ARCHIVES
Information about past performances and posts
Embedded Files
Allianz - Loons Volunteers Needed!
Allianz - Loons Volunteers Needed!
Sign Up HERE! We need students and parents to work at Allianz Field to raise money for HP Theatre Arts! Spots are filling up fast. EASY 5-hour shifts in the Club level air-conditioned rooms. This is a great way to hang out with friends while you volunteer. Nancy is a site lead and has already signed up for a couple of games! 14 HP volunteers earn $2000 per game for volunteering for 5 hours! More info to come!
One Acts!
One Acts!
Watch the videos in the "Videos" tab - and view photos in "Photos"!
Congrats and thank you to all who made 2023 One Acts a great success! There were so many talented people involved–cast and crew were on the edges of the stage at final curtain call!
The Children's Hour Photos
The Children's Hour Photos
Thank you Kristin King for sharing your time and talents!
More Clue Pics
More Clue Pics
Thank you to Eliot Aust (HPTA Alumni) for sharing these great pics!
First set of Clue photos are here!
First set of Clue photos are here!
CLICK HERE to see all the photos taken at rehearsal. Thanks to Kristin King for sharing her time and talents with HP Theatre Arts!
Parent volunteers needed for "Clue"
Parent volunteers needed for "Clue"
Please sign up HERE to help with our first performance of 2022-23 school year!
Thanks to all who volunteered at Homecoming Tailgate!
Thanks to all who volunteered at Homecoming Tailgate!
HTFF raised $173 from selling concessions and HP Theatre Arts Spiritwear!
HTFF raised $173 from selling concessions and HP Theatre Arts Spiritwear!
Homecoming Tailgate
Saturday, October 15
9am - Noon
Homecoming Tailgate
Saturday, October 15
9am - Noon
Please use the link below to donate concessions for HPTA to sell at the tailgate party.
Click for HPTA concession donations via Target
Student volunteers are needed to help sell snacks and HPTA Spiritwear at the Homecoming Tailgate before the game!
Please contact Max (McKenna) Nutter to volunteer. Thanks!
NEEDS FOR FALL SHOW: We would like to borrow some furniture, props, set dressing: loveseat or small sofa, chairs - soft seating/living room, wall sconces, pool cues with rack. Contact Nancy Michael if you can help. nancy.michael@spps.org
THANK YOU to all the HP Theatre Arts students and parents who volunteered at Allianz Field this past spring/summer!
THANK YOU to all the HP Theatre Arts students and parents who volunteered at Allianz Field this past spring/summer!
Your efforts made $3,693 that will directly support HP Theater Arts performances!
Your efforts made $3,693 that will directly support HP Theater Arts performances!
Brian Aust - Site Lead
Sabrina Lau - Site Lead
Nancy Michael - Site Lead
Sally Zimney
Rosemary Lofstrom
Luke Zimney
Sally Zimney
Rowan Zimney
Quincy Aust
Lynn Douma
Frank Douma
Michele Gillman
Tim Ward
Dan Dickinson
Claire Engebretson Gillman
Kristen Ostendorf
Brooke Sinykin
Christopher Staba
Mark Staba
Dave Terry
Dorothy Lesher
An additional $100 was raised by Lashia Lee and Rosemary Lofstrom who volunteered at the Horace Mann Carnival. Thank you both!
A special thank you to Susan Hamill who, as a parent volunteer with Highland Park PTSA, set up this awesome fundraising opportunity with Allianz Field for all the teams and clubs at Highland Park High School! The tennis team, wrestling team, and senior party committee have all raised money as Allianz volunteers.
Mamma Mia! The Musical Video is here!
Mamma Mia! The Musical Video is here!
Links can be found in the Video tab! A special thank you to parent Michele Gillman for sharing her time and talents with HP Theatre Arts.
