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Topic: youth theater group

Posted By: Andrea T
Subject: youth theater group
Date Posted: 7/09/04 at 9:20pm

I run a new youth theater company in southern california. We are in the middle of our first show, and it is going extremely well! we have a great group of about 40 kids involved. We have a board member who is from the midwest, and she has said that theater companies out here are much different from where she is from. She said that there the theater company becomes like a family, and, at least in the children's theater area, there are activities all year for the group, not just shows. If anyone has a similar theater group, and has ideas of what we can do all year when the kids are in school...things like weekend workshops, trips, fundraisers, etc. please let me know! thanks

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Posted By: DramaMama
Date Posted: 7/11/04 at 7:38pm

Sounds like you already have a bunch of good ideas. Trips to other local productions are always fun. Workshops in Scene painting, makeup techniques, flat building, dance, Puppetry, Readers theater, the list is endless. Maybe a Halloween costume creation workshop with a trip to the local resale shops. Have the kids plan out costumes and then try to figure out creative ways to make them. Might be a good chance to do a makeup workshop too

Our local group just did a musical theater workshop, finishing up with Maurice Sendaks Really Rosie.

My daughter and a couple other high school students acted as assistant directors. They got experience in both teaching and choreography. The kids had a final performance after three weeks and charged $4.00 for the show. The kids were charged a nominal fee for the workshop as well. This helps to bring money into the program to fund scholarships for kids that cannot afford full payments.

They are also having a Shakespeare workshop and bringing in a local professional actor to teach fighting techniques to the teens and how to recite Shakespeare. In the end they are going to a local production.

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