<p>What a great line-up of shows! I have to admit that the list seems better than many of the lists on the “college show season” thread. SDM must spend a fortune each year to secure the licenses for their shows.</p>
<p>SoozieVT, you have mail.</p>
<p>Thanks, Susan. I figured Chris was probably a male, but you never know! 
Was your D Ellie in “Leader of the Pack”? Or was she Darlene Love?</p>
<p>L,
My daughter played Ellie Greenwich in Leader of the Pack. </p>
<p>I owe you several e mails and will try to get to it by tonight if I can. Am so sorry!
S</p>
<p>This is the the son of Mtboymom.</p>
<p>So I guess I’ll start with the Rent…thats a good start.
I was lucky enought to be asked to play Roger in it. Don’t be confused, this was a staged reading of Rent. We had no elaborate sets or costumes. We had chairs, scripts in our hands, and very minimal blocking. This was not SDM putting on a production, this was MTI using SDM and its kids in an actual workshop just like the ones that happen daily in NY. We rehearsed during 3 and 4 periods, so overall we had about 10 hours to learn RENT! It was insane. We witnessed and helped with many changes that happened to the script, amendments that are necessary for a highschool version. Which by the way, the workshop was the first step into making a High school version. Yes, we performed for the larsons, as well as Tim Weil, who was the original musical director of Rent as well as Camp the MOvie(Which I am sure you all know very well).</p>
<p>The experience was once in a lifetime. It was hard for some kids that could not be in OTC because of it, but the connections and experience was well worth it to them in the end. They all were happy they did it.</p>
<p>Tommy was also amazing. Doug Quinn is an amazing director, I am lucky to have had him and Micheal Raimondi in my two sessions at SDM.</p>
<p>I saw Urinetown, Will Roger’s Follies, Blood Brothers, Fiddler, and Hello Dolly.(Two act switches). They were all amazing!</p>
<p>Besides that, session one was fairly normal. Session two has Starz filming a documentary(yes, another one) and a magazine is apparently visiting the cast of Company. I miss it and can’t wait to go back next year!</p>
<p>To: Brownsugar,
My mom was looking for you at fiddler, but did not know what part your daughter play. please let us know what part. Thanks!</p>
<p>son of Mtboymom – We did watch Tommy on Saturday night, and enjoyed your performance. I was trying to figure out how to identify your mom, but short of calling out “college confidential” during intermission, I didn’t know what to do! lol. Last year, we met people on line waiting to get in to the Elsie, and I discovered people I had met here, but this year I was looking for only one person and it wasn’t so easy. I would have told her what I just told you, that I liked your performance. I happened to see you in Miss Saigon last year, as my D’s roomie and friend from home was cast as one of the pole dancers. You have a nice performance style.</p>
<p>My D was Yente the Matchmaker in Fiddler. You may have seen it as it was a B show and yours was an A show. Both Forum shows this year got quite a bit of buzz. My D’s good friend who was Perchick in Fiddler was in the Rent workshop with you.</p>
<p>Thank you very much. I saw Fiddler, it was hillarious. I saw it on sat. when greg(my roommate) lost his beard. The entire cast was amazing. Tell your daughter she was great as Yente. Tell her to keep in touch.</p>
<p>Just saying hi! Im at OCU and Bye Bye Birdie is tommorow. If Ericsmom is here, I met your sons friends B. Shes very nice. Anyway after camp im off to New Mexico to visit College of Santa Fe and will have no access to a computer so I will type when I get back. And then off to SDM for 3rd session YAY</p>
<p>Hey, Defying - almost didn’t check StageDoor site, but glad I did. I hear that B is having a great time at OCU’s camp. Hope you are, too. Would love to see your show, but can’t make it! Good luck to you.</p>
<p>Well, we’re back from 2nd session performance weekend. We got to see a lot of the shows. Everyone did a terrific job! Can’t wait to see the lineup of shows for third session (although we did hear some rumors!)</p>
<p>We are back from my d’s first summer at Stagedoor. She is 15 and a rising sophomore. She adored her 3 weeks, scads of new friends ( from all over the world, ie: Israel, Canada and England are some I remembered.</p>
<p>My d was in Hair directed by Jeff. What an amazing show, with 30 extremely gifted teens, who sang, danced, and portrayed characters as professionally as I’ve seen. We also saw The Children’s Hour and I was blown away by the moving performances of some of the most talented kids around. We also caught parts of Pippin and Thoroughly Modern Millie. </p>
<p>My d is planning her next 3 summers with dear friends she has made and parted tearfully from them all yesterday.She easily made friends with so many campers old and new and felt very welcomed by the old-timers. She was lucky enough to be cast in a complex and challenging show where ensemble members were on stage and involved in every number, and was so surprised to be given an award by her director at awards night.
