Summer Youth Program
The CAP21 Summer Youth Program is the perfect opportunity to develop the skills to learn how the Broadway professionals rehearse and mount a musical. Over the course of the program students will rehearse and perform a production.
The 2012 production selections are written by Debra Barsha (currently serving as Associate Conductor for the Broadway production of Jersey Boys!). Debra will also be directing the 2012 summer productions The Emperor's New Condo and overseeing House Off!, giving our young performers the unique opportunity to work directly with her on her own material.
2012 Program Dates:
Monday, August 13th-Friday,August 17th: 12:30pm-4:30pm
Performance: Friday, August 17th at 6pm.
2012 Productions:
Ages 7-9: House Off!
Ages 10-13: The Emperor's New Condo
Program Description:
Each day will begin with a fun-filled warm-up, followed by musical theatre exercises, improvisation, theatre games, and character work. The remainder of the time will be dedicated to rehearsal .
The CAP21 Summer Youth Program culminates with a performance, which will take place in CAP21's Theatre. Parents and friends are invited to come enjoy the performances and the reception immediately following the production.
Tuition:
-Tuition for the program is $450.
-A non-refundable deposit of $150 is required to secure your child's place in the program.
Please note: Space in the program is NOT RESERVED until a deposit has been processed.
-The remaining tuition balance of $300 is due on the first day of class.
Early Tuition Payment Discount:
If you choose to pay your tuition in full by June 1st, you will receive a $50 discount on the cost of tuition.
Please contact [email protected] or 646.213.5488 if you have any questions or need further assistance.
CAP21
Attn: Youth Program Summer Production Camp
18 W. 18th Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10011
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Youth Program Faculty:
DEBRA BARSHA won the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Award for composing the score to Radiant Baby (the life of graffiti artist Keith Haring), produced at the Public Theatre, directed by George C. Wolfe. Radiant Baby received 3 Lucille Lortel nominations including Outstanding Musical. In addition, Barsha won a second Larson grant in conjunction with Adelphi University to compose the music for an evening of her songs called I Was Here, which she also directed. Composer credits include: Blackout (Amas), Sophie (Jewish Repertory Theater), NBC's Policewoman Centerfold soundtrack, and her one-woman shows Go To Your Womb and A Womb With a View (CAP21 – dir. Frank Ventura). Barsha has had her songs recorded/performed by George Clinton, Jackie Mason, Marty Balin, Rebecca Luker and Michael Winther among others. She has recorded with Bootsy Collins, Dave Stuart, Patti Austin, Thomas Dolby, George Clinton and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Her original CDs Women in Windows and Barsha Raw! Live at Ars Nova are available on iTunes. Barsha played keyboards and sang on Thomas Dolby's Flat Earth Tour and performed roles in the original off-Broadway companies of both Tony 'N' Tina's Wedding and Charles Busch's Swingtime Canteen (Musical Director for both). Her children's musicals, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and The Emperor's New Condo have been performed annually in schools throughout the country. She runs the Rock Pop Mini Musical Camp at the Roxbury Arts Group every summer and hosts a monthly radio show called The First Saturday of the Month on WIOX 91.3 FM. Her music was heard in New York Theater Workshop's Songs From an Unmade Bed, (cast album on Ghostlight Records). Barsha is the Musical Director for the upcoming Peter Gabriel musical US, and was Musical Director of NY Stage and Film's Sam Bendrix at the Bon Soir, starring ABC's Brothers and Sisters star Luke MacFarlane. She was Music Supervisor of A.R.T.'s Cabaret starring Amanda Palmer, as well as Prometheus Bound (dir. Diane Paulus). This year, she conducted Stop The Virgens, Karen O's psycho opera at St. Ann's Warehouse. Barsha created and performed in Debra and Mary's Night on Town, a live talk/music show with Mary Cleere Haran, which featured guests such as Tim Gunn (Project Runway), Terry Jones (Monty Python), Michael Feinstein and Rupert Holmes. Currently, Debra is the Associate Conductor Jersey Boys on Broadway.
HADLEY CRONK began performing at the age of 10. Hadley graduated with a BFA in Drama from NYU's Tisch School at CAP21. Favorite roles at CAP21 include Josephine in Urinetown and The Baker's Wife in Into the Woods. Recent credits include: A Christmas Carol with TheatreworksUSA, POP! at the Richmond-Shepard Theatre, New Beulah at the Gene Frankel Theatre, and Resilient Souls--an oratorio written by Tony award nominated composer and director Liz Swados.
ALLYN BARD RATHUS has a Master of Arts in Educational Theatre with Teacher Certification for all grades from NYU Steinhardt, and was the recipient of the 2010 Award in recognition of Outstanding Achievement and Citizenship in the Graduate Educational Theatre Program. Allyn received her BFA in Drama from CAP21 (NYU Tisch School of the Arts). Allyn has taught Drama at the Central Foundation Boy's School in London, The Mandell School in New York City, and Kent Place School in New Jersey. Allyn continues to work with Steinhardt faculty members on the Program's Youth Shakespeare Initiative, and on development of theatre for young audiences. Other recent credits include Perez Hilton Saves The Universe! (Producer, rat house productions, The Bleecker Street Theatre, NYC) You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown (Producer, The Century Center for the Performing Arts, NYC), Broadway: August: Osage County (Richards/Climan, Inc.), The Threepenny Opera & Assassins (The Roundabout Theatre Company), Acting: Woyzeck (NYU-Steinhardt), All My Children (ABC), Guiding Light (CBS), As The World Turns (CBS), national commercials and campaigns including Microsoft, Time Warner, Dick's Sporting Goods, L'Oreal, Cingular.
