ALADDIN 2024 CAST & CREW PHOTO
VIDEO: The last moments from the Last Show, as seen from Ms. Kendrick's Phone/Cue Calling Podium View
Thank you, Final Thoughts, and Goodbye from Agrabah!
From Ms. Kendrick
As the stage settles and the last piece of confetti falls, I complete the post-production paperwork and reflect on the journey we've just finished.
As we draw closer to Passover and Spring Break and farther away from the magic that was our production run, and before turning my full attention to producing the Graduation video and managing end-of-year performances in the performing arts, I want to take a moment to celebrate each cast, crew, staff, and family member who was a part of our magic carpet ride and supported our "high adventure"!
We are deeply grateful to our alumni mentors and parent volunteers. It takes a village to produce a show with almost 180 students and "Broadway" production values. Click here to access our Aladdin JR. Digital Playbill to fully see our village!
Aladdin JR. marked the Davis Academy’s 20th musical production, and what a journey it has been. Above all others, this show embodied the values we wish to live by daily. Our village, known as "Agrabah," was the epitome of a loving, supportive environment. We cared for each other and grew together in social, emotional, artistic, and academic intelligence.
Working with your children has been an incredible experience. From the smallest to the tallest, from those on stage to those behind the scenes, each child brought passion, inclusivity, enthusiasm, teamwork, and joy to their roles. Spending every day, hour, and minute with them was a pleasure in the kindest, most supportive, loving, and joyous environment we could ever wish for.
Watching our youngest performers take to the stage for the first time was inspiring, and seeing our older students mentor and support them filled our hearts with pride. Every member of our cast and crew, from Mechinas and Kindergartners to Middle Schoolers, demonstrated exemplary work ethic, maturity, and kindness towards one another.
Our cast and crew truly embodied the spirit of Davis L.O.V.E. They worked tirelessly to create a team atmosphere that shone throughout the entire production process.
To our alumni mentors and parent volunteers, we are deeply grateful. Your support was invaluable in bringing our vision to life.
The all-school musical is a unique Davis experience where ages and grade levels blur, and every child has a spot in the spotlight. Theatre teaches valuable skills such as reading, confidence, collaboration, and problem-solving while entertaining and moving our audiences.
A theatrical production requires creativity, empathy, compassion, and perspective-taking. It shapes identities and empowers children to stand confidently in who they are.
It is such a unique Davis experience to participate in the all-school musical, where ages do not matter, there are no grade levels, where we are one sizeable communal playground, and our classroom is open to every student in the school; every child has a spot on stage in the spotlight.
Theatre is a unique discipline in which we strive to create strong readers, confident and assured voices, collaborators, and problem solvers, all coming together to pursue one communal goal to entertain and move our audiences.
I often tell my students that we learn everything we need to learn, succeed, and be career-ready on, off, and from the stage. This is even more so on a Mechina through eighth educational theatre stage, where curiosity, freedom of expression, freedom to fail, freedom to sing and dance, creative play, open-mindedness, courage, risk-taking, making friends of all ages, and joy of learning are the foundations of rehearsal and putting on a play.
A show is the essence of project management, where collaborative learning, teamwork, leadership, responsibility, self-identity, creativity, communication, and creative differences/problem-solving reign supreme.
An actor is a scientist of human behavior and must speak articulately with an empowered voice to convey the story’s meaning to an audience with the dual objective of entertaining an audience and providing an emotional transformation, educational journey, and perspective-changing of an audience. There is no greater power than using one’s voice to move another human being to laughter, tears, or understanding.
To prepare for a show, problem-solving is vital: how to work with others, deal with creative differences, what if an actor forgets her lines, what if the crew needs to troubleshoot a technical issue, what if the lights go out, what if the curtain breaks, what if a prop is missing, how to deal with stage fright, where do all of these actors stand, how do we design abstractly a set-costume-light design that heightens the tone, mood, feeling, sentiment of the play, etc... It is an exercise in joy, imagination, creative play, grit, collaboration, growth mindset, business, resilience, and empowerment.
The process of putting together a play requires creativity, empathy for others, compassion, perspective-taking, the ability to create worlds never seen or to re-examine history, cultures, and civilizations, to take note of our past, explore our present, and define our future.
Working with children of all ages in theatre, I witness each day the capacity of the human heart and the mind, the shaping of one’s identity, the power of one’s voice, and the ability of children to make imagined experiences real. For this reason, I am confident of theatre’s immeasurable power to affect intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual development. Theatre for children truly is life-changing and assists in shaping their identities as they discover their unique gifts and the conviction of their voices and stand confidently, proudly, in who they are and aspire to be.
Everything we need to learn to succeed and be prepared for life we can learn on the stage. Even more so in an educational theatre on stage where curiosity, freedom of expression, creative play, open-mindedness, risk-taking, and joy of learning reign supreme and are the foundational pillars of collaborative, connected, engaged communities.
As we look forward to next year, we anticipate sharing more love and laughter in our communal playground on the stage.
