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Why do your kids love these people?
To this effect, TWN producing director Jordana Fleischut hand selected young performers with seasoned training in dance, voice and acting - but also good hearted, amenable and patient people (which, more than a few directors will tell you, is not always easy) who earestly appreciate what the performing arts can do for kids, no matter their backgrounds. Formerly the beloved Princess in "Storytime with a Princess" and currently Starbuck in "Moby Dick!," actress Tiffany Page helped to direct theatre activities for kids from lower-income families in Gloversville, NY. "The kids didn't have a lot, and we were able to give them theater, something that wasn't just sitting in front of the TV when their parents weren't with them," Page said."You know what theater is supposed to be about when you're able to give kids something to look forward to - it gives us something that feels human." Page added that adults stand smething to gain from the "humanity" of theater as well. "For a community to come together and commit two hours of their time as a group of people who share an area and feel something collectively, good or bad or indifferent - it's a shared experience. I think it's important to keep us feeling things together."
Soffen agreed, and said she's been studying the other cast members' techniques, even going so far as to watch their faces as they perform. "I've never done a show that lasted longer than three days, so I'm learning what its like to live as an actor, and i'ts very hard," she said. "But when I go home at the end of the night, I'm proud. I'm learning that this is what I want to do with my life." You have two weeks left to catch the cast in "Jack and the Beanstalk" or "Moby Dick!" (See page 52 for more.)
In the meantime, get to know the performers who make this magical, onstage world go round ...
"Shows are about collaborating the ideas of the artists, the designers, the technicians, the actors - everyone. It's not just a dictatorship. Great shows are formed out of many people's hard work." And I quote:
"For me, personally, I have no real desire to go to Broadway, because then you're so removed from the audience and their reactions; everything is so controlled. It's a business. It's less personal.In a small theater, it's less about the bucks and more about the experienced shared between the audience and the performers." And I quote:
"I perform because it's fun. First anf foremost, especially for kids, it should be an enjoyable experience."
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"I was involved for a long time with youth theater in my town, and for children to be involved in theater, it gives them a sense of working together. It teaches them discipline and respect for other people and their space." And I quote:
"Not everyone lives in New York or a big city in the US … A lot of people who don't go to the theater often or never go wont be exposed to theater unless it's in the town where they live or they know someone in the production. ... I think that's important, to continue exposing new people to theatre, especially young people, because you are expanding your audience." And I quote: "What I love about theater is that you find yourself acting in a way you wouldn't have acted, or saying words you wouldn't have said in real life. Because of this, you find out things about yourself you didn't know. And you're including the audience in that … You're going through it, but they are, too. They're watching the feelings evolve and taking part in them."
MICHELLE SOFFEN Roles Ensemble (Moby) Grip (Jack) Age 19 And I quote:
"Theater is meant to entertain people, to teach a lesson, to get people to ask questions, to expose a new topic or idea they wouldn't otherwise have considered. ...We did 'The Exonerated' on campus last year, and it lead to a campus-wide discussion about the death penalty." And I quote: "Theatre is just a place where people come together to share an experience. People need other people, and theater is just a great vehicle for this to happen. For those people who are participating in theater, the process is such that they have to be very close to each other and relate to each other so well for the show to run the way that it should, and for the audience, you're right there with these people whose goal it is to communicate, and the audience gets to communicate back. And that leads to a bond."
SARAH POOR Roles Ensemble (Moby) Grip (Jack) Age 16 And I quote:
"What I learned about theater, especially on anntucket, is that you know everyone and it becomes a family."
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