F. A. Day

Day Middle School students present the HIT BROADWAY MUSICAL ANNIE.

The Day drama students proudly present the Broadway musical monster-hit Annie. Annie is one of Broadway’s longest running shows ever, full of great songs and the delightfully heart-warming tale of the Depression-era orphan girl who finds happiness with a grouchy millionaire and his loving Gal.

Originally opening on Broadway in 1977 and running for an amazing 2,377 performances, Annie is based on the beloved comic strip that debuted in 1924. It’s a big-hearted musical for the whole family, complete with adorable orphans, a loveable dog, lots of great singing and dancing, a live radio broadcast, a Christmas party, all of New York City on one stage (well, almost), and a happy ending for everybody.

When Annie first opened on Broadway, Clive Barnes said in the New York Times, “Annie is an intensely likeable musical. You might even call it lovable.” Douglas Watt in the Daily News called it a “big, splashy, sentimental, old-fashioned musical.” And Martin Gottfried of the New York Post wrote, “Annie is at the heart of musical comedy; big, warmhearted, funny, and over-flowing with spirit.” The show has music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and a book by Thomas Meehan.

When : March 22 & 23 at 7:30 PM and March 24 @ 3 PM.

Where: Day Middle School Auditorium

All tickets are $10 for reserved seating, and they are going fast!

Students may purchase as many tickets as they need  at lunches until the shows sell out!

Don’t forget to mark March 10th on your calendar and join us for the 4th Annual Progressive Dinner.  The past dinners have been a huge success. Meet new people, reconnect with old friends all while supporting a good cause and enjoying good food.

It all begins at the New Art Center in Newtonville, at 6.30pm. We start with appetizers and drinks.

This is when you will find out who your mystery host is for dinner. Dinner will be at 8.00pm at the house of your host.

At 10.00pm, you will come back to the New Art Center for coffee and dessert.

To sign up please click here. For more information contact Phyllis Attisano the co-chair. See you there.

Last week’s Faculty Foul-ups was a great success!

Mr. Gresser, Mr. Scott, Mr. Webster and last year’s champion, Mr. Dewees each made 21 of 25 free throws and took the contest to a second round shoot-out.

Gabe Webster prevailed in the shoot-out making 20 of 25 free throws. Way to go Mr. Webster.

The hundreds of predictions sheets turned in by students have been tallied and the winners of the facutly foul-ups prediction contest are:

Theo Shore from the Crimson Team and

Calley Dias from the Sage Team.

Theo and Calley each made seven correct predictions. They will receive a faculty foul-ups t-shirt and $20 gift certificate to Newbury Comics.

There were 4 runners-up who made 6 correct predictions. They are:
Connal Chamberlain, Crimson Team
Theresa Pulsone, Indigo Team
Cody Kotake Sapphire Team
Michael Kann, Saphire Team.
Each of our runners up will receive $15 gift certificates to Newbury Comics.

Winners can collect their prizes in the main office.

A whopping 9 kids made 5 correct predictions and achieved honorable mention status. Check out the next issue of the daytime for a complete listing of those names. Congratulations to all of the winners and thanks to everyone for making predictions and coming out to cheer the teachers on at the event.

This is a fun evening of live folk and acoustic music, started 12 years ago by a group of Franklin Elementary School parents, and since last year has been a benefit for the Day PTO. This year, the headline act is a Celtic music trio Corvus. In addition, we’ll have music by event founder and former Day parent Rob Siegel, including Day parents and friends like Pam McA’Nulty, George Attisano, Barb Cassidy, and Eric Chasalow, with Eric Moore returning as emcee.

Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!

Thank you to everyone who donated to this year’s fund drive. We have raised $30,000. You can’t even begin to imagine how much this means to the teachers.

We have already bought a Mac Laptop cart complete with 10 laptops. We will now be able to buy another complete laptop cart, a bunch of document camera’s (which the teachers love), some projectors and new PC’s for the PC lab. This is on top of the entire Mac Lab the PTO purchased for the school after last year’s fund drive. An official thank you letter and tax receipt will go out in the next few weeks.

Thank you to all the parents who helped with the fund drive, sending emails, stuffing envelopes, etc. We could not have done it without your help.

A special thanks to the local businesses who donated our incentive raffle prizes:

51 Lincoln Restaurant

Newtonville Pizza

Boston Body

Deluxe Station Diner

Will Charles Salon

Jessica’s Biscuit CoffeeClub

The winner of the 51 Lincoln Gift Certificate is Faith Witte. Congratulations Faith.

Thank you all!!!

Andrea Steenstrup