2023 Summer Camps

Click below on the downloadable, interactive pdf link for complete details and to register!

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EXTENDED DAY AM: 
Time: 7:45am-8:45am •  Cost: $40/week • Ages: All camp ages • Available all sessions

EXTENDED DAY PM: 
Time: 3:00-5:00pm •  Cost: $80/week • Ages: All camp ages • Available all sessions

Summer Camps Week One: June 12 -16

Tomorrow’s Stars  Rising 1st & 2nd graders •  Creative Play: Focus on Acting
Time: 9am-Noon • Tuition: $120

Introduces the student to acting basics including exploration, imagination, awareness, and expression. Character, story structure, body awareness/control, and the potential of the voice for expression will be introduced in a playful and open way. Emphasis on building social-emotional skills both individually and within a group.

Pre-Professional • Rising 9th – 12th & 2023 High School grads • Audition Techniques
Time: 9am-3pm • Tuition: $240
A primer on the entire audition process–from that first audition through to getting cast–this course gives the student focused skills and experience to feel confident in one of the aspects of the theatre process that requires immense bravery: the audition. New headshots included!


Summer Camps Week Two: June 19 -23

Tomorrow’s Stars  Rising 1st & 2nd graders • Creative Play: Focus on Music Theatre  Time: 9am-Noon • Tuition: $120
Introduces the student to acting, movement, and music basics including exploration, imagination, awareness, and expression. Character, story structure, body awareness, and the potential of the voice for expression will be introduced in a playful and open way. Emphasis on building social-emotional skills both individually and within a group.

Break-a-Leg Players • Rising 6th– 8th graders • Audition Techniques • Time: 9am-3pm • Tuition: $240
A primer on the entire audition process–from that first audition through to getting cast–this course gives the student focused skills and experience to feel confident in one of the aspects of the theatre process that requires immense bravery: the audition. New headshots included!

Pre-Professional• Rising 9th – 12th & 2023 High School grads • Music Theatre Dance  • Time: 9am-3pm • Tuition: $240
Best suited for the student with a love for music theatre who wants dance training geared toward the music theatre style and the dance call (audition). This workshop will teach lessons tuned specifically toward style, memorization, terminology, and etiquette which will effectively build a confident mover in multiple scenarios. 


Summer Camps Week Three: June 26 – 30

Tomorrow’s Stars  Rising 1st & 2nd graders Creative Play: Focus on ACTING • Time: 9am-Noon • Tuition: $120
Introduces the student to acting basics including exploration, imagination, awareness, and expression. Character, story structure, body awareness/control, and the potential of the voice for expression will be introduced in a playful and open way. Emphasis on building social-emotional skills both individually and within a group.

BOARD TREADERS • Rising 3rd  5th graders • Devising Theatre: Let’s Make A Show! • Time: 9am-3pm • Tuition: $240
Devised Theatre is a way of creating theatre that involves the collective collaboration of a group of people. This group might be actors, dancers, musicians, directors, designers, choreographers, writers, or any other type of artist who might be useful in contributing to a piece. This workshop will introduce participants to how devising works and offer some methods of creating. Throughout the week, campers will work together to make their own mini theatre piece.

Break-a-Leg Players • Rising 6th – 8th graders • Triple Threat: Golden Age Music Theatre • Time: 9am-3pm • Tuition: $240
Techniques within acting, singing, and dancing disciplines are emphasized, always within the framework of telling the story. Different styles of musical theatre will be introduced along with a beginning knowledge of physical theatre and solo vs. ensemble work. This camp will specifically focus on musicals made in the mid-20th century–known as the golden age of the musical theatre form–where the majority of seminal musicals have emerged. 


Summer Camps Week Four: July 10-14

BOARD TREADERS • Rising 3rd  5th graders Triple Threat: Music Theatre Camp • Time: 9am-3pm • Tuition: $240
A primer on the entire audition process–from that first audition through Lays the groundwork of centering the story and character whenever we are acting, singing, or dancing (or all 3!). Basic concepts of the ‘triple threat’ disciplines (acting, singing, dancing) will be introduced. Students will work on material as an ensemble, in small groups, and some solo work with text, music, and dance.

Break-a-Leg Players • Rising 6th – 8th graders • Acting Training: Comedic Styles • Time: 9am-3pm • Tuition: $240
Formal techniques of story/plot structure as well as character are
emphasized. More advanced levels and understanding of voice/body training are introduced, including proper warm-up techniques and tools needed for the student to reflect upon their own work. Reading some dramatic literature and script analysis/discussions will be introduced. This camp will focus on classic and contemporary comedies and specific comic techniques will be emphasized.


