How to Navigate This Blog

Welcome! Here's a little introduction on finding your way around this blog. When I volunteered to direct The Secret Garden for the St. James Adult Community Theater this summer, I decided it might be nice to have a home for any and all information associated with the production.  To your right, you'll find links to some helpful pages on auditions, volunteering as a crew member, purchasing tickets, and keeping up with our whereabouts around the community.  Here you'll also find some background about our history of community theater in St. James, as well as my own path to becoming a director.

This blog will be a place you can refer back to throughout the coming months, as we'll be posting teasers and behind the scenes stories as rehearsals unfold and preparations get underway.  I'll also use this as an opportunity to introduce those less familiar to the story of The Secret Garden and the wonderful themes and characters that lie within its walls. This may include interesting facts about the novel's origins and historical context, as well as stories about how the beautiful Broadway adaptation came to be. The blog entries will always be written by the director, and I'll attempt to make it informative and entertaining.

We'd encourage you to share your favorite posts with your friends and family online by using the social media "buttons" located beneath each blog entry. It's my intention that our production truly be a community endeavor in terms of recruiting local talent on and offstage, but also in engaging with the community through less obvious ways--participating in outside events, cultivating followers through social media, and even asking folks to quite literally help in constructing a "community garden" set for the stage. Stay tuned over the coming months to see what we have in store!