Center Stage

7th – 12th Grades

Our Center Stage program embraces a diverse community and is open to students in 8th through 12th grade/ entering college. With a focus on process-based theatre, Center Stage invites students to enhance their current skills with challenging scripts that expand on movement, characterization, and vocal technique, with an overall goal of achieving greater self-esteem and encouraging inclusion and personal confidence.

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Current Offerings

Spring 2025

Grades 7th – 12th

Center Stage students are invited to journey back to the days of the “Wild West” in this crazy western melodrama! Lucy Canary, daughter of the greedy Mayor Canary, refuses to marry the man her father has chosen- Otis Lackginger. While he may be rich, Otis is as old as this hills and certainly not the husband Lucy wants. In order to avoid the wedding, Lucy pretends to be sick, but is unable to share her plan before she “loses her voice”! Now everyone is scrambling to find a doctor to save a wedding that nobody wants to happen in the first place!. Filled with slap-stick drama, hilarious characters and western shenanigans, this hootin’ and hollerin’ comedy is not to be missed!

Auditions:

4/17/2025

Rehearsals:

5/1/2025, 5/2/2025 & 5/3/2025

Performance:

5/3/2025  7:00 PM

Summer 2025

Center Stage Musical:   July 7th – 11th

Grades 7th – Entering College

Celebrate the wackiness in every family with First Act’s center stage musical, The Addams Family! In the kooky, upside-down world of the Addams Family, to be sad is to be happy, to feel pain is to feel joy, and death and suffering are the stuff of their dreams. In one fateful, hilarious night, secrets are disclosed, relationships are tested, and the Addams family must face up to the one horrible thing they’ve managed to avoid for generations: Change! Based on the zany comics by Charles Addams and music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, this hour-long musical is for Center Stage students entering grades 7th through entering College offers comedy and challenge for all performers!

From novice to experienced young performers, our summer production camps provide a universal approach to children’s theatre that embraces diversity and encourages inclusion and self-esteem. Audition skills are introduced and refined. Creative movement, vocal strength, memory development, acting technique, singing, dancing and group cooperation are fostered throughout the entire five day camp. The fun culminates in a FREE fully-costumed performance for family and friends!

First Act Children’s Theatre

Why Choose Us

Story-Centered Costumes, Sets & Props!

Our classes and camps provide a fully realized production with costumes, sets and props as an exciting culmination of our learning and efforts!

Enhanced Social Skills!

Theatre encourages positive social interactions and assists in the development of these skills!

Expanded Imagination and Creativity!

First Act offers endless opportunities for students to stretch their imaginative and creative skills through theatre games, story development, and the creation of characters.

Increased Self-Esteem!

 The process of comprehending, rehearsing and ultimately performing a theatre production provides students a sense of positive accomplishment that builds self esteem unlike any other.