These theme-based, 7-week trial classes such as Fairytale Mix Up and Seuss on the Loose focus on using creative drama to explore the pages of different stories while creating simple props to accompany the action. Students will bring characters from everyone’s favorite stories to life.

Students will use their imaginations and physicality to recreate stories, both familiar and new, while learning basic elements of theatre. Simple props and costume pieces will be added to complete the imaginary transformation.

This is the perfect class for students to begin or continue acting training. Basic tools of the actor are learned through improvisation, character development and script exercises.

Students create characters and and develop imaginary relationships in a fun, creative environment. Through class projects, students develop an expressive voice and body while discovering the actor's process.

Prerequisite: Acting I or Director's consent

Students will build on the foundation established in Acting I as they refine their skills with more complex acting scenarios and character exercises.

Prerequisite: Acting IB or Director's consent

Students continue to expand their understanding of the craft through "on your feet" exploration. Objectives, obstacles, beats and conflict are incorporated into this class.

Prerequisite: Acting II or Director's consent

This advanced class builds upon skills learned in previous courses. Students will continue advanced scene work in this class for serious acting students.

Prerequisite: Audition or Director's consent

This pre-professional class will challenge experienced performers with various topics offered on rotation each semester including advanced scene study, acting styles, writing, directing and monologue development. Students receive one-on-one training within a small group environment.

Students explore the physical and vocal creation of character through various improvisation games. This course requires quick thinking, strong choices and full involvment-important skills for any actor.

Students experiment with a variety of scenes and monologues while studying the essential elements of acting-charater objectives, obstacles, beats, conflict and relationships.

These theme-based, 7-week music classes such as Jungle Jives and Sounds of the Sea are a great introduction to music for any young student.

Students use instruments and a variety of songs from musical theatre shows to create rhythms and beats while learning to correctly use their singing voices.

Young singers discover their voices along with basic music and listening skills while performing songs from their favorite musicals.

Students continue to develop their voices, focusing on basic vocal technique including work on proper breathing, diction and projection.

Prerequisite: Group Voice I or Director's consent

Students continue developing particular vocal skills with more challenging material while progressing toward individualized study.

Prerequisite: Group Voice II or Director's consent

Students expand vocal skills with more complex musical pieces featuring intricate harmonies. This class focuses on solos in addition to ensemble singing.

In this fun, participation-oriented class, students will focus on reading rhythms and pitches using solfege syllables and techniques developed by Kodaly. Ideally, students will learn to recognize leaps and steps in melodic lines, as well as note names.

Students learn proper vocal technique and train their voices for challenging solo and ensemble singing.

Prerequisite: Group Voice or Director's consent

Call the Academy for details on these personalized lessons.

Our creative movement class for young students provides an introduction to dance. Students develop coordination, imagination, memory, musicality and self-confidence.

Basic ballet positions and simple steps will be learned in this class for beginning students. In addition, students will work on basic motor skills including gallops, skips and leaps.

Students will begin work at the barre, in center and across the floor while refining fundamentals of ballet, jazz, tap technique and vocabulary.

This introductory class is for students who want to develop a strong dance foundation with a focus on ballet and jazz dance technique. Students will learn dance vocabulary and proper body placement.

Prerequisite: Ballet/Jazz Technique I or Director's consent

This class will continue to buld upon vocabulary and steps learned in preceding classes. Students will continue to work on flexibility, strength and presentation.

Prerequisite: Ballet/Jazz Technique IB or Director's consent

This intermediate class is for students with some pervious dance training. Students will continue working on proper ballet and jazz technique including barre exercises, progressions and center combinations.

Prerequisite: Ballet/Jazz Technique II or Director's consent

This advanced class will focus on performance quality. Students will continue to practice dance technique and develop new skills.

This introductory class incorporates various musical theatre and tap combinations while working with material from different genres and choreographers.

Prerequisite: Musical Theatre/Tap Dance I or Director's consent

Students will continue studying basic tap steps and rhythms in addition to various musical theatre dance styles in this continuing class.

