PAC Family Players: Theater for Children & Teens
The PAC Family Players now offers a new grade group structure for its theatrical productions. Students in grades 3-6 and grades 7-10 have the opportunity to participate in musicals and non-musical shows each year. Students learn the crafts of acting, singing, dancing, choreography, blocking, working as a team, and all of the various aspects of being a cast member in a show. Founded by director Betty Lehrman, the philosophy of the group is to cast the best student for each part and find the best part for each student. Public performances are held in the PAC Performance Hall or at a local theater.
For children ages 4-9 (pre-K to 3rd grade), please see our theater class offerings and our summer theater program for grades K-2.
Upcoming Shows:
Winter Musical: Anything Goes for grades 7-10 (January-March)
Rehearsals: Tuesdays, Thursdays, 6:00-9:00 pm, starting Jan. 17
Show Dates: March 30 & 31st, and April 1
At Dennison Memorial Hall
(Boston Church of Christ, formerly the Framingham Civic League)
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This age-old tale of Boy-Meets-Girl and the complications that ensue are enjoyed by every audience, especially done well in this musical, Anything Goes! This show involves an amusing story wrapped around one of Cole Porter’s magical scores. The story concerns madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London. Billy Crocker is a stowaway in love with heiress Hope Harcourt, who is engaged to Lord Evelyn Oakleigh. Nightclub singer Reno Sweeney and Public Enemy #13 Moonface Martin aid Billy in his quest to win Hope. The musical features such songs as “Anything Goes,” “You’re the Top,” and “I Get a Kick Out of You.”
Spring Play: Charlotte’s Web for grades 3-6
Auditions: Casting will occur first day (February 8). All who register will be cast.
Rehearsals: Wednesdays 5:30-7:30 pm & Fridays, 4:00-6:00 pm, beginning February 8.
Show Dates: May 18, 19, 20 at PAC
Participation Fee: $375
Summer Musical for grades 9-12: Urinetown
Auditions: Summer, 2012
Rehearsals & Show Dates: Summer, 2012, exact dates TBA in January, 2012
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Summer Musical Workshop Production for grades 4-9
Show and Dates: TBA in January, 2012
2010-2011 Season Shows:
Fall Musical: The Jungle Book
Winter Drama: Scheherezade – Legend of the Arabian Nights
Spring Musical: Into the Woods, Jr.
Summer Musical: Seussical, Jr.
PAC also offers summer 1-week theater programs for students in grades K-8 – click here for more information.
Past Productions
Scheherezade: Legend of the Arabian Nights, March 2011
The Jungle Book, November, 2010
Oklahoma!, Summer 2010
Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka, May 2010
Alice in Wonderland, March 2010
Beauty and the Beast, December 2009
Annie, Jr., August 2009
Fiddler on the Roof, May 2009
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, March 2009
Holiday Revelry, December 2008
Guys and Dolls, Jr., August 2008
Once Upon a Mattress, May 2008, with a reprise performance at the CBACT Children’s Theater Festival, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, July 2008
High School Musical, August 2007
The King & I, May 2007
The Mark Twain Show, March 2007
Holiday Revelry, December 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Schoolhouse Rock Live! Jr., August 2006
Aladdin Jr., May 2006
The Music Man Jr., August 2005
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, June 2005