In a Nutshell

The Place to get your Nutty News

Welcome Nutty Families!!!

Our first newsletter of our 30th anniversary season!

These will come out every Friday with reminders for the weekend, but nuttysecretpages are updated earlier in the week. The email addresses they are sent to are the ones entered in the audition application. If we need to edit or add, please email info@triangleyouthballet.org

And your participation contract is due by Sat Oct 3. We will be ready to start collection tomorrow. Participation Contract

Schedule for Saturday September 26

1:00 - 2:15 Gingels* with Lauren and Party Kids with Kate

Parents of these dancers are invited at 2:05 to observe what happened on DAY ONE

2:15 - 3:00 Parent and Dancer meeting of all Saturday dancers with Lauren, Kate and Huma, Parent Guild chair

2:45 - 4:00 Junior company** with Kate and Lauren

Parents of these dancers are invited at 3:50 to observe what happened on DAY ONE

*Gingels is the nickname for the group of dancers who have two roles in Act 2. They are Angels who escort Clara and the Nutcracker prince into the Land of the Sweets and Ginger cookies who come out from under Mother Ginger’s skirt.

** Junior company will not know their Act 2 parts until the next weekend, after we have more time together. But we should be able to make serious progress on the battle scene.

Schedule for Sunday September 27

1:00 - 2:00 Company Class

2:00 - 3:30 Review and Clean

3:30 - 4:00 Break

4:00 - 4:30 Pointe Class

4:30 - 6:00 Run all on pointe

Links

To get to the nuttysecretpages (which is password protected), you need to add

/nuttysecretpages

to our websites URL and the password is GINGELS, lots of info here!!

To get to the Nutcracker Charms pages(which is password protected), you need to add

/nutcrackercharms

to our website URLand the password is GINGELS

Deadline to order souvenir charms is October 30 by 5:00 pm and the order page closes down.

If you miss the deadline, we reopen this next fall,

If you are new to the Nutcracker and would like to see the show from 2025:

The Link for the green cast is:

https://vimeo.com/1151212609?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci

The password is GREEN2025

The Link for the red cast

https://vimeo.com/1151219011?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci

The password is RED2025

We have a live orchestra

and we have an annual gala to support this.

Post card invites are available for you to share with your friends and families, tickets available on our website.

Agenda for Saturdays Parent Meeting

For our newly added companies. (but all parents are welcome)

First news (September)

The Nutcracker Class

Commitment agreement and Media Release Policy

Scheduling

why it’s hard to do too far in advance

where to find it ( website, newsletters and bulletin board)

Communication

Constant Contact Newsletters

/nuttyscretpages

sometime emails from our registration system.

Carolina Theatre Box

Ticket sales and comps

Red and Green casts,

October

Gala October 4th

Nutcracker charms

Playbill ad sale

Parent Guild Sign up

boutique (Nerea)

green room (Shari)

angel wrangling (Huma)

other ways to help: costume distribution, local PR, playbill ad sales

November

photo day Nov. 8

hair and make-up tutorial

sewing and stitching and steaming (oh my)

Thanksgiving weekend rehearsals

December

Carolina Theatre, rules, regs, behavior and backstage passes

Chapel Hill Carrboro Holiday Parade and the Durham Parade

Costume collection (and laundry)

Arts Discovery Show,

Special Needs Show,

Cast party (January)

Whew!! Those months just flew by!!!