Prerequisite: Musical Theatre/Tap Dance IB or Director's consent

Building on basic technique, this class will focus on more advances rhythms and musical theatre combinations.

Prerequisite: Musical Theatre/Tap Dance II or Director's consent

Well-trained dancers will study complex, advanced dance styles and combinations as well as the work of influential musical theatre choreographers.

Learn the latest dance steps and combinations to current pop music in this class. No previous dance training is required.

A fusion of ballet, modern, lyrical, and jazz; contemporary dance is an expressive dance style that encourages free movement and interpretation. Previous dance experience is preferred but not required.

Beginning, intermediate and advanced tap classes are offered each semester for adults. Intermediate ballet, jazz and contemporary adult classes are offered on rotation.

This active class incorporates a variety of age-appropriate songs to introduce children to the musical theatre arts of singing, dancing and acting as they develop listening skills and lean to work as an ensemble.

While exploring new material from delightful musical theatre classics, students will experience the magic of musical theatre performance as they have fun combining the arts of singing, acting, and dancing.

Prerequisite: Magical Musical Theatre or Director's consent

Students will build on their prior experience in Magical Musical Theatre as they work on material from modern and classic Broadway musicals.

This class for students just beginning musical theatre study, incorporates classic musicals such as those from Rodgers & Hammerstein to contemporary pieces by Stephen Schwartz. Students will develop acting, singing and dancing skills with a focus on Broadway's best musicals.

Prerequisite: Musical Theatre I or Director's consent

Students will work as an ensemble on singing, musical comedy skills, a variety of dance styles and acting while performing some of musical theatre's hottest pop hits from GREASE, LEGALLY BLONDE, and HAIRSPRAY.

Prerequisite: Musical Theatre IB or Director's consent

Students will travel through time in this class focusing on material from different eras of American musical theatre. The class will begin with the first "modern" musical SHOW BOAT, progress to standards such as the classic GUYS AND DOLLS and follow through to contemporary hits like WICKED.

Prerequisite: Musical Theatre II or Director's consent

Students will discover Broadway's Golden Age of the 1940s and 1950s in this advanced musical theatre class. From THE BOYFRIEND to DAMN YANKEES, students will learn material from many famous and not-so-famous shows that were important in helping make musical theatre what it is today.

Prerequisite: One year of study of Musical Theatre or Director's consent

In these spring semester classes, experienced students will put into practice skills learned in previous training. These themed offerings balance the classroom experience with a focus on more refined performance skills and culminate in an expanded, end-of-the-session showcase performance.

Students work intensively, studying audition etiquette, material selection and performance choices within an audition. Movement, vocal and acting skills will be tested in this special class designed to improve auditioning skills.

Students explore the world of performing arts with this fun and highly interactive musical theatre class. Movement, music and dramatic skills are used by creating characters and stories while building important motor and communication skills.

Students will continue to develop performance technique while also improving motor and communication skills. Students will be given personalized attention in an intimate classroom environment as they learn some of the same pieces as pour performing troupe. In this fun, unique, developmental class students will also have specialized performance opportunities.

Access the Arts: Acting

Access the Arts: Voice

Access the Arts: Dance

These three Access the Arts classes which focus on the specific disciplines of the musical theatre arts are offered by the Academy on a rotating schedule. Designed to supplement the core Access the Arts musical theatre program, these classes will focus on basic skill development in each of these performing disciplines. In this small, personalized setting, the goal for students will be participating in dance, acting or voice classes in an inclusive setting or simply enjoying a fun, creative outlet.

On Broadway

Students will continue to develop performance technique while also improving motor and communication skills.  Students will be given personalized attention in an intimate classroom environment as they learn some of the same pieces as our performing troupe.  In this fun, unique, developmental class students will also have specialized performance opportunities.

Troupe Broadway

Prerequisite: Audition

Troupe Broadway rehearses weekly and performs throughout the St. Louis metropolitan area at special events. To audition for Troupe Broadway, call the Academy.  For booking information, contact Rob Grumich at 636.530.5959