2022 Talent Show and Senior Send Off
2022 Talent Show and Senior Send Off
Our amazing seniors made their last performance on the Highland stage Friday evening. Students of every grade shared their talents, passion for performing, and admiration and love for the parting seniors. This is a short video of the performances shared.
Photos are here!
Photos are here!
Mamma Mia photos are here - along with photos from all of this year's shows! Go to the NEW Photos tab to view.
Mamma Mia photos are here - along with photos from all of this year's shows! Go to the NEW Photos tab to view.
A special thank you to Michele Gillman for sharing her time and talents with HP Theatre Arts.
Mamma Mia! Set building has begun!
Mamma Mia! Set building has begun!
Here is a preview of the set work happening now. This amazing 2-story piece, designed by Stephen Michael, requires expert hands to build - but stay tuned for non-expert building, painting, prepping, and other volunteer opportunities coming soon!
Mamma Mia! Cast:
Mamma Mia! Cast:
Sophie Sheridan Bela Attea
Ali Kate Regan
Lisa Laura Lee
Donna Sheridan MoMo Gebreyesus
Tanya Rachel Dickinson
Rosie Na’Riyah Johnson
Sky Ryan Terry
Pepper Eduardo Reynosa
Eddie Abby Hanson
Harry Bright Sawyer Larson
Bill Austin Jayshaun Moore
Sam Carmichael Billal Madow
Father Alexandrios/Chorus Aeden Staeheli
Chorus: (Islanders/Wedding Guests) in alphabetical order:
Chorus: (Islanders/Wedding Guests) in alphabetical order:
Aaron Armstrong Mar Silver
Addie Fabel Mary Kristjanson
Aili Earl-Torniainen M. Mangal
Ara Holter Nevellie Larson
Ayane Jarso Nills Smith
Brayan Carvajal Lara Quincy Aust
Brooke Sinykin Ren King
Caitlin Sepeda Rosemary Lofstrom
Celia Robertson Ruby Graves
Ci Alexandra Roepka Sam Salverda
Claire Engebretson-Gillman Savannah Lofstrom
Claudia Hanson Sonja Mink
Delina Hagos Sophia Paske
Dasha Popov Stephanie Caballero Benitez
Ed Robinson Valerie Benetiz
Elodie Cummins Violet Hirman
Finn Black Willa Berg
Bella Schmidt Zoe Carolyn Lee
Jade Gaw Bijou Kruszka
Jakaea Andrews Ismahan Arab
James Nins Evadne Pond
Julia Williamson
Lashia Lee
Leila Hagedorn
Liv Knafla
Logan Vennemann
Lola Rouillard
Lucy Hill
One Act Photos!
One Act Photos!
Below are parent volunteer Michele Gillman's photos from One Acts! Thanks for sharing your talents Michele! Her videos of One Acts will be posted after editing...
Donate to Concessions Sales!
Donate to Concessions Sales!
Concessions is a big fundraiser for HTFF. Please use the link to purchase items or donate gift cards to the Target registry. HTFF volunteers will sell your donated items during performances to help pay for cast meals, t-shirts, show posters, sets, props, costumes, etc...
NEW PERFORMANCE DATES
NEW PERFORMANCE DATES
Winter One Act Plays!
Winter One Act Plays!
Live Performances:
March 3, 7:00 pm
March 4, 7:00 pm
March 5, 2:00 and 7:00 pm
Audience members must wear masks and socially distance. Balconies will be open for seating.
Watch here for volunteer opportunities for families and friends.
Fall Plays - Volunteer Signup Forms!
Fall Plays - Volunteer Signup Forms!
