After
training in acting, singing and dancing for many years, these 15 young
people auditioned for and were selected to represent Spotlight Musical
Theatre Academy at Disney World’s Theatre Festival in February of 2016.
This
theatre festival is truly a once in a lifetime opportunity for these
aspiring performers to work closely with Disney Talent personnel.
So what does that actually look like?
While
in Orlando, students will perform a 20 minute musical for a panel of
auditors and receive feedback about what they did well and areas for
further focus and improvement.
Each student can
perform a 5 minute solo piece and be provided with feedback from the
Disney Talent staff about their personal performance.
FESTIVAL LEARNING HIGHLIGHTS:
-Promote theater through exposure to theater professionals in an educational setting.
-Students will learn from theater professionals and university professors at a variety of acting workshops.
-Professionals
from acting, directing, dancing, and/or vocal fields will offer the
students constructive critique of their performance.
-Gain valuable performance experience by performing before a live audience.
-Following
the performances, groups will receive a private, interactive feedback
clinic about their performance with theater professionals.
-Participate
in educational Acting Workshops which will include topics such as:
Audition Techniques, Vocal Techniques, Stage Movement, and/or Scene
Development.
Solo and Duo Competition:
-Students
perform a vocal, or dramatic interpretation for an audience of their
peers and receive adjudication by theater professionals.
Of
course a 5 day DREAM experience like this isn’t cheap. The cost for the
training, costumes, flights, hotel, festival and workshop fees, meals,
park entrances and all transportation on the ground is $2675.00 per
student. For many of our families, this creates a financial hardship.
We
didn’t want a single one of these driven, dedicated and talented
children to be prevented from having a chance to perform for and learn
from Disney Theatre Professionals, so we made it our goal to help
everyone raise funds together. Our hope is to raise at least $1000.00
per youth performer through this Rally Campaign.
Any
amount you can possibly consider donating, no matter how LARGE or how
SMALL, would be GREATLY APPRECIATED! You would also get the satisfaction
of knowing you helped make Dreams Come True for this fantastic group of
kids-The Next Generation of STARS!
Want to know
even more about the process? Read on! Or you can just donate now and
share the link to Facebook to help spread the word about this worthy
cause! :-)
The auditions and selection process were pretty intense.
Everyone
who wanted to audition had to memorize multiple songs and scenes that
they were asked to perform, along with a VERY challenging dance
audition, in front of a panel of Portland’s top musical theatre
professionals. The panel was incredibly impressed by their preparedness
and professionalism! We could not be more proud of how well they
represented themselves at the auditions, and we know they will do an
incredible job of representing Spotlight at Disney World next February.
What
about the fun, you ask??? (For these kids doing theatre 24/7 IS FUN!)
We will get to visit the Disney Parks as well as spend a day at
Universal Studios taking in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter! (We
will sleep when we get home ;-)
Thank you for
taking the time to watch our video and read about our once in a lifetime
opportunity-we hope you will join us on this adventure by making your
donation now, and feel free to spread the word! We will keep you updated
about our journey through posts to our facebook page-
https://www.facebook.com/spotlighttraveltroupe
If you want to learn more about this experience please visit the Brightspark Disney Theatre Festival page:
http://www.brightsparktravel.com/music-performances/find-tour/disney-performing-arts-tours/national-performing-arts-walt-disney-world
If you have any questions, you are welcome to email us at lisamitchell@spotlightmusicaltheatre.com
THANK YOU!!!
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