Welcome to The Nancy and Frederick DeMatteis Arts Education Program for Children, featuring:
We are so proud to open the doors of this wonderful state-of-the-art facility to children throughout Suffolk County and beyond, encouraging them to step into the world of the performing arts – a place to come together, to connect, to share and to belong.
We hope that you believe, as we do, that when you bring the arts into children’s lives, you give them new ways to see the world, you nurture their imaginations, you teach them to value creativity as an intrinsic part of life. As audience members, children can discover the magic and the transformative powers of the performing arts; as participants, they can learn skills and awaken their talents in a place where teamwork, self esteem, problem-solving and creativity are encouraged and developed.
So bring your children to a live performance. Enroll them in a camp. Become a Member of the Children’s Theatre Arts Guild. Let your children discover a world of possibilities…in a place where the goal is to “engage, inspire, educate and entertain.”
See you at the theatre!
Joanna Ferraro-Levy
Associate Director Sponsors
We gratefully acknowledge and thank our sponsors for their generous support of The Nancy and Frederick DeMatteis Arts Education Program for Children:
Anita Brennan
The Geduld Family
Maggie Gilliam
Bradley and Rochelle King
The Mark Family
The Julia and Gilbert Merrill Foundation
The Countess Moira Charitable Foundation
The Numeroff Family
The Edmond de Rothschild Foundation
The Town of Southampton
Target Stores
The Zizzi Family
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Public Funding from The New York State
Council on The Arts, A State Agency |
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 School Vacation
Adventures Camps
Missoula
Children’s Theatre Camps During School Break
Weeks
- MCT’s mission is to develop life skills – creativity, social skills, goal achievement and self-esteem – through participation in the performing arts. A team of actors/directors arrives with sets, lights, costumes, props and make up.
- Up to 60 pre-registered youngsters - Grades K-12, are cast, learning lines, songs and choreography to perform a musical tale.
- All 60 participants will attend a full day theatre arts camp from 9am-3pm.
- Daily activities include rehearsals, workshops in acting, improvisation, singing, movement, theatre games, a talent show and more.
- Tuition is $325.00 for camp.
Rumpelstiltskin: April
21 – 25, 2008
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 Rumpelstiltskin
April 25, 7pm
In an original musical adaptation of this children’s classic tale, a mischievous little gnome will spin straw into gold…for a price. If his price is too steep, you must guess his name!
Tickets: $15
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2008 Summer Residencies and Camps
Missoula
Children's Theatre Residency & Camps
MCT's mission is to develop life skills - creativity,
social skills, goal achievement and self-esteem - through
participation in the performing arts. A team of
actors/directors arrives with sets, lights, costumes,
props and make up....auditions are on Monday....by
Friday, the cast is performance read y. The rest
is magic! CAMP
Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs
July
7 - July 11
• One week musical
theatre residency
•
Daily rehearsals
vary according to age and role
• Participants
learn lines, songs and choreography to perform
a musical tale
• Performance:
Friday, 7:00 PM
• Limited to 60
boys and girls: Ages 6 (entering 1st Grade)
to 16
• Fee: $175
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PERFORMANCE
 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
In this charming original adaptation of the classic
fairy tale, Snow White escapes from the evil Queen
and her Black Forest Creatures and finds a home
with the Seven Dwarfs. Guess what happens next?
Join MCT and 60 area youngsters to find out! Friday, July 22, 7:00
PM
Tickets $15
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program is generously sponsored by The Julia
and Gilbert Merrill Foundation.
CAMP
The Princess and the Pea
July 21 -
July 25
• One
week performing arts camp: 10:00 AM - 4:00
PM daily
• Daily rehearsals
of a musical tale plus classes in acting, improvisation,
singing, movement, theatre games, a talent show
and more
• Performance:
Friday, 7:00 PM
• Limited to 60
boys and girls: Ages 6 (entering 1st Grade)
to 16
• Fee: $325
Download
Registration Form PERFORMANCE
 The
Princess and the Pea
What do Glacierdom and Riverdom have in common?
The Leprechauns know! This isn't your Grandma's
Princess and the Pea! Get ready to enjoy some new
twists to a classic story when MCT and 60 area
youngsters take to the stage.
Friday, July 25, 6:00
PM
Tickets: $15
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CAMP
The Wiz of the West
August 4 - August 8
• One week performing
arts camp: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM daily
• Daily
rehearsals of a musical tale plus classes in
acting, improvisation, singing, movement,
theatre games, a talent show and more
• Performance:
Friday, 7:00 PM
• Limited to 60 boys
and girls: Ages 6 (entering 1st Grade) to 16
• Fee:
$325
Download
Registration Form
PERFORMANCE
 The
Wiz of the West
There's no place like home on the range! In
this down-home country telling of every cowpoke's
favorite yarn, MCT and 60 area youngsters follow
their friends from the land of Oz through the
wild, wild west of yesteryear - but with a twist...or
should we say TWISTER?
