Welcome to Colorado ACTS
Summer Shows Announced
FAMILY AND FRIENDS PRODUCTION SUMMER 2008
For 8 to 80 year olds
BY THE BEAUTIFUL SEA
Auditions are Wednesday and Thursdy, May 21 and 22 from 4 to 8pm. Call 303-456-6772 for an audition time and come prepared with one minute of music (bring your own accompaniment).
Rehearsals Dates and Times: Mondays and Thursdays starting May 29 from 6:00 to 9:00pm
Rehearsal Location: HOPE (Ralston and Garrison)
Written by Broadway veterans whose separate credits include “The Band Wagon,” “Annie Get Your Gun” and “Sweet Charity,” “By The Beautiful Sea” is a splashy, wholesome celebration of days gone by, with lots of dance, vaudeville numbers galore, a spirited leading lady and a large cast which includes roles for children.
CREATIVE DRAMA AND PRODUCTION CAMP
For 4 to 10 year olds
WINGS FOR THE KING
Camp Dates and Times: Mondays through Friday, July 7 to 11 from 9am to Noon
Camp Location: HOPE (Ralston and Garrison)
The King is bored and his subjects are trying to help him “fly” so he can “see the world” and break through his boredom. How will he fly? With wings or imagination or….? Come join us for this fun filled week of creativity and theatrical adventures and find out how the King “sees the world.”
Please check the Classes page for complete details.
Colorado ACTS (Actors Company and Theatre School)
The school is a non-profit 501(3)(c) organization. Colorado ACTS founded and run by three women: Leah Nixon, Marianne Henning and Cindy Troup is starting its 13th year of business here in Denver. We started over 13 years ago at Colorado Christian University as the Ensemble Theatre Company’s Children’s Theatre program.
We are completely staffed by Christians, but do mainstream shows. We have about 200 families involved with classes for children 4-18 years old. We also offer Family and Friends Productions that include our faculty, alumni and adult family members. We offer classes year round and produce between 10-12 full shows a year.
Our productions have ranged from big musicals such as Annie and Fiddler on the Roof to productions from local children’s playwrights like Blarney, Blather and Balderdash (by Patrick Dorn from Pioneer Drama) or The King’s New Clothes (by Edith Weiss from Eldridge Pub.) All productions are paid for from tuition, ticket sales and private donations. Students and Parents are not required to furnish costumes or help with technical aspects of a production (although our families often participate fully).
We are unusual because production classes meet for 2-3 hours only once a week for 3-6 months (depending on the type of class). Normally students audition for parts within a classroom setting, BUT ALL STUDENT IN A CLASS ARE GUARANTEED A PART.
Approximately 60% of our students are home schooled and half of our classes meet during the day especially for them. During the last 13 years Colorado ACTS has produced more than 100 shows and 15 Family and Friends productions. We are proud of the quality of theatre education that our students receive and the quality of the entertainment that our audiences enjoy.
