Parent Update: High School Musical

Good Morning Everyone!  I hope you are well and excited to be getting closer to opening night!

Below are several calls for help as well as some updates that are important moving forward.  Please consider lending a hand to one or more areas of need.  Of course, if you have questions, please let me know.

• RAFFLE: We are in need of items for our spring raffle, which runs concurrently with High School Musical.  Variety makes this event successful.  We are looking for things like gift cards, prize baskets, attraction tickets, merchandise, etc.  If you have a connection, please reach out and see if they will make a donation.  Many places have donation request forms on their websites.  We could use help making requests through those sites. Below is what we currently have donated as well as contacts already made. Please help if you can!
  • Fresh Chef
  • Tweetsie Railraod
  • Carowinds
  • Whitewater Center
  • Georgia Aquarium
  • Beech Mountain Resort
  • Blumenthal Performing Arts
  • Top Golf
  • Hickory Crawdads
  • Moorehead Science/Planetarium
  • Cheesecake Factory
  • My Brothers Bagel
• CUPID'S CABARET: Cupid's Cabaret will take place this Thursday evening at 7 pm.  There are several acts on the program and it should be a fun and relaxing evening of music celebrating the valentine spirit.  Admission is $5 at the door.  Please help us spread the word.  It would be great to have a full house!
• PIZZA: The Little Caesars PizzaKit Fundraiser ends this Friday.  I will place orders first thing Monday morning and kits will arrive the last week in February.  Friends of our program can place their orders online at EastLincolnOnStage.org/pizza or order from one of the students.  This is a great fundraiser that people really like, so hopefully you are finding success.  We need to sell 150 kits in order to receive free shipping.  
• VALENTINES REHEARSAL:  My presence has been requested at the school board meeting next Tuesday, February 14.  To allow time to get there, we will end rehearsal at 5 pm.
• PARENT ADS: If you are interested in placing an ad in the program for your special actor, those need to be submitted by Friday, March 10.  Full page parent ads are $75, half page $50, and business card $25.  I will be glad to help you create your ad, or you made send ready to go artwork.  Please reach out if you have questions.  Parent ads will be used in the High School Musical and Play That Goes Wrong playbills.
• MEALS: Thank you to everyone who signed up to help with a meal during our long evenings!  There are still several slots available if it has slipped your mind.  Remember, you can team up or take on one individually.  www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0c49acab29a3fecf8-hsmmeals#/
• Q2Q: There has been a scheduling issue forcing a change to our original Q2Q date.  Our original date was Saturday, March 10.  That will no longer be a required rehearsal.  We will combine the Q2Q rehearsal with our dress rehearsal on Monday, March 13, which is a teacher workday.  Rehearsal will run from 12:00 pm to 8:00 pm.
• TICKETS ON SALE:  Tickets are on sale for High School Musical and for our promotional kids' party, HSM Backstage Blast.  Tickets can be purchased at EastLincolnOnStage.org/tickets.