Category Archives: Workshops

The Theatre Company of Saugus presents its 8th annual Youth Theatre Workshop.

A place where imagination can learn and grow!

July 10-14 and 17-21, 2017
9 AM to 4 PM Monday thru Friday

Ending with a production of Honk Jr. the musical.

Performances will be on Friday 21 July at 7 PM and on Saturday 22 July at 2 PM and at 7 PM.

There may be a session prior to July 10, to meet and greet the staff and kids and parents.  We will “audition” everyone to help us plan who will get which parts in the show.  Be prepared to sing and dance.  If you have a song prepared, please bring the sheet music with you.

The location this year again is St. John’s Episcopal Church  /  8 Prospect Street at the corner of Central Street  /  Saugus, Massachusetts  01906.

Our teaching staff returns from the previous several years:  Shawn Gelzleichter is the Music / Vocal Coach, Britt Mitchell is the Acting Coach, Amanda Allen is the Dance Coach, and Jen Gelzleichter is the Technical Director.  There will also be a few teaching assistants.

What do we do during the Workshop?  We play theater games, sing, dance, and act.  We make our own props.  We design, build and paint the set.  We build and try on costumes.  In the end, we put on a fantastic show!  When it all comes down to it, we make friendships and memories that will last a lifetime!

The fee is $400 per child.  There are discounts for multiple children, for early registration, and for members of St. John’s.  The fee is only $350 if paid by June 19.

Click here to download the flyer.

To express your interest or to request a Registration Form, please fill out the Request Form for Youth Workshop 2017, shown below.

Or click here to download a pdf Request Form, print it and fill it out, and send it to us at:  Theatre Company of Saugus  /  PO Box 1058  /  Saugus, MA  01906.

Or, if you are interested and want to find out more, email us at  TCSaugus@gmail.com, or phone us at 781-816-7019.

If you are ready to sign up, click here to download the Registration Form.  Fill it out, and send it in with your check to us at:  Theatre Company of Saugus  /  PO Box 1058  /  Saugus, MA  01906.

You can also pay the fee by credit card, through our online ticket sales vendor.  Fill out the online registration form as well as the paper form.  There is a handling fee.  Click here to get to the online credit card payment form.

Please visit our Auditions page for descriptions of roles in the show.  And visit our Honk Jr. page for more info about the show.

The Theatre Company of Saugus presents its 6th annual Youth Theatre Workshop.

A place where imagination can learn and grow!

July 5-8 and 11-15, 2016
9 AM to 4 PM Monday thru Friday

Ending with a production of Seussical Jr. the musical.

Performances will be on Friday 15 July at 7 PM and on Saturday 16 July at 2 PM and at 7 PM.

There will be one session prior to July 5, to meet and greet the staff and kids and parents.  We will “audition” everyone to help us plan who will get which parts in the show.  On Monday 27 June 2015, starting at 6:00 PM.  Be prepared to sing and dance.  If you have a song prepared, please bring the sheet music with you.

The location this year is St. John’s Episcopal Church  /  8 Prospect Street at the corner of Central Street  /  Saugus, Massachusetts  01906.

Our teaching staff returns from last year:  Shawn Gelzleichter is the Music / Vocal Coach, Britt Mitchell is the Acting Coach, Amanda Allen is the Dance Coach, and Jen Gelzleichter is the Technical Director.  There will also be a few teaching assistants.

What do we do during the Workshop?  We play theater games, sing, dance, and act.  We make our own props.  We design, build and paint the set.  We build and try on costumes.  In the end, we put on a fantastic show!  When it all comes down to it, we make friendships and memories that will last a lifetime!

The fee is $400 per child.  There are discounts for multiple children, for early registration, and for members of St. John’s.  The fee is only $350 if paid by June 21.

If you are interested and want to find out more, email us at  TCSaugus@gmail.com, or phone us at 781-816-7019.

Or click here to download a Request Form, fill it out, and send it to us at:  Theatre Company of Saugus  /  PO Box 1058  /  Saugus, MA  01906.

If you are ready to sign up, click here to download the Registration Form.  Fill it out, and send it in with your check to us at:  Theatre Company of Saugus  /  PO Box 1058  /  Saugus, MA  01906.

You can also pay the fee by credit card, through our online ticket sales vendor.  Fill out the online registration form as well as the paper form.  There is a handling fee.  Click here to get to the online credit card payment form.

Please visit our Auditions page for descriptions of roles in the show.  And visit our Seussical Jr. page for more info about the show.

Another in our series of Workshops on Theatre Skills this summer:  Speaking in Dialects, presented by Adam Schuler.  On Tuesday 21 July 2015, starting at 7:30 PM.

Adam Schuler is the director of our upcoming production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood.  This show is done in the traditional style of the British Musical Hall, and it stages the last unfinished novel of the great Victorian era writer Charles Dickens.  So various forms of English accents will be used in the show.  If you plan to audition for the show, this will help you with an important skill.  Or if you simply want to sound so cultured to American ears, this workshop will be a great deal of fun!

There is a nominal fee of $5 per person for each workshop, payable at the door with cash or check.

The third in our series of Workshops on Theatre Skills is on How to Prepare for a Musical Theatre Audition.  It is on Tuesday 14 July 2o15, starting at 7:30 PM.

There are two presenters.  Adam Schuler will focus on the Acting portion of the audition.  Kathleen Tringale will focus on the Dancing portion of the audition.  We expect this workshop to be full of tips and strategies useful to all of us, since we all must face auditions, for both plays and musicals.

Adam Schuler is the director of our upcoming production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood.  He is also presenting a workshop on Tuesday 21 July on Dialects, which is an important aspect of Drood.

Kathleen Tringale is the choreographer for multiple shows in our upcoming 2015-16 season.  She is also teaching workshops this summer on Tap Dancing.

There is a nominal $5 fee per person for all the workshops, payable with cash or check at the door.

As part of our series of workshops on Theatre Skills, we will present one or more workshops on Dancing, presented by Kathleen Tringale.

The first workshop will be on Thursday 16 July 2015, starting at 7:30 PM.  It is designed for Beginner Tap Dancers.  The subject of the workshop is “Tackle That Temptation With a Time Step”, which is the title of one of the tap dance numbers in Nunsense that we will present later this season.  You do not have to bring tap shoes, but you may do so if you own them.

The second workshop that was tentatively scheduled for Sunday 19 July, starting at 3:00 PM, called “Tap Dancing Continued”, HAS BEEN CANCELLED. 

We are instead cooking up a plan for one or two more workshops on Basic Dance Steps and Terminology for Musical Theatre.  The objective is to give the typical musical theatre actor some basic dance knowledge before going to an audition or to the dance rehearsals for a show.  What is the choreographer talking about when she says “do a jazz square” or a “grapevine”?  Watch this space for further developments about the upcoming dance workshops.

Kathleen Tringale is our choreographer for multiple shows in the 2015-16 season.  Learning the basics of tap will prepare you for Nunsense auditions, or it can just be a fun and useful skill!

For all the Theatre Skills workshops, we are charging a nominal fee of $5, to be paid at the door with cash or check.  Contact us at TCSaugus@gmail.com if you have any questions about the contents of any of the workshops.