2024-2025 ACADEMY – CLASS DESCRIPTIONS
*Click to expand. Remember that age & grade recommendations are just guidelines and classes are designed to be repeated as many times as you want! We study new material each session.
24-25 SESSIONS AT A GLANCE:
FALL SESSION (8 Wks): September 16-November 16, 2024
WINTER SESSION (8 Wks): January 13-March 15, 2025
SPRING SESSION (6 Wks): April 21-May 31, 2025
SUMMER SESSION (1-4Wk Camps): June 9-August 15, 2025
BEGINNER CLASSES
Grades 4K/5K-2nd
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Storybooks come to life in this beginner drama class as students will learn basic acting and presentation skills through imaginative play, theatre games, and character-building activities. This class encourages communication, collaboration, and understanding of story structure!
Fall & Winter -$95 | Spring - $75
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Tiny dances moves for tiny dancers! Students explore storytelling through movement to Disney favorites! This class encourages physical awareness, coordination, and creative physical expression!
Fall & Winter -$95 | Spring - $75
INTERMEDIATE CLASSES
Grades 4th+
*Any of the Elementary classes plus…
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ACE your next audition in this intermediate musical theatre class! Students break down the audition process: Select songs, polish monologues, pick-up choreography fast! Perfect for new and seasoned performers alike, this class encourages creativity, individuality, and boosts confidence!
Fall & Winter -$150 | Spring - $120
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Sharpen your actor tools: body, voice and mind, in this intermediate acting class! Students expand their understanding of story structure and performance skills and focus on character development through ensemble scene study. This class encourages exploration, relationship skills, and critical thinking!
*Improv I or Actor Toolbox is a prerequisite for this class.
Fall & Winter -$150 | Spring - $120
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5-6-7-8! Students apply foundational skills in jazz, ballet and tap dance to Broadway’s best production numbers! This class encourages physical awareness, strength, and storytelling in movement!
*Broadway Dance I or equivalent experience is a prerequisite for this class.
Fall & Winter -$150 | Spring - $120
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Think FAST! Students must trust their instincts and work as a team to create characters, relationships, and scenes unscripted, pulling comedy from the world around them! “Yes, AND” is rule #1. This class encourages collaboration, mental flexibility, and comedic timing.
*Improv I, Actor Toolbox I or equivalent experience is a prerequisite for this class.
Fall & Winter -$150 | Spring - $120
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On guard! Students learn basic stage combat safety, terminology and technical skills in hand-to-hand combat and swordplay. Lead by an instructor, students will choreograph perform thrilling and dynamic fight scenes! This class encourages control, physicality, and presentation skills!
Fall & Winter -$150 | Spring - $120
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Roll up those sleeves! Students get their hands into every step of the creative process; exploring workshops in costuming design, sewing, prop creation, set building and painting, lighting, stage management and more. Tech Classes work is showcased on stage in LCP Mainstage and Academy productions!
Fall & Winter -$225 | Spring - $185
ELEMENTARY CLASSES
Grades 2nd-5th+
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Fill your "Actor's Toolbox" with the tools necessary for building strong characters in this beginner acting class! Students activate their bodies, voices and minds through ensemble exercises, games, and scene work. This class encourages exploration, relationship skills, and critical thinking!
Fall & Winter -$150 | Spring - $120
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You can’t stop the beat! Students learn foundational musical theatre dance skills and terminology in this beginner dance class. This class encourages coordination, confidence, and musicality in movement!
Fall & Winter -$150 | Spring - $120
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No scripts, just fun! Students use their imaginations, take risks, and learn to be in the moment in this fun and energetic game-based improv class! This class encourages collaboration, mental flexibility, and comedic timing!
Fall & Winter -$150 | Spring - $120
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Take center stage! Students strengthen acting, dance and vocal skills as they rehearse songs and scenes from our favorite musicals. This class encourages coordination, memorization and ensemble!
Fall & Winter -$175 | Spring - $140
ADVANCED CLASSES
Grades 6th-12th
*Any of the Elementary or Intermediate classes plus…
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Ready to take your acting to the next level? Students with a foundation of acting skills dive deeper with more challenging material in this advanced acting class. This class encourages literacy, attention to detail, self-discovery!
*Actor Toolbox I or II or a Production Workshop is a prerequisite for this class.
Fall & Winter -$175 | Spring - $140
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Creative juices flow in this fast-paced playwriting and directing class! Students adapt literary classics for the stage, learning to analyze the text to create, direct and perform in compelling scenes with interesting characters. This class develops reading & writing skills and requires collaboration and self-motivation!
Fall & Winter -$200
PRODUCTION WORKSHOPS
Grades 2nd*-12th - AUDITION REQUIRED
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With equal measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan Annie charms everyone's hearts despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930s New York City. Annie is determined to find the parents who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of an orphanage run by the cruel Miss Hannigan. Annie eventually foils Miss Hannigan's evil machinations, finding a new home and family in billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary, Grace Farrell, and a lovable mutt named Sandy.
Cast Size: 20-25 Students | Ages 8-18, plus 8-10 JR. Ensemble | Ages 6-8
Rehearsal Dates: September 3-October 15, 2024 | Performance Dates: October 16-27, 2024
Full Ensemble Tuition: $275
Jr. Ensembe Tuition: $185 -
Based on the beloved Disney animated film, and featuring a jazzy, upbeat score, Disney’s The Aristocats KIDS is a non-stop thrill ride of feline fun, complete with unbelievable twists and turns. In the heart of Paris, a kind and eccentric millionairess wills her entire estate to Duchess, her high-society cat, and her three little kittens. Laughs and adventure ensue as the greedy, bumbling butler pulls off the ultimate catnap caper. Now it's up to the rough-and-tumble alley cat, Thomas O'Malley, and his band of swingin' jazz cats to save the day.
Cast Size: 15-25 Students | Ages 5-18
*There will be 2 casts for this show.Rehearsal Dates: June 9-20, 2025
A.M Cast - 9am-11:30am
P.M Cast - 12:30pm-3pmPerformance Dates: June 20-22, 2025
Workshop Tuition: $250
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Disney's The Lion King has captivated the imagination of audiences around the world, and now you have the opportunity to produce this one-of-a-kind musical in your community. Bring the African savanna to life on your stage with Simba, Rafiki and an unforgettable cast of characters as they journey from Pride Rock to the jungle and back again in this inspiring, coming-of-age tale.
Cast Size: 20-25 Students | Ages 7-18
*There will be 2 casts for this show.Rehearsal Dates:
July 7-August 6 @ 2:30-5:30pm
July 14-August 13 @ 9am-12:30pm
Performance Dates:
August 7-10, 2025 (PM Cast)
August 14-17, 2024 (AM Cast)Workshop Tuition: $350
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HELPFUL HINTS:
OK to repeat! - choose classes based on the skills desired, it’s OK to take a class more than once as the materials used to teach the concepts will change each session.
Age ranges are guidelines - If you believe your child should be considered for a class outside of the listed age range based on their prior experience please contact education@lakecountryplayhousewi.org
Class times/days are subject to change from one session to the next based on a variety of factors, or in the the case of low enrollment groups of the same subject may be combined. Classes must have at least 4-6 students enrolled to run.
All Academy classes, workshops and auditions will take place in our Rehearsal Studios: 111 Church St. Hartland, WI 53029.
For questions regarding Performing Arts Academy programming, contact education@lakecountryplayhousewi.org