 Hi, welcome to Arlington's Community Update. I'm here at Arlington Children's Theatre with Adam Schuler. It's great to meet you, Adam. So why don't you start off by telling us a little bit about yourself? Great. Thanks for being here. My name is Adam Schuler. I am the Artistic Director of Arlington Children's Theatre, and I'm thrilled to be talking to you today. Great. So, first off, let's start off with a little description of the theatre. So what would you say your main purposes and how do you aim to benefit the community? So Arlington Children's Theatre is a great resource for students in the community who are interested in learning more about theatre and the dramatic arts. We have been in the community since 1991, so it's our 28th year. I've actually just started here in September as the new Artistic Director, and I've been so impressed with ACT as an organization and how much our students become family here, and we do about seven productions a year, and that runs a gamut of elementary school, middle school, high school kids, and so everyone in the community really gets a chance to be involved. That's great. So hopefully you have many more great years to come here as well as ACT. And so you said you do seven shows a year. How often do you do shows? It's throughout the entire year, so we've just launched our fall programming. We're doing a high school production of Our Town and an elementary and middle school production of the greatest Christmas pageant ever. So both of those will go up later in the fall, and then we have a winter musical. This year will be Susical. We're very excited about that, it's a lot of fun. And then in the spring we'll be doing a high school production of Shakespeare's 12th Night and an elementary and middle school production of another show. All right, sounds exciting. Sounds like you've got a lot on your plate, but I'm sure it'll be a lot of fun. How long would you say the process typically takes from the start of auditions and then up until when you're actually putting on the production? Sure. So an example, we're doing the greatest Christmas pageant ever right now, and we are having auditions this week. We'll begin rehearsals next week, and that will go up in early December. So around two to three months typically is the rehearsal process from start to finish. The growth that the students go through in that time is just an amazing thing to witness, and then it's always a great production in the end. Okay. So keep that in mind. Remember we have a great show coming up, and so you mentioned what shows you have planned, and so how can children get involved? Sure. So if anyone's interested, you can go to act.arlington.ma.us, and that's our recently revamped website. So it's a very exciting time to visit our website, and that has all the information on shows both for students interested in becoming involved in the shows or for audience members looking to see great theater. All right. Awesome. Well, thank you for all that information, Adam. I'm sure there will be plenty of kids who will be more than happy to get involved, and it was great to meet with you today, and hopefully everything goes smoothly with your upcoming productions. Awesome. Thank you so much. Thank you.