**Seventh Grade and Up**

Rehearsals: Mondays & Wednesdays, 5:30pm – 7:00pm (classes begin after Labor Day)

Show: December 3-5, 2021

Everyone loves in’s, Ricky, E.J. And Gina… but where did it all begin?

Disney Channel’s smash hit movie musical comes to life on your stage in Disney’s High School Musical. Troy, Gabriella and the students of East High must deal with issues of love, friends and family while balancing their classes and extra curricular activities. The show’s infectious songs will keep us “all in this together” until the last bow!

This  is where your love for the stage can begin!

In our pre-school to early elementary class, we will be exploring every part of the stage including prop-building, dancing, singing, and acting.  Whether you have a young performer destined for Broadway or just a little theatre enthusiast, we will help grow their love of theatre with new friends and explore the joys of storytelling!

All teachers are vaccinated. Open Warehouse space and new HVAC system.

Outdoors bring lawn seating

Ben Franklin performed by Larry Bounds

Living in the Age of Enlightenment, Ben Franklin was many things: a printer, a postmaster, an ambassador, an author, a scientist, a founding father. Above all, he was an inventor, creating solutions to common problems, innovating new technology, new governments and even making life a little more musical. Franklin upheld science and intellect and reason – scandalous man!

Franklin helped invent and reinvent the American government as well as himself. He was a Loyalist who transformed into a patriot and founding father. He proposed the Albany Plan, mirroring the Iroquois. He drew up the Articles of Confederation uniting the colonies under the British Crown – and then he signed their Declaration of Independence. As the oldest delegate at the Constitutional Convention, he declared that the new government was a republic – if we can keep it.

Besides his experiments in electricity and inventions of bifocals, swim fins, the Franklin stove and the glass armonica, perhaps Ben Franklin should be best known for helping create a government with the flexibility to reinvent itself.

 Rain Plan: The show will be  performed live at the Transylvania Library (next to the Amphitheater) in the Rogow Room.

Taught by Janice Schreiber
Ages 5-7
Aug 31-Oct 19, 2021 | Tuesdays at 4:00-5:00 PM

Join us on our way to imaginationland! Students will learn the basics of performance technique, explore exciting characterizations, and use their bodies, voices, and imaginations to bring stories and characters to life. Some of our favorite cartoon and real life characters just might make an appearance!

Learn how to bring scripts to life! During this class, students will explore short scenes and learn to analyze scripts, make strong acting choices, and create compelling characters. Students pick their favorite scenes for a showcase during the final class.

CLICK HERE TO APPLY FOR A SCHOLARSHIP

Please do not purchase registration prior to applying for a scholarship. Applications must be received by 2:00pm on Tuesday, August 24th for consideration.

Join us Tuesday nights, beginning April 13th, as The Magnetic Theatre teams up with the wizards at Smoky Park Supper Club to host a live, outdoor variety show. We’ll be filling Smoky Park’s gorgeous, riverside outdoor space with comedy, theatre, music and so much more.

There will be food and beverages available for purchase.

• This is a BYOC (Bring-Your-Own-Chair) event.
• In accordance with safety guidelines this show will be staged outdoors, with mask and social distancing protocols enforced. There will also be temperature checks and COVID waivers that need to be signed by each attendee at the gate.
• Please arrive at least 15 minutes before the 7pm showtime.
• We do require that masks be worn at all times unless you are actively eating or drinking.

Hedy Lamarr performed by Judith Kalaora

Who would have believed that “The Most Beautiful Woman in the World,” Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr, was a genuine ceiling-crasher scientist whose groundbreaking invention revolutionized modern communication, and made your cell phone, GPS, and Wi-Fi possible? But there’s no law that says an inventor can’t be beautiful.

She was the scintillating adolescent in Ekstase; the cunning wife who wrenched herself free from a dead marriage to a Nazi munitions mogul, the beautiful refugee who fled the Nazis to become a Hollywood movie siren, the Mark Zuckerburg-esque twenty-something brash enough to believe her inventions would upend the world. Perhaps the most important thing Hedy Lamarr reinvented was herself.

For all the girls, women, and anyone ever told they cannot do math, understand science, or change the universe, Hedy Lamarr will inspire you to continue your pursuit to reinvent your world.

 Rain Plan: The show will be performed live at the Transylvania Library (next to the Amphitheatera) in the Rogow Room.

Judith Kalaora is a professional educator, actress, and living historian. She graduated Magna cum Laude from Syracuse University and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting, along with a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Language and Culture. She attended the Globe Education Program of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, England.

Judith founded History at Play™ in 2010 to provide educational entertainment, chronicling the lives of influential and often forgotten women. Judith researches, writes, produces and performs.

She also performs as Christa McAuliffe, Dolley Madison, Lucy Stone, Rachel Revere. Last winter she performed in Spartanburg as Deborah Sampson.

For more information about her company History At Play™: HistoryAtPlay.com

Virtual Discussion with Ian Ruskin (Nikola Tesla)

During the History Comes Alive Festival afternoons at 2:00p from Tue Sept 7 – Sat Sept 11, you can pick the brains of the historical performers. No costumes, no script, just a chance to have some personal time and dialog with the Chautauqua performers. The Discussion Series is held virtually online.

Each Discussion features a different performer/historical figure. And if you tune into multiple Discussions, you’ll begin to see how the 2021 “Reinventing America” historical figures relate to each other.

