Talent Show Event Details
Talent show info
Check out: Willard Talent Show
REGISTRATION
Encourage your children to start planning an act to perform with their friends. Meanwhile, you’ll need to gather your registration information.
The Registration Form will ask you for information about your act. Be prepared with the following information for ALL the members of your group:
Title of Performance (a temporary title, so we can distinguish one act from another)
Description of Act (i.e. “Girls will hula-hoop to the Abba song Dancing Queen”)
Title of Music to be used in Act
Number of Performers in Act
Act Captain and his/her contact information
Each performer’s name, grade, parent’s name, parent’s email/phone number
Preview Day Preference
Registrations will be processed on a first-received, first-admitted basis.
Please note that the performers in the Willard Talent Show must be students at Willard. Please no lip synching!
Registration info:
Begins January 9 - 5th Grade Students ONLY
Begins January 10 - all Willard Students
Registration closes at 5:00PM on Friday, January 17
PREVIEW DAY
The Preview Days are when the Talent Show Committee sees each act for the first time. Preview Days take place on a Monday and Tuesday after school. The act signs in at the Willard Cafeteria. The Act Captain must supervise their performer(s) in the Cafeteria while the act waits to be seen. Performers are then called from the cafeteria (generally on a ‘first-come, first served’ basis) to either the Auditorium or Music Practice Room to preview their act in front of members of the Talent Show Committee.
The limit for all acts is 1 1/2 minutes. Your act will be timed at the Preview Day, so please plan to finish within this limit. The time limit will be strictly enforced. If your act uses recorded music, you must bring your music CD with your music edited to 1 1/2 minutes or less to Preview Day.
STAGE CREW
Online registration to be one of the eight students selected to be on the Stage Crew for the Willard Talent Show takes place before Act Registration. Open only to fifth graders.
Stage Crew members quietly move scenery, props, and standing microphones on and off the stage as directed by the adult Stage Managers. They are essential to making the show flow smoothly!
Click here for more information.
Registration ends on Wednesday, January 8, 2020 at 5PM.
HOUSE CREW
The House Crew is comprised of fifth grade students who help the talent show committee to distribute programs and help at the refreshment tables distributing snacks and beverages. House Crew members need only attend the afternoon of the show, arriving at 1:30 PM, but will need to stay after the show for post-show refreshment sales and clean-up.
Sign up date TBD.
DRESS REHEARSAL
The Dress Rehearsal is held at Concord-Carlisle High School. Students are not expected to attend the entire Dress Rehearsal. The specific rehearsal time slot during which they must be present that afternoon/evening is determined by the order of the show. Performers and Stage Crew only need to be present for their portion of the show (their “set”), during which they will perform, practice light and sound cues in their act, and understand how their act fits into the order of the show; they will then be dismissed to go home. Performers and Stage Crew will be informed of their specific dress rehearsal time in mid-to-late March.
Attendance at the Dress Rehearsal is MANDATORY. It is extremely important for students to arrive on time to the rehearsal, so that it can run efficiently.
TICKETS
TICKETS GO ON SALE THE MONDAY BEFORE THE TALENT SHOW
Show time: 2:00PM
Doors open: 1:30PM
Price: $6.00 per person
Location: CCHS
Tickets are not required for performers, crew members, and adult volunteers.
Advanced Online Purchase through March 27
Tickets can be purchased via PayPal. Online sales close the Friday before the show.
At the Door
Tickets are available for purchase at the show, cash or check only.
BE A SET PARENT!
We love and encourage large acts, but if your act has six or more participants, one parent from the act must volunteer to serve as a Set Parent during the Dress Rehearsal and Show.
Sets consist of 8 – 10 acts. Each set is assigned a pair of Set Parents. Set Parents keep a group of 12 – 15 children organized and quiet in the “Performers Section” of the auditorium. When it is time for a set to go backstage, the Set Parents will quietly escort the performers there. All movement should be quiet and unobtrusive so as not to detract from the performers onstage. When all of the acts in a set are finished performing, the Set Parents will lead the performers back to their assigned seats in the “Performers Section”.
VOLUNTEER
We request that each student’s parent or guardian volunteer in some way if your child participates in the show. Families move on and new volunteers are the only way for this tradition to be maintained and passed down. Volunteer opportunities include assisting as a Preview Day volunteer, Technical (Lights & Sound) assistant(s), Publicity, Set Parent, Refreshment Sales volunteer, or a Ticket Table volunteer. It’s a lot of fun and there are both big and small jobs to do! Please contact talentshow@willardptg.org about how you can help. Your participation is a great way to show your child your support. Thank you.