Director Mary Beth Pape (center) with TWO Amelia Minchins -- Actress Rusty Schwimmer (left) played the role in the 1995 major motion picture A Little Princess and Mary Margaret Martinez (right) played the role on the MWT stage. Rusty loved the Y.E.S. production! |
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MWT Question-of-the-month
How many hits did the MWT website get last week?
(Hint: it's between 0 and 1,000, and keep in mind that some promotion for Secret Garden and Father's Dragon had just begun)
Email your answer now and bragging rights (along with some Easter treats) could be yours! Check this space next month for the name(s) of those with the closest answer. Limit one answer/guess per person. |
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Did You Know? with clickable links
- Welcome to new SMTG members the Saltzman family (Sadie, Zelda, Tracy, & David). Find out about the benefits of becoming a member.
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Planning for Fences is in full swing. Supported by a grant from the City of Santa Monica, we have hired Diane Cummings to coordinate outreach for this play.
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The Secret Garden represents a reunion for director Anne Gesling and co-producers Adrienne Breslow and Deb Verla, who fulfilled the same roles for the 2005 Y.E.S. production of Oklahoma. Adrienne and Deb both have daughters who graduated from the Y.E.S. program to become freshman at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts this year.
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School shows of My Father's Dragon and The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs are almost sold out! Is your child's teacher signed up for the Y.E.S. Teachers email list?
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Y.E.S. recently sent an online survey to local teachers, to find out what books they would like to see dramatized in the future. If you have book titles to suggest, send an email to Y.E.S. now.
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Soon you will be able to access past issues of our e-newsletters via the MWT website. |
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The cast of A Little Princess greets the audience after a school show. When the cast lined up to say goodbye, the children spontaneously started shaking hands and giving high-fives. |
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Applause and Thanks to:
- Randy Ball for curating the photo exhibit for January & February
- Rosario Sindel for graphic design for a special promotion for The Secret Garden
- Matthew Riley for sharing his safety expertise
- Kate Barrett for stepping forward to become reservationist for Y.E.S. school shows
- Phil "Eagle-Eye" Kass, new Y.E.S. dad, for recognizing Rusty Schwimmer at a performance of A Little Princess
- Anne Gesling for completing the contracts for our latest grants with one hand, while directing The Secret Garden with the other
- Diane Cummings for moderating the audience talkbacks for Beau Jest and (soon) for The Secret Garden
- Liz Reinhardt for taking the cast photos for A Little Princess
- Everyone who supported the Book Fair at Barnes & Noble, which brought in $850 for Y.E.S.!
- Steve Weber for connecting the MWT with a USC graduate student consulting project
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Guest Artist Bonnie Schwartz 
Recently retired from the Art Department at Santa Monica High School, Bonnie Schwartz will be displaying her garden-themed watercolors at the Morgan-Wixson through mid-April. The paintings and giclee prints, which are for sale, show some of the many places Bonnie has traveled throughout the world. Click here to read more about Bonnie and her work. |
