Happy Thanksgiving! We are so blessed to see many of your children in class and rehearsal each week. We are thankful for our wonderful students and their families, our amazing teaching staff, our gracious host locations, and the opportunity to sing, dance, play, and create every day.
Our Fall 2015 season is wrapping up. 2 casts of "Schoolhouse Rock" performed this month to rave reviews and our
"Little Women" cast performs next weekend in Johns Creek. Students in our performance classes are preparing for their "Once Upon A Time" fairytale performances at our Fall Showcase on December 12th.
Tickets to upcoming performances can be purchased HERE.
Registration for Spring 2016 classes and shows is officially open!
We are offering FREE REGISTRATION (a $25 value) through December 1st. So while you are shopping your way through Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday, we hope you will take a couple minutes to check out our spring class and show offerings and see what your family might be interested in! We have adorable Animal and Yellow Brick Road themed gift certificates you can stick in your loved one's stocking on Christmas Day!
Refer a new student to your child's spring class or show and receive a $50 tuition credit!
Just have your friend name you on their registration form.
Keep reading to learn about New Locations and Classes, Upcoming Workshops, our new Education Director, classes we're offering for ADULTS, and Wizard of Oz auditions!
Spring 2016 Classes
Acting 1 ~ Acting 2 ~ Beginner & Intermediate Musical Theatre
Dance for Musical Theatre ~ Playwriting ~ Production Design
Preschool Drama ~ Mini Munchkins Performance Opportunity
Private Coaching in Acting, Voice, & Dance
Spring Semester's theme will be "Talk to the Animals" and students in our group classes will be working on material from shows featuring animal characters such as "Cats", "101 Dalmatians", "Honk", The Jungle Book", "Charlotte's Web", "The Wind in the Willows" and "The Lion King".
Our special Mini Munchkins classes for ages 4-6 offer a special performance opportunity for our youngest performers to take part in one of our "Wizard of Oz" productions!
We are also offering 2 Online Correspondence Classes (Playwriting and Production Design), Private Coaching in Acting, Voice & Dance, and Private Classes in your home or other private location for your child and 4 or more friends!
New Location/ New Class for Adults
In addition to our usual class locations, we are launching a new location in Marietta/East Cobb on Tuesday afternoons! And, for the first time ever, we are offering a class for ADULTS -- Dance for Musical Theatre on Tuesday evenings 8:30-9:30 pm in Johns Creek. That's right, show moms (and maybe even some dads) can dance alongside their MS/HS students while learning selections from "Cats", "Tarzan", and "The Lion King"! Get a great workout while bonding with your teen in a shared activity!
Spring 2016 Details are at www.ForefrontArts.com/Classes
Spring Musical: THE WIZARD OF OZ
(1st-12th grades, plus Mini Munchkins ages 4-6)
Our musical version of the classic story will feature the traditional characters and storyline as well as new upbeat music (great for dancing!) and new characters straight out of the novel.
Production Locations:
Johns Creek ~ Atlanta/Brookhaven ~ Atlanta/Buckhead ~ Decatur
Cast Details for all spring productions
are at www.ForefrontArts.com/Shows
Upcoming Workshops
We are offering a series of workshops at Alpharetta Library this school year. The workshops will all be
free of charge but you must pre-register with the library staff because space is limited.
Pre-register by emailing Anne.Vagts@fultoncountyga.gov.
We'd love to see some familiar faces at upcoming workshops!
PLAYWRITING
Sunday, December 13,
2:30-4:30 pm -- 2nd-8th grade
CREATIVE DRAMATICS
Sunday, January 10
2:30-3:30 pm -- ages 3-5 (attend with parent)
3:30-4:30 pm -- ages 5-7
CREATIVE FOCUS & TEAMWORK
Sunday, February 7
2:30-3:30 pm -- K-2nd
3:30-4:30 pm -- 3rd-8th
MUSICAL THEATRE
Sunday, March 6
2:30-3:30 pm -- K-2nd
3:30-4:30 pm -- 3rd-8th
POETRY SLAM
Sunday, April 3
2:30-3:30 pm -- K-2nd (attend with parent)
3:30-4:30 pm -- 3rd-8th
GLEE CLUB
Sunday, May 15
2:30-3:30 pm -- K-2nd
3:30-4:30 pm -- 3rd-8th
New Education Director
We are thrilled to announce that our Lead Teaching Artist, Mandi Lee, has been promoted to the new position of Forefront Arts Education Director! "Miss Mandi" has been an integral part of our team for 3 years as the primary director of our summer camp productions, director or choreographer of many Children's Theatre casts, and the playwright of our camp and Showcase scripts.
As Education Director Mandi will continue to teach and direct, as well as oversee our teaching staff and assist Miss Elizabeth with all the administrative details that keeps Forefront Arts chugging along. She is quickly becoming well-versed in Elizabeth's admin world of schedules, spreadsheets, phone calls, and emails, and the 2 of them are well on their way to planning the Summer 2016 schedule as well -- camp shows will be announced in January!
We hope to see your family in a class, production, or workshop in the spring!
As always, thank you for supporting young people and the arts!
~ The Forefront Arts Team
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(Both casts of our spring show "Shrek the Musical" gave phenomenal performances in May!)