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Educational Programs

Reagle Music Theatre has a variety of programs designed to give children in the West Suburban region the opportunity to expand their horizons through the performing arts. We provide a positive, nurturing environment in which to develop a variety of skills including: Improvisation, Theatre Games, Role Playing, Stage Movement and Dance, Scene Work, Character Exploration, Auditioning Skills, Vocal Technique, Stage Combat, and Technical Stage Craft.

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Musical Theatre Camps

 

Winter Workshop - February 21-24

"The Best of Times"

The strength of musical theater has always been rooted in its power to harness our imagination and creativity. As we grow older and mature with age, it becomes more and more difficult to hold onto that sense of play that we embraced so easily when we were young; and we begin to lose our ability to imagine and create as we grow older. This is one of the reasons theater youth programs can so richly entertain and educate us; and it's why our kids can always look back at their time with us and remember it as “The Best of Times.”
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Spring Workshop - April 17-20

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Summer Camp - July 2-27

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Along with daily classes in voice, dance and acting, Reagle Camps and Workshops also offer electives in everything from stage craft and sight reading music, to monologues and scenic painting. Master Classes with Broadway professionals have included stage combat, physical comedy, presenting a song, and learning pieces of original Broadway choreography.  Our students have had the rare opportunity to study with such master teachers as:

Gemze de Lappe, who is in great demand as a choreographer around the world, and has had an extensive Broadway career that includes working very closely with some of Broadway's most highly regarded choreographers. In both the original Broadway production and the film of The King and I, she was the original King Simon of Legree.

Kenny Raskin starred as the lead clown Everyman in Cirque du Soleil's universally loved Nouvelle Experience, and he also originated the role of Lefou, the comic sidekick of the villain Gaston, in the Broadway production of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Kenny was also featured in Cirque du Soleil's 3D IMAX film entitled Journey of Man.

Sarah Pfisterer starred on Broadway and in the national tours of both Phantom of the Opera and Show Boat. A Metropolitan Opera semi-finalist, Sarah has made numerous concert appearances including The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber.

In addition, our Camp Teachers, Assistants and Counselors are performers as well with many distinguished credits among them.

"What makes Reagle different from all other camps in the area is the unbelievable reputation in the arts. Parents and kids know they are learning from the best. But also the kids feel so free to be able to express themselves in front of their peers and teachers…Kids who are so shy come to life because they are given encouragement by everyone." Maureen H. (camp parent)

"We all had so much fun, and the only downside is that it's ending." Tricia L. (camp student)

Reagle Counselor in Training Program

Students going into 10th grade or higher for the 2011/2012 school year may apply for a CIT position. 

Counselor in Training Information

Counselor in Training Application

 

Mark Linehan, Camp Director

Mark has appeared in many productions in the Boston area, including The Last Five Years at the New Repertory Theatre(Broadway World Award Winner for Best Actor in a musical), Honk! and Seussical at the Wheelock Family Theater, The Good War, 42nd Street, and The Nutcracker at the Stoneham Theatre, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas at the Foothills Theater, Romeo and Juliet and Crazy For You at the Fiddlehead Theater, The Glass Menagerie at the Amazing Things Art Center and Follies at the Lyric Stage Company.  Mark also performed as Tony in West Side Story and General Genghis Khan Schmitz in Seussical at the Papermill Theater in Lincoln, NH.  Mark graduated from Emerson College with a B.F.A. in Musical Theater and currently lives in Malden, MA with his incredible wife Amanda and his incorrigible cat, Natasha.

 

Rachel Bertone, Associate Camp Director

Over the past four years, Rachel’s work at Reagle can be seen either onstage—as she appeared in multiple productions such as The Music Man (Zaneeta), Joseph... (Apache dancer), and The King and I (Topsy)—or  behind the scenes as she directed the children in their annual production of ChristmasTime and taught at RMT’s Youth Programs.  In the Boston area, she has performed with the Lyric Stage Company, Fiddlehead Theatre, The LAB, The Awesome 80's Prom, The Boston Ballet, Prometheus Dance, Ballet Rox, and Windhover Dance Company.  Her choreographic credits include: Big River—Broadway World Winner for Best Choreography*, Animal Crackers (Lyric Stage Company), A Little Night Music* (Metro Stage Company), Lucky Stiff (Moonbox Productions) and Seussical Jr. (Boston Children’s Theatre).  Rachel is on faculty at TheBoston Ballet, Artbarn Community Theater, and the Dance Inn and holds a B.F.A. in Dance from the Boston Conservatory.

 

Actors in the Classroom

In Spring 2005, Reagle piloted a project called Actors In the Classroom (AIC) to serve Waltham High School English students. A Coordinator/Director and four professional actors implemented a three-week interpretive program, structured in accordance with state educational curriculum guidelines. The pilot served ten teachers’ classrooms with forty classroom visitations, and 200 students in grades 9-12. Literary works studied, performed, and discussed were: Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Crucible, A Doll’s House, Hamlet, A Raisin' in the Sun, A Streetcar Named Desire and Fences.

The pilot was so successful that the Project has continued for the subsequent three years, 2006-08. This spring, forty individual English classes, taught by ten teachers, hosted the AIC Project. The Project provides remedial-to honors-level students with techniques for encountering challenging dramatic and lyrical language in their English texts.

Week One is devoted to coordination, preparation, lesson planning for the classroom texts being studied, and decisions about the daily topics to be discussed and performed, followed by rehearsal sessions. Weeks Two and Three are spent in classrooms, one hour per week per class for eight to ten different classes, to demonstrate and role-model through performance, to offer teachers and students specific techniques for future use, to coach individual students in oral interpretation and, finally, to sum up the key ideas of the unit.

AIC aims to introduce students to the richness and power of Shakespearean and dramatic text, by helping them confront the problems inherent within. Most high school students, studying the words of literary masters, are confronted with language that proves daunting even for adults. Without AIC, students might not fully engage with the classics, finding them too difficult and inaccessible. Thus far, we have included up to ten different classrooms annually, with many teachers who request service being turned down due to limitations of time and resources.