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foolish_m0rtal So at the Academy of Fine Arts downtown, there's a musical theatre camp that starts up every summer, culminating at the end of four with live performances of that year's musical.
They've done stuff like Seusical the Musical, Meet Me in St. Louis, and The Music Man. I finally got four full weeks of nothing to myself this summer because I've no further need of college resume garnishes (for now) and do not have to hare off to some engineering camp or other.
The camp is all day and consists of classes in the morning and working on the production in the afternoon.
Our classes follow two alternating schedules:
Schedule A: Acting, Music, Broadway 101
Schedule B: Technical Theatre, Dance, Makeup/Stage Combat
In Broadway 101, we put together three skits combined with songs: "There is Nothing Like a Dame" from South Pacific (I was Bloody Mary), "Matchmaker" from Fiddler on the Roof, and "I Feel Pretty" from West Side Story (I was Marguerita). Videos of our presentations during Showcase day will be uploaded shortly. The only one up right now is one of the singing pieces. Please note that they switched their names around.
Technical Theatre was all about sets (FM with power tools, yay!), lighting, sound, etc. Best part of the day was chasing Joe around with the plastic sheeting used for our painting projects and trapping him under a huge bubble of air.
In Makeup, I got to make myself look twenty years older (my friend Nathaniel looked about seventy), and got to fool my parents with fake bruises and horrific lacerations.
Stage Combat was about proving those bruises to the audience. We did hairpulls, dragging, and slaps/punches/kicks to the face/ribs/back/groin. We also practiced falling painfully, stuff that comes naturally to any professional basketball player who's good at foul shots.
Our production this year was Honk!, a musical about the Ugly Duckling. It won an Olivier award over in Britain (beating out the Lion King), so I guess it wasn't a 'kiddy' musical. You can find out more about the musical here.
In our production, I was Maureen, something that kind of surprised me, since this was my first year and I wasn't a 'theatre kid.' I didn't think I would get a part that included lines and (gulp) solo singing. But whatever it was, it was a pretty cool experience. I got to injure my knee doing shenay turns with a giant plastic 3 ft. piece of french bread. ♥! That was the LAST time I attempted that in converse shoes...
We had three performances, with a lot of running around and costume changing. The costumes looked pretty great, though. The photos go in order with The Bullfrog and Me, Two Pheasants and a Military Goose Harassing the Turkey, The Ducks Ida and Drake with their Chicks, and Me as the Chicken Maureen in an Astonishingly Good Picture of Myself.
They've done stuff like Seusical the Musical, Meet Me in St. Louis, and The Music Man. I finally got four full weeks of nothing to myself this summer because I've no further need of college resume garnishes (for now) and do not have to hare off to some engineering camp or other.
The camp is all day and consists of classes in the morning and working on the production in the afternoon.
Our classes follow two alternating schedules:
Schedule A: Acting, Music, Broadway 101
Schedule B: Technical Theatre, Dance, Makeup/Stage Combat
In Broadway 101, we put together three skits combined with songs: "There is Nothing Like a Dame" from South Pacific (I was Bloody Mary), "Matchmaker" from Fiddler on the Roof, and "I Feel Pretty" from West Side Story (I was Marguerita). Videos of our presentations during Showcase day will be uploaded shortly. The only one up right now is one of the singing pieces. Please note that they switched their names around.
Technical Theatre was all about sets (FM with power tools, yay!), lighting, sound, etc. Best part of the day was chasing Joe around with the plastic sheeting used for our painting projects and trapping him under a huge bubble of air.
In Makeup, I got to make myself look twenty years older (my friend Nathaniel looked about seventy), and got to fool my parents with fake bruises and horrific lacerations.
Stage Combat was about proving those bruises to the audience. We did hairpulls, dragging, and slaps/punches/kicks to the face/ribs/back/groin. We also practiced falling painfully, stuff that comes naturally to any professional basketball player who's good at foul shots.
Our production this year was Honk!, a musical about the Ugly Duckling. It won an Olivier award over in Britain (beating out the Lion King), so I guess it wasn't a 'kiddy' musical. You can find out more about the musical here.
In our production, I was Maureen, something that kind of surprised me, since this was my first year and I wasn't a 'theatre kid.' I didn't think I would get a part that included lines and (gulp) solo singing. But whatever it was, it was a pretty cool experience. I got to injure my knee doing shenay turns with a giant plastic 3 ft. piece of french bread. ♥! That was the LAST time I attempted that in converse shoes...
We had three performances, with a lot of running around and costume changing. The costumes looked pretty great, though. The photos go in order with The Bullfrog and Me, Two Pheasants and a Military Goose Harassing the Turkey, The Ducks Ida and Drake with their Chicks, and Me as the Chicken Maureen in an Astonishingly Good Picture of Myself.
Well, ok then
Date: 2008-08-12 08:02 pm (UTC)~victoria
Re: Well, ok then
Date: 2008-08-12 08:09 pm (UTC)