{"134961":{"#nid":"134961","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Kids Hone Musical Theater Skills at Camp","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWho knows who Barbra Streisand is?\u201d is a question that usually results in blank stares from most 10- to 15-year- olds \u2014 but that wasn\u2019t the case with the group of kids sitting on the Ferst Center stage last Monday.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat\u2019s because the group of 50 children were attending the Ferst Center for the Arts\u2019 weeklong \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ferstcenter.gatech.edu\/dramacamp\/plugins\/content\/index.php?id=4\u0022\u003Emusical theater camp\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe kids who attend this camp love to perform,\u201d said Jenna Farmer, camp coordinator and marketing specialist for the Ferst Center. \u201cThe camp allows them to be onstage singing and dancing for an entire week in a professional theater setting, which is very exciting for a young performer, and they have a great time interacting with our talented teaching staff of professional actors and dancers.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Ferst Center created the camp three years ago to provide kids with an alternative to its 20-year-old, four-week drama camp.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt was designed to be a shorter, one-week intensive camp that allows campers to focus their energy on one area of theater that we found was very popular during our drama camp,\u201d Farmer added.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECamp activities included getting headshots taken by a professional photographer and attending a master class given by a local voice teacher. The rest of the week was filled with rehearsal for a final show held on Friday afternoon that was open to parents and friends.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe instructors who work with the campers are theater professionals from the Atlanta area who specialize in acting, dancing or voice.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany of the campers are the children of Georgia Tech faculty and staff, such as Lynn Durham, assistant vice president and chief of staff to President G. P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson, and Dan Immergluck, a professor in the School of City and Regional Planning.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis was the second year that Durham\u2019s daughter, Emily, participated in the camp. Emily had always been interested in the Ferst Center\u2019s drama camp, but the time commitment never meshed with the family\u2019s summer plans.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt is truly amazing how much these kids accomplish in five days,\u201d Durham said. \u201cI love that the camp provides each child with a professional headshot, and as a Tech employee, you can\u2019t beat the convenience of bringing them with you in the morning and taking them home with you in the afternoon.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EImmergluck\u2019s daughters, Kate and Anna, are also returning campers. Kate learned about the camp from friends who had attended and recommended it.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI would definitely recommend it to other parents,\u201d Immergluck said. \u201cBoth girls are now more comfortable performing in front of an audience, and Kate won the lead role in her middle school musical last year \u2014 and I attribute that, in no small part, to her musical theater camp experience.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERegistration for the camp opens in late January at \u003Cbr \/\u003Ewww.ferstcenter.gatech.edu\/dramacamp, and the 50 openings usually fill up by mid-April. The cost of the camp is $250.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about this camp, or the four-week Drama Camp that the Ferst Center offers, contact \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jenna.farmer@arts.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EFarmer\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWho knows who Barbra Streisand is?\u201d is a question that usually results in blank stares from most 10- to 15-year- olds \u2014 but that wasn\u2019t the case with the group of kids sitting on the Ferst Center stage last Monday.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u201cWho knows who Barbra Streisand is?\u201d is a question that usually results in blank stares from most 10- to 15-year- olds \u2014 but that wasn\u2019t the case with the group of kids sitting on the Ferst Center stage last Monday."}],"uid":"27445","created_gmt":"2012-06-13 08:20:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:22","author":"Amelia Pavlik","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-06-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-06-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"134941":{"id":"134941","type":"image","title":"Ferst Center Musical Theater Camp","body":null,"created":"1449178671","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:37:51","changed":"1475894763","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:03","alt":"Ferst Center Musical Theater Camp","file":{"fid":"194776","name":"theater_singing.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/theater_singing_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/theater_singing_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3696508,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/theater_singing_0.jpg?itok=AYixzmtw"}}},"media_ids":["134941"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ferstcenter.gatech.edu\/","title":"Ferst Center for the Arts"}],"groups":[{"id":"1259","name":"Whistle"}],"categories":[{"id":"42901","name":"Community"},{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"42911","name":"Education"}],"keywords":[{"id":"397","name":"children"},{"id":"260","name":"Ferst Center"},{"id":"261","name":"Ferst Center for the Arts"},{"id":"35831","name":"musical theater"},{"id":"167366","name":"summer camps"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jenna.farmer@arts.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJenna Farmer\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFerst Center\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}