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SUM24 Performance Academy: Alice in Wonderland Grades 5-8

$285
Calendar Jun 3, 2024 at 9 am, runs for 1 week

Grades 5-8 · 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, June 3-7 · $275 Subscribers/$285 Non-Subscribers

Audition, rehearse, and perform in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Go down the rabbit hole with Alice, attend an "unbirthday" party, and drink tea with the Mad Hatter and the White Rabbit. Enrollment guarantees a part in the play. 

Full Course

SUM24 William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Mean Girls

$285

with Nate Jorgensen

Calendar Jun 10, 2024 at 9 am, runs for 1 week

Grades 8-10, 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, June 10-14 · $275 Subscribers/$285 Non-Subscribers

On Wednesdays we array ourselves in pink! Mean Girls gets an Elizabethan makeover in this totally fetch comedy about North Shore High’s queen bees and wannabes. Shakespeare didn’t pen this classic story of rivalries, betrayal, jealousy, obsession, and fastidious rule-making about when one can and cannot wear sweatpants, but he could have.

Full Course

SUM24 10 Minute Plays

$285

with Allison Crain

Calendar Jun 17, 2024 at 9 am, runs for 1 week

Grades 7-9 · 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, June 17-21 · $275 Subscribers/$285 Non-Subscribers

Performers serious about exploring the art of acting are assigned roles in short plays and monologues to emphasize working in a professional environment. Beginners are challenged with learning lines and blocking. Advanced actors can delve in to the emotional life of the character and gain a finer understanding of how to manipulate stage space. Be ready to give it your all!

Will run

SUM24 Performance Academy: Alice in Wonderland Grades 6-8

$285

with Sarah Schaefer

Calendar Jun 24, 2024 at 9 am, runs for 1 week

Grades 6-8 · 9:00 AM -4:00 PM, June 24-28 · $275 Subscribers/$285 Non-Subscribers

Audition, rehearse, and perform in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Go down the rabbit hole with Alice, attend an "unbirthday" party, and drink tea with the Mad Hatter and the White Rabbit. Enrollment guarantees a part in the play.

Full Course

SUM24 Audition Workshop

$175
Calendar Jul 1, 2024 at 9 am, runs for 1 week

Grades 5-8, 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, July 1-3 · $165 Subscribers/$175 Non-Subscribers

The 2024-25 Season will be announced soon, and includes great titles with roles for young people. Work with Playhouse directors to get the experience necessary to be comfortable and successful in auditions. Participation in the course does not guarantee a role but will acquaint students with scenes from the shows, available roles and audition procedures used at The Playhouse. We’ll also learn how to navigate a dance audition and how to pick an audition song.

*Due to the unique structure of this camp, there will not be a parent sharing at the end of the class session.

Full Course

SUM24 Fortunately, The Milk

$285

with Rusk Dorsett

Calendar Jul 8, 2024 at 9 am, runs for 1 week

Grades 7-9 · 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, July 8-12 · $275 Subscribers/$285 Non-Subscribers

"That's not something you see every day. And then something odd happened."Find out just how odd things can get in this hilarious story of time travel and breakfast cereal by Neil Gaiman, complete with alien abduction and dinosaurs.

Will run

SUM24 Performance Academy: Broadway Stars

$300
Calendar Jul 15, 2024 at 9 am, runs for 1 week

Performance Academy: Broadway Stars

Grades 5-8 · 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, July 15-19 · $290 Subscribers/$300 Non-Subscribers

We aren't quite ready to announce this title yet, but it's a brand new musical kids' adaptation of a popular animated movie. We'll be able to announce soon!

Full Course

SUM24 Performance Academy: Treasure Island

$285
Calendar Jul 22, 2024 at 9 am, runs for 1 week

Grades 6-8 · 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, July 22-26 · $275 Subscribers/$285 Non-Subscribers

Young Jim Hawkins finds a treasure map and the adventure is on. If crossing the ocean isn’t adventure enough, Long John Silver and his band of pirates plan to take over the ship and steal the treasure for themselves. Will the pirates be defeated in battle? Will Jim recover the treasure?

Full Course




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