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FCPS
High Schools

FCPS Middle Schools

Annandale
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The King and I
Centreville
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DRACULA
Chantilly
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Edison
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Bye Bye Birdie
Fairfax
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Lucky Stiff
Falls Church
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Working
Hayfield
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Curtains
Herndon
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Bus Stop
Lake Brddock
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The Odd Couple
Langley
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Time's Square
Lee
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Father of the Bride
Madison
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Singin in the Rain
Marshall
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Peter Pan
McLean
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Mt Vernon
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You Can't Take it With You
Oakton
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Anything Goes
Robinson
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The Boy Friend
So. County
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Anything Goes
So. Lakes
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Les Miserables
Stuart
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Thomas Jefferson
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Meet Me in St. Louis
Westfield
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West Side Story
West Potomac
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Godspell
W.Springfield
_Fiddler on the Roof

Woodson
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David and Lisa

 

Carson
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Cooper
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Treasure Island by Ken Ludwig
Franklin
_The Sound of Music
Brown
Frost
Glasgow
Hayfield
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Herndon
Holmes
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Hughes
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Irving

Jackson
Key
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Kilmer
Liberty
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Lake Braddock
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Ain't Misbehavin
Lanier
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Disney's ALICE in Wonderland.
Longfellow
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Poe
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Once Upon a Mattress
Robinson
_Annie

Rocky Run
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A Tale of Cinderella
Sandburg_
So.County MS
_Seussical Jr
Stone_
Thoreau
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Oklahoma!
Twain_Annie
Whitman
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Midsummer Night's Drea

THIS...FALL's..SHOWS!

HIGH SCHOOLS
Anything Goes

The Bad Seed

The Boy Friend
Brighton Beach Memoirs

Bus Stop
Bye Bye Birdie

The Crucible

Curtains

David and Lisa
Dracula

Father of the Bride

Fiddler on the Roof
Godspell

King and I
The Lion the Witch and theWardrobe
Macbeth
Meet Me in St. Louis
Musical Comedy Murders of 1940

Odd Couple
Oklahoma!
Peter Pan
Rehearsal for Murder

Rumors
Seussical

Singin in the Rain
Time's Square

Working
You Can't Take It With You





MIDDLE SCHOOLS
Ain't Misbehavin'

Alice in Wonderland (D's)
Check Please
James and the Giant Peach
Midsummer Night's Dream
The Mouse That Roared

Oklahoma!
Oliver!

Once Upon a Mattress

Seussical, Jr.
Treasure Island

Willie Wonka


 


HOT NEWS



Production Lineup:

July 23-24

Robinson Secondary School
OVATION! Theatre Co.

Tom Jones

a family friendly version of this classic tale of adventure and romance

7:00pm

www.RobinsonDrama.org

July 29-31

Herndon HS

Footloose

7:30pm   $10

www.herndondrama.org

 

SUMMER PROGRAMS

Robinson Summer Theatre Programs

Curtain Call - Half day, one week drama camps (ES)

Fun in the Theatre - Drama day care (PreK-ES)

Stage Door - Create a theatre piece (MS students) - FULL

Ovation! Full stage HS production (MS/HS students)

Westfield Summer Stage 2010 – 42nd Street

A musical theatre arts workshop culminating in a full musical production of 42nd Street

Auditions open students in rising grades 7-12, plus 2010 graduates

Audition Workshop – April 26

Auditions May 1; Rehearsals start June 28, evenings.

Shows - July 22-25      $300 workshop fee

Directed by Lori Knickerbocker

For more information, www.westfieldtheatreboosters.com, Westfield Theatre Boosters on Facebook or 703-488-6439.

 

Westfield Theatre Young Actors’ Workshop 2010

Theatre 101 for elementary students – games, scenes, music, dance culminating in a showcase production.

For students in rising grades 3-6

June 28 to July 2, 9 a.m. to Noon

$125      Directed by Zoe Dillard

For more information, www.westfieldtheatreboosters.com, Westfield Theatre Boosters on Facebook or 703-488-6439.

