J.I.T.S.

2024-2025

Troupe 89407 Headquarters

We are looking forward to a great year with the Junior Thespians. This is an afterschool club that meets every Monday and Thursday until 5:30 (Possibly 6:00 if we do One Act Festival). Students in this group show great dedication to theatre and work hard during club and at home to put together their performances for our district festival. Students can participate in many different categories ie. solo musical, small group musical, large group musical, monologue, duet acting, improvisation, costuming, makeup and more.
We participate in 3 competitions; Districts
One Act
State (in Orlando, this is a 3 day trip)

registration for 2024 districts

Must be submitted by 7pm oct 14th

* Indicates required field

Name *

First

Last

Student Shirt Size *

First Event *

Event 1- Song, Monologue, Scene name *

Event 1- From What show? *

Second Event *

Event 2- song, monologue, scene title *

Event 2- from what show? *

Third Event *

Event 3- song, monologue, scene title *

Event 3- from what show? *

Parent Info
If a parent is not attending, please make arrangements with another parent that can drive your child.

Parent is going (if parent is not going, finish by pushing submit. If parent IS going, finish questions) *

YES! No

Parents have the option of paying $35 (includes lunch, usually pizza) registering ahead of time or pay $30 at the door. I need to know which you will be doing. If paying ahead of time, please send in money by Oct 14th in an envelope/bag with what the money is for. If more that 2 adults will attend, please put that info with the money.

Paying early $35 (includes lunch) Parent Name *

First

Last

Paying early $35 (includes lunch) Optional Person Name *

First

Last

Submit

24-25 Schedule of events

September 19- Murder Mystery
November 23- Districts (Blake High School, Tampa)
December 14- One Act (Orange Grove Middle, Tampa)
January 23- Murder Mystery
February13-15- State (Orlando Convention Center, Orlando)
April 27- Backstage Experience
May 12- Banquet

More dates may be added

2023-2024

trip to atwater 3/6/24

The troupe went to Atwater Elementary to work with 3rd-5th grade students. They performed, played theatre games with them and talked about theatre in middle school and of course troupe info!

State 2024 is in the books!

Here are some highlights from our trip to Orlando

Murder Mystery Form

Please read this carefully, check your calendars and then fill out this form ASAP

Junior Thespians will be having a “murder mystery” fundraiser on January 18th. Performers will be learning their character thoroughly. On the night of the fundraiser, a “murder” will happen while the guests are here. The guests will then question all the suspects(JITS) and try to determine who-dun-it. This form is to not only give permission for your child to participate, but also to let me know if your child is available. I need to know the EXACT number of students participating so I can purchase the correct number of suspects.

Please fill out this form.

* Indicates required field

Performer Name *

First

Last

I am allowing my student to participate *

Yes No

I promise on Santa Claus that my child will be able to attend this fabulous night. I understand that if they can not show up on Jan 18th after telling me they can, the whole fundraiser could be in jeopardy because every part is EXTREMELY important. *

Yes No

By signing this, you are saying you are the parent/Guardian of the student above and you yourself have filled out this form. *

Submit

Districts registRation

* Indicates required field

Name *

First

Last

Shirt size (adult sizes) *

Monologue or Song Title *

Show it is from *

Who wrote it? *

2nd Song or Monologue (if you have one) *

Show it is from *

Who wrote it? *

Participating in Large group? *

Yes No

Parent info if attending

Name *

First

Last

Parent shirt size *

My child needs to carpool *

Yes No

I can take extra students *

Yes No

If you can take extra students, how many? *

Please send in $55 per student and $15 per adult on Monday, October 2nd. Cash is preferred.

