District 196 Community Education

Do you love musical theater and want to be on stage? Broadway Bound offers a fun and educational experience. Stage the full musical, Beetlejuice Jr. in just one week! Focus on acting, singing and basic choreography (no experience necessary). Following the week of scene study and training, share your skills with a free performance for the community. Bring a water bottle, snack and a bag lunch each day. Camp is located at Eastview High School, 6200 140th St W, Apple Valley, MN 55124. Greg Douma, Kari Douma, and Carrie Kuehl are District 196 teachers and collaboratively created the Broadway Bound musical theater camp curriculum. In 2006, Greg founded the Allegro Choral Academy as a way to offer children in the community a vibrant outlet for their musical gift.

Laugh out loud and learn communication skills, self-confidence and respect towards other’s ideas in a fun-filled environment. Play improv games and practice exercises in scene work and characters, while discovering theater basics and introductory performing skills. This class promotes creative thinking, listening, problem solving, self-awareness, team building, focus and collaboration. Laugh, learn and play!

Create a play in a week! Work collaboratively to develop the story, setting, characters, dialogue and staging. Throughout the creative process, play games and activities to hone your theatre skills. Perform your play for friends and family on the last day of class. Outer Space Adventure: June 16-20 (no class June 19) Mystery Unsolved: June 23-26 Pirates at Play: July 7-10 Journey to Mount Olympus: July 14-17 Fairy Tale Twisted: July 21-24 Under the Sea July 28-31 Witches, Wizards and Warlocks Oh My! Aug 4-7 Stars on Broadway: August 11-14

Develop and produce your very own production of selections from a hit musical! This will culminate in a performance on the Apple Valley High School theater stage on Friday night! Selections from Frozen! July 14-18, July 18 performance Selections from Wicked! July 28-August 1. August 1 performance,

Everyone's favorite ogre is back in this hilarious stage spectacle, based on the Oscar-winning smash hit film and outrageous Broadway musical, Shrek. Develop and produce a full production, Shrek Jr. which will coulminate in a performance on the Apple Valley High School theater stage on Friday, August 15. 6:00 p.m. and Saturday, August 16, 1:00 p.m.

Learn storytelling and creative play through a new favorite storybook! Using your tools of body, voice and imagination, express yourself through story creation, music, creative movement, dramatic play and art-making. Explore theatre fundamentals, communication, creative thinking, listening and community building. Sign up for one or all! Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!: June 17 & 20 Elephant and Piggie : June24 & 26 Pete the Cat: July 8 & 10 If You Give a Mouse a Cookie July 15 & 17 Dragons Love Tacos: July 22 & 24 There's an Alligator Under my Bed: July 29 & July 31 Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: Aug 5 & 7 We Don't Eat Our Classmates: Aug 12 & 14