Performers will need a ticket to join friends or family in the seating units. (They should change out of costumes before leaving the backstage area.) Parents should pick up students who are 10 and younger from the backstage curtain by their respective locker rooms (boys at the north curtain and girls at the south curtain). First-half performers whose parents are volunteering are allowed to wait backstage for the remainder of the show and cannot join their parent in his/her/their volunteer duties/area. Performers with acts in the second half are expected to stay for the final bow. Again, students 10 and younger should be picked up by a parent at the north or south curtains.