The Summer Youth Project is a multi-week camp for young folks interested in learning about theatre. During the camp, they learn about all aspects of the theatre as well as rehearse to put on a show. This year, we have two camps, one for ages 7-12 and one for ages 12-18. One ticket gets access to both shows!
This version of Jack and the Beanstalk is set in the American Appalachian Mountains. Written just for kids, this script is perfect for a large cast young folks, full of easy familiar songs and and heart stirrin' audience participation. Here is the classic tale told country style. Banjos twang and the hills ring with country folk music. Down in Sweetwater Holler, poor Mama can't get Jack to do a thing. When she sends Jack to market to sell the cow, we're off on a high flyin' adventure! Magic Polly's got just the thing for Jack - five magic beans. But Mama throws them away and Jack goes to bed with his tummy a' rumblin'. Tale Tellers and Magic Makers conduct the audience in a feat of magic -- helping to grow the fantastic beanstalk that climbs right through the clouds to the sky! Fee Fie Foe Fum! Old Dan Tucker the giant is fixin' to eat him a nice helping of little boy stew. But Jack overcomes his fears. He and Lucy the golden goose and Strum Along the rock star banjo escape down the beanstalk with giants trailing behind them! Magic Polly brings Miss Booboo home, Mama loves good boy Jack again and everyone sings around the fire. Was it real or just a dream? No matter. Jack says "Fee Fie Foe Fum... I'm not afraid of anyone!"
It’s 1959, and Rydell High School’s senior class is in rare form. The too-cool-for-school “Burger Palace Boys” are stealing hub-caps and acting tough and their gum-snapping, chain-smoking “Pink Ladies” are looking cool in bobby sox and pedal pushers. The 1950s high school dream is about to explode in this rollicking musical that is both an homage to the idealism of the fifties and a satire of high schoolers’ age-old desire to be rebellious. At the heart of the story is the romance between hot-rodding gangster Danny Zuko and the sweet new girl in town, Sandy Dumbrowski. They had a secret romance in summer, but now back in the context of school, peer-pressure and cliques make their love a bit more complicated. Can Danny maintain his cool dude status and still make demure Sandy his girl? The whole gang sings and dances around Danny and Sandy’s romance, through such hit songs as "Greased Lightnin'", "We Go Together”, and “Mooning”, recalling the music of Buddy Holly, Little Richard and Elvis Presley that became the soundtrack of a generation. Grease is among the world’s most popular musicals and has a cult-like following, especially among teens!