Programs

Youth & Teen Arts & Theatre

Learn to draw, work with clay or develop your performing skills with one of the Glenview Park District's Youth & Teen Arts & Theatre classes for grade school and middle school youth. Programs offered for Winter 2009 include: Young Rembrandts Basic Drawing Young Rembrandts Cartoon Drawing Young Rembrandts Winter Break Young Rembrandts Spring Break Creatin’ Clay Beginning Potter’s Wheel Acting Imagination Theatre Musical Theatre For details on programs listed above, click here. Click here to register for these programs using our online registration system.

Glenview Children’s Theatre
Each fall and winter, the Glenview Children's Theatre (GCT) offers students in grades 4-7 the opportunity to audition for, rehearse and perform a musical theatre production. All children must participate in an acting and singing audition. Three separate casts will be chosen and appear in two performances each. Those cast must pay a participation fee to help cover the costs of the production. Fee also includes a rehearsal CD for every cast member. All auditions, rehearsals and performances will be held at Park Center, 2400 Chestnut Ave. Call Amber Blake at (224) 521-2558 for info.

GCT FALL PERFORMANCE

A courtroom has never been more lively and fun than in The Big Bad Musical! The jury—the audience—must decide the outcome of the biggest trial ever in the fairy-tale world! The notorious Big Bad Wolf is being slapped with a class-action lawsuit by storybooks of quirky characters who want to get even: Little Red Riding Hood, her Grandmother, the Three Little Pigs and the Shepherd in charge of the Boy Who Cried Wolf. With Sydney Grimm as the commentator on live court TV, the two greatest legal minds in the Enchanted Forest—the Evil Stepmother and the Fairy Godmother—clash in a trial that will be remembered forever after. As our wronged fairy tale characters testify, the wolf seems deserving of all that’s coming. Yet, even though the infamous Evil Stepmother resents doing pro-bono work on such an obviously futile defense, the Wolf makes a good case. Is someone born a criminal, or made one? This musical has it all— including several toe-tapping tunes!

PERFORMANCES

Sat. December 6 and Sun. December 7 at 12 pm
Sat. December 13 and Sun. December 14 at 12 pm & 4 pm

Tickets for these performances cost $6 and are on sale now at Park Center

GCT WINTERPERFORMANCE

The best-selling children's play has been musically revitalized with playful and eclectic tunes! You will love this upbeat, fast-paced retelling of an old favorite. Filled with delightfully wacky characters--including elves Mortz, Schwartz, Hazel, Grace and Studebaker--this familiar tale is laced with clever dialogue to make audiences of all ages smile and want to sing along as you put on your dancing shoes!

PERFORMANCES

CAST 1: Sat. March 7 and Sun. March 8 at 12 pm
CAST 2: Sat. March 14 and Sun. March 15 at 12 pm
CAST 3: Sat. March 14 and Sun. March 15 at 4 pm

AUDITIONS

Tuesday January 6and Wednesday January 7
4:15 – 6:15 pm (only attend one of these auditions)

REHEARSALS

CAST 1: Sun. 12:30 – 2:30 pm and Mon. 4:15 – 6:15 pm
CAST 2: Sun 1:30 – 3:30 pm and Tues. 4:15 – 6:15 pm
CAST 3: Sun 2:30 – 4:30 pm and Wed. 4:15 – 6:15 pm

REGISTRATION FEE: $190.00

Tickets for these performances are $6 and will go on sale Monday February 16 at Park Center.