Ian Ruskin trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and then worked for the next 15 years in England in repertory companies, London’s West End, and in television and film. Highlights included working in the Laurence Olivier “King Lear” for Granada Television and playing Jack in “Jack the Ripper” at the Players Theatre, London.

He came to Los Angeles in 1985. A pattern developed of guest star roles, usually playing the intelligent bad guy, in shows such as “Murder She Wrote”, “Scarecrow and Mrs. King”, and “MacGyver.” While this work paid the rent, it did not in any way fulfill his dream as a student at RADA – to be involved in great plays that could not only move audiences but could shine a light on their shared humanity, not happening on “MacGyver.”

In 1994 he was cast to play a real-life character by the name of Harry Bridges and his life changed. He discovered that Bridges was a man whose beliefs and values inspired him. The cast performed a reading for Bridges’ union, the ILWU, and received a ten-minute standing ovation. Ian realized that he had found a way to “shine a light” again.

So Ian wrote “From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks”, which had its world premieres at the University of Washington, Seattle and at the Warner Grand Theatre, San Pedro. He has since performed it over 250 times to approximately 50,000 people. This led to a film of a live performance, directed by legendary filmmaker Haskell Wexler, which aired across America on PBS for four years, making it available to 150 million Americans. Then he discovered Thomas Paine. Now, with “To Begin the World Over Again: the Life of Thomas Paine” complete, filmed and airing on public television stations, he has turned to his most challenging project to date, getting into the mind of Nikola Tesla.

To visit Ian Ruskin’s personal website, please go to: www.ianruskin.org

Tech Week (Group 1): Nov 1-4 | Monday through Thursday | 4:30-6:30 PM
Tech Week (Group 2): Nov 8-11 | Monday through Thursday | 4:30-6:30 PM
Tech Week (Group 3): Nov 8-11 | Monday through Thursday | 6:30-8:30 PM

Performances (Group 1): Saturday, Nov 6 at 2:30 PM and Sunday, Nov 7 at 6:30 PM
Performances (Group 2): Saturday, Nov 13 at 2:30 PM and Sunday, Nov 14 at 2:30 PM
Performances (Group 3): Saturday, Nov 13 at 5:30 PM and Sunday, Nov 14 at 5:30 PM

What goes on behind the curtains? In this course students learn the ins and outs of technical theatre and backstage work, including safety, basic light and sound board operation, and stage management. Students will then put their skills to practice by covering all technical and backstage roles during the Youth Clue performances. Students will split tech and performance dates so some scheduling conflicts may be accommodated.

CLICK HERE TO APPLY FOR A SCHOLARSHIP

Please do not purchase registration prior to applying for a scholarship. Applications must be received by 2:00pm on Wednesday, September 1st for consideration.

**Seventh Grade and Up**

Rehearsals: Mondays & Wednesdays, 5:30pm – 7:00pm (classes begin after Labor Day)

Show: December 3-5, 2021

Everyone loves in’s, Ricky, E.J. And Gina… but where did it all begin?

Disney Channel’s smash hit movie musical comes to life on your stage in Disney’s High School Musical. Troy, Gabriella and the students of East High must deal with issues of love, friends and family while balancing their classes and extra curricular activities. The show’s infectious songs will keep us “all in this together” until the last bow!

This  is where your love for the stage can begin!

In our pre-school to early elementary class, we will be exploring every part of the stage including prop-building, dancing, singing, and acting.  Whether you have a young performer destined for Broadway or just a little theatre enthusiast, we will help grow their love of theatre with new friends and explore the joys of storytelling!

All teachers are vaccinated. Open Warehouse space and new HVAC system.

Thomas Edison performed by Hank Fincken

He was the classic Yankee tinkerer, quintessential workaholic, serial inventor, prolific genius, and overwhelming force of nature driven by compulsive creativity with a gift for turning big dreams into everyday reality. Nearly all his inventions came after thousands of experiments that failed but taught him something. (The only device that worked on the first try was the phonograph.)

Thomas Edison held 1,093 patents, including the light bulb, phonograph, microphone, motion pictures, fluoroscope, rechargeable batteries, stock ticker, and mimeograph – not including others, such as the X-ray fluoroscope that he left unlicensed for the benefit of medicine.

But perhaps Edison’s greatest legacy is as creator of the modern R&D laboratory in Menlo Park, NJ, which he called an “invention factory,” where constant experimentation was the necessary prelude to discovery. He not only hatched a new culture of innovation, he reinvented the whole way we go about it.

 Rain Plan: The show will be  performed live at the Transylvania Library (next to the Amphitheater) in the Rogow Room.

Virtual Discussion with Larry Bounds (Ben Franklin)

During the History Comes Alive Festival afternoons at 2:00p from Tue Sept 7 – Sat Sept 11, you can pick the brains of the historical performers. No costumes, no script, just a chance to have some personal time and dialog with the Chautauqua performers. The Discussion Series is held virtually online.

Each Discussion features a different performer/historical figure. And if you tune into multiple Discussions, you’ll begin to see how the 2021 “Reinventing America” historical figures relate to each other.

And a 5-6-7-8! Have you ever wanted to feel confident in a dance audition or learn awesome choreography to your favorite musical numbers? In this class students will learn basic dance styles used in musical theatre and how to act through their dancing. This course will help dancers prepare to ace an audition and pick up choreography quickly and efficiently.

CLICK HERE TO APPLY FOR A SCHOLARSHIP

Please do not purchase registration prior to applying for a scholarship. Applications must be received by 2:00pm on Thursday, August 26th for consideration.