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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
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 will also
begin offering a program as part of EUSD's After-School Enrichment
Program. This will run once a week through two of the eight
week sessions, culminating in a performance at the end of
the final week.
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