Taking the COST out of COSTUMES
Dear Parents,
Do you love a great theater performance? I do. Part of the fun, fame, and glamour of a dramatic musical is in the wearing of costumes! The Kindergarten through Fifth Grade students at Caprock Academy anticipate the fun of looking great for our performance on April 16, 2010. On the reverse of this sheet you will find a list of the costume needs for each grade.
As part of our opening number, we are making a huge American flag out of students. Kindergarten will be the field of blue. Grades one through four will represent the red and white stripes.
In order to take the COST out of costumes, wherever possible, I have built the costume around the four piece school uniform already in the student’s closet: shirt, slacks, belt, classroom shoes. If it happens that your student does not have the color specified (on the reverse) for his or her grade, following are eight suggestions for taking the cost out of costumes.
1) Borrow from a sibling in another grade at Caprock. The color is the main thing for our musical, so it will work if the Khaki pants have to be rolled up or tucked under or are a tiny bit high-water. The same goes for the red or white shirt: The uniform color is the important thing, the size may be a bit big or snug.
2) Borrow or trade with family friends: Perhaps you have a cousin or close family friend in another grade and the two of you can swap shirts for the performance.
3) Buy the proper color if you have out-grown your current school uniform and must purchase another.
4) Buy the proper color, gently worn, from our Goodwill neighbor.
5) Contact the Caprock Uniform exchange coordinator and see what you can trade. The exchange coordinator is Julie Dixon. Her email: julied233@aol.com
6) Come to a Caprock Uniform exchange
7) Ask around to see if a classmate has an extra shirt you can borrow for the show.
8) Fifth grade girls: Ask a Caprock girl in grades six, seven, or eight if you can borrow her costume from last year.
Note: If , for some reason, the student arrives at the rehearsal and performance in a Caprock uniform other than the specified color, the student will be allowed to perform with his or her class numbers, but, I will not embarrass that student by placing them in the flag in the wrong color. This concert is considered a semester final and is how students earn a performance grade and demonstrate knowledge-the rhetoric portion of the classical education (Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric).
The second side of this note gives details on specified uniforms / costumes for each grade performing in the Spring musical: Round- A Revolutionary Musical.
If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at Caprock 970243-1771 or by email: c.shellabarger@caprockacademy.org
What Shall I Wear?
As part of our opening number, we are making a huge American flag out of students. Kindergarten will be the field of blue. Grades one through four will represent the red and white stripes.
Kindergarten: School uniform Blue shirt, Blue bottoms, belt, school shoes. Kindergarten will be the field of blue. All appropriately dressed kindergarten students will carry a star.
First Grade: Red uniform shirt, Khaki uniform slacks, belt, school shoes. First grade will make up the red stripes of the Star Spangled Banner.
Second Grade: White uniform shirt, Khaki uniform bottoms, belt, school shoes. Second grade will be the white stripes of the Star Spangled Banner.
Third Grade: Mrs. Vidmar’s Class: Red shirt, Khaki uniform slacks or skirt, belt, school shoes. Mrs. Miller-Forrest’s Class: White shirt, Khaki uniform slacks or skirt, belt, school shoes. Third grade will form a red stripe and a white stripe on the flag.
Fourth Grade: Red shirt, Khaki uniform slacks, belt, school shoes. Fourth grade will act as the bottom and top red stripes of the American flag. Red shirts will double as the Red Coats in the revolutionary portion of the musical. Khaki slacks will double as buckskin pants in the Colorado portion of the musical.
Fifth Grade Boys: Caprock uniform: Shirt, Slacks, Belt, Shoes. Blue shirt and blue slacks for the Union soldiers. Blue shirt, Khaki slacks for the Confederate soldiers. Long sleeve shirt is best. Short sleeve is okay.
Fifth Grade Girls: Ankle length Civil War era dress: Southern Belle, Conservative Northern Woman, Teacher, Nurse, or Slave. If you want to provide your own costume, that is great. Another option is to check with girls from the older grades who have one of last year’s costumes they are willing to lend to you. See the note that follows:
Adopt a Fifth Grade Girl: Calling all Caprock mothers and girls grade six and above! Are you eligible for Caprock’s Musical Adopt a Fifth Grade Girl Costume Challenge? Here’s how it works: If you have an ankle length Southern Belle costume or prairie dress in your trunk or wardrobe; if you think you could clothe a Civil War nurse or a kitchen or field slave from 1860; would you kindly take a look at the girls in Mrs. Kelly’s and Mrs. Meier’s fifth grade classes, find a girl who looks like she would fit your costume, and ask if you can adopt her for the fifth grade musical, The Blue and the Gray?
Note: If , for some reason, the student arrives at the rehearsal and performance in a Caprock uniform other than the specified color, the student will be allowed to perform with his or her class numbers, but, I will not embarrass that student by placing them in the flag in the wrong color. This concert is considered a semester final and is how students earn a performance grade and demonstrate knowledge-the rhetoric portion of the classical education (Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric).