<p>there is also a clip from Starting Here Starting Now from session two. my d is missing camp so much and wishes she could have stayed for another session. We have already sent in our application for next year since the piece on the today show has really increased interest in the camp.</p>
<p>I see some third session people here and in case you have not seen Konnie’s announcement of the shows for third session, they are (along with her comments):</p>
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<p>Wish I could see Rent! I’m dying to know the cast.</p>
<p>Aha! I was just about to post the Session 3 shows, but as I suspected, I wasn’t quick enough. Now I have to wait till my DD lets me know what shows she and her friends are in. If I hear any significant casting info, I’ll let you know. Thanks, Soozie, for all your help on this forum!</p>
<p>Mom4Life, it looks like a great selection of shows and I’m sure whatever one your D is cast in, she will have a fruitful experience, along with the many classes she will take. Lots of great directors too!</p>
<p>Yes, absolutely! DD enjoys and appreciates all of her wonderful SDM opportunities.</p>
<p>Just thought I’d pass something along. A few years ago I was looking for a site that would provide synopses of musicals, and after a bit of searching, I found one that fits the bill:</p>
<p><a href=“nodanw.com - This website is for sale! - nodanw Resources and Information.”>nodanw.com - This website is for sale! - nodanw Resources and Information.;
<p>That address takes you to the “A” index, and you can search from there. Whenever I want to find out more about a show with which I am not familiar, I just look it up on that site. I realize that many posters on this forum might know about this site or possibly an even better one, but I just thought I’d share this with the group.</p>
<p>I’m wondering- for Rent, would the no shows you’ve already been in rule count? I’m wondering if some of the same cast would be in the same roles again, but I’m not sure if the workshop counted as a real show or not.</p>
<p>My daughter is also at the third session of SDM - she is 15 - and this is her first time! (Thanks to CC - and Soozievt…which I used as a resource for the older sister - now at CAP 21)
Great list of shows - don’t know them all - but certainly enough possibilities.
Now to wait until Sunday and ‘cell phone’ day!
janenw</p>
<p>Thanks to this board, I have learned to much and feel much more connected to what is happening at camp. My daughter told me nothing about last session other than she was in West Side Story and was happy. I found out about all of the exciting guests and appreciate all of the sharing. I wonder what is in store for this session, guests, etc… anyone know?</p>
<p>Well, I guess it’s about time I registered as a user here, been lurking and reading for about 6 months at least. janenw, I just dropped my daughter off Monday as well, she’s 15 too, and it’s her first time there. Saw the list of shows Konnie posted of course, nice mix… now can’t wait to see what she got cast in…</p>
<p>Hi Jane! Welcome Kb1127 and KatiesDad! I hope your daughters love their SDM experience as much as mine did for many years. The show line up looks good. I have seen many of those shows done at camp before but I haven’t seen Mack and Mabel and of course, RENT is new! I will guess that Bye Bye Birdie is likely what they refer to as the “kiddie” show with mostly younger campers. My D was in it when it was the kiddie show and that is where it is often slotted when they do it. I have seen Grand Hotel done twice there and at least once with Jeff and I am sure that will be great. Jacob Brent is wonderful and a true inspiration. If your kids are dancers, I hope they take a dance class with him. He was the original Mr. Mistoffeles in CATS on Bdway and recently reprised the role earlier this summer at Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera. Michael Raimondi is an amazing director for drama and if your kids can take any acting classes with him, they’ll love it. I think Doug Quinn is really wonderful and it is cool for him that he was given RENT to direct. As my kid has been in love with RENT since she was very young, she’d have died to have still been a camper when they did this production. Time for new kids to have a chance at all this! JCS, Honk, and Grease were all done during my D’s tenure at SDM, along with all the plays listed this session. </p>
<p>I haven’t heard who is coming to camp this session. I’m not in the loop as I don’t have a camper and her friends have all moved onto college or professional work by now. I think I heard that Lea Michelle will visit camp this session. She is a lead in Spring Awakening on Broadway and was a camper when my D attended SDM and they were in the cabaret together. I can think of two other peers from camp who came back as speakers this year, Erich Bergen who is playing Bob Gaudio in the first Jersey Boys tour and Skylar Astin who is in Spring Awakening. It is mind boggling to think of her fellow friends/campers coming back as speakers already! </p>
<p>I’m sure you are waiting to hear what shows your kids were cast in and while that is a big thing, it is just one piece of their experience because the classes are a big part, and frankly, I know for my kid, the bonds with the other theater loving youth have been everlasting and a major part of the experience. In fact, my D is on stage at this very moment in an invited dress rehearsal of a show she is doing in NYC in which several other former Stagedoorians are involved. I miss the SDM performance weekends but I guess I’ll see “SDM, the follow-up” (though not all involved are from SDM). If your child ends up going to SDM particularly more than one session or year, it becomes a big family in terms of both friendships and people in the industry. I hope you hear news soon and that your kids are having fun!
