Back to the 80s Talent Show Order

Thank you for auditioning for this year's talent show.  I had several auditionees and was impressed with the level of talent.  I have cast about 100 students in 30 acts, as well as have a team of stage crew students.  Please know that I had some tough decisions, but due to time constraints, I could not cast all of you.  Each of you are MEGA-TALENTED!!  

STAGE CREW ROLES STILL AVAILABLE:

If you were not cast in the talent show, please consider auditioning for the tech crew.  We are still trying to fill a few roles.  If this is an area that you are interested in, please provide a resume and a paragraph explaining why you would like to be a part of the tech crew for the variety show and place it on the theater door by Monday, April 30th at 3:30.  Don't forget to put your contact information (email and phone number) on your resume, so we can contact you for an interview, if needed.  Your resumes will be reviewed, and you may be contacted for an interview that week.  

PLEASE MAKE SURE TO READ ALL BLOG POSTS:

I have posted an additional roles post, a cast upon contingency post, as well as this post describing the talent show order.  We will have rehearsals based mostly on sections, so please pay attention to which section you are in.  If you have two stars next to your act, that means you have been cast upon a contingency.  Please read the contingency list and make sure that you realize that you are cast based on agreeing to the small tweaks I would like to make to your act so you can be in the show.   

We have 6 sections to the show:

-Introduction

-School

-Love: 80s style

<Intermission>

-Tribute

-Prom

-Closing

TALENT SHOW ORDER

SECTION 1:  OPENING
**SONG/DANCE:  We Got the Beat

Margot Grom & Elena Skidmore + Dance Break

Introduction of the 80s characters/Celebrity Emcees

-Madonna:  Kelsey Lackey

-Joan Jett:  Sophie Harrison

-Claire Huxtable:  Maia Bennett

-Mario & Luigi:  Ian Fridy & Ian Denney

-Ferris Bueller: Jacob Olausen

-Breakfast Club & Teacher
            Teacher: Maddie Henke
              Athlete/Andy Clark:  Ethan Kahn

            Brain/Brian Johnson: Matthew Bonner

            Princess/Claire Standish:  Sadie Rose

            Criminal/John Bender:  Thomas Harmon

              Basket Case/Allyson Reynolds:  Monica Unzueta

-Michael Jackson:  Nolan Morley

-Olivia Newton John:  Sammi Campbell

-Valley Girls:  Janey Elliott, Ella Hipsley, Bailey D.

+ Possible Dance Break with Valley Girls, Monica, Sadie, and Maddie

SECTION 2:  SCHOOL

(School bell rings, enter Ferris Bueller - Music Cue:  “We are Not Alone”)

<FERRIS BUEHLER LINES>

<CELEBRITY EMCEES: BREAKFAST CLUB>
Breakfast Club celebrities enter and begin working on essay assigned to them and freeze in different spots around stage.

<INSERT BREAKFAST CLUB LINES PART 1 HERE>

SKIT:  The Hunger Games vs. the 80s

Ella Hipsley and Lindsay Sasson

DANCE:  Thirteen

Anna Zidarescu

<Breakfast kids leave, still working on their papers - or being their characters as they exit>

<Celebrity Emcee:  Kelsey Lackey as Madonna>
**SONG:  Material Girl

Kelsey Lackey + Valley Girls

SONG:  The Coolest Girl / Harry Potter Musical

Jaye Johnson
(Jaye enters at the last part of Madonna’s song to see the Valley Girls)

<Janey & Bailey enter talking about prom – Janey mentions that there is a really cool boy who she wants to ask her - could do this as Valley Girls / Maddie comes on and starts song:  Jaye notices she has company, and Janey & Bailey realize that they are not alone.  They watch Maddie as she sings. Everyone joins in together.  After song, they leave the stage as friends>

SONG + INSTRUMENT:  Just Enjoy the Show / “The Show” by Lenka

Maddie Henke, Janey Elliott, Bailey Discepoli, Jaye Johnson

<Breakfast Club Emcees enter, INSERT BREAKFAST CLUB LINES PART 2 HERE>

INSTRUMENT:  Serenade by Joseph Haydn

Quinn Stiefbold

<Addison, Meera, and Ella enter reading, writing in their neon notebooks (or something 80s) on one side of the stage towards the end of Quinn’s solo.  Nolan enters on the other side with his school books, thinks about going over to the girls.  Halfway over, he changes his mind and goes to the piano and plays his song >

