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MVMMS After School Drama
How to Join MVMMS Drama
How to Join MVMMS Drama
If you would like to join the drama club, here are the two steps:
Sign up for the Drama Club Email List using this link.
Join the Google Classroom: i62gzopa
Activity Fee
For the 2025-2026 school year, MPS has added an activity fee for all students participating in cast and/or crew for middle school theatre productions. This fee is $100. Please contact Assistant Principal, Steve Black, at sblack@melroseschools.com with any questions about this fee.
Audition Alert!
Audition Alert!
MVMMS Drama is entering the 2026 METG Theater Festival Competition. Our entry this year is:
Beware the Jabberwock by Ron Nicol.
Auditions are:
Thursday February 26
Friday February 27.
Prospective Cast Info:
Prospective Cast Info:
Please note: this is the only show this year where not every person who auditions will be cast. Approximaltey 30 actors will be cast. Students not cast are encouraged to join crew.
Prospective Crew Info:
Prospective Crew Info:
Please contact MVMMS show director Callie Llewellyn with any questions: cllewellyn@melroseschools.com
MVMMS Theater Classes
Pantomime!
Pantomime!
Students studied a performance style called pantomime. After studying experts like E.T. the mime and Marcel Marceau, students were tasked with developing a plot and turning it into a full length performance. Performances begin on Thursday of next week! It's our biggest performance yet this year.
What Should I ask My Student: What is pantomime? Are you excited for your pantomime performance? Do you have any stage fright?
Stage Management
Stage Management
Students learned about what a stage manager is. Stage managers organize rehearsals and are leaders. Students are tasked this month with being the stage manager for group rehearsals for at least one day: leading their group, completing all assigned tasks, keeping their group on track, and submitting a rehearsal report.
What Should I ask My Student: Have you been the stage manager yet for your project?
Set Design
Set Design
Students read a script and analyzed the given circumstances. Then, students designed a set through digital means, drawing, or a 3D model.
What Should I ask My Student: What did you make for your set design project?
Tableaux
Tableaux
Students used an acting technique called tableau to explore how to represent key elements of a story onstage. We analyzed stories through the lens of dramatic structure and developed tableaux performances.
What Should I ask My Student: What story was your tableaux about?
Props on strike.pptxCrime Scene in the Classroom!
Crime Scene in the Classroom!
Students arrived to class in late September to discover a crime scene! All of the props and costumes were missing and there were clues everywhere. Students had to analyze each clue to decipher:
What was the crime?
Who committed it?
How can they resolve the crime?
What Should I ask My Student: What was the crime in your theater class and who committed it?
Playbill Project
Playbill Project
Students learned about what a Playbill is. We used this as a structure to introduce ourselves to the class:
What would be in the Playbill handed out at the musical about our lives?
Can you spot your actor's Playbill on the wall here? ------------------------------------------->
For the upcoming school year, only grade 6 MVMMS students will have theater class.
Grade 7 and 8 students wishing to engage in theatre should audition for one of the after school productions. See the above drama club section for how to do this.
Friends of Melrose Drama (FOMD) is a volunteer group organized to support the drama program of the Melrose Public Schools. Click above to access their website to learn how you can get involved!
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