The McLane PTSO partners with a local theater company to provide education and a performance opportunity for young actors. We have a full production experience for all grades and a tech team for grades 3-5.
2026 Theater Information
This year McLane PTSO is partnered with Mrs. Stacey Burns, our McLane Music Teacher and experienced theater/drama educator, and Mrs. Katelyn May, an experienced youth theater program director with many youth theater shows on her resume as well as teacher-in-training credentials! The PTSO Theater Committee – Stacey, Katelyn, Nadine, Kristen and Jo – have been meeting biweekly since the start of the school year to prep and plan for this amazing event – Suessical Jr.!
Important Times & Dates
Rehearsals are from February 2 – 28, 2026.
-Grades 3-5 will rehearse on Mon, Tues, Thu & Fri from 2:15 – 4:30PM (15 mins snack/settle). Pickup 4:30.
-Grades K-2 will rehearse Wednesday from 1:25 – 2:30PM. Pickup 2:30.
**The shows will be on February 27th at 6:00 PM and February 28th at 6:30 PM**
What’s next?
1. Behavior Contracts. Look over, discuss and sign the attached Behavior Contract. Print out and bring to your first rehearsal on February 2. PTSO will have copies for you to review and sign during pickup.
2. Meet Up. Starting this upcoming Monday 2 Feb, kids will meet in the cafeteria after school (on the stage) for attendance and snacks (bring your own snack). Tech Team will meet starting 2/18.
3. Payments. By tomorrow, January 29, please pay via PayPal Donate (paypal.com) or check (made out to McLane PTSO). PLEASE ENSURE YOUR STUDENT’S NAME IS IN THE COMMENTS or we have difficulty figuring out who the payment is for. If you are paying via check, please bring it to class and your teachers will get it to the office. **The Cost is $80 for Grades 3-5 and $50 for K-2 and $40 for Tech Team. Scholarship Award Letters will be delivered via email by end of day today, Jan. 28th.
4. Tech/Stage/Props Team – Tech Team practice starts on 2/18 and will be a shorter session. Due to the large size of this group, we will split kids into groups dedicated to tech, staging and props. Due to the large interest, we are still working on our plans for this, so please stay tuned Tech Theater Families. If you would like to help volunteering to support only this group, please email Jo at treasurer@mclaneptso.org and Kristen S. at Volunteers@mclaneptso.org. We are looking for at least 1-2 Adult Tech Team Lead to join our team.
4. Optional Theater Zoom Office Hours – Thursday, February 5, 2026 at 6:00 PM. If you have any questions or comments about Theater, please join Johannah and Nadine during this Zoom session and we will get your questions answered. We will also document all questions and send them back to Theater Families via email so everyone has the information they need.
PTSO Treasurer is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Optional Theater Info Meeting
Time: Feb 5, 2026 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 830 5588 1408
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5. Volunteers. Great news, we have over 40 kiddos signed up. Reality—we adults to help make sure things run smoothly. Please review the Sign-Up Genius link below. If you have time or/and talent—please sign up! We really need it especially with this many students! Our Theater Co-Leads Jo and Nadine both have daytime work obligations that will prevent us from being at the school every day. If we cannot identify 2 parent volunteers to chaperone on a particular day, we will be required to cancel rehearsal and send kids home via their normal plan. Let’s work together to fill the slots! Once again, If you would like to help volunteer to support only the Tech Team, please email Jo at treasurer@mclaneptso.org and Kristen S. at Volunteers@mclaneptso.org. We are looking for at least 1-2 Adult Tech Team Lead to join our team.
McLane Theater Parent Volunteer Handbook
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C4AABA729A6FDC61-61925941-2026/81259995#/Note – We are working with Capital HS Key Club to get volunteers for the Shows so Theater Families will be able to relax and enjoy the show this year! Yay!
6. Attendance. 100% attendance at rehearsal is REALLY important. Putting on a production like this takes a lot of hard work and practice time from the Students (especially Grades 3-5). We are planning on having K-2 rehearsals every Wednesday after school for one hour. This does conflict with Swimming and Art so if you would like to work out a plan to participate, please contact Jo at Treasurer@mclanepsto.org and we will see what we can do on a family-by-family basis. If your child is absent from school, please email or text Johannah (202-738-0459) or treasurer@mclaneptso.org so we can notate this on our Roster. School attendance records cannot be shared with our PTSO. There is nothing worse than not knowing where a kid is when they should be in Theater. If we do not see your kiddo in our Rehearsal, volunteers will call you to inquire.
7. The Show. Talk to your kids about this show. If you want, encourage them to watch this video to get a sense of the show.
Past Productions
- High School Musical Jr.
- The Adventures of the Peanut Gang! (2024)
- School House Rocks! Live! (2023)
- Snow White Goes West (2022)
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
- Alice In Wonderland
- Annie
- Jungle Book
- Sleeping Beauty
- Mulan
- Aladdin
- The Lion King
McLane Elementary PTSO 