NUTCRACKER 2024

POST AUDITION

• Results: Tuesday, August 27: Results of the audition will be emailed by this date. Great care is taken in selecting your child’s part and casting is final and non-negotiable. Please do not email, text or call CWB or a staff member regarding the role your child receives. There is a chance your child will repeat the role they did last time. Remember: every role matters for the success of the production!

• Accepted, If your child is accepted, please save the acceptance email you receive. It will contain valuable password information you will need to access online rehearsal schedules and handbook.

• Try again! If your child is not accepted. Please know we did our best to place as many children as we could, however, there are bound to be disappointments. Casting is done with thought, care and is non-biased. Students may be too young, too inexperienced or not quite ready for the parts they are auditioning for. Encourage them to try again next year!

 

PARENT INFORMATION (If accepted into the production, please save these mandatory dates)

August 27: Online Handbook & Rehearsal Schedule available for download at home. These documents are password protected. The password is in your acceptance letter.

September 7 at 3:00pm: Parent Meeting + Parent Contracts Signed and Due + Participation Fee Due. Location: Liz & Royal Robbins Studio, 5033 Pentecost Drive (between Safe Lite and Cannon’s Tumbling)

• Only one parent attends, no performers. We will review the requirements of the 2024 Handbook & Policies and Procedures Manual. Print your documents at home, in color, bring with you, questions ready.

Each performer is assessed a $50.00 participation fee (additional $25.00 per sibling). Paid in full at the Parent Meeting. Fee covers the cost of rehearsal directors, costume cleaning & costume repair. Fee is non-refundable. Additional personal costs $60.00-$85.00 per role, includes professional theatre make-up, shoes, socks, tights. All Items purchased become the property of the dancer.

September 14: Party Girls and Clara rehearsals begin. Other groups will begin rehearsals throughout September and October. Rehearsals are scheduled September-December (Refer to online Rehearsal Schedule for precise scheduling)

October 5: Parent volunteer hour sign-ups will be available. Access to lists TBA.

Studio Rehearsals: Studio rehearsals are broken down by day and hour between 6:30-9:00pm Monday-Friday, Saturday between 9:00am-5:00pm.

 

Tracy Cast: Theatre Location: Grand Theatre Center for the Arts 715 Central Avenue, Tracy

• Studio Rehearsals: Nov. 25-26 & 20-30: For those dancing in Tracy you will have mandatory studio rehearsals around Thanksgiving on these days. There will be no rehearsal Nov. 27-28 & Dec. 1

• Dec. 2: Spacing/Staging Rehearsal (approximatively 5:00pm-8:30pm)

• Nov. 3-4: Dress Rehearsals (4:30pm-9:00pm)

• Dec. 5 possible school performance Time TBA • 2 Public Performances: Dec. 6th at 7:00pm & Dec. 7th at 1:00pm: .

 

Gallo A Cast: Theatre Location: Gallo Center for the Arts 1000 I Street, Modesto

• Sunday, December 8: Casts A & B Spacing/Staging (Between 11:00am-6:00pm, rehearsal schedule breakdown Page 9)

• Dec. 9, 10: Cast A Dress Rehearsals (4:30pm-8:30pm)

• Dec. 11: Cast A School Show: #1) 10:00am-11:00 all schools • Show #2) 12:00pm-1:00 low-sensory-special needs

• Dec. 12: Cast A Off.

• Dec. 13 at 7:00pm & Dec. 14 (2 shows) 2:00pm & 7:00pm: Cast A Public Performances

 

Cast B • Gallo Info: Theatre Location: Gallo Center for the Arts 1000 I Street, Modesto

• Sunday, December 8: Casts A & B Spacing/Staging (Between 11:00am-6:00pm, rehearsal schedule breakdown Page 9)

• Dec. 11, 17, 18: Cast B Dress Rehearsals (4:30pm-8:30pm)

• Dec. 15, 2:00pm: Cast B Public Performance

• Dec. 9-10: Cast B Off Days

• Dec. 21: (2 shows) 2:00pm & 7:00pm: Cast B Public Performances

• Dec. 22 at 2:00pm: Cast B Public Performance

 

Questions: We want to answer your questions! For the quickest response email us at info@centralwestballet.org