Welcome to the Mingo Valley Christian Theatre Blog!  The play for this fall is the comedy, "Our Miss Brooks."  The show is about a high school English teacher who is attempting to put on a high school play amidst a number of hurdles, which are not too uncommon to our own student body.  (“Our Miss Brooks” was first a radio program in the late 1940's.  Due to it's popularity, it then became a television series in the 1950’s.  There was also a movie made by the same title, but it does not follow the same events as the play.)   

Auditions will be Wednesday, August 31 and Thursday, September 1 from 3:10-5:00 in Mr. Madden’s room (218). Students need only to attend one of the audition days.  Outside Mr. Madden’s room, students must sign up for the day on which they would like to audition. At the audition, students will be performing cold readings of short selected scenes from the play.  Auditions are open to all 7-12 grade students. The cast will consist of 5 men and 12 women. Here is the character breakdown:

Miss Brooks – a comedic and energetic high school English teacher

Miss Finch – the librarian and confidant to Miss Brooks

Hugo Longacre – the athletic coach who has a love/hate relationship with Miss Brooks

Mr. Wadsworth – the no nonsense high school principal who often butts heads with Miss Brooks

Miss Audubon – the music teacher who struggles to appreciate some of Miss Brooks antics

Mrs. Allen – the proud president of the school board and mother of Rhonda

Students of Miss Brooks:

      Jane – the new actress who has taken an interest in Ted

      Rhonda – the pretentious daughter of the school board president

      Ted – the star basketball player who decides to take up acting

Elsie – high school actress

      Elaine – high school actress

Sylvia – high school actress

      Doris – high school actress

      Marge – high school actress

      Faith – high school actress

      Stanley – high school stage hand for the play

      Martin – basketball player turned actor 

  Please note that rehearsals will begin the following Tuesday, September 6.  We will rehearse on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 3:30-5pm.  There will be a $75 cast fee charged to the school account of each actor.  The show will have four performances which will run from November 3-5.

There will also be other areas to help with the show.  If students are interested in anything technical, they need to apply to join the Tech Team.  Make-up/costume assistants will be determined in October. 

We hope to see many students at the audition for "Our Miss Brooks!”