Summer Camps Week Five: July 17 – 21

Tomorrow’s Stars  Rising 1st & 2nd graders Creative Play:
Focus on MUSIC THEATRE  • Time: 9am-Noon • Tuition: $120
Introduces the student to acting, movement, and music basics including exploration, imagination, awareness, and expression. Character, story structure, body awareness/control, and the potential of the voice for expression will be introduced in a playful and open way. Emphasis on building social-emotional skills both individually and within a group.

BOARD TREADERS • Rising 3rd – 5th graders • Music Theatre Camp •  Time: 9am-3pm  • Tuition: $240
Lays the groundwork of centering the story and character whenever we are acting, singing, or dancing (or all 3!). Basic concepts of the ‘triple threat’ disciplines (acting, singing, dancing) will beintroduced. Students will work on material as an ensemble, in small groups, and some solo work with text, music, and dance.

 

Break-a-Leg Players • Rising 6th– 8th graders • Acting Training: Dramatic Styles • Time: 9am-3pm • Tuition: $240
Formal techniques of story/plot structure as well as character are emphasized. More advanced levels and understanding of voice/body training are introduced, including proper warm-up techniques and tools needed for the student to reflect upon their own work. Reading some dramatic literature and script analysis/discussions will be introduced. This camp will focus on classic and contemporary dramatic plays and techniques involved with performing this material.


Summer Camps Week Six: July 24 – 28

BOARD TREADERS • Rising 3rd – 5th graders • Acting Training  • Time: 9am-3pm • Tuition: $240
Story, Plot, and Character techniques/terminology will be explicitly taught as well as working to build their actor ‘toolbox’ (body/voice/imagination). In addition to interpreting work (traditional acting approach), students will also be introduced into generating their own material (story and character creation).

Break-a-Leg Players • Rising 6th– 8th graders • Triple Threat: Contemporary Music Theatre • Time: 9am-3pm • Tuition: $240
Techniques within acting, singing, and dancing continue to be emphasized, always within the framework of telling the story. Different styles of musical theatre will be introduced along with a beginning knowledge of physical theatre and solo vs. ensemble work. This camp will specifically focus on more contemporary musicals (created roughly in the last 25 years or so).


INTENSIVES • Join us and let’s make theatre together!

Our intensives are an exciting combination of education/technique and creating a production. Contrasting our productions during the school year, these intensives harness a greater focus on the holistic view of how we make theatre. Participants will register for the intensive appropriate for their grade similarly to how they do for classes and workshops. The full intensive experience will involve auditions, rehearsals, tech rehearsals, and performances as well as instruction in various areas in the theatre (including acting, singing, dance, design, analysis, technical work, etc). The focus here is on the teamwork it takes to make theatre and finding ways to contribute strengths while bolstering less-experienced areas. Featuring a ‘less is more’ approach to theatricality, the end production result will remind us all what is at the heart of storytelling: the community, craft, and collaboration.

Please note: Many of the roles can be cast with actors of any gender. Specifically in Newsies, the group of newsies will not necessarily be traditionally gender cast.

“Disney’s Newsies Jr.”
Ages: Finishing 2nd grade-finishing 7th grade

Rehearsal Dates: MAY 8 –  JUNE 25, 2023
Rehearsals: MAY 8 – JUNE 13 • 6:00pm-9:00pm
Tech Week: June 14 – JUNE 22  • 5:30pm-9:30pm

Performances: JUNE 23 -25

A 60-minute version of the hit Broadway musical, based on the 1992 film. Inspired by the rousing true story of newsboys in turn-of-the-century New York City, DISNEY’S NEWSIES JR features a Tony Award-winning score by Alan Menken and Jack Feldman. When powerful newspaper publishers raise prices at the newsboys’ expense, the charismatic Jack Kelly rallies newsies from across the city to strike against the unfair conditions. Together, the newsies learn that they are stronger united and create a movement to fight for what’s right. 

 

The Addams Family
Ages: Entering 8th grade – 2023 high school graduate

Rehearsal Dates: JUNE 26 –  AUG 2, 2023
Rehearsals: JUNE 26 -AUG 2 • 9:00am-3:00pm
Tech Week: AUG 3  – AUG 8  • 9:00am-3:00pm

Performances: August 9 – 13, 2023

A comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family. The kooky, upside-down world of THE ADDAMS FAMILY features an original story and everyone’s favorite notorious characters. Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family– a man her parents have never met and would never approve of. Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before– keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. On the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his parents, everything will change for the family.