middle and high school students
performs in this show
to create an atmosphere of peer teaching
that has been very
successful for us in the past. In fact, this
show is generating
so much excitement that we already have
several performances
booked for schools throughout southern New
England in November
and December!
Kaleidoscope Theatre’s Executive Director,
Mr. David G. Payton,
writes the script, music, and lyrics to
every Kaleidoscope Theatre
production. David finished writing “B.U.L.L.Y.”
earlier this
year, and we immediately gathered a group of
actors to begin
bringing the script to life. A dozen kids
(ranging from elementary
school to high school) helped offer insight
on the play, and
appropriate modifications were made to
ensure that the play would
reach all audiences appropriately and
effectively. Over the next
few weeks, rehearsals dealt with staging the
show, teaching the
music, and experimenting with different
actors playing different
roles.
The month of October will be spent gathering
more children to
participate in the play and teaching the
show to them. Because
school-touring shows are performed at
schools during the daytime,
those who perform in the show must take a
day out of school.
Kaleidoscope Theatre cares very much about
the education of our
performers as well as our audiences, so we
make sure that all of
our actors are good students who can afford
to miss a day of
school. Only if a young actor is doing well
in school will we
allow him/her to take a day off to perform
with us. If a young
actor performs well in school, and if he/she
has the parental
support and permission to perform with us,
then Kaleidoscope
Theatre will take the necessary steps to
involve that person in
a show. Sometimes problems will arise if so
many schools are
interested in a show that we have
performances booked on two (or
more) days of the same week. When this
happens, it is important
that we have enough young people to make up
several different
casts. This way, none of our young actors
will miss more than
one day of school within a given time frame.
At present, we have so many performances
booked of “B.U.L.L.Y.”
that it looks like we will need at least
three casts of the show
to tour! Therefore, we are asking if you,
our most valued fans
and supporters, know of any talented young
performers who are,
first, good students and, second, have the
desire and talent to
be in a Kaleidoscope Theatre school-touring
production. If you
do, then please have them contact us to come
in for an audition.
They can reach us by calling our office at
(401) 942-3637 or
e-mailing us at kaleidoscope@kaleidoscopetheatre.com.
Please
take a look at our first newsletter to
review our audition
process. It is amazing how many wonderful
and talented performers
we have gotten over the years from people
who see our shows and
know a relative, neighbor, or student who
would be perfect for us!
In the same vein, should you know of a
school, club, or
organization that could use our production
of “B.U.L.L.Y.” or
any of our other touring productions, please
do not hesitate to
contact us!
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5. KALEIDOSCOPE THEATRE Q&A:
In this section, we will address questions
that you, our audience
members and our mailing list subscribers,
have about Kaleidoscope
Theatre. To ask us a question, just send us
an e-mail with “Q&A”
in the subject line, and your question may
be answered in the
next month’s newsletter!
This month, Phil writes:
“Your theatre company has so many different
shows. What
are your newest shows, and how do you come
up with the
ideas to write them?”
Well, the newest show is of course our
school-touring show,
“B.U.L.L.Y.,” which is so new that it hasn’t
even been performed
yet! Our newest fairytale musical is
“Rapunzel,” which began
in the summer of 2004. Before that, our
newest dinner-theatre
murder-mystery was premiered in 2001. 2000
marked the beginning
of the fairytale musical “Heidi,” which
followed 1999’s “The
Frog Prince.”
There are many factors which go into
deciding what new shows to
create. The most important source is
audience feedback. At all
school-touring performances, for example,
the teachers, parents,
principals, etc. who are watching the show
are given feedback
sheets which ask them to tell us what they
liked/disliked about
the production. One question that we ask is
what additional
topics we should address with our
school-touring shows. This
is where the idea for “B.U.L.L.Y.,” and most
of our other school-
touring shows came about.
For our fairytale productions, we also look
into the story’s
popularity. The more popular shows always
attract larger
crowds, so we don’t usually pick obscure
fairytales for our
repertoire. “The Classics” always make the
best choices.
Shows that have been mentioned as
possibilities for future
summers include: “Cinderella II: the Story
Continues,” “The
Shoemaker & the Elves,” “Thumbelina,” and
“Tom Sawyer.”
Are there any shows that you would like to
see Kaleidoscope
Theatre create? Or would you really like to
see one of the
shows that is mentioned as a possibility
come to life? Please
let us know what you think, because your
feedback is what helps
us to make all of our decisions!
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Well everybody, that wraps up this issue of
the Kaleidoscope
Theatre Newsletter! We look forward to
informing you of more
shows and other news in the future, and we
are so grateful for
your continued support of our company!
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