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Festival 56 launches summer theatre camp for young actors · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Festival fifty six launches summer theatre camp for young actors.
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  Written by Shaw Local News Network, this article is being
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  read by an automated voice brought to you by Everlet
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  Learning Stage, in cooperation with Festival fifty six, is offering
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  an intensive summer theater camp designed to give young actors
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  ages eight to fourteen, professional training and performance experience. Camp
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  fifty six runs weekdays from July thirteen, twenty five at
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  Saint Matthew's Lutheran Church. Campers will develop acting, singing, movement
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  and dancing skills while working alongside industry professionals assembled from
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  across the country. Over the month long program, participants will
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  experience all aspects of professional theater, including auditioning, improvisation, design, makeup,
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  prop making, technical theater management, and musical theater. Campers will
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  be cast in and rehearse with Festival fifty six company members,
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  gaining behind the scenes experience through professional dress and technical rehearsals.
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  This summer opportunity allows campers the chance to gain a
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  better understanding of a career in theater as they meet
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  and interact with seasoned professional artists. According to the camp description,
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  the culmination of the camp experience is an on stage
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  appearance as part of the chorus ensemble in five to
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  ten performances of Festival fifty six's production of Anastasia, running
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  July thirty one August eighth. Early registrants may participate in
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  an optional front of house workshop in early June, which
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  provides training and ushering and greeting. Participants receive free show admittance.
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  Camp fee is one hundred and fifty dollars per child.
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  Need based scholarships and family discounts are available. Registration forms
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  are available online at www dot Festival five six dot
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  com under the education tab, or can be picked up
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  at the theater. Completed forms and fees should be mailed
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  to Festival fifty six box Office three sixteen s Main,
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  Saint Princeton, Illinois six one three five six, or scanned
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  an email to a Harper at Festival five six dot com.
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  Online registration is also available through the ticketing site at
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  www dot Festival five six dot com. Service fees apply.
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  Registration deadline is June thirtieth, twenty twenty six. Camp fifty
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  six is supported by the Illinois Arts Council, the National
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  Endowment for the Arts, the Sun Foundations Community Arts Access
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  regrainting program, the Princeton Closet, Bob Glazer, Saint Matthew's Lutheran Church,
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  and Monical's Pizza. For more information, follow Learning Stage on Facebook.