Weekend Workshops

    WORKSHOP DATES & LOCATIONS:   WINNETKA, ILLINOIS SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 2014 Ages 8 to 18 Childrens Theatre Winnetka 620 Lincoln Avenue Winnetka, IL 60093 *Early Registration Discount Ends November 15, 2013 NEWTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2014 Ages 8 to 18 BC Discoveries Dance & Theater Arts 69 Heather Court Newtown, PA 18954 *Early Registration Discount Ends December 1, 2013 MARBLEHEAD, MASSACHUSETTS SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2014 Ages 8 to 20 JCC of the North Shore 4 Community Road Marblehead, MA 01945 *Early Registration Discount Ends December 1, 2013 GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2014 Ages 8 to 18 Ellington Academy Of Arts & Technology 600 Burton Street SE Grand Rapids, MI 49507 *Early Registration Discount Ends December 15, 2013 Class Descriptions: Acting 10am – 12pm Learn acting as an art & gain freedom in confidence. Classes will focus on acting for television/film and on the Broadway stage. You will be given actual scripts & sides used in hit television & Broadway shows. This class is designed to help students find their creativity through exercises, monologues, scene work, and theatre games designed to develop your performance skills and technique. Cost: $65 Lunch 12pm – 1pm Vocal Performance 1pm – 3pm Learn how to present your songs in a way that captures the audience’s attention. Emphasis will be placed on proper vocal technique, song selection, interpreting & personalizing your material. Please bring all available sheet music, headshots and resumes. We will be perfecting your musical audition book. Prepare your best 32-Bar vocal selection, BRING A KARAOKE track & learn how to rock the stage like a Broadway star! Cost: $65 Theater Dance 3pm – 5pm Develop your skills as a promising Broadway professional with a theatre dance class! Classes focus on dancing in character, in preparation for performing on the stage. You will learn actual Broadway choreography & how to land the dance role of a lifetime. Cost: $65 REGISTER FOR THE TRIPLE THREAT WORKSHOP BY THE EARLY REGISTRATION DISCOUNT DATE & GET ALL THREE CLASSES FOR ONLY $125

Coming to Chicago on Sunday, March 2nd, Naomi Kanuk – an accomplished Broadway performer. Click here to signup for this exciting event! More about Naomi… Born in Milpitas, CA, Naomi trained in the Bay Area at San Francisco Ballet and San Jose Dance Theatre and spent summers at Boston Ballet and the Rock School in Philadelphia. After receiving her BFA in Ballet from the University of Utah while performing regionally throughout the state, she joined the National Tour of CATS as Cassandra. Other shows followed soon followed: the National Tours of ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, DOCTOR DOLITTLE, and SPAMALOT and the original Broadway casts and recordings of THE PRODUCERS and THE FROGS. She continued to work with Susan Stroman in the movie version of THE PRODUCERS the musical (Universal Pictures), playing her original stage roles on screen opposite Nathan Lane, Mathew Broderick and Uma Thurman. Over the years she has been featured in many national commercials (including Chase, Comcast, EBay, and Macy’s), print ads (including Huggies, Alianz, Nine West, CitiBank), regional theatre productions (favorites include Girl in a Yellow Dress in CONTACT and Mrs. Potiphar in JOSEPH…) and was a recurring dancer on NBC’s SMASH. She has also spent the last 5 Christmas seasons in New York as a Radio City Rockette, danced throughout the year with the Rockettes on many talk shows and of course the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, and was featured in the Christmas Show’s ad campaigns for 3 years. She is currently playing the role of Hunkak in the National Tour of CHICAGO.