Youth Theatre
Youth Theatre
at Market Street Music Conservatory
Instructor:
James Spencer
High School & Middle School Ages
Overview
All children (people) have some kind of aesthetic potential.
Their outlets are mostly music, art and theater. Theater is the art of imagination. Performers experience divergent emotions as they live the life of the character they play.
Youth in theater learn to budget time with a long-term goal in mind. Working toward an opening night, and all that has to get done before that, teaches the discipline of step-by-step building. Each rehearsal is cumulative, building to the final product.
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Youth Summer Play
Friday, June 7th and Saturday, June 8th at 7:00 p.m. in Market Street Hall
Admission is $10.00 at the door
Crab Cakes and Murder
During a surprise storm, Captain Savage Raines goes missing at sea. The wreckage of the Half Shell is found, but with no sign of the commercial fisherman, Sheriff Sandy Shoals assumes Captain Raines is dead. That wouldn’t be a surprise considering what a hateful codger he was. After all, who else would name his twin daughters Misery and Calamity?!
The sheriff finds the incident especially curious since the shipwreck was just a day after Savage announced his retirement and revealed plans to divvy up Peg Legg Seafoods. And since those business plans minimized his wife Peggy’s role in the company and largely cut out the rest of the family with the exception of his bootlicking twin daughters, everyone had a motive for sabotage.
Reeling in audience members to help sift through the evidence, Sheriff Shoals casts a wide net to try to catch the guilty party.
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Our Instructor
James Spencer
My wife Melody, a Marion native, and I moved here in the Fall of 2021 after I retired from 39 years of teaching in 2020. She works as a private duty nurse. I was a social studies and language arts teacher at Greenville (IL) Junior High for 34 years, where I also coached basketball, football, and track. During the last six years of my teaching career, I directed the Bond County High School Fall play.
There is very little that’s more gratifying than watching young people prepare, then perform on a stage to show their abilities.
We have two daughters, one of whom is a protocol analyst for Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the other is a first grade teacher. My wife and I are active in our church and love living out in the country among all the wildlife. We greatly enjoy spending time with our friends and family.
