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Make plans to join us— check out our summer Performance Schedule.After each performance, photos from the show are available for viewing at the Photo Gallery. This is last Summers' Performance Schedule so you can get an idea of what we typically offer each season. Click the link above if you want to see pictures from the individual shows. The show dates listed here correspond with the dates in the Photo Gallery blog Take a trip down memory lane with Marcus is Walking, Scenes from the Road by Joan Ackerman. The play is a series of humorous and touching snapshots of life on the road played by an ensemble cast. Following her husband's funeral, Bernarda Alba informs her five daughters, much to their dismay, that they will be locked in the house for an eight year period of mourning. Thinking she can control the girls absolutely, she may ignore the signs of an approaching storm until it's too late. Twice a summer, camper bands have a chance to electrify their friends with real rock star performances (minus the rock star attitudes) at Rock Cafe. Punk, garage, pop, blues and metal groups are all welcome to show off their chops at this high energy concert, which proves that Buck's Rock still knows how to, well, rock! His Girl Friday, a high-spirited screwball comedy from the 1940s, is a wonderful satiric spoof of the newspaper industry as well as the classic "boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl" story. In this genre-spanning recital, Buck's Rock's most musical campers (be they instrumentalists, singers or composers) will showcase their talent and perform selections learned in private instruction or pieces prepared individually. Join us for a night of camper produced films screened under the stars on the lawn. Entertainment and enjoyment awaits you. We promise you'll be wowed and amazed! There will be popcorn. Thrice-curdled blood, glinted bladed razors, and close-shaved faces blot the Summer Theatre stage for Buck's Rock macabre Grand Guignol production of Sweeney Todd. Wrongfully accused barber Benjamin Barker takes his revenge on London's high and low born while Mrs. Lovett entrepreneurially disposes of and utilizes Barker's victims. The Clown Show is a sketch comedy variety show, written and performed by Buck's Rock's funniest campers. Directed by a dedicated staff of clowns, campers use improvisation and other techniques to generate sketch material and then rehearse meticulously. The Clown Show is sometimes surreal, absurd, physical, and/or political, but it is always a fun time. See for yourself on July 20th at 7:15pm or 9:00pm. Much Ado About Nothing is everything Shakespeare has to offer: romance, adventure, intrigue and mistaken identity, in a great adaptation for kids by Lois Burdett. The first session Dance Night will feature new choreographic works drawing inspiration from Film, exploring film narratives, cinematic techniques, and soundtrack highlights. Don't miss it! All day there will be a display of staff artwork in the Actors Studio. Police tape and sirens. Cody's parents turned into zombies. The street lights go out suddenly. There's something strange in the neighborhood and it keeps getting stranger as a group of teens approach the final level of their new obsession - the multiplayer online phenomenon that is Neighborhood 3. The Real Inspector Hound, by Tom Stoppard, is a murder mystery play within a play. Certain oddities arise as two critics, Moon and Birdboot, meet to review the show. In Our Town, you'll visit Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, a place where ordinary lives are lived in extraordinary ways. This wonderful play by Thornton Wilder explores themes of family, community and connectedness that continue to resonate and inspire. In honor of our 69th summer, Buck's Rock's annual Tribute Show will be a celebration of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. This massive, multimedia Aquarian Exposition will feature music and dance performances by campers and staff, as well as a selection of fine arts inspired by the pivotal festival. Six week campers who are all about peace and love can extend a few extra days and participate in the show. First he traps them, then he watches as their minds slowly unravel. Eight high-schoolers fight for their lives and sanity while the lunatic who captured them toys with their minds. Whether or not they survive, their nineteen day imprisonment will leave them all forever changed. Our second session Dance Night deals with Stolen Movement as inspiration and motivation. Come see new pieces inspired by gestures and movements from non-dance sources: city streets, other cultures, belief systems, languages, etc. The Clown Show is a sketch comedy variety show, written and performed by Buck's Rock's funniest campers. Directed by a dedicated staff of clowns, campers use improvisation and other techniques to generate sketch material and then rehearse meticulously. The Clown Show is sometimes surreal, absurd, physical, and/or political, but it is always a fun time. See for yourself on August 14th at 7:15pm or 9:00pm. Camper bands have a chance to electrify their friends with real rock star performances (minus the rock star attitudes) at Rock Cafe. Punk, garage, pop, blues and metal groups are all welcome to show off their chops at this high-energy concert, which proves that Buck's Rock still knows how to, well, rock! In the midst of a hot, humid summer night, take comfort in the soothing sounds of the Music Shed Concert, an evening of material performed by Buck's Rock's many ensembles. See the a capella groups turn pop favorites into vocal magic, swoon over the cool players in the jazz combos, get riled up for the dynamic orchestra, and lose yourself in the chorus' massive harmonies. Join us for a night of camper produced films screened under the stars on the lawn. Entertainment and enjoyment awaits you. We promise you'll be wowed and amazed! There will be popcorn. Judson Moon is twelve years old and he's running for President of the United States. He'll shake a zillion hands, say a zillion hellos, and kiss a zillion babies. Will it be enough to make him president? Well, you'll just have to wait and see. Festival Day Show - Charlotte's Web Charlotte's Web, adapted from E.B. White's classic book, weaves a magical tale of friendship, loyalty and the complicated relationship between humans and animals. Wise and wonderful! 2:00pm: Festival Dance Show 3:00pm: Festival Junior Campers Show A show conceived and performed by the Buck's Rock Junior Campers! 4:00pm: Festival Clown and Improv Show 5:00pm: Music Concert 845pm: Festival Musical - Gypsy Gypsy, perhaps the warhorse of all warhorse American musicals, chronicles the life of Gypsy Rose Lee and Mama Rose. The play follows their lives from the days of Vaudeville to its subsequent evolution into Burlesque. |
    
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