In the Youth Musical Theater Writing Workshop, youth will write and perform a Christmas mini-musical of their own!
Youth will learn how to create a story using branching ‘snowflake’ and ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ methods to plot the musical. Once the story outline is in place, students will brainstorm possible spots in the script to place songs and learn about the AABA song form (used for Somewhere Over the Rainbow and hundreds of other Broadway hits) as well as melody building and lyric writing. Once the script and songs are in place, we’ll begin rehearsing and preparing the musical for performance in December. Nothing is quite as satisfying as performing something you helped to create from scratch!
- Registration: http://bit.ly/AFCCFall2018
- Costs: All accepted students receive a full-tuition scholarship for the program. Students may need to provide their own costumes, depending on the musical they choose to write and the casting of the parts.
- Ages: 10-18
- Time: Tuesdays 3:30-4:25pm
- Place: American Fork Arts Institute.
- Audition: Send a one-paragraph WRITING SAMPLE (5-sentence minimum) about any personal Holiday experience as well as a link to a VIDEO uploaded to youtube, vimeo, dropbox, onedrive or google drive of your child singing a song of their choice without accompaniment to ryan@choirworks.com with the subject: “YOUTH MUSIC THEATER WORKSHOP Audition.” Audition materials must be received BEFORE August 17th.
- A program of the American Fork Children’s Choir and the American Fork Arts Institute.
Me audition? No worries!
Auditioning for this opportunity should not be stressful. The video singing audition is mainly there to see if a student can stay in tune with themselves. The writing sample is just to get participants thinking ahead about ideas we might incorporate in our mini musical. Take a deep breath and go for it!