If you are trying to register for Theater and receive a "No Access" or "Sorry, but you do not currently have permission to access this packet" message, please check HERE first that you have purchased a PTSA membership for the 2025-26 school year (valid Aug 2025 to June 2026).  An annual PTSA membership is required by our insurance.

Emily Dickinson PTSA is proud to present Theater 2025-26:

Director:  Patricia Haines-Ainsworth

Musical Director:  Terence Alaric Levitt

Producer:  Ange Garrett

PTSA is pleased to announce the 2025-26 theater production will be Bayou Bug Tales.  Pat and Terry are back to direct another fun-filled student performance.  Performances will be February 6 and 7, 2026 at the Redmond High School Performing Arts Center.

Bayou Bug Tales is a musical re-telling of Aesop's famous fable of The Ant and The Grasshopper set in the Louisiana bayou.  Other friends in the bayou, a caterpillar named Clarissa and a frog named Bertram, also must deal with the changing seasons and changes in themselves.

Registration & Commitments

Registration Dates:    Opens Sun, Oct 13 @ 12:01am

                                   Closes Fri, Nov 14 @ 11:59pm

Eligibility:  Grades 2-5  

Time Commitment:  

• Mandatory Theater Parent Info Night:  Nov 4 and 7 @ 6pm in the school library.  Must attend one evening.
• Email a student headshot to Heidi prior to auditions.  These aid the directors during auditions.
• Auditions after school:  Nov 12 @ 4:30-5:45pm + Nov 14 @ 4-5:30pm.  Must attend one audition.  Sign up HERE.  Students should be prepared to read or recite a few lines of something (poem, story, monologue) + sing a song (any song, Happy Birthday is fine) at their audition.  Please note:  If your student has registered and paid, they are guaranteed a part in the play.  Auditions are to assist the directors with making cast assignments.  
• ALL CALL read and sing through:  Dec 8 and 9 @ 4-5:30pm.
• Rehearsals:  Most MON, TUES, THURS, FRI @ 4-5:30pm from Dec 15 through Jan 30 in the Commons.  Then rehearsals move to Redmond High School Performing Arts Center Feb 2, 3, and 5.  (There are NO WED rehearsals unless needed.)  Your student will not rehearse every day; just on the days they are called (i.e. scheduled).  Students who show up on dates they are not called will be sent home.  If your student must miss a rehearsal for sickness, vacation, or other reasons, please notify the producers as early as possible.  Directors and producers reserve the right to recast roles as needed.
• Students must be picked up promptly from rehearsals at 5:30pm.  Parents must enter the school to sign out their student upon pick up.
• Please send a healthy snack and book with your student.  When not actively rehearsing, students should engage in a quiet activity such as reading or homework. 
• Mandatory ALL CALL dress & tech rehearsals:  Feb 2, 3, and 5 @ (time TBD) at the Redmond High School Performing Arts Center.  
• Performances are Feb 6 @ 7pm and Feb 7 @ 2pm at the Redmond High School Performing Arts Center.

Parent Commitment:  Parent support is required for this production!  Since theater is a PTSA-sponsored program, per our insurance and chaperone policies, your commitment as a parent includes the following:

• Be a PTSA member.  Verify purchase of a PTSA Membership here first; otherwise please purchase a 2025-26 PTSA Membership before registering for theater (24 hours needed for membership authorization).  

• Be an approved LWSD volunteer.
• Sign up for at least one production committee during Mandatory Theater Parent Info Night:  Stage Manager, Assistant Stage Manager, Backstage Supervision, Cast Party & Directors' Gifts, Concessions, Costumes, Hair & Makeup, Sets/Props/Background Design, Set Up & Clean Up, Ticketing, and Videographer.
• Chaperone at least two rehearsals.  Sign up HERE.
• Sign the parent contract and student behavior contract.

Fee:  $155

Financial Aid:  Available to those in need.  For more information, please contact Heidi

Cancellations:  For a refund, all cancellations must be requested by Fri, Nov 14.  Please email Heidi and Cc the PTSA Treasurer with your cancellation request.  No refunds given after cast assignments are made!

Important Dates

Questions?

Contact producer Ange with any questions.

Click HERE to start the registration process.