Just out of curiosity, could you post/ show photos of the diversity of students you pick as main…read morecharacters. Say, from the summer shows from the years 2025-2026? Would love to see those The theater company keeps insisting on their website that they "teach," and "nourish," (etc. on such nice fluffing words,) overstating they are very fair in who they cast and just how much they do for the kids...Absolutely, a lot for the same students over and over. I'm sad to say that you'll be paying for day care camp, with such theater related activities as "paper towel hop hot lava", "make up your own Disney trivia," and playing YouTube background music to do "Karaoke."
Statistically, it is not possible that out of 60+ students that they "accept" per summer session at $800.00+ each, the same 15-20 (or less) are featured all the time because they outdid the other 40-50+ every single time.... also, the overcasting of shoving the 60 kids on ensamble just once or twice, way in the back, while only 15 of those kids are assigned anything of a role (Kudos to the organizer's kids for getting roles as well, and to boot, demonstrating poor sportsmanship to the other students by making commentary out loud...) It's essentially a bit of a cult. While they do have very sweet and talented students (and definitely not their fault they're highly favorited because their parents are part of that creepy singing cult, which has to be ritualized at the beginning of every single play, extending it over a half hour, along with the absolute same speech paraphrased over and over and over... about some egotistical lady claiming she's so busy and not doing her laundry for 3 weeks, how tired but so happy everyone looks, especially the day of performances, at drop off.... Just please. AI sounds more genuine, maybe put effort into that as well?
We were stupid enough to try it twice, not even expecting absolutely any lead, but maybe ensamble and to actually LEARN something about theater... Alas (paper towel hopping ) as the saying goes, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Please don't be fooled by the fluff. It's honestly sickening. (And please, a new shorter more genuine speech for $800.00 per student you are receiving wouldn't kill you)
Also, shouldn't that money go towards actual makeup, working mics, and... oh, yeah, keeping those props, and not saying out loud to the kids not to break them so you can return them?)
You can't make this up