Part Two: Advanced Acting Academy: Steel Magnolias will help students learn the acting process, from how to tackle a role to scene analysis, through acting exercises, theater games and partner work. Students will spend time learning how to apply these techniques while rehearsing the play, Steel Magnolias, a beautiful story full of rich characters. Students will be challenged to apply the acting techniques they are learning in their performance of Steel Magnolias at the Academy Festival. 

About Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling: Filled with hilarious repartee and not a few acerbic but humorously revealing verbal collisions, the play moves toward tragedy when, in the second act, the spunky Shelby (who is a diabetic) risks pregnancy and forfeits her life. The sudden realization of their mortality affects the others, but also draws on the underlying strength—and love—which give the play, and its characters, the special quality to make them truly touching, funny and marvelously amiable company in good times and bad.

*PLEASE NOTE Steel Magnolias is an all-female cast, so this will be an all-female class*

The cost for Academy is $325 per session ($275 class tuition, plus an additional $50 fee per session for performance rights, artistic/tech team, performance space).
 

Prerequisite: Audition only - this class is full! Auditions and placement take place each summer. The next opportunity to audition for the Academy program will be in June, 2025.