We're getting really, really close to the very first MANN SHOW production ever.

You know, I just realized that I've never directed a high school production of a play. TREASURE ISLAND is my first.

It's kind of cool, you know? I mean, I think the play is going to be quite good and I'm pretty sure that lots of people are going to see it.

So...how are you feeling?

CAST AND CREW ONLY!

Bring Coach White $13 for your official TREASURE ISLAND crew shirt this week.

Shirts are 100% heavyweight cotton (color: graphite grey), with two color, "Blackheart Spot" design on the front and bloody MANN SHOW 2007 back stab on the rear shoulder.

Dan Redruth: Ready to Fight to the Death!

Actor ROSS OVINGTON gets his haircut for the play.

(With compliments to Todd Inc.!)

Come work with us this Saturday at the Auditorium!

We'll be raising the Hispainola's mast, so we'll need all hands on deck. Also, there will be light construction and painting tasks...plenty to go around.

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, March 17 in the Auditorium.

Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines.

Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines.

Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines. Learn your lines.

Please, cast members...

...learn your lines.

Dr. Livsey Loses His Bangs!

Junior actor MICHAEL REALMUTO got a haircut for the play.

(With compliments to Todd Inc.!)

A little over a month before we open and we've recast Long John Silver and hired a new Stage Manager.

(Ahhhhhhhh!)

RHYDWYN DAVIES has joined the cast as Long John Silver. Rhyd Da Kid (pictured at right in a production of Henry IV, Part 1 at Shakespeare & Company's Outdoor Rose Footprint Theatre in Lenox, MA) is a professional actor in Greenville working with The Warehouse Theatre's Journeyman program. He has appeared at our school twice this year as a artist-in-residence teaching Shakespeare to J.L. Mann students. Basically, he rocks...and has agreed to take on this most ambitious role in a most ambitious play.

BRENNAN WEST who's been on board as costume designer since last fall, now adds the title (and great responsibility) of Stage Manager to her resume. Brennan is a senior at J.L. Mann. She's a terrific artist, a creative talent, and the kind of young leader we need more of. She will run the show each performance--Coach White's right-hand woman.

Think we're crazy to be switching things around so late in the game? Maybe...but we want this thing just right...the best it can possibly be. With Rhyd and Brennan in place, we're closer than ever before.