18 Days and Counting!

The Happiest Days of Your Life is just 18 days away from it's first performance and opening night! Here is what you need to know about this year's production

- Doors open for the matinee at 11:45am for a 12:00pm start and 6:15pm for a 6:30pm start for the evening shows.

- Programs will be available for a gold coin donation at the door.

- HCC Hospitality students will be running the intervals in the College Cafe and refreshments will be available for sale.

- Tickets are still available and can either be purchased online at www.trybooking.com/183142 or with cash on Wednesday mornings in College Admin.

- Entry will be through Victoria Square 1 and the performance will take place in the Victoria Square Da Vinci Space.

- Students will be available for photos at the conclusion of each show. Photos taken by our photography students will be available upon request from Week 9.

FUN FACTS

- Five of this year's Year 12's were involved in the College's inaugural production of Alice in Wonderland in 2011: Jack Hammon (White Rabbit), Max Hughes (Chef), Rachel Joubert (Che-Sha-Puss), Casey Van Der Merwe (Dormouse) and Kayla Collins (Poster Design)

- The name of the production is only mentioned once in the whole play

- Only two cast members (Beth Robinson and JP Botha) are participating in their very first Holy Cross College Production.

- The school colours were inspired by the maroon and gold of Gryffindor House from Harry Potter and the Blue and Silver from St Trinian's.

- From auditions to performance, the whole process has run for eight months.

- James Evans is playing an adult character for the first time in his fourth production.

- Zophia Paluszak and James Evans played siblings in 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe' and now are each other's potential love interests in this year's production.

3 WEEKS TO GO

The Happiest Days of Your Life will hit the stage at Holy Cross College Ellenbrook in just under 3 weeks with opening night on Thursday 16 June.

TICKETS
Tickets are still available from www.trybooking.com/183142 and can be purchased online. There will be cash sales each Wednesday morning leading up to the show in the College Admin. Seats remaining are as follows:

Thursday 16 June 12:00pm: 33

Thursday Evening: 57

Friday Evening: 35

Saturday: 22

PRODUCTION WEEK SCHEDULE

Thursday Matinee: Doors open at 11:45am for 12:00pm show

Thursday, Friday and Saturday Evenings: Doors open at 6:15pm for 6:30pm show

- Cast members will be available for meet and greet and photographs at the conclusion of each show. - Photos taken by school photographers will be available upon request from Week 9 onwards.

- Saturday night will also include presentations at the conclusion of the show

INTERVALS AND PROGRAMS

Refreshments will be available for purchase from the College Cafe at the interval for each show. Proceeds will go back into the Performing Arts budget and will assist with the development of the 2017 Production. Keepsake programs will also be available in the main foyer before each show for a gold coin donation. 

ELLENBROOK ADVOCATE

The production has been featured in this week's Ellenbrook Advocate and can also be viewed online. Please see the post below for details. 

We are looking forward to what should be another fantastic production and are very proud of what our HCC Drama students have achieved once again this year!

See you at the show!

The Production Team

Ellenbrook Advocate- Wednesday 25 May

Happiest Days Hits The News

The lead cast of this year's production of 'The Happiest Days of Your Life' is featured in this week's Ellenbrook Advocate Newspaper. Max Hughes, Jamie Evans, Brianna Armstrong, Chardonnay Mitchell and Zoe Paluszak met with the Advocate photographer and Holy Cross marketing coordinator Mrs Carolyn Jess several weeks ago to put the feature together and the result is great to see. The article can be viewed online at the link below and will feature in the edition published on Wednesday 25 May.

http://www.communitynews.com.au/the-advocate/news/holy-cross-college-students-putting-on-production-of-the-happiest-days-of-your-life/

Set First Look

The set for 'The Happiest Days of Your Life' is coming together nicely and will be completed this week. Using only half the usual area of Victoria Square, this set has been designed to give the play and intimate feel and helps make chaotic scenes even more chaotic! The set has been built by Mr Matt Smyth with painting and designs by Year 12 student Casey Van Der Merwe. We are thrilled with how it has worked out and it is our simplest yet most effective set to date.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW

Get ready to laugh, cry and cringe as HCC Presents the comedic farce 'The Happiest Days of Your Life' in just over 4 weeks time! Tickets are on sale NOW and can be purchased by logging onto www.trybooking.com/183142 or by scanning the QR code on the poster below. Ticket prices are as follows:

ADULT $12
STUDENT/CONCESSION: $10
CHILD: $7
CHILD UNDER 5: FREE

Due to the high demand already shown for tickets, we may be adding some extra seats to the Saturday evening but this will be subject to space and will be confirmed in the next week. We look forward to presenting what is shaping up to be a truly hilarious performance and welcoming you to the sixth annual HCC Production!

