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Educational Programs
A Summer Musical Theater Program For Kids and Teens
Summer 2008
Click here to open a .pdf brochure and registration form.
Space Still Available!
Grades 1-3 and Grades 4-6
Ever wonder what it's like to put on a musical?
Raise the curtain!
Lights up!
Places for the top of the show!
Calling all kids who love to sing, dance and act! It's time to put on a show and at PROJECT BROADWAY you're the star! Learn how to create a Broadway-style musical in one week through script writing, improvisation, acting games, showtunes and hot dance moves. On the last day, it all comes together in one amazing show for your family and friends!
No need to audition! PROJECT BROADWAY is for anyone who loves to be on stage. From little divas and divos to shy thespians-in-training, this fun and energetic camp alternative will bring out the best in anyone. Confidence and creativity are at the top of our list when it comes to working together to build our show. So dust off your dancing shoes and get ready to have the best summer of your life!
Choose a week that fits in your summer schedule or sign up for as many as you want to improve your performance skills!
Grades 7-12: "Project Broadway at Night"
Take your performance to the next level!
PROJECT BROADWAY AT NIGHT is designed especially for teenagers in grades 7-12 who need a creative way to express themselves through singing, acting and dancing. You will meet 5 nights a week, for two weeks and develop your very own show using skills in playwriting, improvisation, scenic and costume design and of course, musical theater.
All the hard work will pay off when you get to perform for your friends and family on the Playhouse mainstage on the last night of class.
And if that isn't enough, you will get the chance to attend a master class taught by a Broadway star...
CAMP SESSIONS
GRADES 1-3
Monday – Friday
9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Week 1: July 7-11
Week 2: July 14-18
Week 3: July 21-25
Week 4: July 28-August 1
*Grade in Fall 2008 |
FEE
$275 |
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GRADES 4-6
Monday – Friday
9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Week 1: July 7-11
Week 2: July 14-18
Week 3: July 21-25
Week 4: July 28-August 1
*Grade in Fall 2008
- Schedule: Monday-Friday,
9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
- Please drop off your child
no earlier than 8:45 a.m.
and pick up no later than
3:15 p.m.
- Performance begins
around 2:30 p.m. on the
last day of class.
- After-care is available.
- Bring your own lunch.
Water will be provided.
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FEE
$275 |
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GRADES 7-12
Monday – Friday
(Showcase on Final Saturday)
6 p.m.-9 p.m.
Session 1: July 7-19
Session 2: July 21-August 2
*Grade in Fall 2008 |
FEE
$550 |
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Click here to open a .pdf brochure and registration form.
ABOUT THE CAMP
Taught by theater professionals, each day will focus on creating and rehearsing a 15-20 minute production focusing on the fundamentals of musical theater: storytelling through singing, acting and dancing. From improvisation and creative discussion, the class will develop a working script while songs from the Broadway and pop repertoire are taught and tied together with simple choreography to enhance the story. Mornings begin with physical and vocal warm-up routines, but fun theatre games keep the class moving all throughout the day. While emphasis is placed on the performance discipline, children are encouraged to work as a team while exploring their unique contributions as individuals. The results are improvements in self-esteem, stage presence, confidence and self-control. The final performance takes place on the last day of class on the Playhouse mainstage, followed by a Pizza Party for all cast members, family and friends.
No auditions required.
TEACHING ARTIST BIOS
Beth Fauerbach (Director/Choreographer) has been a proud Theater Educator for over 15 years, and is thrilled to be a part of Playhouse on The Green's first summer of Project Broadway! With her BA in Dance, she started her career teaching ballet, jazz, musical theatre jazz, and tap-as well as acting! Before moving to the East Coast, she spent five years as the Education Director at Playhouse Merced in California. While there, she not only directed the Conservatory's Main Stage and summer Productions, she also served as the company's resident choreographer and dance educator. As a Director/ Choreographer, some of her favorite projects have been A Chorus Line, A Year with Frog and Toad, and Stuart Little. Also in love with performing, some of her favorite performing roles have been Cassie in A Chorus Line, and Sally Bowles in Cabaret.
