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Virginia Children’s Theatre touring Roanoke in search of talent
Actors in grades K-12 are encouraged to attend
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ROANOKE, Va. – The Virginia Children’s Theatre is looking for little stars in its first-ever traveling talent search.
The theatre will host auditions at four area libraries looking for kids to cast in three upcoming productions, including Mary Poppins Jr.
Actors in grades K-12 are encouraged to attend and you do not have to prepare anything to perform in advance.
VTC staff will teach participants a short song.
“At VCT we believe that theatre skills are skills for life and theatre skills are life skills, so we’re teaching multiple different things and we’re educating while we’re producing top notch theatre, so this is a great opportunity for students to be creative and have a creative outlet especially during a time like right now,” said Brett Roden, VTC, Producing Artistic Director.
Virginia Childrenâs Theatre has parted ways with the director and educator who founded the company 12 years ago.
Pat Wilhelms â who led the nonprofit, known then as Roanoke Childrenâs Theatre, through its first 11 years â declined to comment about the details of the separation.
âMy heart and soul will always be with Roanoke Childrenâs Theatre and I hope in the future that the new artistic director and board members will uphold the integrity and commitment to the youth, families and schools that the theater was founded on,â she wrote.
The nonprofitâs name changed to Virginia Childrenâs Theatre in 2020. The year before, Wilhelms stepped down as artistic director to become the companyâs resident stage director and handed the reins to her hand-picked successor, Brett Roden.
Stafford outlines 2021 legislative priorities
Recordation Tax Distribution Amendments
Last year, the General Assembly made changes in the collection and distribution of state transportation revenues, reducing the state recordation tax’s total local government allocation by $20 million. By state code, localities may use their state recordation tax allocation for either transportation or education purposes. The change in state law resulted in reducing approximately $900,000 to the County’s Transportation Fund. Stafford is lobbying for restoring the local recordation tax allocation.
Public Day School Funding
The General Assembly is requested to provide additional state-support funding for a community-based, therapeutic public day program. Stafford County Government and Stafford County Public Schools have long operated a public day school program within our school system. The program allows students to require services through the Virginia Children’s Services Act to be educated