Spring 2009 Now enrolling! Click on program name for details and to enroll Beginning shows: No audition required: Circus, Circus -- ages 5 - 13 Audition shows: Snowbiz -- ages 11 - 15 Willy Wonka Jr. -- ages 8 - 13 Show Choir programs: Crescendo Show Choir for students in 3rd - 7th grades.                                 Soundscape! - High energy performance troupe for middle and high school students.                      New for Spring 2009 Multiple Program Discount - Take 20% off each additional program you register for! The Stage -- Construction update - Check out the schedule to volunteer to help us put the finishing touches on the Stage.
	Winter Springs Performing Arts provides much needed programs for young people to experience performance based opportunities including theater, music, set design, and costume design. We offer great experiences for students looking for fun recreational performing activities, as well as those with serious industry specific aspirations. Winter Springs Performing Arts information and to meet our team, click here Winter Springs Performing Arts A local non-profit company blending arts and community

 A big congratulations to the Songs For A New World Cast!  The cast received rave reviews of this original script with music by Jason Robert Brown. 

Attempting to write a script can have its ups and downs.  1.  Does the audience get it.  2. Does it communicate emotions?  and 3. Are they just telling us they liked it and walking out and saying to themselves, "What was that?"

According to the audiences it was an emotional rollercoaster that made complete sense!  YAY!!!

Great job Cast!!  I'm so proud of you of you for working hard and taking on an incredible artistic endeavour. 

Special Thanks to Marc Batchelor who worked long hours on our music!  Thanks, Marc!!!
Michelle


Awesome 1st production!  It was such fun getting our first production ready in our new theater.   It was a lot of work and it would not have happened without our dedicated parents, we even had parents help who didn't have kids in this particular show!  Wow, that is dedication and a love for the arts!  Thanks! 

"The Stage" as it is now called, held 6 incredible productions of Alice Jr. The kids were awesome and quickly adapted to the changes that were being made to the stage.  I'm so proud of each and everyone of them!!  Great Job!  I can't wait till Willy Wonka!!
Michelle



Our first holiday show ushered in the holiday's with a bang!  We had an awesome turn out and brought in approx. 400 toys for Toys For Tots!  Great Job everyone!  The show was so much fun!  With Santa and Mrs. Clause, of course the elves, snowmen and reindeer it was a joyful night!  We even sold out the second show, whoo hoo!!!  Happy Holidays!
Michelle




We just got back from our first Winter Springs Performing Arts New York City Trip! We saw "The Little Mermaid", and "Legally Blonde" as a group. We had one night where the group divided up and chose any show they wanted to see. The shows seen that night were "Young Frankenstein", "In The Heights", "The Phantom Of The Opera", "Spring Awakening" and "Gypsy." So many shows to choose from! Each show was amazing! We stayed after the shows and got autographs and pictures with the actors and actresses. We also toured Radio City Music Hall, NBC studios, and did a backstage tour of "Wicked." And of course we shopped, ate, walked, ate again, shopped a little more and walked till we couldn't walk anymore. For those of you who missed this awesome trip we are going again in the summer of 2010! Start saving your pennies
Michelle





What an incredible run!! The youth cast and the advanced cast were both amazing and were blessed to experience the incredible energy of rock star crowds. There was screaming, clapping, singing, more screaming and did I mention even more screaming for the kids. It is not often in a performers life that you get to feel the way these kids did on stage. Even the parents who were working backstage felt the energy and found themselves in tears. It was amazing! If you missed this show you missed something special! Way to go cast!

Submitted by Michelle

Thank you to everyone involved with Dreamin' bout the Decades Show Choir Camp. The camp was a blast and the concert was a smash hit!!! We learned a lot, worked a lot and had a ton of laughs...thank you to the performers for lighting up the stage!!! Can't wait for next year!!!!





YAY, Wizard of Oz Cast!! You did an incredible job! I’m so proud of you! Sunday matinee was our highest guest count 303! Incredible! Thanks to all the parents, techs, and everyone that helped put this show together! We even had a couple of volunteers that didn't have children in our program and just wanted to help out. That is wonderful. As you know we had 2 casts, ruby cast and emerald cast, each cast did an outstanding job bringing something special to the stage. And we can't forget "Toto" our first live animal on stage. High School Musical here we come!
Michelle


Wow!! It is absolutely amazing that within 11 hours after we sent the email out announcing that the enrollment for High School Musical summer camp was open, that we had 30 enrollments. That is 2 more than we had for our first summer camp, Disney's The Jungle Book. Within 2 days we have had nearly 60 enrollments!! Camp is filling up fast! Good thing we decided to have 2 camps, the AM camp and the PM camp!! Awesome!!!
Michelle



They did it again! The cast of Into the Woods put on an outstanding show this past weekend! Through all the mishaps, Milky White stealing the show, the wolf tumbling to the floor and Rapunzel losing her wig (Thanks, Shamaron!) The talent in this cast is incredible! If you missed the show, you missed a good one. I heard someone in the audience say, "This is better than Broadway!" Congratulations!

Thank you to all the wonderful techs from Winter Springs and Oviedo High Schools who stepped up to the plate and helped make the show come to life, from behind the scenes!

Michelle

Soundscape Youth Performance Troupe, the latest addition to the ever-growing Winter Springs Performing Arts Program, performed last night to a nearly sold-out house at the Dolly Parton's world famous Dixie Stampede. Chosen as one of twenty groups from over hundreds of submissions, Soundscape had the chance to perform as the opening act in the 1200 seat Carriage Room on Tuesday, November 13th, 2007. Their first performance of the holiday season, members of Soundscape filled the auditorium with beautiful harmonies, warm words, and a whole lot of Christmas spirit. As a hard working pre-professional performance troupe, Soundscape sang and danced their way into the hearts of the audience, reminding everyone of the warmth of the holiday season. Their twenty-five minute show "Our Christmas" was very openly received by the audience, and the group was invited back to perform for next year's show!

Soundscape will be holding auditions in late January to fill several spots for the Spring Broadway Revue show. If you are interested in joining Soundscape, please check their section of the website for more information!!!

In the mean time, don't miss catching Soundscape at any of the following venues throughout the remainder of the holiday season:
Nov 24th- 6:00-6:30pm, Winter Springs Tree Lighting
Dec 1st- 7:20-7:40pm, Altamonte Springs "Light up the Holidays" (Eddie Rose Ampitheatre)
Dec 2nd- 4:00pm, Avalon Park Christmas Parade
Dec 8th- 7:25-8:00pm, Avalon Aglow
Dec 14th- 5:30-9:00pm, Home for the Holidays Christmas Concert/Spaghetti Dinner (Wedgewood Tennis Villas)

Submitted by Krista Lynn