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.

Exercise your dramatic talents! Use drama as a tool to develop your skills to stand out as a leader among your peers. Burst with laughter while improving your social skills, listening, problem solving and focus. Explore your acting skills in a variety of ways including: improvisation, short scenes, monologue, character development, theatre games and more!

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!

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.