Hope to see you on these forums in the future…welcome (janew…you’re an old timer on CC at this point 
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<p>jg6790 - I wouldn’t discount it because you were in a workshop, but because it’s still on Broadway and you aren’t supposed to pick a show currently on Broadway.</p>
<p>ooops! Forget my last post, I thought it was related to college auditions, not StageDoor shows. Ignore me!</p>
<p>Hi, other 3rd Session parents! My D is 14, her friend is 15, and it is their second summer at SDM (they went in '05 but had other commitments last summer). Both girls love to dance and are on the same competition dance team, so I know they would prefer to be cast in a “dance show,” but we’ll see. (They both just completed a run in a local production of “Anything Goes” (dance troupe/Angel), so perhaps they got a bit of that out of their systems… as if that would be possible?..) My D did tell me that she would rather be in the ensemble of a “teen” show than a principal in a “kiddie” show, but who knows? Anyway, I look forward to hearing/sharing all the exciting news from SDM.</p>
<p>Hi parents of 3rd session campers… It is kosher to call the Stagedoor office, identify yourself, and learn what show and in what part your child has been cast.
The staff is able to communicate this info late Wednesday morning following the cast list posting for the kids. It is so very difficult to wait until Sunday for most of us and Stagedoor staff very understanding!</p>
<p>Soozievt, funny that you mention Jacob Brent. I saw it posted somewhere some time ago that Jacob would be directing 3rd session, and also that he would be here in Pittsburgh for the CLO’s production of CATS. We see all the shows anyway, but in particular I made it a point to take my daughter to see Jacob in Cats… She always likes to stagedoor at shows to get autographs, and in this case to meet Jacob.
When he came out, she asked for his autograph and mentioned that she was leaving sunday (this was at the saturday matinee show…) for Stagedoor. He looked up from the playbill, and said “Me Too!” They chatted for a few minutes, and she mentioned that it was her first time going… He told her to get ready to have the best summer of her life, and gave her a big hug, and said “see you Monday afternoon…!”
lol, all the other autograph seekers just kind of looked at her funny as we walked away… she was high as a kite though, as she’d finally started to get the first pangs of fear about being away for three weeks just that morning.
She had been starting to get a little scared about not knowing a single person there, but after meeting Jacob, she kept saying, “Well, at least I know one person there now, Jacob!” hehe.
I’m really wondering if she got cast in Mack and Mabel… that would just be too funny.</p>
<p>Oh, I read your story on the SDM message board but didn’t know you were the same poster, LOL. Jacob is wonderful and is still a friend of my daughter’s (who is in college now) and they occasionally meet up in the city. My D has had him as a director for one show (R and H’s Cinderella) but even if your D doesn’t, he teaches dance classes and so she could work with him that way. </p>
<p>Don’t worry, by now, your D likely has made lots of friends. It doesn’t take long there. She’ll likely be hard to pull away in three weeks along with the crying hordes of kids who don’t want to leave the place they call “home.”</p>
<p>What can you tell me about OTC? How many kids are selected and what is the selection process? How often do they practice and what do they present?</p>
<p>KB1127, OTC is a select group of about 30 campers that are selected to present a sort of musical theatre revue/caberet at the end of the session to parents and campers. They used to go around to the casinos but I think that ended in 2005. When one auditions your first night you check on the form if you would like to be considered for OTC(Our Time Caberet or Players Ensemble (excerpts from straight plays). When the cast lists go up on Wen. there are also two callback lists for both revues. What I have noticed is that alot (BUT NOT ALL) of the kids that get callbacks are either leads or supporting roles but sometimes talented ensemble people get a callback.Since they are rehearsing for an additional show they are only allowed to take 4 classes instead of 8, since they are rehearsing. Each student usually gets a solo or a peice of a song to sing alone. The songs range from “Someone Like You” to “Till there was you” to songs that, Soozie can correct me if I am wrong here, since her D. was in it for many years and all of this is second hand info. since one of my best friend’s boyfriends was in it, songs that they sort of wrote themselves such as “Some of us belong to the stars”. It seems like a very fun show to do, but apprently the dances are alot harder to do then they look. Anyone who has seen the “What A Country” dance will understand what I mean. If your kid is a first time camper, do not miss it, or Players. They are both great and include some wonderfully talented kids.</p>
<p>Also, up until 2006 if you got into OTC you were in it “for life” so to speak. In 2006 they changed the policy. Each session one has to reaudition or be called back, although if you have previously been in it, you will most likley be called back.</p>