March Madness

While MHT doesn't have a basketball team in the NCAA final four, March has certainly been an exciting and exhilarating month.

We opened There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom on March 11 and with school matinees and public performances it closed on March 16. The show had great attendance in both school matinees and public performances. The cast did a great job and April's direction was terrific. While we had several technical challenges in producing the show, it went off without a glitch. The show had over 20 scene changes with set pieces moving on, rotating around, and flying flowing seamlessly from one moment to the next in the show.

Three days later the theatre had been totally turned around with all the seats taken out and replaced with tables and chairs and the Curtain Call fundraiser was held Friday evening March 19. The theatre raised thousands of dollars Friday night to help support our adult and youth programming.

Immediately following the fundraiser last night the board and many volunteers turned the theatre around again and took out all that we had created for the fundraiser and returned it to performance ready for the Footlights final dress rehearsal that started at 8 am this morning. This afternoon we sold out the Footlights troupe shows.

Tomorrow we have the Elementary and Middle School Footlights Troupe shows and then we turn tear down the set and build Wedding Belles which opens in just a couple weeks. Tuesday the MHT Trustee donor group will meet to discuss the results of the Board of Directors Strategic Planning retreat that was held just 4 weeks ago. Wednesday the March Board of Directors meeting will continue that dialogue and finalize dates for next season.

March came in like a lion and is going out in the same fashion. We currently have Wedding Belles, Cinderella, The Murder Mystery Troupe, and Story Theatre all rehearsing. Wedding Belles, Murder Mystery Troupe and Story Theatre all have performances in April.

We have final four excitement every month!