VERO BEACH — Students from Riverside Children’s Theatre have been accepted into the 2013 Junior Theater Festival happening Jan. 18, 19, and 20 at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta, GA.
Featuring 82 groups representing 23 states, the Junior Theater Festival is the world’s largest musical theater festival dedicated to celebrating young people experiencing the transformative power of musical theater. It is presented by New York’s iTheatrics and Atlanta’s Theater of the Stars and is sponsored by Music Theatre International, Disney Musicals, Playbill, PRG (Production Resource Group,) and Sound Associates.
The festival will bring together more than 3,500 students, teachers, and Broadway professionals to raise their voices in celebration of on-stage and backstage excellence in musical theater.
The 48 Riverside Children’s Theatre students, ages 7-17, will present Disney’s The Little Mermaid JR. for adjudication. Each group attending the Junior Theater Festival performs a 15-minute selection of a musical for a panel of distinguished theater professionals.
The 2013 Junior Theater Festival offers an enthusiastic environment for students and teachers to interact with thousands of others who share their passion for musical theater.
In addition to presenting a 15 minute selection from their musical, both students and teachers participate in interactive workshops led by Broadway and West End professionals, gain from professional development, enjoy theatrical fellowship, and attend a world-class professional production at the fabulous Fox Theatre.
In true Junior Theater Festival form, student techies work side-by-side with festival staff in running all aspects of the festival experience.
The first Junior Theater Festival was held in January of 2003. Starting in 2010, the festival became an annual event.
Following is the Riverside Children’s Theatre cast list for the 2013 Junior Theater Festival:
Nicole Barley
Kristi Beckett
Taylor Beckmann
Adelle Begazo
Megan Taylor Callahan
Cheyenne Campbell
Jacqs Carroll
Sean David Castro
Madeline Chavers
Tahlia Cisneros
Lilly Connell
Julia Dingee
Samantha Failla
Leyla Feiz
Melanie Funka
Skyler Granito
Tamara Hoffenden
Abby Johnson
Reagan Kelly
Chloe Larabie
Brianna Lauria
Alison Leavitt
Sophia Liano
Riley Lowell
Lance Lunceford
Shae MacDonald
Cori McWilliams
Bobby Miller
Isabel Abby Morby
Coral Morrow
Zane Morrow
Hayden Moses
Mekenzie Moses
Cristina Pines
Mackenzie Ross
Lilla Stawara
Emily Catherine Stewart
Bailey Walker
Jade Wild
Piper Wild
Caleigh Elizabeth Willis
Colin Willis
Peter Wixon
Alexandra Zimmer
Congratulations and good luck to all those listed above.