Join our Center Stage Teens Mentorship Class, where experienced teen performers can serve as positive role models and mentors to younger theater students. In this dynamic class, teen mentors will demonstrate theater skills such as acting, movement, and stage presence, while guiding and encouraging the younger students. As everyone collaborates on the Center Stage Kids performance of “Charlotte’s Web” this program fosters leadership, teamwork, confidence, and faith. It’s a meaningful opportunity for teens to grow as performers and mentors while inspiring a love for theater across all ages. This is a FREE volunteer mentorship opportunity. ***This is an APPROVED ONLY MENTORSHIP THEATER PROGRAM. All registered students will be contacted by the Director to schedule an interview in order to be considered for the approval process. Mentors will be expected to help during the performances. There will be two live performances on January 10th (adult tickets $10, child tickets $8). The supply fee covers the students script.
Requirements:
This class has additional required commitment dates: 9/12-Parent Meeting, 11/15-Super Saturday, 12/17-Parent Meeting, 1/7, 1/8, 1/9-Dress Rehearsals, 1/10-Performances. 1/14 -Class Party.
***This registration is for CREW only. Crew members run the show during production and help design, build, and decorate the sets, props, costumes, sound, and lighting during club time. Please note that Annie is a musical production.
AUDITIONS on January 27 are optional for Crew, although attendance to support those auditioning is welcome.
***THIS CLASS WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL PRACTICES/REHEARSALS BEFORE THE PRODUCTION AS WELL AS MANDATORY PARENT PARTICIPATION TO PULL OFF THE PRODUCTION
Requirements:
Spring Theatre Club starts on February 3, 2023
***MANDATORY PARENT MEETING at 5:00 PM. - February 3rd.
Tech Week will be April 17-19 from 6:00 PM-9:00 PM as well as Dress Rehearsal April 20 from 6:00-9:30 PM.
Performances are April 21-22, and 28-29.
Welcome to our Drama Class for early elementary kids, Center Stage Jr.! This session, we’ll be adapting a children's book “The Empty Pot”, into a short play! The Story is based on an old Chinese fable about a boy named Ping who loved flowers and making them bloom. The Emperor loved flowers too. When it was time to choose a new heir, he gave a flower seed to each child in the kingdom. "Whoever can show me their best in a year's time," he proclaimed, "shall succeed me to the throne!". However, Ping's seed did not bloom. This story teaches about integrity and the value of being honest.
Through theater games and fun exercises, your student will learn about the basics of acting and how to use imagination to bring characters to life. In this paired down performance, we’ll skip costumes and sets to focus on expression and storytelling. I’ll narrate while the children act out their scenes. We’ll wrap up with a small in class performance on the final day, creating an intimate experience for families in a cozy space so everyone can hear and enjoy. Looking forward to a fun journey into storytelling with all of you!
Learn to create scenes on the spot! In this class we will be diving into short form and long form improv. Short form improv is a series of games we play where actors create a scene based on given circumstances. Long form improv is where actors create a scene completely from nothing using only one prompt word. Whether you are new to acting or well versed, improv is a necessity for all actors. Watch your acting skills improve as you learn to set yourself free in the area of improv!
Have you ever wanted to know what happens behind the scenes during a play? In this class students learn just that! Every student will get to participate in using their creative skills to make sets and props to be in the performance of "The Prince & the Pauper". They will also learn great leadership and teamwork skills while working together backstage to create the scenes for the cast to preform. Kids will also have the opportunity to learn some tech skills in operating spotlights and handling mics. This class will work alongside the cast production and will occasionally join together for the weekly class time. IMPORTANT DATES: January 30: Mandatory Parent Meeting from 5-5:30 PM, after our first class. April 19: Super Saturday. May 22: Cue to Cue - CREW ONLY. May 23: Dress Rehearsal 4 PM-7 PM. May 24: Performances at 2 PM & 6 PM, plan to ARRIVE at 12:30pm and plan for a dinner break in between shows. CREW students will have backstage roles assigned in support of the production during each of the performances. May 25: Strike the stage & Theater Party, time TBD.
Requirements:
REQUIRED CREW ITEMS for performances: ALL BLACK clothes, socks and ALL BLACK SHOES: either all black tennis shoes with no other colors or jazz shoes.
Center Stage Costuming is a class to teach students sewing basics and costuming creativity skills! The students will be making costumes for the Center Stage: Anne of Green Gables students to wear in the performance. I hope that the students will learn not just sewing techniques, but how to harness their God given creativity. I hope that they will make unique and beautiful costumes for the theater students to wear. My goal is to equip them with creative design skills that will benefit them. This class is so much more than sewing, it is about character development and telling a story!
Requirements:
Students must follow safety rules in order to operate machinery and use sharp tools. REQUIRED ITEMS for performances: ALL BLACK clothes, socks and ALL BLACK SHOES: either all black tennis shoes with no other colors or jazz shoes.
IMPORTANT DATES:
1/31 Parent Meeting 5pm
4/12 Super Saturday
4/25 Run Through / Parent Meeting 5:30pm
4/28 - 5/1 Tech Week 5pm-10pm
5/1 Dress Rehearsal / Pictures
5/2 Opening Night
5/3 Performances 2pm and 6pm
5/4 Performance 4pm / Strike 7pm
5/9 Theater Party 2-5pm
5/16 CREW and COSTUMING ONLY Organization/storage day
Tuesday - Dance Studio A - 116: 11:00 am - 11:50 am
Description:
Welcome to our first ever Drama Class for early elementary kids! This session, we’ll be adapting a children's book written by one of our very own teachers, Larry Choate, "There’s a Giant Spider in Joey’s Front Yard", into a short play! The story invites us to explore how each creature God created has unique talents and purposes—even those we may fear! Through theater games and fun exercises, your student will learn about the basics of acting and how to use imagination to bring characters to life.
In this pared-down performance, we’ll skip costumes and sets to focus on expression and storytelling. I’ll narrate while the children act out their scenes. We’ll wrap up with a small performance on the final day, creating an intimate experience for families in a cozy space so everyone can hear and enjoy. Looking forward to a fun journey into storytelling with all of you!
In this class we will meet every week preparing for an end performance on May 10 and 11 (show details coming soon). Along the way your student will learn about theater, but the main point in this class is the put those skills into practice. It is not required, but encouraged that you take one of the theater classes as well so you can be learning more in the meantime.
In this class we will work on basic reading, writing, and counting skills to set a good foundation for our learning in the years to come. Every class will entail a story where we practice our sight words, we practice our writing with activities for strengthening fine motor skills, and of course a fun counting activity. We will end the class with some free play.
Colors are all around us! Each week we will explore a new color. Class begins with circle time which includes a read-aloud, songs/movement, and activities related to our weekly color. Students then move to stations. Stations generally include an art project, math/science activity, and sensory bin. To end class, we come back to circle and students “share” with the class what they made or did that day!