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Schedule
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Friday, November 11
8 a.m., Registration Opens Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center (GBPAC) Lobby
9–11:45 a.m., Individual Events
9:30 a.m., Mount Vernon HS Troupe 1470: Much Ado About Nothing directed by Tom Stephens in Strayer
Wood Theater (SWT)
10:20 a.m., Grinnell HS Troupe 4274: Medusa’s Tale, directed by Mike Hunter in Strayer Wood Theater
11:30 a.m., Wahlert HS Troupe 3842: Spring Awakening, directed by Brandon Pope in Strayer Wood Theater
12:15 p.m., GBPAC House opens. All delegates expected to attend.
12:30 p.m., Opening Ceremony featuring Iowa Thespian Student Board 2011
12:45–3:30 p.m., Main Stage #1: Tipton HS, Troupe 601: Moon Over Buffalo, by Ken Ludwig, directed by Kristi
Peck: GBPAC
3:30 p.m., Clarinda HS Troupe 471: Elephant Graveyard, directed by Kennon Balster: Strayer Wood Theater
3:30 p.m., Benton HS Troupe 875: What I Wanted to Say, directed by Lois Deerburg: BMT
3:30–5 p.m., Tech Challenge, WRC Gym
3:45–6 p.m., College and Thespian Senior Scholarship auditions CAC 108
4:30 p.m., Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson Troupe 1015, Check Please, directed by Sara Jennings: BMT
4:30 p.m., UNI Student Theatre Organizations: Die Claudius: SWT
5:15 p.m., Dinner Shift A Blue Badges: Piazza (Shift B attends Half-Masted: SWT)
5:30 p.m., Troupe Sponsor Dinner: MU Ballroom
6:15 p.m., Dinner Shift B Yellow Badges: Piazza (Shift A attends Half-Masted: SWT)
7:30 p.m., GBPAC House Opens - all delegates expected to attend
8 p.m., Main Stage #2: Fairfield HS Troupe 544: The Diary of Anne Frank, by Frances Goodrich and
Albert Hackett, directed by Scott Slechta: GBPAC

Saturday, November 12
8:30 a.m., GBPAC house opens. All delegates expected to attend.
8:45 a.m., Joe Norton- Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids: GBPAC
9–11:30 a.m., Main Stage #3: Iowa City HS Troupe 848: Crimes of the Heart, by Beth Henley, directed by Doug Lestina: GBPAC
11:45–12:30 p.m., IE Showcase: SWT / Yellow Badges lunch shift A: MU Ballroom
11:45–1:30 p.m., Leadership Luncheon: CAC 108
12:45–1:30 p.m., IE Showcase: SWT / Blue Badges lunch shift B: MU Ballroom
1:45–2:45 p.m., Workshops Session 1
3:15–4:15 p.m., Workshops Session 2
4:30 p.m., GPBAC House Opens. All delegates expected to attend.
4:45 p.m. Main Stage #4: Pleasant Valley HS: Little Shop of Horrors, composed by Alan Menken and written
by Howard Ashman: GBPAC
7:15 p.m., Awards and Closing ceremony: GBPAC