Performing Arts News

Tickets on sale!

The sixteen talented and enthusiastic Year 6 students representing WPS in this year’s Victorian State Schools Spectacular, have just one more regional Hub rehearsal on Friday, August 5 at Heathmont SC, before they showcase their dynamic dance moves at John Cain Arena later this term.

If you would like to support the students and experience Melbourne's biggest live song, dance and lighting phenomenon – featuring circus artists, acrobats, puppeteers, skaters, musicians, singers, haka and hip-hop dancers and a kaleidoscope of colours and music from The Beatles, Dua Lipa, Stan Walker and Kate Bush - tickets to both the 1pm and 6.30pm shows on Saturday, September 10 are now on sale through Ticketek. 

www.ticketek.com.au/spectacular

Costumes, sets and props update

This term, all grades will be participating in song and dance rehearsals for our whole school production of “Aladdin Jr”. Working together to learn class items and developing interesting characters through scene acting, is always a rewarding and exciting experience for the students – especially when they finally get to try on their costumes and perform with fun props and sets!

While we will be hiring professionally made costumes again this year (so there will be no sewing requests made of our WPS community), I do need families to kindly let me know asap if their child/ren will not be participating in the October 25 performance so I can confirm student/cast numbers with the costume hire company.

It would be great to have a team of parent helpers who can assist with fitting students and labelling their costumes at school prior to the whole school run-through and dress rehearsal at the theatre. Please let me know if you are interested, and I’ll contact you with more details at the start of Term 4.

Help in creating and sourcing a few set items and props would also be warmly welcomed! Ideally, we need a builder or handy person to make some large, black wooden blocks of different sizes to be used both in this production and in shows to come. A full list of hand- held props and small set items will be sent to families shortly via Compass. Please contact me if you can help or if you want more information kirstywolters@eduction.vic.gov.au. Think of the smiles your creations will bring to the appreciative faces of our young performers! 

Kirsty Wolters