Lake Players Presents: From Audition to Applause!
- Hands on Theater Class -
📅 Wednesdays: Sept. 23 and 30, Oct. 7 and 28, Nov. 4 and 11
🕡 6:30–8:30 PM Kaleidoscope, 2500 Hardy Road, Hardy, VA
Meet up with us Wednesday, September 23
6:30–8:30 PM • Kaleidoscope
🎭 No experience necessary—just bring your enthusiasm!
Email lake-players@SMAC-ARTS.com to confirm your participation
Discover Your Place in Community Theater
Ever wonder what really happens before the curtain goes up? Join the Smith Mountain Arts Council’s Lake Players for a fun, free, hands-on theater class where you’ll learn the many pieces that come together to create a production from our new Lake Players Director, James Honaker—from the first audition to the final applause! Ages teens to adults.
What We’ll Explore
FROM THE AUDITION
Preparing for an audition
Choosing a role
What directors look for
Scripts, stage directions and terminology
TO REHEARSAL
Blocking and stage movement
Character development
Working with other actors
Understanding how a director builds a scene
BEHIND THE CURTAIN
Directing and music direction
Choreography and stage management
Costumes and props
Set design and construction
Lighting, sound and the tech booth
TO OPENING NIGHT
How all those pieces come together
Hands-on scene work
Creating short scenes/mini-productions
Exploring opportunities to perform in the community
By the end of the class, you’ll understand how a production moves from an idea on paper
to a performance on stage—and where you might fit into that process.