SECTION:  LOVE & the 80s
<CELEBRITY EMCEE:  NOLAN MORLEY AS MICHAEL JACKSON”>
**SONG + INSTRUMENT:  “Fall for You”
Nolan Morley

SONG + INSTRUMENT:  Born in the 80s  / “White Horse” by Taylor Swift

Addison Burke, Meera Patel, Ella Hipsley

**SONG:  The Adelics / Rumor Has It

Olivia Bennett, Cammy Miller, Marley Manigaolt

<CELEBRITY EMCEE:  Sammi Campbell as OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN>

(Andrew enters, as he sees Olivia Newton John working out and absently mindly humming her hit song “Let’s Get Physical”.  Andrew smiles and sits down at piano.  Oliva Newton John goes over to listen to him sing and play)

SONG + INSTRUMENT:  Smile / Uncle Kracker

Andrew Marty – singing & playing piano

DANCE:  Someone Like You
Meredith Glover

**SONG/DANCE:  Set Fire to the Rain

Booke Neel, Ruby Napora, Katie Brown, Crissy Coallick, Lucy Walton, Caroline Theile

Caroline enters holding a large picture frame with an 80s guy – such as Michael Jackson?  You can set it downstage as soon as you are able to in your choreography.  You dance this song as you have been heartbroken by this 80s pop star.

BAND:  String Quartet:  A Hard Day’s Night by the Beatles


**COMMERICIAL BREAK:  Mario & Luigi
Ian Denny & Ian Fridy

INTERMISSION:
During Intermission:
BAND:  The Permanents – Ain’t No Sunshine & Purple Haze

Max Tash, William Blankerish, Gene Waldren, Thomas Harmon

TRIBUTE SECTION:
BAND:  Wyoming Fiddling Cowboys / J. Greils Band (1981 Single)

**BAND:  “Go Figure” Band / “One Love” by Bob Marley

Emily Bence, Monica Unzueta, Megan Levy, Maddie Henke, Mike Murray, Nick Allen

SONG + INSTRUMENT:  Walking Man by James Taylor

Max Tash

**SONG/DANCE:  Believe by Journey (1981)/ Don’t Stop Believin’

Madeleine Morstadt and Meredith Ogle

<CELEBRITY EMCEE:  Sophie Harrison as Joan Jeff>

SONG/DANCE:  “Cheap Sunglasses” by ZZ – 1980s top single

Zoe Throop, Katie Lewis, Avery Moody, Lauren Metz, Rache Notestine, Ruby Napora, Lucy Walton, Amy Goodall, Kelsey Jobalia

**SONG + INSTRUMENT:  Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen (1984)

Evan and Nolan Morley

SECTION:  SCHOOL PROM

SONG:  Taylor the Latte Boy

Janey Elliott & Oliver Cromwell

*Janey, perform this as you are trying to get Taylor to ask you to 80s prom

**SKIT:  Celebrity Apprentice,  80s style

Erin Breadrick, Courtney Cain, Madelyn Taylor, Marilda Shloger, Katie Zackerman

*You are doing this as the “prom committee” – we may have to change a few lines, but Donald Trump is trying to figure out what celebrity guest star to have at prom. 

<FOOTLOOSE MUSIC STARTS>
(Dancing Cowgirls enter for prom – can have a conversation about dancing at prom Cowboy-style – watch from the background, as the “Footloose Girls” run on to start dancing)

DANCE:  The Footloose Girls

Katy Vanatsky, Sami Weis, Adrienne Nguyen Storer, Claire Jones, Kasleen Krupp, Julia Xiong

DANCE:  Dancin’ Cowgirls

Rosie Bacon, Ellen Boster, Amie Boster, Corine Abel

<Oliver Cromwell:  response to “Taylor the Latte Boy” – doesn’t have to be pretty singing / can be spoken – just a 20-30 second snip: Watch this, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHTzetBTgqk>

**SONG:  Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride

Janey Elliott, Bailey Discepoli, Maddie Henke, Deja Gause
*Girls, you are singing this as you have been down the “Homecoming Court” Aisle at prom so many times – instead of a wedding aisle.

<CELEBRITY EMCEE:  Maia Bennett as “Claire Huxtable”>

SECTION: ENDING
**SONG:  Man in the Mirror by Michael Jackson

Courtney Caine

SONG/DANCE: 8^th Grade Goodbye Medley

Janey, Nolan, Bailey, Matthew, Ethan, Madeleine, Lauren, Sadie, Maddie, Monica, Emily, Jaye (+ additional 8^th graders in talent show, if desired)