Theater Arts

Summer Theater: Youth Company, Ages 8-12

"Really Rosie"
Four-week daily program, Monday-Friday: June 29 to July 24
9am to 12pm
Hubbard Hall Mainstage

"Really Rosie"
Four-week daily program, Monday-Friday: June 29 to July 24
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. Scholarships available, application deadline June 26.

Showcase, Hubbard Hall Mainstage: Friday, July 24 at 7pm
Performances, Hubbard Hall Mainstage: Saturday, July 25 at 2pm and 7pm

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

Really Rosie is a wild romp of a musical through the lives of the Nutshell Kids as they put on a show, with lyrics by renowned children's author and illustrator Maurice Sendak and music by Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Carole King. Really Rosie was the first production done by Hubbard Hall's Children's Theatre back in 1985. This summer will be the 30 year anniversary of the Children's Theatre Program and what better production to ring in a new era at the Hall than with a classic?

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 also assistant directed two productions with the program (The Hobbit 2013, Happily Ever After 2014). 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 25^th 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.