Student ACTOR/SINGERS STILL NEEDED FOR FREE Summer Theatre Workshop at Herron High School. Claude McNeal Productions, a professional, not-for-profit theatre organization located in downtown Indianapolis, is hosting a FREE two-week intensive theatre workshop at Herron High School, beginning
Monday, July 26th, and running through Friday, August 6th (Mondays thru Fridays 1pm to 4pm), and still have a few openings left for student actor/singers from grades 9 through 12.
Again, the tuition is free, and students just need to bring their enthusiasm and talent! There will be a final “showcase” production at the end of the workshop on Friday, August 6th at 6:30pm for parents and families.
The workshop itself will be centered around staging an original dramatic/musical production written by local playwright, Claude McNeal, entitled “Indy In Revue” and will be performed at various times during the academic school year for area students. Indy in Revue is a 60-minute stage presentation that traces the history of Indianapolis from 1820 to the present.
Students will act out scenes and songs relating to:
- The city’s emergence as the “crossroads of the nation”
- Abraham Lincoln’s historic speech at Union Station
- Indianapolis’s acclaim as a turn-of-the-century literary capital
- The city’s contributions to the early automobile industry—and the first Indy 500
- The dedication of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument
- The rise and fall of the Ku Klux Klan
The international impact of Indy’s jazz, blues, religious, and pop music innovators and dozens more milestones in Indianapolis’s history Interested individuals need to contact Jeff Owen, Project Director, by calling 317-213-6046.