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Summer Stock Theater

Jul
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Summer Stock Theater

Would you like the educational experience of seeing what it’s like to perform in a busy theater company. Summer stock theater is what theater students want to do above all else as a way of getting a leg up on their careers. And they are getting a chance to see all aspects of running a theater company.

They also get a chance to work in an intense repertory theater environment where they’re playing one role in a current production and they’re rehearsing a totally different play in an entirely different theater production. Dawniella Sinder ’18, who is majoring in actor training, is excited the opportunity to act as well as work in the box office at Monomoy this summer. Set in scenic Chatham, the grey-shingled theater is covered with roses and surrounded by gardens. Alan Rust, director of the Hartt Theatre Division, has been Monomoy’s artistic director for 36 years. Chestnut Fine Arts Center (Olathe, KS) is offering two one-week theatre workshops this summer.

The University hopes to eventually partner with another college or two in New England, but for now is running the theater alone, Harrison said. The 38-member theater company includes 12 actors and actresses along with stage managers, and assistant directors from the University. Adding a summer stock theater to The Hartt School’s offerings will help with recruitment, Rust said. Martin City, Jr.’s Komedy Kidstitute Summer Camps (9601 Metcalf Avenue, Overland Park, KS), Learn how to tell the funniest jokes, do a classic spit take, and throw a cream pie!

Alcott Arts Center (Kansas City, KS) The Summer Theatre Academy has several sessions for ages 3-18, starting June 20-August 5, 2011. Christian Youth Theater (multiple locations) offers several day and overnight camp options for kids from age 4 through high school. Johnson County Community College Performing Arts Series (Overland Park, KS) offers visual and theatre arts classes for K-8 as well as several chamber music classes.

Stage Right Performing Arts (Overland Park, KS) offers 2 different musical theater camps, including final performances, for kids ages 6-18. Theatre for Young America (Shawnee, KS) hosts drama classes and five-day workshops at Wonderscope Children’s Museum, at Union Station and at Avila during the summer. Theatre of the Imagination (various locations) offers theatre camps at several locations around the city.

Trilogy Cultural Arts Centre (Olathe, KS) has 10 theater and visual arts summer camps available this year. This irresistible story features stunning sets and costumes, incredible dance numbers and beloved songs like A Spoonful of Sugar” and the biggest word you ever heard, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.” Summer Stock Stage will be one of the first community theatres in the area to perform this recent Broadway hit. About Summer Stock Stage – Summer Stock Stage exists to provide theater experiences for teenage students in central Indiana.

Co-founded by Emily Ristine Holloway, artistic director and Jeanne Bowling, music director, the artistic team now includes Kyle Ragsdale, curator of the Harrison Center for the Arts; Mariel Greenlee, Dance Kaleidoscope; Cherri Jaffee, former Artistic Director of Dance Kaleidoscope; Mike Moffatt, Theater Department chair, Cathedral High School and professional actor Charles Goad. A life-long resident of Rochester, Katy is proud to be part of the Meadow Brook Theatre family.

 

 

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On Halloween Night

Jul
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On Halloween Night

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No discussion of the costumes in Gypsy is complete without mention of the three strippers, Electra, Tessie Tura and Mazepa, whose advice to Gypsy about burlesque dancing is the type of number most frequently referred to as a show stopper.” Lory Reyes, Leigh Sanchez and Linda Roberts were absolutely hilarious in these roles and while the costumes appeared a little discordant, not quite thirties era burlesque, but not really current either and too new looking to be run-down burlesque.

This summer, the campers will write scripts and design sets and costumes around a theme inspired by the A.R.T.’s upcoming world premiere musical Waitress, opening at the A.R.T. on August 1. The campers will create their production under the guidance of writing tutors from 826 Boston and professional theater artists from the A.R.T. They will also have the opportunity to connect with members of the Waitress team during a trip to the A.R.T.’s Mainstage as part of the curriculum.

Our Musical Theatre collections include: The Wizard Of Oz or The Wiz, Beauty & The Beast, Music Man, Nunsense, Cinderella, Scrooge- The Musical or A Christmas Carol, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, My Fair Lady, Dames at Sea, Sound Of Music, King & I, Peter Pan, Miss Saigon, Oklahoma, 42nd Street, Grease, Damn Yankees, Fiddler on The Roof, Guys & Dolls, Annie, The Pirates of Penzance, Singing In The Rain, West Side Story, How to Succeed in Business, Amadeus, Annie.

 

 

 

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Summer Stock

Jul
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Summer Stock

Years ago while living in New York City, I landed my first summer stock job and was off to Ohio and Michigan to do two shows in three weeks with the Kenley Players. Past scenic designs for the Sacramento Shakespeare Festival include the 2005 productions of Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Midsummer Night’s Dream, and As You Like It. Shawn has also designed productions for the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Pacific Alliance Stage Company, Word for Word, City Theatre, Capitol Stage at the Delta King Theatre, Inquiline Theatre Company, San Francisco State University, and other companies around the Bay Area.

