Post by StJohnsChurch on May 22, 2019 14:16:12 GMT -5
St. John’s Church, Washington, will offer a Summer Arts Program for Youth in July. The program, “The Rainy Days and Nights of Mr. and Mrs. Noah,” is a three week musical theater workshop designed for children ages 6 through 11 that will culminate in two performances on July 26th and July 27th, times to be determined.
The three-week program offers a dynamic learning environment. Directed and produced by outstanding professionals with notable accomplishments, the workshop provides opportunities for artistic growth, self-expression, education, and teamwork by introducing participants to all aspects of a musical theater production such as singing, dancing, acting and fun. No experience is required.
The musical, an original created for this program, was written by St. John’s parishioner, award-winning playwright, novelist, and director, Tom Dulack. Tom Dulack’s plays include “Incommunicado” which was awarded The Kennedy Center’s Prize for New American Plays; “Friends Like These,” which won the Kaufman & Hart Prize for New American Comedy, and the long-running Off Broadway hit “Breaking Legs.” A professor of English at UConn, he has also written and directed over 40 Young People’s Concerts at the New York Philharmonic between 2005 and 2016.
Heather Lipson Bell, whom Dulack has been collaborating with since 2008, will be co-directing the musical program. Bell is a Los Angeles-based dancer and choreographer who works nationally and internationally on both stage and screen and specializes in outreach and special needs programs. Since 2008, Bell and Dulack have worked together on nine Young People’s Concerts at the New York Philharmonic, two children’s shows telecast in the Midwest by PBS, two one-act operas staged at Symphony Space in NYC, and Dulack’s adaptation for kids of a Baroque opera which was staged in Munich, Germany, by the Bavarian Radio Orchestra. Ms Lipson Bell has been an assistant director of the Los Angeles Opera Company’s annual production of Benjamin Britten’s opera “Noye's Fludde,” and that experience has been invaluable, Dulack says, in helping create this new work based very loosely on the Biblical story.
The “The Rainy Days and Nights of Mr. and Mrs. Noah” workshop is $50 per child and will run 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Mondays through Fridays on July 8th through July 26th, 2019.
Program spots are limited. To register, visit stjohnswashington.org or call 860-868-2527.
stjohnswashington.com/the-rainy-days-nights-of-mr-mrs-noah/
The three-week program offers a dynamic learning environment. Directed and produced by outstanding professionals with notable accomplishments, the workshop provides opportunities for artistic growth, self-expression, education, and teamwork by introducing participants to all aspects of a musical theater production such as singing, dancing, acting and fun. No experience is required.
The musical, an original created for this program, was written by St. John’s parishioner, award-winning playwright, novelist, and director, Tom Dulack. Tom Dulack’s plays include “Incommunicado” which was awarded The Kennedy Center’s Prize for New American Plays; “Friends Like These,” which won the Kaufman & Hart Prize for New American Comedy, and the long-running Off Broadway hit “Breaking Legs.” A professor of English at UConn, he has also written and directed over 40 Young People’s Concerts at the New York Philharmonic between 2005 and 2016.
Heather Lipson Bell, whom Dulack has been collaborating with since 2008, will be co-directing the musical program. Bell is a Los Angeles-based dancer and choreographer who works nationally and internationally on both stage and screen and specializes in outreach and special needs programs. Since 2008, Bell and Dulack have worked together on nine Young People’s Concerts at the New York Philharmonic, two children’s shows telecast in the Midwest by PBS, two one-act operas staged at Symphony Space in NYC, and Dulack’s adaptation for kids of a Baroque opera which was staged in Munich, Germany, by the Bavarian Radio Orchestra. Ms Lipson Bell has been an assistant director of the Los Angeles Opera Company’s annual production of Benjamin Britten’s opera “Noye's Fludde,” and that experience has been invaluable, Dulack says, in helping create this new work based very loosely on the Biblical story.
The “The Rainy Days and Nights of Mr. and Mrs. Noah” workshop is $50 per child and will run 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Mondays through Fridays on July 8th through July 26th, 2019.
Program spots are limited. To register, visit stjohnswashington.org or call 860-868-2527.
stjohnswashington.com/the-rainy-days-nights-of-mr-mrs-noah/