[NEohioPAL] Musical Theatre, Acting, Comedy, Drums and more!

[Melanie YC Pepe]

NEWS RELEASE
Contact: Melanie YC Pepe (330) 836-2626
www.WeathervanePlayhouse.com

Weathervane Playhouse
1301 Weathervane Lane  *  Akron, Ohio  44313

Fall classes start September 17th!
** CLICK HERE to view bios for our instructors! **

Imagine THAT!  The Wild West
Saturdays, 9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Ages 3 to 5 
$130.00

Yee Haw! Imagine riding a horse and panning for gold. Imagine tumbleweed and rattlesnakes. Imagine THAT, imagine anything! This class specializes in storytelling through creative movement, improvisation, dramatic play and music. Students will also be actively engaged in creating designs for the stories they bring to the stage. We will have a ton of fun while traveling wherever imaginations are willing to go! 

Introduction to Theater & Acting: Places, Please!
Ages 5 to 8
Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
$160 

The show is about to start. Places Please! Is that a monkey I hear chattering at a little old lady? Wait; its a Martian from another planet explaining how to work a toaster! .and what is Little Red Riding Hood doing arm in arm with a Ninja? It's just students exploring the creative world of theater! This class specializes in exploring characters through dramatic play and script study. This introductory class is a great place to learn the basics of performing on the stage. 

Introduction to Theater & Acting: Star Struck
Ages 8 to 11
Saturdays, 9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
$160

Is your child sure that they are the next iCarly? Have you heard every funny story the Disney Channel can dream up? Don't fret.send them to be Star Struck on the stage at Weathervane! We will gladly take all the drama. Your child will work with our instructor to hone their dramatic talents. They will learn how to give and take focus, analyze a script to identify story structure elements and character objectives and use it all to tell a clear story; beginning middle and end! 


Introduction to Theater & Acting: Enter Stage Right
Ages 11 to 14
Saturdays, 10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
$160 

To be or not to be, here is the question. Are you ready to tackle comedy and tragedy? Take a turn as Hamlet's ghost or poor tormented Juliet. Try your hand at "Who's on First?" Can you build the laughs like Abbott and Costello? Get ready to Enter Stage Right and learn to take "dramatic" risks within each scene by working with a character's inner monologue. These methods for developing and connecting to a stage character makes the funny funnier and drama even more dramatic! 

Musical Theater, Act One
Ages 5 to 8
Saturdays, 9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
$180 

Gotta sing, gotta dance? Gotta take Musical Theater! Our Musical Theater: Act One class takes our entire core curriculum and puts it to music. Sing and dance your way through some Broadway standards. Move over Kristin Chenoweth and Matthew Morrison. here comes the next Broadway star! Students will work on musical theater skills through group singing, creative and choreographed movement, rhythm notation, and sight reading with solefege. 

Musical Theater, Act Two
Ages 8 to 12
Saturdays, 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
$180 

Not quite ready to pack it up and move to New York? Looking for a toe tapping good time? Come sing at Weathervane in Musical Theater: Act Two. This class covers the objectives in Act One, and challenges experienced students through more complex choreography and music theory. In addition to Act One goals, students will work on solo singing, notes on the treble clef, notes on a keyboard, rhythmic performance and healthy singing technique. 

The Science of Comedy
Ages 9 to 14
Saturdays, 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m.
$160 

Get serious about comedy! The focus of The Science of Comedy is understanding the formulas that are used to create jokes. Learn the grounds rules of comedy, how to build a joke and how to improvise with others to perform a comic scene. As a class students will use tried-and-true techniques to write and present their own presentations on the last day of class. Just don't slip on the banana peels on the way into the theater! 


      Drumming Circle
      Ages 7 to 16
      Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
      $160 

      Drumming Circle is a hand drumming workshop which teaches universal techniques for African, Brazilian, Latin, and Middle-Eastern drumming. This interactive experience with the world of rhythm and percussion will give students the opportunity to play a variety of drums, learn the proper way to hold and strike a drum, play a variety of simple and complex rhythms, use counterpoint and improvise within a group. Drums will be provided to use in class. Student will work together as an ensemble to create a musical masterpiece to be presented on the last day of class. 
       

Performance Workshop, Aristocats
Ages 8 to 15
Saturdays, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
$300 

You've learned your stage directions and worked on projection. You know where the House is and why we call upstage "up" and downstage "down." Now it is time to raise the curtain and light the lights on this brand new class at Weathervane! This class is intended for students with previous class or stage experience. Students will learn about the rehearsal process and how to apply skills from other performance classes in a theatrical rehearsal. Students will help create their own costumes and set pieces, learn rehearsal process, working as an ensemble, active listening, giving and taking focus, the use of improvisation in rehearsal, character analysis, blocking notation, time management skills, memorization techniques, performance techniques and the roles of the Director, Stage Manager and Actors. Get ready to throw the roses as our actors put on a show. 


CLICK HERE to view FULL DESCRIPTIONS of our Fall Classes

For more information or to register,
click here: http://www.weathervaneplayhouse.com
or call 330-836-2626.
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