Any one else at session II?</p>
<p>Hi,
We’re just back from session 2 also! What a surprise to find this thread! My older D (not MT) is a rising Junior, so we’re starting to look at colleges. But, my younger D who just turned 13 (rising 8th grader - LOL) spent sessions 1 & 2 at Stagedoor. She was in ensemble of Tommy (picture of D dancing in Tommy is on SM website) and Cora in Millie - so what a surprise to read about Tommy on the thread from 1st session. She had a great time and is now recuperating. This is D’s 4th year there and she absolutely loves SM - she has made wonderful friends from SM, who travelled near and far to attend her bat mitzvah this year. We saw Pippin and my D’s saw Good Wives 2d session; Hello Dolly from 1st session - all fantastic, as usual. The level of talent at this camp never ceases to blow me away. D’s already looking forward to next year…</p>
<p>It is really fun to read your accounts of SDM this summer. This is our first year not going to performance weekends since 1998. We’ve been to 16 performance weekends at SDM and seen countless productions. SDM has had a significant impact on our daughter’s life and it is wonderful reading about those coming next. I just got back from a different sort of “performance weekend” as we traveled to see our D in her musical production at a small professional theater and I was thinking of those all at SDM this weekend. I asked my D if she was in SDM “withdrawal” and she said that surprisingly she wasn’t, though she thought she would be. She said her time was up there and she is onto the next “stage”. She is very close to her SDM pals who are far and wide though she still manages to hook up with them in person and surely by phone. I have to say that the majority of her friends from Stagedoor are either currently attending well regarded college programs in theater or have graduated and/or are on Broadway, tour, off Broadway and other significant accomplishments. I feel that some day, for a lot of the kids I saw performing in Loch Sheldrake, I will see them again and say “i knew them when.” I have met some very talented kids there and many are really making it already. </p>
<p>BrownSugar, I hope to connect with you soon. Would love to hear all about the session. Mamulu, glad your daughter enjoyed her first summer. She is likely “hooked” now, lol. I have to say that her experience being in Jeff’s show was likely terrific. My D always wanted to be in one of Jeff’s shows (other than she already worked with him every year on Our Time Cabaret which he originally was choreographer for, but took over eventually as director). Her last two summers, she finally got to work with him on a regular show and did Nine and Jekyll and Hyde with him. I find his shows to always be at a very high level and well done with very talented casts. I bet Hair was great. He has done that show at SDM before. </p>
<p>rtxbs…I’m wondering if our daughters know one another as they overlapped three years there, though my D is now 17 and older than your D and so I don’ t know if they were ever in shows together and may not have been. I don’t want to post my D’s name but since your D goes first/second session and you likely saw a bunch of shows, I’ll tell you which ones she did in the last couple of years: '05 1st: Jekyll and Hyde (Lucy); '04 1st: West Side Story (Anita), 2nd: Nine (Lillian La Fleur; '03: 1st: Leader of the Pack (Ellie Greenwich); 2nd: Pippin (Leading Player) and since your D watched OTC, my D’s main solo the last couple of years was Carousels and before that, Brother Can you Spare a Dime. I wonder which one your D is. </p>
<p>A little girl from our community heard of SDM through my D and started last year and went first/second this year. She is 11. While she studies with the same voice teacher as my D, my D has done vocal coaching for this girl. Her mom just sent me a video clip and the role I “predicted” when I heard the second session show line up is the one she apparently got. She was Little Red in Into the Woods. Your daughter likely knows her since they are just two years apart. We’re from Vermont. </p>
