Northland Players, Inc

P.O. Box 157, Cheboygan, MI 49721-0157  231-627-7833

Summer Youth Theater

The Northland Players and the Cheboygan Area Arts Council hold a summer youth theater camp to inspire and instill a love of live theater in the children of northern Michigan, for they are the future of community theater. The Summer Youth Theater's production at the Cheboygan Opera House this year was entitled "The Saddle String Revue - A Horse Opera in Two Acts" by Bruce Scigliano and George Krawcyzk. This is the fourth script Bruce and George have collaborated on for the youth theater group.

 

 

 

 

HISTORY

 

It began with the success of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in November

1995, which included a cast of 30 children. The Players held a Kid’s Theater Workshop developed by Michele Peters, that ran for four weeks in March 1996 hoping to keep this enthusiastic group’s interest. The workshop covered:

· Voice (projection, enunciation)

· Characterization (development, expression)

· Stage Movement (blocking, placement)

· Memorization (concentration exercises)

· Theater Manners (Do’s & Don’t for productions)

It was such a success that a workshop was held in June 1997 and again in March 1998. That summer The Northland Players, in partnership with the Cheboygan Area Arts Council, presented a three-week children’s theater workshop. Seventy-five local children auditioned and trained in all components of theater, acting, singing, dancing, production, sound, lights, set construction, costuming and make-up. The Northland Players provided the (25) volunteers and a paid director and the Arts Council provided the use of the Opera House, its services, staff and technical equipment needed for a full production. This partnership has strengthened over the years because of a shared belief that instilling an appreciation for the arts and for the historic value of the Opera House in our youth will ensure the continued future of both. Productions have included:

The Wizard of Oz – 1998

Back to the Roxy – 1999

Pocahontas – 2001

The Trial of the Big Bad Wolf – 2004

Robin and the Hoover Hollow Hood – 2005

Under The Oak Tree or Things are Never What They Seem – 2006

                          The Escape of Bubbles Malone – 2007

                         

Saddle String Revue (A Horse Opera in Two Acts) - 2008

 

 

 

 

 

          

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Six of the Northland Players Summer Youth Theater kids went to Lansing July 19^th to see WICKED at the Wharton Theater on the MSU campus.

Cast of Saddle String Revue

Directors with Bruce Scigliano on Opening Night

 

Submitted by Michele Peters