Parent volunteers are needed. Each play has it's own signup form below:
Parent volunteers are needed. Each play has it's own signup form below:
REVISED PLAY DATES
REVISED PLAY DATES
You Can’t Take It WIth You by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
November 12-13 (no change)
Grandpa Vanderhof and his wacky family, the Sycamores, have been happily living their zany lives in his house by Columbia University in New York for many years. This family (and their friends) are a madcap group of eccentrics, marching to the beat of their own drum, with pride and joy. But when practical, young Alice Sycamore becomes engaged to her company’s Vice President Tony Kirby, the Vanderhof/Sycamore clan must straighten up to meet the new in-laws. Disaster ensues when the Kirbys arrive at the wrong time and, despite the best laid plans, see Alice’s family in all of its crazy glory. You Can’t Take It With You is a madcap, idealistic comedy that reinforces the idea that you can only live life to the fullest by doing whatever makes you happy.
Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling
December 3-4 (new dates!)
Concerned with a group of gossipy southern ladies in a small-town beauty parlor, the play is alternately hilarious and touching—and, in the end, deeply revealing of the strength and purposefulness which underlies the antic banter of its characters. Set in Truvy’s beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies who are “anybody” come to have their hair done. Filled with hilarious repartee and not a few acerbic but humorously revealing verbal collisions, Steel Magnolias draws upon the underlying strength - and love - which give the play, and its characters, the special quality to make them truly touching, funny and marvelously amiable company in good times and bad.
Click the SCHEDULE tab for the fall meeting, audition, rehearsal and performance schedule!
Click the SCHEDULE tab for the fall meeting, audition, rehearsal and performance schedule!
Volunteers Needed!
Volunteers Needed!
Thursday, September 2 - for backstage cleanup and Matilda sets teardown.
Thursday, September 2 - for backstage cleanup and Matilda sets teardown.
6:00 to 9:00 pm Time to get our theater ready for fall shows! We need a handful of students and parents to help disassemble old sets, clean up backstage, organize and throw away old wood scraps. Please bring chordless drills for removing set screws and work gloves. Email Dave Terry if you can make it. dhterry28@gmail.com
Students: Join the HPTA Schoology group!
Students: Join the HPTA Schoology group!
It's easy. Just email nancy.michael@spps.org your name and your @stpaul.k12.mn.us email, and she will add you to the group.
Students and Parents:
Students and Parents:
Download and join the HPTA 2021-22 Remind to receive up-to-the-minute HPTA communications from Nancy and student leaders.
Download and join the HPTA 2021-22 Remind to receive up-to-the-minute HPTA communications from Nancy and student leaders.
We will do our best to update info on this site as quickly as possible, but Remind is a great way to send last minute info, schedule changes, and reminders to all who are signed up.
New Set Storage Rack!
New Set Storage Rack!
Thanks to the welding skills of Alex Mongin and HP parent Jamie Eischen's Blue Bin truck, we have a new rack for storing more set pieces back-stage!
Welcome to the 2021-2022 Season of HP Theatre Arts!
Welcome to the 2021-2022 Season of HP Theatre Arts!
This new site is for students and parents. It will be the resource for all HPTA communications including show details, cast and crew rehearsal info, parent volunteer info, fundraisers, theatre resources, and more!
Please bookmark this site and check frequently for all things HPTA!
Matilda is here!
Matilda is here!
Watch on private links in the Videos section or download below for PRIVATE VIEWING ONLY
Download the filmed musical onto your computer or flash drive for at-home viewing. Please do not upload to any video service as we do not have the rights to distribute publicly.
Thanks to Jacob Hermann for filming and editing Matilda and this behind-the-scenes video!
Our showing of Matilda on the big screen at the Riverview Theatre was a wonderful end to the year! Thanks to everyone who made that night possible.
HPSH Theatre Department presents two weekends of Student Directed One Act Plays.
This year, we are presenting 11 One Act Plays over two weekends. Each weekend features different shows directed by Seniors and Juniors in our theatre dartment.
This year we are excited to present 3 original scripts written by our students.
Shows are January 19 & 20 and 26 & 27.
Fridays7:00pm and Saturdays 2:00 and 7:00pm.
Tickets available at the door.
Page updated
Google Sites
Report abuse