Timothy Heavner (Music Director), is active as a performer and educator throughout the New York City Metropolitan and Tri-State areas. He is currently Chair of the Performing Arts Department at Friends Seminary, a private K-12 school in the East Village of Manhattan, Assistant Conductor and Accompanist of the Westchester Choral Arts Society, and teaches Choral Skills at the Manhattan School of Music. In the past, Mr. Heavner has co-directed the Upper and Middle School Choruses and Gilbert & Sullivan at the Allen-Stevenson School, and he also served as Music Director and Organist at the Church of the Ascension in Manhattan. In January 2003, Mr. Heavner helped produce an original opera,Words Count, with the students of the School of the Ascension in an education program coordinated by the Metropolitan Opera Guild. He served as Music Director and Conductor for JADE Opera's 2001 production of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, and again conducted the work at the Ars Musica Summer Institute in Minneapolis in the summer of 2002. He has had a thirteen-year association with Anchorage Opera where his roles have included everything from timpanist torépétiteur, chorus singer to Chorus Master, comprimario roles to Conductor to Assistant Music Director, and the role of Nemerino in a reduced version of L'Elisir d'Amore produced by the Anchorage Opera Guild. In the 2000-2001 season he served as Musical Director for Anchorage Opera's Studio Theater (an education and outreach program), which provided hands-on workshops to over 9,000 children statewide. Mr. Heavner holds a degree in Piano Performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and has pursued graduate studies in Vocal Accompanying at the Manhattan School of Music. He currently resides in White Plains with his wife, Rina, and two young sons, Benjamin and Tristan.
Zachary Israel Nobile Kampler (Music Director) is the Founder, Artistic Director, and Conductor of The Eastern Festival Symphony Orchestra, which he formed at age nineteen. He began his study of music at the age of five, studying piano with Frank Squillante, going on to study trombone with Clifford Haynes, Dr. Ronald Borrer, as well as James Markey and David Finlayson of the New York Philharmonic. A graduate of the Juilliard Pre-College program, he has performed in Alice Tully Hall and Julliard Hall in addition to studying for three terms at the Conductors Institute at Bard College, working with Maestro Harold Farberman. Kampler holds a B.A. in music from New York University. At age seventeen, Kampler picked up the baton to conduct Staples High School's summer production of The Sound of Music. He went on to conduct many other Staples Players' productions, as well as vocal directing and conducting the Bedford Acting Group. In 2001 he was awarded the Moss Hart Award for his musical direction of West Side Story and conducted the premiere of his own work, entitled The Final Say. Kampler became the assistant conductor to Maestro Salvatore Princiotti at the Stamford Young Artists Philharmonic in 2004 and toured Italy with the orchestra in 2006 performing Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A, Benjamin Chuchinsky, clarinet. Kampler currently studies at Carnegie Hall with the Artistic Director of the New York Grand Opera Company, Maestro Vincent La Selva.
Brenna Sage (Music Director) is delighted to be working at Playhouse on the Green again this summer, as part of Project Broadway! Brenna moved to New York in 2002 from Portland, Oregon, where she had been working as a music director, accompanist, vocal coach, performer, composer and arranger since 1986. She also has numerous credits as a performer, having studied acting, voice and dance at Lewis and Clark College, while majoring in music. Professional credits (music direction, composition, sound design or acting) include: Off Broadway: Big Apple Circus, American Girls Revue, Ass't Music Director. Off-Off-Broadway: Chess, The Full Monty, 4Play, Nunsense, Torch Song Trilogy, 1776, Elektrafire, Urinetown, Puck'd (a punk rock adaptation of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream - for which she composed the music with Billy Atwell). She is currently attending Hunter College in New York, finishing her BA in music and working towards her Masters in Special Education. Working with children in the performing arts has been an important part of her life since she was a child, accompanying music classes and corralling her fourth grade classmates at recess to form their own rock band! www.brennasage.com
Ben Tostado (Director/Choreographer) is a teaching artist in the New York City area for TADA! Youth Theatre, "The Peanut Gallery" at The Gallery Players and at The Kaufman Center, where he choreographed the world-premiere of Sunshine in 2005 and most recently directed The Adventures of Mottel the Cantor's Son earlier this year. Other directing/choreographing/assisting credits include Pippin, Godspell, Grease, Fiddler on the Roof, Aladdin, Company, Little Shop of Horrors, Orpheus in the Underworld, Diary of a Madman and Bally's New Year's Eve in Atlantic City. He has recently produced David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries this past December. As an actor, Ben was last seen in the Off-Broadway production of Seussical at the Lucille Lortel as part of Theatreworks USA's Free Summer Theatre in 2007 and can be heard on the Original Cast Recording due in stores this year. Education: BFA, Ithaca College and Musical Theatre Workshop at Manhattan School of Music with Paul Gemignani. www.bentostado.com
Missy Waryas (Director/Choreographer) has worked as a teaching artist and youth director in Texas, California, and throughout CT for the past six years. Although trained as a performer and director, Missy began working intensely with youth in graduate school and fell in love with teaching. Her work in CT began with Hartford Stage's Education Department where she had the opportunity to teach and direct throughout the Greater Hartford Area. Missy currently works for Oddfellows Playhouse as an arts integration teacher, director, and troupe leader for the Chatham Court Tiny Troupe and serves as the Director of Education for the Ivoryton Playhouse. Teaching for Project Broadway will be Missy's first experience with Playhouse on the Green, and she couldn't be more excited! |
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