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Bay Area Children’s Theatre, which partners with the Pleasanton Civic Arts Stage Company for its youth productions, is holding a two-week intensive musical theater camp this summer at Bothwell Arts Center in Livermore for the first time.
This camp, with professional instructors and designed for students entering second through eighth grade, begins July 30 and will end with a production of “Madagascar, A Musical Adventure Jr.” onstage at the Bankhead Theater at 7 p.m. Aug. 9 and 10.
The students in BACT’s fun and fast-paced program will work with a director, choreographer and music director to learn vocal technique, basic dance vocabulary and storytelling skills as they prepare for the production, BACT officials said. Instruction will focus on teaching students how to support each other on stage and off, to strengthen their empathy and self-confidence as well as acting, musical, creative thinking and problem-solving skills.
The camp runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., July 30 to Aug. 10. Tuition is $715. Special prices are available for Livermore residents and a limited number of scholarships are available through the LVPAC Education Fund; contact education program manager Kiran Guleria at 583-2312 or kguleria@lvpac.org.
The program plays to the company’s particular strengths at ensemble building and engages students in the exhilarating process of putting on a show, noted Annie Clark, director of education for BACT, which was founded in 2004. Since then, its programs have reached more than 110,000 children and adults throughout the Bay Area with a variety of programs, production and performances.
This is just one of the summer enrichment programs for students in grades 3-12 at the Bothwell Arts Center and Bankhead Theater in Livermore, which include “Some Have Greatness Thrust Upon Them” summer theater camp, presented by teaching artists from Livermore Shakespeare Festival.
In Pleasanton, a Shakespeare camp for ages 7 to 13 is offered July 23 to Aug. 3 by San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, which also culminates in a performance.
Check out the Pleasanton summer activities guide for its 34 pages of summer camps, with everything from more drama to outdoor adventures to aquatics to art, dance, engineering and tech, music, enrichment, science, special interest and sports.