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About MTC's Summer Day Camps
MTC’s Summer Day Camps are designed to give students performance experience, build a sense of accomplishment, and, most of all, have fun. Each session works with all skill levels. Instruction is provided by artists/teachers and many of the staff are professional performers. Counselors are older high school or college age students who have advanced singing, dance and acting skills.
Stage One, Broadway Rhythm,Encore!, and Summer Show Tunes focus on intruction in the musical theater disciplines. The morning consists of one hour each of acting, singing, and dance lessons, with campers divided by age and skill level, and the afternoons are used to work on the end-of-camp Broadway revue style performance.
Curtain Call campers work on scenes from several different Broadway productions with the focus of improving acting and singing skills.
Broadway Dance concentrates on intensive broadway style dance training along with developing singing skills.
Needs-based financial assistance is available.
Inquire at the MTC office for an application.
What you will need
All campers campers will need black jazz shoes. and require black legging or jazz pants for the end-of-camp performance. Campers in Broadway Dance will need black jazz and tap shoes, and black ballet slippers.
For all campers but those in Broadway Dance, dance clothes are not required, they are encouraged. Clothing must be comfortable for movement and dance, such as biker shorts or soccer shorts, and a close-fitting top. Baggy shirts and jeans of any type are not permitted. Dance clothes (leotard, tights and jazz pants) are required for Broadway Dance.
Campers must bring lunch in a disposable bag (no coolers or lunch boxes.) Sack lunches are refrigerated in our Rockville location. Complimentary pizza will be provided on Wednesdays.
Campers need a three-ring binder for music and/or scripts and a blank cassette tape or digital recorder on which to record music.
Hours/Extended Hours
Musical Theater Summer Day Camp operates from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. (4:00 p.m. Stage One) Monday through Friday. Campers are asked to arrive on time each morning because the program starts promptly at 9:00 a.m.
Extended hours in the morning (8:00 a.m.- 9:00 a.m.) and the afternoon (3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.) are available:
• Before-camp fees are $9.00.
• After-camp fees are $9.00 per hour figured on an hourly basis starting at 3 p.m..
You may pay on an as-needed basis (per day) basis, or pay in advance for the session (form included in camp packet). Camp packets will be sent approximately 1 month prior to the beginning of camp.
Summer Camp 2009 - Rockville
Campers must be entering grade 3 by June 1, 2009.
Stage One
No prior experience necessary. For students entering grades 3 – 10
$300 June 15 – 19 (1 week)
This summer workshop will have students sharpening their skills in the Musical Theater disciplines of Acting, Dance and Voice. In the mornings students will hone their technical skills with daily classes in Dance, Acting and Voice. The afternoons will be devoted to building performance skills as students learn songs, dances and scenes from popular Broadway shows.
Final presentation: Friday, June 19, 1:00 pm
Broadway Rhythm
No prior experience necessary. For students entering grades 3 – 10
$590 June 22 – July 3 (2 weeks)
This camp is organized by age group. Camp sessions feature classes in voice, tap, jazz and acting in the morning. Classes are organized by age and level of ability. In the afternoons, campers learn a variety of song and dance numbers from popular musicals and rehearse for the end-of camp performance which is presented in a Broadway revue format. Campers must come to camp with black jazz shoes. Final performance costume is camp t-shirt, black pants (preferably jazz pants) or black leggings, and jazz shoes. Final performance: Friday, July 3, 1:00 pm
Curtain Call
No prior experience necessary. For students entering grades 3 – 12
$590 July 6 - 17 (2 weeks)
With a focus on developing acting skills, this intensive session gives campers an opportunity to rehearse and perform scenes and numbers from some of musical theater’s most popular shows. Participants will spend a large portion of each day preparing scenes from well-known musicals along with instruction in voice and acting technique. Campers must come to camp with black jazz shoes. Final performance: Friday, July 17, 1:00 pm
Summer Show Tunes
No prior experience necessary. For students entering grades 3 – 10
$590 July 20 – 31 (2 weeks)
This camp is organized by age group. Camp sessions feature classes in voice, tap, jazz and acting in the morning. Classes are organized by age and level of ability. In the afternoons, campers learn a variety of song and dance numbers from popular musicals and rehearse for the end-of camp performance which is presented in a Broadway revue format. Campers must come to camp with tap and jazz shoes. Final performance costume is camp t-shirt, black pants (preferably jazz pants) or black leggings, and tap and jazz shoes. Final performance: Friday, July 31, 1:00 pm
Broadway Dance
For students entering grades 3 – 12
$590 August 10 - 21 (2 weeks)
This camp concentrates on intensive broadway style dance training. jazz, tap, and ballet. Campers must have black jazz, tap shoes, and ballet slippers. Final performance: Friday, August 21, 1:00 pm
Campers are expected to have no conflicts for the entire camp. Each day builds on material presented the previous day.
Summer Camp 2009 Silver Spring
No prior experience required. Campers must be entering grade 3 by June 1, 2009.
Encore! in Silver Spring
For students entering grades 3 – 10 $590 July 6 - 17 (2 weeks)
This camp is organized by age group. Dance classes are further divided by ability. Camp sessions feature hour long classes in voice, jazz and acting in the morning. Classes are organized by age and level of ability. In the afternoons, campers learn a variety of song and dance numbers from popular musicals and rehearse for the end-of-camp performance which is presented in Broadway revue format. Campers must come to camp with jazz shoes. Final performance costume is camp t-shirt, black pants (preferably jazz pants) or black leggings, and black jazz shoes. Final performance: Friday, July 17, 1:00 pm.
This camp is conveniently located about 5 minutes north of downtown Silver Spring in Christ Congregational Church, 9525 Colesville Road, which is just south of the Beltway on Colesville Road.
Registration/Payment Policies:
Each registration must be accompanied by a non-refundable deposit of $100 per session per camper. This deposit is applied toward the total camp tuition.
If space is available in the camp session you requested, you will receive confirmation by email or phone. If space in not available, your deposit or payment will be returned.
Tuition is due in full unless you select a payment plan (call 301.251.5766).
Tuition, excluding the deposit, is refundable up to one month before a camp session begins. Less than one month before the session begins, tuition is not refundable except in the case of illness or emergency that prevents the child from attending camp. The $100 deposit is non-refundable.
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