Northbrook Park District - Theatre & Performing Arts

Northbrook Musical Theatre for Young Audiences
The North Shore's ONLY professional Equity theatre
dedicated to the child and family audience!
Join us in our seventeenth full season of musicals presented especially for young audiences, performed by our company of professional Equity actors. Northbrook Musical Theatre for Young Audiences has a full series of three shows planned. Performances run approximately one hour and are packed with singing, dancing, acting and thrills. Our intimate 268-seat theatre, located at 3323 Walters Avenue in Northbrook,is the perfect setting in which to share live theatre with children. Audiences of all ages can enjoy our performances. We also offer group discounts, lunch/theatre packages, birthday party packages and weekday performances for schools and similar groups, which include curtain talks and backstage theatre tours.

"Professional theatre for children...performed with kids in mind!"

Northbrook Musical Theatre For Young Audiences is a professional theatre company dedicated to presenting the highest quality shows to and for young people and family audiences. We are one of a very few theatres in the Midwest operating under a Theatre For Young Audiences Agreement (TYA) with Actors’ Equity Association, the national union of Actors and Stage Managers.

Bunnicula
Saturday Shows at 10:30am & 1pm
January 21-February 25

A vampire bunny sucks the juice out of vegetables in this hilarious tale, adapted for the stage from the
famous children's book series written by James Howe and his late wife, Deborah. The story is told from the Monroe Family pets’ point of view. And both their dog and cat are quite annoyed that a new bunny is vying with them for their family’s affections.

Tickets
All seats are reserved and are priced at $8, paid-in-advance, and $10 on-the-web or at-the door. There are discounts for groups of fifteen or more. For information, call the Northbrook Musical Theatre For Young Audiences at 847·291·2367.

Shows
Our productions are designed for family audiences and children preschool through the grades. Performances are approximately one hour in length.

Weekday Shows for Schools and Groups
On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings during the run of each Northbrook Musical Theatre For Young Audiences’ show, performances for schools and similar groups are presented by arrangement. Tickets discounted according to the following schedule:

Groups Over 150……….$5/seat
Groups 50-149…………$6/seat
Groups less than 50……$7/seat

1 teacher/every 10 students goes FREE. And as always, Bus Drivers are FREE! We offer FREE ILS Study Guides, FREE Curtain Talks with the Actors, FREE Backstage Tours, FREE parking and FREE Lunch Rooms (if available). Call NORTHBROOK Musical THEATRE For Young Audiences to arrange for your next field trip.

Northbrook Theatre Children’s Company
“Theatre by kids . . . for kids!”

For over 30 years, the award-winning Northbrook Theatre Children’s Company has presented “theatre by youth for youth.” The actors are in grades 6-10 and perform age-appropriate plays and musicals suitable for family viewing. Auditions for our fall production are in September.

This spring, the Children’s Company presents the stage adaptation of the hit movie-musical, FAME, which follows the lives of the students enrolled in the prestigious New York High School of the Performing Arts.

“Theatre for kids with Special Needs”

New this fall… a theatre company for teens with special needs. The company brings together disabled and non-disabled actors and supporters, production teams and the local community. Produced by the Northbrook Park District in cooperation with the North Suburban Special Recreation Association, BSTC will require the help of volunteers (Creative Companions) to assist our special actors in their starring roles.

This weekly program will meet from September to April. The Bright Star mission is to provide one-on-one relationships between special needs actors and their Creative Companions. The experience starts with theatre games, movement exercises and musical training for the first half of the year.

During the second half of the program, rehearsals begin for a fully-mounted musical production on our Main Stage Theatre at the Leisure Center. The culmination of the program is a performance for friends and family in our MainStage Theatre.

The Show
The Princess and the Pea
Saturday, April 14 – 4pm
Sunday, April 15 – 12:30pm

The Staff
The Bright Star Theatre is directed by David Downing. Wendy LaVarre is the
choreographer. David Zizic is the musical Director.

Creative Companions
The volunteer Creative Companions ("CC's" for short) are essential to the success
of the Bright Star Theatre Company. Each actor/CC team works toward developing
a role, culminating in the musical performance. Therefore, the work of the CC is as
special as that of our actors.

Tickets
All seats for “The Princess and the Pea” are reserved and are priced at $8 paid-in advance
and $10 online & day-of performance.

For information call the Performing Arts Office at 847·291·2367.

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“A Theatre for very young Actors”

KIDSTAGE Productions, Inc. is an affiliate program of the Northbrook Park District.
The Company presents shows starring very young actors in grades 2-5. This spring, the
Kidstagers will present the musical, KIDSTAGE Goes Broadway.