Centenary Stage Company Presents
STAGES FESTIVAL (for young theatre-goers)

"[The Stages Festival] provides wonderful opportunities to experience the magic
of live theatre with everyone in your family—and your extended family of friends."
                        – NJ Theatre Alliance

Centenary Stage Company will join the New Jersey Theatre Alliance Stages Festival with a line-up of performances and workshops for young theatre-goers. CSC will offer a Day of Theatre program on March 3rd, 2012, with two free workshops of Stage Combat and Creative Movement for the general public, as well as live performances from CSC’s new Young Audience Series (YAS), A Year With Frog and Toad (the musical) and If You Give a Pig a Pancake.

CSC’s Day of Theatre offers a variety of individual artistic opportunities for young children to experience the theatrical world at affordable prices. “When folks ask us why we do what we do,” says Centenary Stage Company General Manager, Catherine Rust, “I like to quote the inimitable Rocco Landesman (President of the National Endowment for the Arts), who says, ‘The arts provide us with new ways of thinking, new ways to draw connections. They help maintain our competitive edge by engendering innovation and creativity,’ all qualities we urgently need in our rapidly changing society, ” Rust continues, “plus it’s a quantifiable fact that children who participate in the arts from an early age score higher on their SAT’s. What could be better than that?!”

The Stages Festival is an initiative of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance, the association of professional theatres throughout the state. The Festival brings together the NJ theater community to offer free performances, classes, back-stage tours and more, at professional theatres throughout the state in the month of March. The NJTA describes the overall experience of the Festival as “An event that provides wonderful opportunities to experience the magic of live theatre with everyone in your family—and your extended family of friends.” For information about state-wide activities during the festival, log on to www.njtheatrealliance.org or contact the NJTA at 973- 731-6582.

Stephen Davis (left) teaches Stage Combat   workshop (with workshop participant- Dan Derkes) Stage Combat Workshop   (for ages 11-14 years old) Edit Kutz Black Box Theater of The Lackland Center The Stage Combat workshop, led by Stephen Davis (professor of Theatre at Centenary College), will begin at 9:00 a.m. The workshop is designed for ages eleven to fourteen and will take place in the Edit Kutz Black Box Theater of The Lackland Center. Reservations are required. The workshop is free for children within the stated age range. Creative Movement Workshop  (for ages 6-10 years old) Edit Kutz Black Box Theater of The Lackland Center A workshop in Creative Movement (Led by Y.A.S performers Nick Ardito and Brittany D’Allesio) for children ages six to ten will take place at 12:00 pm. Due to the limited space, advance reservations are required in order to ensure a spot in the workshops. The workshop is free for children within the stated age range.

(L-R) Megan McGill, Amanda Roy in the    Centenary Stage Company Young Audience    Series production of If You Give a Pig a    Pancake. Photo by Carl Wallnau Young Audience Series A Year With Frog and Toad The Little Theatre on Jefferson Street, on the campus of Centenary College Adapted as a musical from Arnold Lobel’s original children’s book, A Year With Frog and Toad centers around the friendship that forms between the two title characters, the four seasons they spend together, and the life lessons they learn from other friends. A Year With Frog and Toad will be performed at 11:00 a.m., and it is recommended for ages three and up. At 1:00 p.m. (See full details and photos) Young Audience Series If You Give a Pig a Pancake The Little Theatre on Jefferson Street, on the campus of Centenary College Centenary Stage Company will present If You Give a Pig a Pancake, appropriate for children ages five to ten. If You Give a Pig a Pancake follows the enterprising journey of a young girl who accommodates the demands of a quirky piglet after eating pancakes. Their adventure is an escapade which becomes embroiled in taking a bubble bath, a little tap dance, taking a photo, mailing a letter, building a tree house, and of course, going back for more pancakes. (See full details and photos)

Registration
To register, or find out further information:

• About Centenary Stage Company’s Day of Theatre workshops:
  Please contact the YAS program director, Lea Antolini-Lid, at 908-852-1400 x2421 or via e-mail antolinil@centenarycollege.edu.
   
• About CSC’s Young Audience Series performances:
  Please see our Young Audience Series site page and/or contact the CSC Box office at 908-979-0900. The Centenary Stage Company Box Office, located in the Lackland Center at 715 Grand Avenue, is open 1-5 p.m. Monday through Friday and two hours prior to each performance.

Tickets
Tickets may also be purchased online 24 hours a day at www.centenarystageco.org.

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