Archive for May, 2009

More camper news:

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
  • Rachel Curcio has been cast in A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the New Jersey Arts Incubator (www.njai.org) Festival at Verona Park in Verona, NJ.  This is NJAI’s inaugural production which will be part of a two-day Arts Festival in Verona Park on July 18 and 19, 2009.
    This spring Rachel was selected to sing a Jersey Boys Medley, in a sextet, at H.B. Whitehorne Middle School in Verona, for the school’s concerts. Rachel is also a member of the Acoustics Select Chorus at HBW and plays the clarinet in the Gold (highest level) Band.
  • Sarah Shane is playing Helena in her schools production of A Mid Summers Night’s Dream
  • Riley Sexton was part of Downtown Youth Behind the Camera Program at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City this year. Riley and his fellow filmmakers from the Children’s Museum of the Arts Film Class had a film in this years festival called The Pain. an homage to the old black and white silent film. He was an active participant in the Q and A following the film, and was interviewed by Marshall Curry, director of the documentary Racing Dreams, and winner of the 2005 Audience Award for Street Fight.
    Riley couldn’t be more excited attending French Woods this summer!
  • Heather Braverman’s film Crickett and the Little Girl Power will be part of the Hoboken Film Festival. The screening will be in Teaneck on May 30, 2009 at noon!

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Because of Camp

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Here’s a PSA put out by the ACA (American Camp Association), what did you get out of camp?

 

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Check out the story about French Woods on the MTI website!

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Our friends at Music Theatre International have posted a story about French Woods, MTV, and musical theater, MTI holds the legal rights to produce many of the shows we do at camp. Check it out. 

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Camper news that came in too late for the performer

Monday, May 4th, 2009

We have received some camper news that came in after the May newsletter went to print:

Ben Schrager played Picasso in “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” by Steve Martin.
Lisa Graye completed an NYU film titled “Daughter of Lilith” directed by Manja Lyssy. Lisa played the lead role of a haunted Hasidic girl named Techiya.
Molly Lang appeared as Louise in  the Lower Merion High School Players’ spring production of Moliere’s comedy “The Imaginary Invalid”. 
Emilie Sohl played Willy Wonka in her school’s performance of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Melanie Haberman will be performing at Carnegie Hall in New York City with the Childrens Orchestra Society’s Young Symphonic Ensemble on June 3rd and with the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra’s Suffolk Principle Orchestra on June 7th. She will also be attending the Crane School of Music in the fall
Jenna Shelby-Glick recently sang her first solo in her 6th grade school production of School Daze.
That’s all for now, keep us informed!

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