Project Grant - Round 3

Since most of our past community theatre production casts have consisted predominately of adults, we have chosen a production that includes many more youth, allowing more opportunities for their involvement. Our goal is to include as many youth as possible in our two summer productions. We will be able to compare youth involvement this year with the previous year based on number of youth auditioning, cast in the production or the orchestra, assisting behind-the scenes (with set construction, decoration, light and sound technical needs, etc.) as well as youth audience members compared to numbers from last year’s two productions. With this funding our goals are to increase our youth involvement by at least 40% from 2012’s summer community theatre production of “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” (20 youth involved in the production and 300 in the audience last summer) and increase participation by at least 20% from our PFCT production of “Alice in Wonderland” (50 youth participants in the residency and 200 in the audience in 2012.)We will evaluate this project by tabulating 2013 youth participation statistics (number of youth actors and musicians auditioning, number of youth actors and musicians cast, and youth volunteer hours recorded for working behind the scenes with set construction, painting, technical support with sound and lights, ushering, etc.) We will also tabulate number of youth audience members for both productions and compare those statistics with numbers in the same categories in our database from 2012’s community theater and Prairie Fire Children's Theater productions.