Camp Arena Stage

A multi-arts summer day camp located in
Georgetown for young people ages 8 -15.
4-Week Intensive: June 28 – July 23, 2010
2-Week Session: July 26 – August 6, 2010

Camp Shakespeare

2-week camps from The Shakespeare Theatre company in DC

Sessions run June 21 - August 14

Capitol Hill, NW DC, and N Va. locations

Traveling Players

Programs for rising 6th to 12th graders

  • Small ensemble size (13 to 15 max)
  • A faculty-to-camper ratio of 1:4
  • Weekly campouts to teach outdoor skills
  • A low ropes course to build ensemble
  • Performance tours from 3 days to 2 weeks
  • Tour locations include Shenandoah National Park, Douthat State Park and Colonial Williamsburg
  • A daily Transportation System that runs throughout the DC Metro area
    Scholarships are available for all programs

FCAC - cable channel 10 Summer Camps 1 week Radio and 2 weeks of Television Summer camps which will certify them as TV & Radio producers

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Director of Training  Meena Gupta

mgupta@fcac.org 571-749-1116/1102  www.fcac.org

Walnut Hill Summer Theater
Now in its 34th year, Walnut Hill Summer Theater's unique combination of classes and six productions in five weeks will give your students the opportunity to grow as actors, singers, dancers, and people.

12 Highland Street , Natick, MA 01760 508-650-5020

STARSHINE THEATERTM 

annual Summer musical production.

"Hang-Gliding Through the Sky of Mind ~ The Life of Leonardo daVinci."  

ages 7 thru 19 years, plus singing and dance/action leads for those interested.   Additional Dance Intensive for ages 9 and up also available with Theresa D'Alessandro.  Play rehearses July 12 thru 23

School of Theatrical Dance

Great Falls, Va

performance Sat., July 24

The Great Falls Grange Theater

Info: Patricia Budwig, M.A.,  Play Director, 703.790.9050 or StarshineTheater@aol.com

    Featured Productions

     

     

    ArtSpeak!

    Thursday, April 29 @ Mt. Vernon High School.

    New Voices for the Theater

    Playwriting Competition

    http://www.sparconline.org/programs/programs_newvoices.shtml

    FCPS Theatre Folks
    Around the Town

     The Best Christmas Pageant Ever produced by the Metropolitan Theatre company on Mount Vernon’s stage.  I play the mother opposite some of my former students!  It’s a real thrill and lots of fun.  The show runs just next weekend- Friday and Saturday (Sept 10 and 11)  at 7PM and Saturday matinee at 4PM.  Tickets are $6 for students/seniors and $10 for adults.  Go to www.metrotheater.org for tickets and more information.  It would be fun to see you in the audience!

    Beth (Becker) De Marco

    Theatre Arts Director, Mount Vernon High School Drama, 703-619-3100 x. 3259

    Skip Bromley makes his Washington DC acting debut in "Mae" at Studio Theatre!

    http://www.flashpointdc.org/venues/theatre_lab.html

     

    FCPS Alumni in the Arts

    Faye Armon (Centreville High School) 1991

    Prop Master for Enron (the musical) on Broadway

    Tiffany Dupont (LBSS Class of ’99) plays Frannie on Family Channel’s Greek
    Chad Dukes (LBSS Class of ’97) radio show “The Big O and Dukes Show” airs every day 10 am – 3 pm on WJFK 106.7
    Helen Hayes award winning Jenna Sokolowski (LBSS Class of ’97) will play Little Edie in Studio’s Grey Gardens Nov 12 – Dec 21, 2008.

    Featured in Washingtonian Magazine October 2008.

    Christina Hendricks, Fairfax 1993 -

    Currently starring on AMC's Mad Men as Joan Holloway.

    Samantha (Sam) Goodwin, Fairfax Early 90s -

    Currently Costumer at Disney Orlando - In charge of all costumes for Magic Kingdom parades.

    Tara Bowen (Robinson '01) stars as
    Cleopatra for the History Channel's
    "Digging For the Truth." 

    Melisa Breiner-Sanders (Robinson)

    www.MelisaBS.com

    Nehal Joshi (Robinson '97)
    opens on Broadway in Bertholt Brecht's
    "Three Penny Opera"

    Yasir Latifi

    Now part of "The Capitol Steps"!
    (featured as President Obama)

    Nili Bassman (Robinson '87)

    on Broadway in "Chicago"

    Alex Avila (Robinson '05) stars as Romeo in
    "Romeo and Juliet"

    Patricia G. Budwig, M.A. (Langley HS, 1972)

    Creative Director, Starshine Theater, Great Falls, Va