PlayhouseSquare Announces 2010 Broadway Summer Camps

Broadway Summer Camps for teens ages 14-19 at PlayhouseSquare feature one-of-a-kind opportunities to work with cast and crew members from touring Broadway productions. This year, The PlayhouseSquare Community Engagement & Education Department is offering two camps with cast and crew members from The Phantom of the Opera.

"We are in a unique position to connect students with professionals who are living their dreams," explained Colleen Porter, director of community engagement & education at PlayhouseSquare. "They share what it is really like to audition for a musical; work with a director, choreographer, and musicians; go on tour; perform eight shows a week...everything that happens along the route to Broadway."

The Broadway Summer Camp and the Advanced Broadway Summer Camp are scheduled for August 2-6. Both camps focus on the triple threat of musical theater - acting, singing and dancing - and feature master classes led by the professionals, a ticket to a performance of The Phantom of the Opera at PlayhouseSquare, a professional headshot and lunch each day. The fee for each camp is $400.

Auditions for the advanced camp are required. Interested students must call 216-348-7909 to schedule an audition for Sunday, May 23. Those interested in the advanced camp but not able to audition that day should call 216-348-7909 for alternate instructions. There is a non-refundable audition fee of $15, which is applied toward the camp fee.

Students interested in the Broadway Summer Camp may call 216-348-7909 or visit www.playhousesquare.org/community to register.

Camps are held in the Idea Center® at PlayhouseSquare, located at 1375 Euclid Avenue. Parking is available in The PlayhouseSquare parking garage, the Hanna parking garage and various surface lots in the area.

For his final overture in Cleveland, The Phantom of the Opera returns to PlayhouseSquare to take your breath away. Andrew Lloyd Webber's international award-winning phenomenon directed by Harold Prince has woven its magical spell over standing room audiences in more than 100 cities worldwide and is now the longest running show in Broadway history. Don't miss your last chance to experience this timeless story of seduction and despair and the one show The London Sunday Times called "God's gift to the musical theatre." Tickets for the show go on sale to the public on Monday, March 22. The Phantom of the Opera is part of the U.S. Bank Star Performance Series at PlayhouseSquare.

PlayhouseSquare understands its vital role as an educator in our community, and is committed to providing arts learning opportunities of the highest quality to enrich the lives of students, families, teachers and adults. PlayhouseSquare's Community Engagement & Education Department is unique in the performing arts industry for the variety of programs it offers, the partnerships it initiates and the access it provides students, educators and aspiring artists to performing arts professionals. Since its inception in 1998, the Community Engagement & Education Department has offered thousands of events, workshops, classes and more, most with minimal or no fees, to people of all ages from all areas of Northeast Ohio. The generous support of individual and corporate donors and foundations makes it all possible.

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PlayhouseSquare is a not-for-profit performing arts center whose mission is presenting and producing a wide variety of quality performing arts, advancing arts education and creating a destination that is a superior location for entertainment, business and housing, thereby strengthening the economic vitality of the region.

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