The Production Team

Happiest Days Happenings Week 3 Autumn Term

With five weeks to go, the cast and crew of the 2016 College Production 'The Happiest Days of Your Life' are beginning the feel the excitement and anticipation of performance week. The first few weeks back has seen some exciting developments.

SET 
Mr Matt Smyth has worked tirelessly to complete the panels which will act as our backdrop this year and they look fantastic. Our Artistic Coordinator, Year 12 student Casey Van Der Merwe is now hard at work with a band of helpers, painting these panels to turn them into the staff common room of Hilary Hall.

PROPS AND COSTUMES
All cast members now have their costumes and a huge thanks for Miss Jackie Collender and Miss Edel Maher for their work in sourcing these and to Mrs Colleen Azzopardi for working on alterations. The last of the small props are now coming together and are making the whole set up look quite realistic which is very exciting.

ELLENBROOK ADVOCATE
As in previous years, the Ellenbrook Advocate will be running a feature on the production. Their photographer and reporter will be visiting HCC this week and the feature will run next Wednesday 18 May.

TICKETS
Tickets for the show will go on sale next Monday at 9am. Please see the post below for all the details.

PERFORMANCES
Happiest Days will be performed across four shows. We will be joined by the residents of Aegis Ellenbrook and some students from Swan Valley Anglican Community School for the Thursday matinee on th 16 June at 12:00pm. The remainder of the seats will be open to the community. We will then present three evening performances on Thursday 16, Friday 17 and Saturday 18 June at 6:30pm.

Each performance will include a 20minute interval, during which refreshments will be available in the College Cafe with proceeds going back into HCC Drama and Production.

Students will be available at the conclusion of each show for photo opportunities.

We look forward to what the next five weeks will bring!!

The Production Team 

2016 Production Ticket Sales

The 2016 Holy Cross College Production is only 6 weeks away from hitting the stage and tickets will be going on sale for the four performances at 9am on Monday 16 May. Tickets can be purchased in several ways:

1. By going to www.trybooking.com/183142 and booking online

2. By scanning the QR code on the poster below or the ones on display around the college with your smartphone or tablet.

3. Limited tickets will be available for cash sales only at the door on the night (subject to availability)

TICKET PRICES
Adults - $12.00
Students/Concessions: $10.00
Children: $7.00
Under 5's: Free

Refreshments will also be available for purchase in the College Cafe during the interval. 

Due to the staging of this year's show, there will be 50 seats available for the Thursday matinee performance and 80 seats available for the evening shows so make sure you book early to avoid disappointment. 

We are looking forward to presenting 'The Happiest Days of Your Life' to the College community very soon!

The Production Team

HAPPIEST DAYS GOES ON CAMP!

On Friday 29 April, the cast for the 2016 Holy Cross College Production of ‘The Happiest Days of Your Life’ departed for Swanleigh for our first ever production camp. The camp was designed as a weekend of intensive rehearsals, workshops, character building and teamwork activities. We were also lucky to have two guest artists, Krisha and Quaid visit on the Saturday to assist our students with characterisation and stage technique. Across the weekend, the students worked particularly hard, developing their character relationships and pushing themselves to memorise some tricky lines of dialogue. Rehearsals were broken up by some entertaining conversations at meal times, a movie night on the Friday and a quiz night on the Saturday. As we enter the final stretch before show week in Week 8, the Production Camp was a fantastic and fun learning experience which gave cast, crew and staff to really band together and work as a team. A huge thanks to the core team of Miss Jackie Collender, Miss Edel Maher and Miss Emma Robinson for their amazing work over the weekend. We now can’t wait to present ‘The Happiest Days of Your Life' to the College community next month.

Mr Chris McRae

Production Coordinator and Co-Director