Until we meet on stage again, remember these words from Aladdin Jr. “like so many things, it is not what is outside but what is inside that counts."
With Davis L.O.V.E,
Ms. Kendrick
P.S. I will reach out again through the blog, Remind, and email once we receive the links to the videography from our Monday and Tuesday shows.
The videographer should have the videography to me before the end of the school year/the beginning of summer break.
We are deeply grateful to our alumni mentors and parent volunteers. It takes a village to produce a show with almost 180 students and "Broadway" production values. Click here to access our Aladdin JR. Digital Playbill to fully see our village!
Aladdin JR. marked the Davis Academy’s 20th musical production, and what a journey it has been. Above all others, this show embodied the values we wish to live by daily. Our village, known as "Agrabah," was the epitome of a loving, supportive environment. We cared for each other and grew together in social, emotional, artistic, and academic intelligence.
Working with your children has been an incredible experience. From the smallest to the tallest, from those on stage to those behind the scenes, each child brought passion, inclusivity, enthusiasm, teamwork, and joy to their roles. Spending every day, hour, and minute with them was a pleasure in the kindest, most supportive, loving, and joyous environment we could ever wish for.
Watching our youngest performers take to the stage for the first time was inspiring, and seeing our older students mentor and support them filled our hearts with pride. Every member of our cast and crew, from Mechinas and Kindergartners to Middle Schoolers, demonstrated exemplary work ethic, maturity, and kindness towards one another.
Our cast and crew truly embodied the spirit of Davis L.O.V.E. They worked tirelessly to create a team atmosphere that shone throughout the entire production process.
To our alumni mentors and parent volunteers, we are deeply grateful. Your support was invaluable in bringing our vision to life.
The all-school musical is a unique Davis experience where ages and grade levels blur, and every child has a spot in the spotlight. Theatre teaches valuable skills such as reading, confidence, collaboration, and problem-solving while entertaining and moving our audiences.
A theatrical production requires creativity, empathy, compassion, and perspective-taking. It shapes identities and empowers children to stand confidently in who they are.
It is such a unique Davis experience to participate in the all-school musical, where ages do not matter, there are no grade levels, where we are one sizeable communal playground, and our classroom is open to every student in the school; every child has a spot on stage in the spotlight.
Theatre is a unique discipline in which we strive to create strong readers, confident and assured voices, collaborators, and problem solvers, all coming together to pursue one communal goal to entertain and move our audiences.
I often tell my students that we learn everything we need to learn, succeed, and be career-ready on, off, and from the stage. This is even more so on a Mechina through eighth educational theatre stage, where curiosity, freedom of expression, freedom to fail, freedom to sing and dance, creative play, open-mindedness, courage, risk-taking, making friends of all ages, and joy of learning are the foundations of rehearsal and putting on a play.
A show is the essence of project management, where collaborative learning, teamwork, leadership, responsibility, self-identity, creativity, communication, and creative differences/problem-solving reign supreme.
An actor is a scientist of human behavior and must speak articulately with an empowered voice to convey the story’s meaning to an audience with the dual objective of entertaining an audience and providing an emotional transformation, educational journey, and perspective-changing of an audience. There is no greater power than using one’s voice to move another human being to laughter, tears, or understanding.
To prepare for a show, problem-solving is vital: how to work with others, deal with creative differences, what if an actor forgets her lines, what if the crew needs to troubleshoot a technical issue, what if the lights go out, what if the curtain breaks, what if a prop is missing, how to deal with stage fright, where do all of these actors stand, how do we design abstractly a set-costume-light design that heightens the tone, mood, feeling, sentiment of the play, etc... It is an exercise in joy, imagination, creative play, grit, collaboration, growth mindset, business, resilience, and empowerment.
The process of putting together a play requires creativity, empathy for others, compassion, perspective-taking, the ability to create worlds never seen or to re-examine history, cultures, and civilizations, to take note of our past, explore our present, and define our future.
Working with children of all ages in theatre, I witness each day the capacity of the human heart and the mind, the shaping of one’s identity, the power of one’s voice, and the ability of children to make imagined experiences real. For this reason, I am confident of theatre’s immeasurable power to affect intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual development. Theatre for children truly is life-changing and assists in shaping their identities as they discover their unique gifts and the conviction of their voices and stand confidently, proudly, in who they are and aspire to be.
Everything we need to learn to succeed and be prepared for life we can learn on the stage. Even more so in an educational theatre on stage where curiosity, freedom of expression, creative play, open-mindedness, risk-taking, and joy of learning reign supreme and are the foundational pillars of collaborative, connected, engaged communities.
As we look forward to next year, we anticipate sharing more love and laughter in our communal playground on the stage.
Until we meet on stage again, remember these words from Aladdin Jr. “like so many things, it is not what is outside but what is inside that counts."
With Davis L.O.V.E,
Ms. Kendrick
P.S. I will reach out again through the blog, Remind, and email once we receive the links to the videography from our Monday and Tuesday shows.
The videographer should have the videography to me before the end of the school year/the beginning of summer break.
