• Mom and Me Act Up!
• Be Creative!
• Creative Dance
• Let's Pretend!
• Creative Play and Music
• Theater Experience I
  
• Theater Experience II
• Teen Theater Experience
• Musical Theater I
• Mainstage Productions
  
• Stage Craft
• Acting 101
• Performances

Mom and me act up
Ages 2 - 3 years old

Moms (or Dads) spend quality play time with your child while helping them learn the basic elements of dance, acting, and all things imaginative.

Mondays, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Be Creative
Ages 3 - 5 years old

Act! Draw! Move! Create! Discover! Explore!
This unique curriculum offers your child a multitude of life enhancing benefits that will prepare them for a lifetime of success. While your child is building motor skills, they will also show improvement in social and intellectual skills. Your child will increase flexibility, balance and rhythm, and consequently improve self-esteem, and confidence. Listening skills, attention span and the ability to follow directions will improve.

Mondays, 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

creative dance
Ages 4-6 years old

This unique dance program is the perfect course to introduce your child into the world of Musical Theater Dance. Children will learn movement combined with acting.

Wenesdays, 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

LET’S PRETEND!
Ages 5-7 years old

Let us feed your child’s fertile imagination with theater games, role playing, crazy costumes, hilarious sketches, funny dances, magic, music and more! Each week is a new adventure in dramatic play and creativity.

Mondays, 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Mainstage PRODUCTIONS
Ages 6 years old and up

Appear in our Award-Winning mainstage productions. Learn how to put on a full-blown show with costumes, make-up, sets, lighting and sound from working professionals. Please see audition times and requirements at
www.miamichildrenstheater.com.

Mondays & Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Some weekends depending on production.

CREATIVE PLAY AND MUSIC
Ages 6-8 years old

This course offers a fun and exciting atmosphere while introducing children to the world of the performing arts. Children enhance their creativity through games and exercises used to develop concentration, creativity and self-confidence. Music is incorporated into the curriculum by learning rhythms, musical genres, telling a story using music and an introduction to instruments. They will also learn the secrets of magic, the inner workings of dance and the artistry of juggling and clowning.

Wednesdays, 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

theater experience I
Ages 8 years old and up

A course covering the basic principles of Acting Technique including objectives/obstacles, given circumstances, inner monologue, sense memory, emotional recall, improvisation, professionalism, story dramatization, theater exercises, and dramatic training designed to expand the imagination and to increase concentration and self-confidence. This class culminates in the presentation of monologues and/or scenes. This is a foundation course for all future study and may be repeated.

Wednesdays, 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

theater experience II
Ages 8-12 years old and up

This course is a continuation of Theater Experience I. Course may repeated with New Techniques and Curriculum.

• Prerequisite: Theater Experience I

Thrusdays, 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

MUSICAL THEATER I
Ages 8 years old and up

An introduction to vocal production, rhythm and movement, stressing the interpretation and phrasing of the song, incorporating all three (acting, singing, dancing) elements to the student’s répétiteur.

• Prerequisite: Theater Experience I & II and/or Audition

Mondays, 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Stage Craft
Ages 10 years old and up

Grab a hammer, raise a paint brush! Build challenging and beautiful sets for our mainstage productions. Miami Childrens Theater is renown for building intricate, beautiful sets. Be a part of that proud tradition! Students will credited and acknowledged in the show’s program. Learn to design and build professional sets for the stage. Participants will design and build sets for the Miami Children’s Theater Productions and the Miami Stage Company Productions.

Mondays & Wednesdays, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Some weekends depending on production.

Fee: $ 48 per session

TEEN THEATER EXPERINCE
Ages 12 years old and up

A course covering the basic principles of acting specifically for teens, includes objectives/obstacles, given circumstances, inner monologue, sense memory, emotional recall, improvisation, professionalism, story dramatization, theater exercises, and dramatic training

Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Acting 101
Ages 10 - 17 years old and up

This course furthers a young actor’s education in solo and ensemble acting, auditioning and mainstage requirement skills.

• Prerequisite: Theater Experience II

Thursdays, 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Performances

Tickets are $10-$12 pre-sold and $15-$20 at the door.

Tickets may be purchased at www.miamichildrenstheater.com or by calling 305-274-3595.

School House Rock
A pop culture phenomenon comes to the musical stage! The Emmy Award-winning 1970s Saturday morning cartoon series that taught history, grammar, math, science and politics through clever, tuneful songs is not only making a small-screen comeback, instructing a whole new generation to “Unpack Your Adjectives” and “Do The Circulations,” it’s lighting up stages everywhere, from school multi-purpose rooms to university and regional theatres all around the country. Tom, a nerve-wracked school teacher nervous about his fi rst day of teaching, tries to relax by watching TV when various characters representing facets of his personality emerge from the set and show him how to win his students over with imagination and music, through such beloved “Schoolhouse Rock” songs as “Just A Bill,” “Lolly, Lolly, Lolly” and “Conjunction Junction.”

• Auditions: January 6, 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
  Performance: March 5, 6, 12, & 13 at 8:00 p.m.
  March 6 and 13 at 3:00 p.m.
  March 5 at 10:00 a.m. (School Day show)

Disney's Aristocrats
Madame’s jealous butler Edgar cat-naps Duchess and her Aristokittens and abandons them in the Parisian countryside. What’s a cat to do? Luckily, Thomas O’Malley and his rag-tag bunch of Alley Cats come to their rescue! This feline adventure is sure to get your audiences tapping their feet to its hep, jazzy beat, which
includes the Disney favorites “The Aristocats,” “Scales and Arpeggios” and “Ev’rybody Wants to Be a Cat.”

• Auditions: March 17, 6 - 9 p.m.
  Performance: May 14, 15, 21, 22 at 8:00 p.m.
  May 15 and 22 at 3:00 p.m.