Friday, August 8 ,
7:00 PM
Tickets: $15
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____________________________________________________________________  Shakespeare's Players Camp
With a wealth of professional expertise in Shakespeare,
theatre and education, teaching artists Rosalie
Luber and Lynne Foster bring the comical and fantastical
world of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's
Dream to life. This rehearsal-based
camp uses theatre games, improvisations, stage
combat, and movement to bring the three worlds
of Shakespeare's funniest play to performance.
Young thespians will delight as they transform
into fairies, kings, queens and sprites.
CAMP
Shakespeare's Players Camp
July 14
- July 18
• One week intensive
theatre camp: 10:00AM - 2:00PM
• Daily rehearsals of A Midsummer Night's Dream through theatre games, improvisations,
stage combat, vocalizations and movement
• Pageant and Performance: Friday, 7:00 PM
• Limited to 30 boys and girls: Ages 8 to 16
• Both beginners and more advanced young actors welcome
• Fee: $350
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Registration Form
PERFORMANCE
 A
Midsummer Night's Dream
Kings, queens, fairies
and sprites come alive one magical midsummer night
in the forest of Athens and "reign" havoc on the
lives of its inhabitants. Royal couples, tangled
lovers, workers and fairies create mayhem as they
attempt to undo the magical spells cast upon them.
Friday, July 18, 7:00
PM
Tickets $15
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 Ballet Ambassadors Residency
For the Company's 6th summer at
the WHBPAC, Artistic Director Sondra Forsyth has
created another glorious week of dance for tots
to teens, along with an original ballet specifically
designed to spotlight our student dancers. The
residency culminates in a costumed performance
when the young dancers share the stage with the
professional artists of Ballet Ambassadors.
RESIDENCY
Princess Alina and the Dragon's Lair
August 18 - August 22
• One week
ballet residency: Daily graded ballet classes
and rehearsals vary according to age and
role
• Performance:
Friday, 7:00 PM
• Limited to 65
boys and girls: Ages 4 - 18
• Youngsters
with dance training, as well as beginners, are
equally welcome
• Fee: $175
Download
Registration Form
PERFORMANCE
 Princess
Alina and the Dragon's Lair
The mythical Land of Makarios is the setting for
this magical ballet about Princess Alina's quest
to find the Dragon's Lair and free the Fairies
of Happiness. Our young dancers share the stage
with the dazzling professional dancers of Ballet
Ambassadors in this original ballet by Artistic
Director Sondra Forsyth.
Friday, August 22 ,
7:00 PM
Tickets $15
This program is generously sponsored
in part by the Stoller Family.
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NEW CAMP!
 Hudson
Vagabond Puppets
Mask & Movement Camp
The Hudson Vagabond Puppets Teaching Artists will
bring creative dance, drama, and mask-making to
a new level in this summer's camp program. Each
participant will be uniquely involved in building
masks, writing the story and creating dances for
a performance loosely based on Native American
storytelling.
CAMP
Jumping Mouse and Other Tales
August 11 - August 15
• One week performing
arts camp: 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM daily
• Activities include
experiences in: dance, mask
building, mask work and Native
American studies
• Each
child provides one baseball
cap
• Performance:
Friday, 7:00 PM
• Limited to 45
boys and girls: Ages 6 -
10
• Fee:
$325
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Registration Form
PERFORMANCE
 Jumping
Mouse and Other Tales
Inspired by Native American folk tales and mask-making,
area youngsters will "fly with eagles and stampede
with buffalo," using animal totems and masks, mime,
music and dance to make these stories come to life.. Friday,
August 15 , 7:00 PM
Tickets $15
This program is generously sponsored
by The Geduld Family
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NEW!
 Musical
Theatre Audition
Master Class
During this intensive daylong workshop on auditioning
for the musical theatre, students will have the
opportunity to work with a professional team, including:
a musical director, a choreographer and a stage
director, who will provide individualized coaching
for each participant in vocal production and style,
dramatic interpretation, and presentation. Students
will come prepared with one up tempo song and one
ballad. In addition, participants will be
challenged to tackle new, unrehearsed material
just as they might in a professional audition or
callback.
- Monday July 28, 9am - 5pm
- Ages: 11- 18
- Enrollment strictly limited to 20 participants
- Faculty: John Fischer, Ruthe Ponturo, Greg
McCaslin
- Fee: $150
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Registration Form
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