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 Pat Lydersen, with music by our composer Wendy Woolf. With Lydersen and theater veteran Judy Campbell directing, Woolf as musical director, and Joanna Lydersen 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 EUSD Program:

We run our 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.
Starting in the 2010/2011 school year, we have also begun offering a program as part of EUSD's After-School Enrichment Program. Meeting once a week after school, students 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.