Summer stock theatre is any theatre that presents stage productions only in the summer. The name combines the season with the tradition of staging shows by a resident company, reusing stock scenery and costumes. Summer stock theatres frequently take advantage of seasonal weather by having their productions outdoors or under tents set up temporarily for their use. Some smaller theatres still continue this tradition, and a few summer stock theatres have become highly regarded by both patrons as well as performers and designers. Often viewed as a starting point for professional actors, stock casts are typically young, just out of high school or still in college.

Summer stock started in 1919-1920s with four theatres: The Muny, St. Louis, Mo. (1919) is the nation’s oldest and largest outdoor musical theatre; Manhattan Theatre Colony, first started near Peterborough, New Hampshire (1927) and moved to Ogunquit, Maine; the Cape Playhouse, Dennis, Massachusetts (1927); and the Berkshire Playhouse, Stockbridge, Massachusetts (1928). Summer stock n. U.S. theatrical productions by a repertory company organized for the summer season, esp.

In its heyday during the sixties and seventies, summer stock on the East Coast had a circuit in which shows were put up quickly, usually with a recognizable TV star in the lead role in order to sell more tickets. The closest one to Los Angeles is the Sacramento Music Circus, which still pulls them in and does a quick summer season. Out on the East Coast, the Theater By the Sea in Massachusetts is one of the few that is still operating, but it’s a far cry from what it was like several decades ago. Last summer Keith Mottola of the Steps Theatre wanted to produce his first summer stock season.

He brought me in a few years ago to the Steps Theatre, a small theater in Bellingham, Massachusetts, just south of Boston, and with two weeks’ rehearsal, we put on a production of Willy Wonka. While one show is going on costumes are being prepared for the next show and sets are being built, ready to load in the exact same day you strike the previous show. 

 

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Summer Camps For Drama

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Summer Camps For Drama

Odd and ends about summer camps for drama. Madeleine has taught and designed costumes at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and the State University of New York-Brockport where her credits included Gypsy, The Importance of Being Earnest, Annie and Rashomon. The queen was asked by Tivoli’s ballet chief, Peter Bo Bendixen, to join the team, and her designs are now ready to be handed over to the workers – the sets to be built and painted in Copenhagen and the costumes sewn in London. The Nutcracker, first staged at St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre in 1892, begins on Christmas Eve in the home of the young heroine, Clara, who falls asleep and slips into the dream world where mice battle with gingerbread men and the toy soldier nutcracker grows to life size. The theatre in the round concept brought Broadway-style musicals to northern California under a big top tent each summer.

The original Lambertville theatre closed in 1970, and both the Sacramento and South Shore theatres continue to thrive today. She has had the opportunity to work with an incredible amount of outstanding theater companies as well as some incredibly talented theater professionals. Paige Vanzo (Marketing/ Communications Coordinator) holds an AB in Theatre and a CNP (Non-Profit Professional) certification from Indiana State University where she graduated in 2010.

Sarah’s credits include: The American Globe Theatre (NY), The Atlantic Theater Company (NY), New York University (NY), The Dallas Theatre Center (TX), The Second City Detroit (MI), The Michigan Opera House (MI), Cirque Du Soleil and The Shaw Festival (Ontario, Canada). Since moving to the mitten, she’s taken a full-time position with the theatre in Marketing and Communications. Jeremy Burzuk (Head Stage Technician) A performer as well as theatre technician, Remy has been in charge of our backstage crews during performances for over a decade. She holds an MFA in Costume Design from Wayne State University and a BA in Theatre from Michigan State University.

Past projects include lighting three of the Comedy Night fundraisers for Forgotten Harvest at the Fisher Theatre and at Music Hall. Reid has been associated with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Heartlande Theatre Company, BoarsHead Theatre, Buckham Alley Theatre, The City Theatre, The Gem Theatre, Loeb Drama Center at Harvard University, Jewish Ensemble Theatre, The Birmingham Theatre and the Vest Pocket Theatre.

He then went to Wayne State University where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Design and Technical Theatre. Mr. Johnson was a member of the Hilberry Repertory Company while he served as Lighting Designer for the Bonstelle Theatre. With well over 300,000 miles on two wheels, Reid wishes to thank his family for their support of his passion for motorcycling as well as Theatre. Daniel Martin Morency (Stage Management Intern) graduated from Adrian College with a B.A. in theater. For years she has been working with children’s theatre camps doing costuming and wardrobe.

In recent years, he has been fortunate enough to work with the Michigan Opera Theatre and the Detroit Actors Theatre Company and is now very excited to be joining the Meadow Brook team. For the past two summers she has been working for Belvoir Terrace, a fine arts summer camp for girls, creating costumes for up to 20 productions in a summer. The culmination of a two week summer Shakespeare class for students ages 11-18.

TJMaxx was the retailer featured in the report for the costumes listed as some of the best deals people can get. For adults, there are some sexy costumes out there for those fun, spooky parties coming up. Halloween costumes aren’t just for kids. The theatre offers an apprentice/intern training program designed to help recent college graduates make the transition from academic to professional theatre. Arkansas Repertory Theatre exists to create a diverse body of theatrical work of the highest artistic standards.

 

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