Summer Day Camp 2025
Join us at this year's Kingsport Theatre Guild Summer Day Camp for a fun time of improvisational acting games, learning stage directions and blocking and working together to stage the culminating production for the week, ROMEO AND JULIET AND TOTO, TOO by Burton Bumgarner. Below is the synopsis.
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SYNOPSIS: Movie producer Antonio Ravioli needs another movie fast. He hires director Jacqueline Quiche and writer Helga Schnitzel to come up with a movie in a week. The film is “The Wizard of Weird” and it takes place while Dorothy and Toto are trying to make their way to the Emerald City to see the Wizard. But the story is wrong from the beginning. Instead of the usual Oz characters, Dorothy and her talking dog, Toto, take a wrong turn on the Yellow Brick Road and meet characters from Shakespeare, such as Romeo and Juliet, Nick Bottom, Caliban, Hamlet, Macbeth, Banquo, and others. Even the Bard himself makes an appearance. A very funny combination of Shakespeare, L. Frank Baum and Hollywood.
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The camp is open to children ages 9+ and will take place July 7 - 11, from 8:45 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
The final showcase performance will be held on Friday, July 11 at 5 p.m.
The cost is $150 per camper ($75 for each additional camper in the same household)
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We hope you will join us for all the fun!
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Learn more about our Day Camp leader:
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Steve Humphrey is proud to have been a performer many times on the Kingsport Renaissance Center stage with the Kingsport Theatre Guild having first performed with them in 1999. His most recent appearance was with the ensemble of BRIGHT STAR in 2023. Mr. Humphrey has also taught theater at the elementary and middle school level and has produced many small one acts. To his credits include titles such as THE CHRISTMAS CAFE, SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK, Jr., THE THREE MUSKETEERS: ALL SWASH AND NO BUCKLE and SHERLOCK HOLMES. IN WONDERLAND. Recent stage experience includes A CHRISTMAS STORY: THE MUSICAL at JRT and recently as a distant father in the world premiere musical HOME BEFORE DARK.