<p>Thanks for sharing the SDM stories here. As a long time SDM parent, it is fun reading the updates when I no longer make trips to Loch Sheldrake. </p>
<p>Susan</p>
<p>Hi Soozievt,
I don’t think our D’s ever crossed paths, but not sure. I’ll ask her when she wakes up (LOL)! She isn’t in OTC, but I’m sure she’s seen your D. Up until last year, D focused only on dance during the year. In 7th grade, she started doing musicals, voice lessons, etc. - it’s very hectic because she dances about 20 hours a week and is on her dance competition team, so you know that Mom is doing a lot of driving… This last session, she was in master dance and loved it. She started in '03 for one session and since '04, she been going 1st and 2nd sessions. She’s making her way through the ranks at SM, but she’s happy in whatever role they put her in. She just loves being there…</p>
<p>rtxbs, </p>
<p>I am glad your D loves SDM. Mine surely did. She lived for it all year. Your D may know my D. I know when my D was a young camper, she looked up to the older ones and so I know how that goes. I wasn’t sure which shows you watched the past few years and if you had seen any of hers or if we had seen any of your D’s shows. We usually watch several different shows all weekend while there.</p>
<p>My D is also an avid dancer. She also spent almost every day at our dance studio as well so I know what that is like. Here, we do not have dance competition teams. However, we have a select jazz dance repertory troupe by audition, but you must be in HS to audition. She was in that and they performed around the region. But that is different than competitive dance. She took dance Master Class at SDM too and loved it. I hope your D has many more great summers at SDM. It was a big part of my D’s life, so I know what you have in store.</p>
<p>Susan (a fellow “taxi-mom”)</p>
<p>This is a brief article in the NYTimes:</p>
<p>“High School Musical started as a Disney Channel original movie and has been broadcast 13 times for more than 37 million viewers. The triple platinum soundtrack is the top-selling album of the year, and there is even a childrens paperback. But so far the show has never been an actual high school musical until now. Disney Theatrical Productions and Music Theater International have confirmed that the first licensed amateur stage production of the show will be presented later this month by Stagedoor Manor, a theater summer camp in Sheldrake, N.Y. Several other productions of both the two-act version and an hourlong adaptation are scheduled in other locations.”</p>
<p>Today’s New York Times, in the Arts section, page 2, reports that SDM will put on the first ever licensed amateur stage production of “High School Musical.” We had heard this rumor at camp this past weekend, but it is apparently confirmed by the NYT. Konnie will likely post the complete show list tomorrow on the SDM site, but it looks like the NYT beat her to the punch in releasing news of this particular production. (Ordinarily, we don’t disclose show rumors on this board for a variety of reasons, but this was printed in the newspaper for all to see.)</p>
<p>SoozieVT, we posted at the same time!</p>
<p>BS, yep, we cross posted. And yep, I would never post show rumors before Konnie officially let the word out but this time, like you say, it is in the press. I honestly do not know a thing about third session. My D doesn’t have friends who still attend. She had a couple in first/second session. Maybe she has heard this, I don’t know. I just came from visiting her and she didn’t mention it. However, she gets the NYTimes daily and so she may have read it there! Hope to talk to you soon to hear about second session. I imagine Hair was terrific.</p>
<p>Wow. Stagedoor is having an exciting summer. First the Rent workshop and now High School Musical. My son is back for his 4th and probably last summer since he is going to be a senior this year. He has just loved it. I 'm looking forward to performance weekend. The shows are incredible especially considering how fast they put them up.</p>