Submit

Upcoming dates:

Individual Exhibition (now called the Thespys) - November 18th- Blake High School
selections are due to Mrs. Buckstein with payment
$55 per performer (includes entry, shirt and lunch)
$15 chaperone (advanced payment) or $20 if you walk up that day

January 24th- Showcase rehearsal- all students that performed at the Thespys will perform on this day at our school. This will allow family that was not able to go in November to see their performer as well as help to get our state competitors up in front of a crowd before the competition.
January 25th- Showcase Performance @ 6:30

State Festival- February 22nd-24th- Orlando - If a student qualifies at the Thespys, they are invited to perform at State. ALL student can attend state as there are many workshops that are great for our students to learn and grow as a performer. No one is required to attend state but encouraged if they can.
$100 per performer (includes entry into workshops/competition and shirt)
$85 chaperone (advanced payment) or $50 per day if you just show up

2022-2023

End of the year awards and induction ceremony

Please come celebrate all the students and their accomplishments for the year as well as welcome new members to the Junior International Thespians Society

May 24th @ 6:30pm
Cost: $10 per person
Theme: Decades- dress in your favorite decade attire
Food: we will be catering the nights dinner.

WIld Car show info

Thank you everyone that came out to help or baked goodies or both! We made a good amount of money that will be put into our account. Not sure on the total yet, I'll update when I hear.

Possible state/one act showcase

We are looking at putting together a showcase of all our State acts and our One Act for family members that were not able to attend and anyone else that would like to come. More on that in the future!

State parent meeting

Tuesday Jan 10th @ 5:30
You can come in person or on ZOOM. Here is the link:
Tricia Buckstein is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://sarasotacountyschools.zoom.us/j/88363196708
Meeting ID: 883 6319 6708
Passcode: state

Saturday IE Schedule

This is the schedule of when everything is opening and location if they had it at that time.
I will update it when more info becomes available.

This is the One Act schedule. Make sure to look at performance times when deciding what to go to.

State information

January 12-14, 2023

Workshops are offered everyday. Missed the one you wanted because you were in another? Go to it the next day. One Acts will will running both days as well. Friday evening, our very own District 5 has the showcase and will be performing Newsies from 8pm-10pm

Workshops offered daily:

Thursday Jan 12th

Saturday Jan 14th (IE Day)

The file has links to local hotels that have discounted rates for the festival. Rosen Inn at Point is in walking distance and is the hotel that was used last year. The rate is $99/night.

Friday Jan 13th

2023-florida-jr.-thespians-hotels-weblisting.xlsx
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Download File

Packed and ready to go to One Acts tomorrow!

Info for One Act Festival Tomorrow!!

Please plan on being at Orange Grove Middle School (3415 North 16th Steet, Tampa, Fl) by 9:45am.
The goal is for students to be able to watch the performance that starts at 10am. Our lunch is at 11am. If you are a parent that is attending the festival and did not specifically say you were chaperoning for one act, you will need to pay for the day pass when you get there. I have 2 parents chaperoning this event.
Our meetings start at 12pm with their performance starting at 2pm if everything is still on time. After our performance, I would like for the students to watch the final performance of the day which starts at 3pm. That means they may be watching in their costumes as their talk-back ends at 2:50pm.
No parents are allowed on stage or backstage. This is a totally student run performance except for me helping to spike the stage. Also, this is a comedy, If you feel the need to laugh, please do. As you know, they have only had 4 rehearsals so the feedback from the audience would be great.
Once we find out that our one act is going to state, I will be sending out info. If you haven’t already, please go into the JITS tab on the website and register your state-bound child. This is only for IE events. Once we know about One Act, I will automatically sign the students up for that and $5 will be added to your balance. (I believe it is $5, if it changes, I will let you know) Due date for registration is this Sunday Dec. 4th.
That’s all for now. I appreciate all the support you show your students. Many parents don’t understand the theatre life and its apparent that you definitely do.

District 5 Individual Exhibition Info

Congratulations!

Everyone did a FANTASTIC job at districts. We walked away with 6 Superiors, 7 Excellents and 1 Good. I am so proud of everyone for getting ready so quickly after hurricane Ian.

Acts Going to State

Ariel and Jayde- Improv Grace and Jacob- Duet Musical
Macy and Riley- Duet Musical Kayla and Raquel- Duet Musical
Gavin- Monologue Grace- Solo Musical
Natali and Riley- Improv
Daylyn, Gavin, Kaleb, Kayla, Kennedy- Small Group Musical