Joining Young Gen is easy. Contact the membership secretary Jill Parsons on 01245 478944. COSTS and EQUIPMENT Membership for the first year is £15.00. Children have to have reached the age of 8 years to become a member and audition for any show. You will receive a Young-Gen T shirt and a membership card, which also gives you 10% discount on dancewear and footwear at Jems in Moulsham Street, Chelmsford. Subsequent years is £5 membership and you can purchase a T shirt separately. You will need to be equipped for rehearsals. To start with you will need the following: Boys Black jazz shoes Comfortable trousers, track bottoms are fine. Girls Black jazz shoes Black character shoes Black circle skirt. Show Fees. If you are succesful during auditions and become a member of the cast you have to pay a show fee. This fee is used in a variety of ways toward the production. The show fee varies from show to show but can be between £20-£40. Next you will need a script, these are either purchased outright or hired and returned. You can expect to pay roughly £7-£10. Costumes. Young Gen has a huge wardrobe department, if they do not have what is needed costumes are hired at great expense this cost is covered by the society. However sometimes a little help is required and parents or members are asked to provide things for their own costume. This could range from simple inexpensive items such as belts and a shirt in a specified colour or to a particular colour shoe. Young Gen members use charity shops and their dress making skills if they have then to fulfil these requirements. In reception we have a for sale notice for those who have things that no longer fit them and a wanted board for those who need something that someone might be prepare to loan. Young-Gen rehearse at their own purpose built hall in Meteor Way, Chelmsford. Rehearsals take place on Thursday evenings and run from 7:30pm to 10pm. During the initial stages of a new production there will be some Saturday rehearsals, these run from 10am to 5pm.