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Youth & Teen Theater
Get ready to raise the curtain and take center stage as the spotlight is on the Mandell JCC's Theater Programs. Each year, these programs features an age-appropriate musical stage production of a popular show.
With professional direction and live musical accompaniment, young thespians audition, rehearse, and present several performances in front of friends and family in the Mandell JCC's 400-seat Herbert & Evelyn Gilman Theater.
J Center Stage Team:
Meg Buckner Furtick, Theater Director/Choreographer
Meg Markwith, Youth Music Director
Sam Moffett, Teen Music Director
Samm Smith-Rapaport, Stage Manager
Mira Godel, Program Administrator
Financial aid available:
For more information, contact Kim Corona Charron, 860-231-6439, kcharron@mandelljcc.org.
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Theater Classes
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Acting classes are in collaboration with Playhouse Theatre Academy and are held at the Mandell JCC. The classes will culminate with a student showcase!
Under the Sea Adventure
Grades K-2
Far far away in the deep sea at the JCC lived mermaids, pirates, coral, fish, and TONS of under the sea creatures! Since summer is just around the corner, what could be better than the ocean? Students will partake in under the sea games, skits, and a dance! Not just this, but students will create their own under the sea play, which will be performed at the end of the course! Join us for an ocean filled time of energy, fun, and creativity!
Instructor: Emma MacLaren
Thu | 4:00-4:45pm | Apr 24-June 5
$154/130 JCC Member, 7 weeks
Class max: 12 students
Musical Theatre Cabaret: Friendship
Grades 3-8
Getting your dancing shoes on, singing voice loud, and turn your acting faces on high as we put the JCC on Broadway!!!! In the Musical Theatre Cabaret, students will learn what it’s like to audition for a show, to work in small groups in musicals, and practice stage presence as well as confidence!!! The course will conclude with a final performance with a theme of friendship!!! Join us for excitement, to strengthen skills, and for friendship!
Instructor: Emma MacLaren
Thu | 5:00-6:00pm | Apr 24-June 5
$154/130 JCC Member, 7 weeks
Class max: 12 students
Welcome Emma MacLaren!
Emma MacLaren is thrilled to be on the staff of Playhouse Theatre Academy! She is a theatre B.A. student at The University of Vermont. Previously, Emma has worked as both an assistant teacher as well as intern at Hartford Stage, working with students 5-14! Her non-performance credits include choreographing WILLY WONKA KIDS, assistant directing SPONGEBOB THE MUSICAL, working on costumes on the BOOK OF MORMON NATIONAL TOUR, as well as acting as the assistant stage manager for IMOGEN SAYS NOTHING. Emma also acts as the student representative for theatre at The University of Vermont.
Emma has also performed in CARRIE THE MUSICAL as Carrie, THE TEMPEST as Prospero, DANCE NATION as Vanessa, Xanthias in THE FROGS, Rosie in MAMMA MIA, Emma in EMMA A POP MUSICAL, and about twenty-five other productions. She is also currently working on a production of CINDERELLA at the Warner Theatre as Portia. Emma is twenty years old, and has been performing for eighteen years. Her training includes eleven years of voice lessons, eleven years of theatrical performance, and eighteen years of dance.
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