It’s July? Seriously? It’s hard to believe that the summer is already half-way gone. While our marketing department has kept busy getting the 2008-2009 season ready to go and taking orders for the many great events it holds, summer in the production world is a bit different. You might think that when the last show is finished in May the production crew packs their bags, jumps in a car and goes on vacation for the production-less summer. You would be wrong. Just because the next great event is months away doesn’t stop the work from pouring in.
It begins with a heavy helping of graduation related events – the School of Continuing Studies graduation, Jepson School Senior Awards and the Henrico County Teacher of the Year Awards. Every summer the Jepson Theater hosts a handful of local dance studios in their end of the year showcases, such as the Village Dance Studio and Bon Air Dance. May ended with the Kitts Piano Sale, a weeklong event that takes over Camp Concert Hall and the rest of the Booker building. There’s Partners in the Arts – another weeklong series of workshops for teachers K-12 aimed at showing the benefits of the arts and encouraging their use in every subject. The entire month of July is consumed by Governors School – a special session of classes and events for incoming high school seniors in Virginia that were hand selected by their teachers to represent their schools in a specific subject area. We host the Arts and Humanities group, with topics ranging from dance, art and music to archaeology, sociology and beyond.
Before you know it, it’s August and we are knee deep in contracts, making phone calls and exchanging e-mails to figure out who needs what production-wise for the upcoming season. In late August, a new class of freshman has arrived and we are busy running the many orientation events in Camp and Jepson. September rolls in and a new season begins.
Needless to say, there is never a dull moment at the Modlin Center.
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