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North Penn Community Education
For nearly 15 years, Theatre & Kids has happily combined forces with North Penn Community Education, the community services arm of the acclaimed North Penn School District. Sponsoring hundreds of evening adult ed classes, bus trips, special seminars travelogues, family concerts, and arts festivals, NPCE has allowed for Will and Susan Liegel and T&K to offering arts classes aimed at young people, to produce exciting juvenile cast shows, and to run one of the most stimulating summer performing arts camps imaginable. Thousands of young people have benefited from exciting and carefully planned shows, classes, and summer experiences.

Saturday Performing Arts Academy
For eight Saturdays in the Fall and eight more in the Spring, area children can take a number of 90 minute T&K performing arts classes in facilities at North Penn High School. Led by experienced staffers who truly love kids, the fun starts at 9AM and many are the youngsters who have signed up again and again, growing up in the program. Our youngest students are only 4, 5, or 6 years old and enjoy our Theatre for Young Performers offerings. Each age group rotates through three separate rooms, teachers, and disciplines – music, drama, and movement. Whether using percussion instrument, singing motion songs, learning steps, walks, or jumps, or retelling a classic fable, these children learn the arts and so much more. They learn to take “safe risks,” they stretch their creativity and discover their interests and talents, and they learn to work together as a team towards a common goal. Older students grades 2 thru 8 have been able to enroll in more focused classes which have included Basic Acting, Advanced Acting, Auditioning, Shakespeare, Show Choir, Mini-Musical Production, Puppetry, Stop-Action Animation, and Video Production. Offerings vary, but it is a constant that kids grow and learn and laugh.

Adult Acting Classes

In addition to our usual Saturday classes, we will also be offering a class for adults!  This is a great chance for parents or those interested in joining community theatre to try their hand. Classes will be taught by our very own Mr. Will Liegel and will be held on Tuesday evenings. Come on out and try something different - find out what theatre is all about!

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The following information is from the North Penn Community Education Bulletin for the Spring of 2010.  It is sent automatically to all residents of the North Penn Area.  If you did not recieve the bulletin or you are not a North Penn resident, you can find it on the North Penn School District website.  To read the bulletin as a PDF, visit this address (OSO/T&K is on pages 2 and 8).  To register for classes, print page 15 of the bulletin and mail one copy of the enrollment form to the district along with payment. 

 

This session we are offering the following classes: 

Acting for the Stage
A creative, fast-moving course for those new to performance or those with mountains of experience. Each actor will grow to a new personal plateau with exercises, improv, mime, monologues and advanced scene work. Final demo during last class for family and friends. Instructor Will Liegel is a theatre professional with nearly forty years as a director and hundreds of previous shows from which to draw. Instructor: Will Liegel, T&K
Tuesday, 3/2 - 4/13 (7 sessions)
NPHS/F125 and F126

7-8:30 p.m.
Fee: $52

Theatre for the Very Young
(Age 4 through Grade 1)
Popular class for young performers to experience a great “taste of theatre.” Singing, dancing, pantomime, storytelling,
improvisation, projection, make-believe and more. Three teachers move students from music to drama to dance in
25-minute periods divided into groups by age.

Saturday, 2/27 - 4/24 (6 sessions)
No class: 3/13, 4/3, 4/17
NPHS/F-Pod Balcony

9-10:30 a.m.

Fee: $55

Basic Acting

(Grades 2-4/5)

A great course for younger students who will learn creative theatre games, beginning improvisation, script reading,
aerobics, basic diction, projection, accents and body language. Demo for family and friends at last class. No
previous experience necessary.

Grades 2-4
Saturday, 2/27 - 4/24 (6 sessions)
No class: 3/13, 4/3, 4/17
NPHS F-Pod Balcony

9-10:30 a.m.
Fee: $55

Grades 2-5
Saturday, 2/27 - 4/24 (6 sessions)
No class: 3/13, 4/3, 4/17
NPHS F-Pod Balcony

10:30 a.m.-12 p.

Fee:  $55

Basic Acting

(Grades 5-8)
Learn the basics of improvisation, scene development, projection, dialect, diction, character creation and more. This class

is fast moving and more involved in scripts and scene reading. No previous experience necessary.

Saturday, 2/27 - 4/24 (6 sessions)
No class: 3/13, 4/3, 4/17
NPHS F-Pod Balcony

9-10:30 a.m.
Fee: $55

Mini Musical Production
Alice in Wonderland
(Grades 2-6)
This session, the mini-musical will be Alice in Wonderland. Join Alice, the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts and all your favorite characters as they travel through the classic story. Featuring well-known songs and an exciting script, this show has lots of characters and is sure to please any young actor!
Saturday, 2/27 - 4/24 (6 sessions)
No class: 3/13, 4/3, 4/17
NPHS F-Pod Balcony

10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Fee: $55

All registration must be done directly with the North Penn Community Education Office.  If you have any questions about registration, class availability, or payment, please contact Paula Malley at 215-853-1028 or Gail Beigel at 215-853-1029. For questions about class content or teaching staff, call OSO directly at 215-858-9528.

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