2025 SUMMER CAMP INTENSIVE
Harbor Playhouse is excited to announce an addition to our summer camp programs in 2025! Alongside our regular weekly camps for ages 6-14, we are also offering an intensive for ages 11-19 that lasts the entirety of July and ends in a performance of Bye Bye Birdie Youth Edition!
This camp is geared towards complete beginners - advanced students that have a deep interest in performance. Campers can expect to get the best training in town for dancing, acting, and singing.
*REGULAR SUMMER CAMP INFORMATION WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT A LATER DATE*
Camp Dates:
Monday - Friday, June 30 - July 25, Saturday, July 26
9am - 5pm
Cost: $800 per camper **LINK FOR PAYMENT WILL BE SENT ONCE APPLICATION HAS BEEN APPROVED**
WHAT IS CAMP ABOUT
About the Show:
This summer, we will have Hairspray on the mainstage. Our Bye Bye Birdie performances will take place on the mainstage and utilize the Hairspray set so that campers can get the full performance experience. Campers will put on matinee performances before our evening showings of Hairspray.
2025 happens to be the 100th Anniversary of Harbor Playhouse, and we are excited to put on this classic and start a new tradition of training for the stars of the Coastal Bend!
A loving musical send-up of the early 1960s, small-town America, teenagers, and rock & roll, Bye Bye Birdie remains as fresh and vibrant as ever. Teen heartthrob Conrad Birdie has been drafted, so he chooses all-American girl Kim McAfee for a very public farewell kiss. Featuring a tuneful high-energy score, plenty of great parts for kids, and a hilarious script, Bye Bye Birdie remains one of the most popular shows in schools across the country. Hit songs include “Put on a Happy Face,” “One Last Kiss,” “One Boy,” “A Lot of Livin’ to Do,” “Kids!” and “Rosie.”
AND WHAT CAN MY CHILD EXPECT
What will Students Learn:
Most students will be admitted regardless of performance level, as long as a strong interest in performing is expressed in the application. Slots will be limited!
No one will be pre-cast before the program starts. Auditions will take place during the first week and campers can expect to find out their role before the first Wednesday. No refunds will be given if a student doesn’t receive a desired role.
Students can expect to learn:
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Audition Skills
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Show process and expectations
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Singing technique in group and solo settings
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Choreography
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Acting skills & following direction
Who should apply:
Any student ages 11-19 (19 year old students must have graduated in 2025).
Complete beginners - advanced performers
This program exists to help our youth become stronger auditioners and will be a springboard for future auditions at Harbor. If you are great at singing but struggle to learn choreography, have been told many times that you don’t smile enough onstage, deal with stagefright, etc, this camp is for you!
TRAINING
Who are the instructors?
Our summer camp director, Josh Salinas, will be directing the show and leading acting skills. He has led our summer camps for many years now and has directed shows at Harbor including Matilda, Moana Jr, Raise Your Voice, and most recently Junie B. Jones Jr. He is scheduled to be directing Wizard of Oz in 2025. He is also the head band director at Miller High School. Read more about him at Mr. Salinas Music & Movement!
Jessica Hill will be our choreographer extraordinaire! She has many years of experience teaching a wide variety of dance genres, including jazz, tap, ballet, lyrical, contemporary, and more. She has recently choreographed Oklahoma! The Musical and Goosebumps: The Phantom of Auditorium here at Harbor Playhouse, and she is slated to choreograph Fiddler on the Roof in the 2025 season! Read more about her at www.jesshilldances.wordpress.com.
Bethany Goldson will be the vocal specialist helping you with all things singing! She has experience in opera and musical theater and is excited to be back in her home theater teaching. She has a studio of 55 students who consistently land roles at Harbor and beyond! Read more about her at www.voicelessonscc.com.
REGISTRATION
How to Apply:
We will need to receive your contact information and some quick information about why you want to partake in this camp. This camp is recommended for students that have a strong drive to be onstage. If your child isn’t sure if they are, they should try out the week long summer camps first. Students will be in long hours of rehearsal every day and will be expected to learn quickly.
Our application asks for a paragraph description of why campers want to join the camp - please be detailed here and let your passion shine through! If you don’t have any previous performance experience, don’t sweat it. We just want to be sure you are motivated to learn everything this experience will have to offer.
We are also asking that you link a video of you singing. This part of the appliction is not required until after Christmas. If you’d like to purchase registration to gift for the holidays, we are waiving the video requirement so that you can keep the surprise! This is just for us to see your interest in performing and what you can currently do. You can choose any song (Happy Birthday, the National Anthem, a pop song or Musical Theater song) and it does not have to be the entire song. We recommend singing for about a minute. Please submit a shareable link in the form that leads to an uploaded video on Youtube, Vimeo, Google Photos or Dropbox. Make sure anyone can open the link without signing in. Failure to submit a video or paragraph expressing your interest will lead to not being admitted to the camp.
Submit your application here: