We’re in this together
After lying dormant since February, the Goodrich Theater has been abuzz since Monday’s kickoff of the Cameron Community Players Youth Theater Workshop.
Students have just a few days left before debuting ‘We’re All in This Together’ a Broadway review of famous music from a variety of genres past and present.
“We had a bigger turnout than we thought we would … We have been doing a lot of prep work. We talked about how the audition process works and today was the callback,” said Youth Theater Director Teri Robinson, who announced the cast for this year’s show last week. “We haven’t really done that before, but we had a lot of great singers so we had to weed through a few to see where they settle. We talk about character development – the gamut of acting – blocking, focus, we do warm ups and play a lot of games to build our teams and ensembles. We do all of that stuff the first week, then we hit hard on rehearsals.”
With COVID-19 still a concern, Robinson said the Cameron Community Players made a conscientious decision not to advertise for this year’s CCP Youth Theater Workshop. Instead of putting up flyers, they relied on word-of-mouth and social media. Robinson said the turnout is down from last year, but she received more students than expected. One of those students was Student Counselor Cindy Hacking, who spent the week working on choreography with area youths and expects the intensity of the rehearsals to pick up now that the show has been cast.
“It’s been really easy. The kids have been great to work with. They’re all theater kids so they love it. They’re all really sweet … It’s going to be crazy. I have to teach them choreography so I have to teach them dances. And they’re going to have to memorize the songs, dances, when they walk in, where they’re standing. It’s going to be crazy in the next week.”
Although experienced on the stage, Allison Brown said she will sing two challenging numbers in ‘Into the Unknown’ from the film ‘Frozen’ and ‘By My Side’ from the musical ‘Godspell’.
“I’m excited to do them. They’ll be fun … I’m going to have to work a lot on it to see what I can belt out and what I can’t some of those songs get pretty high,” Brown said.
