Musical Theater Camp

Back in the Spring, I was looking at our little city's website and saw that they offered a very affordable 3-hour-a-day week-long musical theater summer camp for ages 6-12.  I signed up all three younger kids.  I was excited to find something cheap that they could all do together, giving me a bit of a break in the middle of summer, and I expected they'd have a lot of fun with it.

Boy, did they.  They were singing the songs all week, learning the lyrics.  They were so excited about the choreography, the little opportunities to shine, and the friends they were making.  I loved hearing about all the fun they were having and couldn't wait to see their Saturday performance.

The performance used songs from Disney movies/plays.  Some of the numbers included the entire group, while others were just for the older or younger kids.  Eliza was the oldest child in the younger group, and was not okay with it.  She told her teacher on the first day that the choreography was too easy for her.  She and the teacher decided that Eliza would do a little bit of tumbling to make things more interesting, but then several other kids wanted to do tumbling too, so Eliza was no longer doing something special, which was a less than desirable solution for Eliza.  In the end, she was able to join the older kids for some of their choreography too, which helped her feel better about the whole thing.

The Saturday performance was so great.  It was obvious that my kids hadn't done a performance like this before, with the boys especially looking kind of stiff and concentrating a lot on what they were supposed to be doing, but it was great for them to be on stage and to have to remember their steps and all of the lyrics.  They had fun with it and were quite proud of themselves.  Grammy and Oma drove down from Salt Lake to see the performance and they loved it too.  We celebrated with brunch at a nearby cafe before Grammy and Oma headed back up north.

First day of camp.  Can you find Jack?

Head Shots at the performance

Jack was Scar during the Villain Medley

Luke & Eliza

E&L

Jack and the 2 other older boys were Herculeses during "Zero to Hero"

E&L

E&L

E&L
The kids were so excited to finish the performance with confetti canons during "One Jump Ahead."

Eliza was too busy being social to be in our picture.
Luke was too excited about eating the refreshments to take a break from chewing.

We brought the head shots home after the performance and it took about 2.3 for Luke to add
some embellishments (including a neck beard).  At least he was drawing on his own picture.

The teachers at the camp recorded the entire performance and will be posting it on YouTube.  I'll share the video when I can!