Some upcoming events…

Well, we have decided on some of our shows this Season!  Our one act for this year is An Empty Chair.  We will have a new series beginning this year, theatre for young audiences, presenting The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe in Winter 2008.  Our Spring musical has not currently been released but will be soon!  Many more events, and shows including Steel Magnolias are on The Telford Center’s calendar.  Please check out that website for more information on upcoming shows.  The new fine arts website is coming soon!

Logan Davison, 2008-2009 President

Summer Officer Meeting

In just one hour the officer team discussed many topics including Georgia Theatre Conference, Georgia Thespian Festival, Miss Echo Pageant, 2008-2009 Season of Plays, and much, much more!  I’ll cover as much as I can for now, but will probably be typing more things as the week continues.  Chloe Payne, our former Community Affairs officer is now the Media Relations Specialist.  Chloe will be forming a committe that will assist her with publicity, ticketing, public relations and anything involving our influence on the community.  Now, Miss Echo Pageant 2008 will be on December 6th with a Winter Wonderland theme!  We are all really excited to have this new twist on the classic tradition and will be creating a real night to remember.  Registration and more information will all be available online at www.thespotlightplayers.org hopefully around September. 

Georgia Theatre Conference was discussed and only the first 40 people that sign-up will be allowed to attend the conference October 15-18 in Albany!  Plans are being made to have the sign-up online for equal opportunity to sign-up.  Our 2008-2009 Season of Plays will probably be one of the best in years, plans are for a one act in the Fall and a possible Christmas play in December.  A play, comedy or drama, will be in the Spring along with the musical.  No plays have been announced at this time.  Drama Club dues will increase to $15 next year after a vote with the officers.  All meetings will serve a breakfast item and drink.  Many more things were discussed and I’ll be covering them all soon!  We’ll see you at Open House for Franklin County High School on August 4th from 10:00am until 6:00pm.

Logan Davison, 2008-2009 President

Happy Birthday!

Guess who’s finally 17?  Me!  WordPress has been reporting some stats to me about the blog and in the few weeks that the blog has been up, it has already had over 200 hits!  So, what’s new?  The Jungle Book Kids, presented by the Franklin Community Players’ Drama Camp will be onstage at The Telford Center on July 18th at 6:30pm.  My team and I began work on the lighting Monday afternoon.  We will finally be using intelligent lighting, gobos and fog for a stage production at The Telford Center!  We are extremely excited to bring new technology and standards to the lighting department.  This combination will prove to create a new world of lighting and environment on the stage.  All items that were borrowed for the Land of Spirit Summer Season have been collected and returned.  All items were handled with great care and no damages were made.  One of the producers, Genny Cole, was on-hand for the return.  She thanked us for the use and take-down of the items and talked of the Fall Season of Land of Spirit which the entire team will be returning to work for.

I have started speaking to some officers on fundraisers, conference activities and Miss Echo and from what I continue to hear, we will be planning an exciting year for the department.  The full meeting with the entire officer team and the new theatre director, Charity Moon-Henry is July 18th at 11:00am.  I will write about that day (in all that I can discuss that was finalized) hopefully that night or on Saturday, depending on how tired I am from The Jungle Book.  Lights, meetings and more are in store for next week… this week is party time!  I’ll write to you all soon.

Logan Davison, 2008-2009 President

Welcome!

Welcome to the Franklin County High’s Performing Arts President Blog.  I’ll update my blog often and the presidents over the years will continue the tradition.  What will the blog be about?  The blog will contain info on upcoming events and how they’re coming along, officer meeting information, conference daily activities and pictures, The Telford Center news, and much, much more!

Now I want to introduce you to the 2008-2009 Officer Team…  President: Logan Davison, Vice President: J.D. Sweat, Secretary: Brittany Dove, Historian: Grayson Phillips, Sargeant of Arms: Benjamin Roper, Community Affairs: Chloe Payne. 

Many new, talented students will be entering 9th Grade this year and the officer team is really excited about what kind of new talent this will create for the Performing Arts Department at Franklin County High School.  Well that’s all I have to say write now.  I wanted to introduce you to our new blog and let you know what’s going to be on it.  I’ll have Land of Spirit and The Jungle Book blogs up in a bit!  The officers are meeting with the new Theatre Director, Mrs. Charity Moon-Henry on July 18th, I’ll put a blog up about that too!  Hope everyone is having a great summer, and we’ll see you back at school soon!

Logan Davison, 2008-2009 President