How to Effectively Run a Rehearsal With Young Actors

How to Effectively Run a Rehearsal With Young Actors

We are now one month less three days until Disney's Peter Pan Jr. opens at OKTC (March 7, in case you're wondering... click here to buy your tickets!) and we just finished blocking and choreographing the entire show yesterday! Going forward, we are going to be focusing on running the show, line memorization, and focusing …

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Director’s Diary: On Casting

Dear Actors, You know that horrible feeling in the pit of your stomach when you're waiting for your casting to arrive?  The anticipation is gnawing at you... you just can't wait to find out what part you'll be playing in the show you just auditioned for!  You're full of nerves as you scan the list, …

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How to Make Young Actors Feel Important

If you are in any sort of leadership position on a show with young people (director, musical director, choreographer, stage manager), it's vital to establish a rapport with your actors.  You need to create an atmosphere of trust, respect and positivity for your young actors.  And, of course, you need to make your actors feel that they are …

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Presenting the OKTC Spring 2014 Season!

    I'm so excited to share with you the Original Kids Theatre Company's Spring 2014 Season!  We have an incredible theme this season -- "I Dream, I Wish" -- with FOURTEEN productions going up between March and August 2014! I'm also thrilled to announce that after having taken the fall season off from directing (getting married and such), …

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Halfway through 2013… time for a mid-year check-in!

I just got back from recording an update podcast with The Lovers, The Dreamers and You team.  It has been a long time since our last podcast... we have not recorded anything since February!  Sad trombone!  But the entire team has been incredibly busy the past few months.  We discovered that in between all of …

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