Summer Theater Youth Company, Ages 8-12 (Summer 2016)

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Theater Arts

Summer Theater: Youth Company, Ages 8-12

"Alice in Wonderland"
Four-week daily program, Monday-Friday: June 27 to July 22 (NO REHEARSAL ON 7/4)
9am to 12pm
Virginia May Edinger, Youth Company Director
Richard Cherry, Musical Director
Hubbard Hall Mainstage
Cost: $399 for the four-week program
Add Afternoon Arts for $60 per week!
Ask about sibling discounts. Tuition assistance available, scholarship applications due by June 21 for priority consideration. Download a Scholarship Application here.

Performances, Hubbard Hall Mainstage: Friday, July 22 at 7pm, Saturday July 23 at 2pm

Hubbard Hall invites all kids ages 8-12 to come and participate in a four-week-long summer theatre program and musical, Alice in Wonderland-- a fun morning filled with games, activities, theatre and music, all culminating in a final performance. The program will be directed by Virginia Edinger (director of Really Rosie! and Hubbard Hall Hits!) with musical direction by Richard Cherry. 

Fall down the rabbit hole with Alice, the Queen of Hearts and all of the classic characters in Tim Nelson’s entertaining adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s stories of Wonderland.

Kids will learn the basics of the inner workings of theatre…play team-building, improv, and acting games to build an ensemble and confidence…and work in tandem with the director and musical director to conceptualize and then actualize ideas. Participants will also create their own sets, props, and even costumes. This will be a student-driven show. Ultimately the final product will be the culmination of the weeks of rehearsals, exercises, and summer fun, to create a performance to showcase all of the material learned and contrived.

 

About the Director: This is a homecoming of sorts for Virginia May Edinger. Ginny participated in Hubbard Hall Children’s Theatre for four years, from age 9 to age 12. She has directed two productions with the Youth Theater program and also assistant directed two productions with the program. Her Hubbard Hall history also includes many years of Irish dance, Ballet, Tap, Hip-Hop/Jazz, Dances of India, and Jazz Band. She has been in four operas with HHOT, and three Summer Shakespeare productions. She has also done productions with Fort Salem Theater, Schuylerville Community Theater, and Greenwich Jr. and Sr. High Schools. Her theater training includes a summer intensive at Ben Vereen’s Broadway Theater Project. She is a 2014 graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy, where she was a high school Theater Major. She is currently attending SUNY Purchase as a double major in Playwriting/Screenwriting and Theater & Performance.

 

About the Musical Director: Richard Cherry has been the Musical Director for a number of theater companies in the region. He was the Musical Director for Sunday in the Park with George, Meet Me in St. Louis, Sweeney Todd, The Secret Garden, Man of La Mancha, Merrily We Roll Along, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and the world premiere of He Who Gets Slapped as well as numerous children’s theatre productions for The Theatre Company at Hubbard Hall in Cambridge, New York. For Home Made Theater in Saratoga Springs, New York, he was Musical Director for How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Curtains, Hair and Nine to Five: The Musical. For Channel Z Productions in Saratoga Springs he was Musical Director for Drood, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Runaways, Zombie Prom, The Robber Bridegroom and the regional premiere of The Last Five years. For the Dorset Players he has been Musical Director for Anyone Can Whistle and She Loves Me. He has been a faculty member of the Canberra School of Music, Canberra, Australia and of the Rockland Conservatory of Music and Blue Rock School, both in Rockland County, New York. He presently works in the Music Department at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York. When not otherwise engaged he teaches sword fencing. 

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