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About The PARK DALE PLAYERS:


The Park Dale Players has been a fixture in North County Children's theater for the last 25 years. Beginning as a company of adults performing original plays for children and teaching drama workshops in the schools, PDP began its student musical theater program in the Encinitas School District in the fall of 1999. Since then, we have produced four original musicals a year, all of them written by PDP's own playwright and lyricist Pat Lydersen with music by composer Wendy Woolf.

With Pat, Joanna Lydersen, and theater veteran Judy Campbell directing, Wendy as musical director, and Joanna adding her talents as a choreographer, this program has provided hundreds of students the opportunity to hone their acting, singing, and dancing skills, and to experience the excitement of working with others to present a polished performance on stage.

 


More About Our Programs:

Fall, Spring & Summer Break Productions:
We run this program in the Encinitas School District during their fall, spring and summer breaks. During these two week periods, we rehearse and perform a full scale musical. Rehearsals run Monday through Friday from 9 until 12 for the drama and singing segment of the program and, after a half hour supervised lunch break, the dance segment runs from 12:30 until 2:00. Performances, complete with full costume, props, sets and lighting, are on Friday and Saturday evenings of the last weekend. The Fall and Spring sessions of this program are open to 3rd through 6th graders. The Summer session is open to 3rd through 10th graders.

Musical Theater Workshops:
Starting in the 2010/2011 school year, we also began offering a series of programs as part of EUSD's After-School Enrichment Program. Meeting once a week after school, students in grades 3-6 can either participate in a sixteen week session, culminating in a performance at the end of the final week, or in an eight week musical theater workshop. The workshop utilizes theater games, improvs, and vocal and movement excercises as a fun and energetic way to help students interested in musical theater to develop their acting, singing and dancing skills.

Tell-A-Tale Theater:
Younger students in grades K-2 can participate in TELL-A-TALE THEATER, a creative drama workshop which focuses not only on teaching children the basics of drama and dance, but also on developing their natural imaginative skills. Each class centers around a grade appropriate story which students will be helped to bring to life through theater games, improvisations, movement excercises, and role-playing.

REGISTER NOW!
We're accepting registrations now for our summer show It Happened in the Hood!

For information about this program or to find out about our after school workshops, please see our Productions page.



Contact Us:
pat@theparkdaleplayers.com

 

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