Returning and new members of CET flooded through the doors of the Craft Theater for the annual CET fall mass meeting. Director Emily Wilson-Tobin chose “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” as the fall play and “Curtains” as the spring musical for the 2024-2025 CET season.
“I’m feeling really excited,” Rosie Matish said. “Last year I got into [CET] for the musical, so this is going to be my first full year.”
Sept. 4 marked the date of the mass meeting for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and an official start to the 2024-2025 CET season. Once seated, Emily Wilson-Tobin and the CET student board introduced themselves. The CET student board included Ionie Steudle and Claire Lewis as co-presidents, Mallory Towers as secretary, Jacqueline Boynton as publicist, Bee Whalen as merchandise manager, and Lucy Lowenschuss as underclassmen representative.
Lowenschuss had been looking forward to returning for her second year at CET, and she was excited for her first time serving as a board member. “It feels so nice to have a good group of people just for support,” Lowenschuss said. “And I think [this year] it’s more of a community instead of last year, wondering, ‘Will this be my community?’”
After board introductions, Wilson-Tobin explained the expectations of being on CET’s cast and crew. She dove into what “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” entailed and what she was envisioning for the show. After summarizing all the details, students began signing up for auditions and filling out the registration forms.
“It was a weird mix of stressful and fun,” Bug Denomme said. “But the second I got there, I was like, ‘Oh yeah, I know these people.’ I think [the meeting is] a good place to get acclimated to the chaos of CET.”
A new addition was included with the conclusion of this year’s mass meeting. Typically, when finished with the annual mass meeting, members are sent home, but this year, the meeting was followed up with an hour-long audition workshop. The workshop served to introduce new members to the audition process and to help them prepare their materials. Wilson-Tobin gave advice and insight on how to push past the nerves and put your best foot forward during an audition, reinforced by input provided by returning members of CET.
“I was very happy to see a lot of new faces,” Jupiter Gergics said. “That means that there’s going to be a lot of people for us to work with, because we did lose a pretty big group of seniors last year, and it’s good to know that, at least in terms of pairs of hands, we’re going to make that up.”
Once the audition workshop was over, Wilson-Tobin sent out a mass email, providing audition materials, a sign-up for audition slots, cast and crew registration forms, etc. All of these can be found on the CET website as well.
