FAC's Youth Rep Stages PIPPIN, Now thru Aug 4

The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center presents the multiple Tony- Award winning musical Pippin, designed and performed by the students of the FAC's Youth Rep program onstage in the SaG?Ji Theatres Aug. 1-4, 2013.

Pippin is a hip, tongue-in-cheek, anachronistic fairy tale about kind Charlemagne's son, Pippin. The story of the young prince on a death-defying journey to find meaning in his life continues to captivate Broadway audiences. The original 1972 Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Broadway legend Bob Fosse, won five Tony Awards. The show is currently enjoying its first Broadway revival, in a production that won four Tony Awards last month, including best revival of a musical. The energetic pop-influenced score by three-time Oscar-winning composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Wicked, and the animated films Pocahontas, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame and The Prince Of Egypt) bursts with one show-stopping number after another, from soaring ballads to infectious dance numbers.

The FAC's Youth Rep program, currently in its 14th year, is one of the only conservatory-based theatre programs for high school students - ages 14-18 - in the country and is the only professional training program for student actors, designers, and technicians in the Pikes Peak Region. Each year's 5-week program culminates in performances open to the public.

The 28 theatre artists in this year's program are students at Cheyenne Mountain High School, St. Mary's High School, Pine Creek High School, Woodland Park High School, Palmer Ridge High School, Manitou Springs High School, Discovery Canyon Campus, Lewis Palmer High School, Liberty High School, Air Academy High School and the Queensgate Girl's School in England. Some students have just graduated high school and will be starting their college career this fall, at institutions such as New York University, Lawerence Univeristy, University of Evansville, Notre Dame University and Pikes Peak Community College.

Taught by a faculty which includes over a dozen professional theatre artists, the students in the program meet eight hours a day for five weeks and are introduced to all elements of the theatre including vocal performance, speech, audition/monologue work, various styles of dance, clowning, fight choreography, make-up and costume design, art history, etc.

PERFORMANCES: Thursday - Saturday, Aug. 1-3 | 7p; Sunday, August 4 | 2p TICKETS: $10 | $5 for children ages 12 and under. BUY ONLINE or call the Box Office at 710.634.5583.

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