GUIDELINES FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

In order for everyone attending the performance to have a pleasant and enjoyable experience,
we ask and expect the following: ** Please assist ushers when seating your groups **

- avoid running in (and to) the theater or climbing over the seats

- listen to directions from the ushers there to help you

- leave gum and other food or beverages at school or on the school bus

- everyone must stay with their school group

- one student per seat with no empty seats left in-between [this means no saving of seats]

- teachers and chaperones actively monitor students behavior- misbehaving
students and their entire group will be removed from the theater.

Here are some important pieces of information for your visit:

Bathrooms are located under each lobby staircase
Women's is under the south staircase; Men's is under the north staircase.

Please take your seats before taking any students to the bathrooms .
Going to the bathroom and getting drinks of water during a performance are both difficult
and disturbing to others. This should be taken care of before the play begins.

Please assist the ushers in seating – have any discipline issues worked out before the students
get into the theater. When you arrive at the theatre, wait in the lobby quietly while the ushers seat each
group. Your class will follow the usher in single file to your seats. Please cooperate with the usher
and resist the temptation to leave an empty seat between children. Also, it is advisable to intersperse
your adult supervisors within your seating area.

Dimming of house lights and blackouts between scenes are often a part of many performances.
This is a theatrical technique to show a change of location or the passage of time.
Remain calm when the lights go out.

It is customary to applaud the actors at the end of each scene and at the end of the
performance at curtain call. This shows appreciation for their efforts and the work of the people
backstage. It is far better to applaud than to shout, scream, or
whistle. This is a theatrical performance not a sporting event.

Your school will be dismissed in the order buses arrive and are ready for loading.

Please have all your students sit quietly until your school is dismissed.
When your school is dismissed, have the entire group go directly to the bus.
No one from your group should be going to the bathrooms at this time.

PLEASE DO YOUR HEAD COUNTS BEFORE YOU LOAD OR AS YOU ARE LOADING.
Waiting until all students are seated adds to the dismissal time and prevents
some schools from returning back to school on time.

Please have your students check around their seats for personal belongings – hats, mittens, books.

If your group is noisy, please quiet them for the benefit of the entire audience.
If your group is too disruptive, you will be asked to leave the auditorium.

If you have any questions, please ask an usher or call 651.690.6743