Junior COMPANY

Junior COMPANY is for 8-12 year olds with limited experience who show great potential or innate talent
(occasionally, a truly gifted and experienced younger talent is invited to be a Senior COMPANY member outside of these age guidelines.)   

Returning members must re-audition each Fall.  Membership in a previous year, does not guarantee acceptance in subsequent years. 

The student’s previous year’s work and current audition are taken into consideration during the selection process.

Registration for COMPANY Productions is by invitation only.
 

2010 FALL Junior COMPANY Production

 
A Thousand Cranes * 
Rehearses Tues 5:00-8:00pm, 8/31-11/6
Performs Nov 4, 5 & 6

A Thousand Cranes presents the true and poignant story of Sadako Saski, who was 2 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on the small city of Hiroshima, where she lived. Sadako, now 12 years old, is an excellent athlete who races daily with her friend Kenji to prepare for an important competition. However, one day while running, Sadako gets dizzy and falls. She is hospitalized, and it is discovered that she has "radiation sickness," or leukemia—an effect of the bombing that happened 10 years before, during which her grandmother was killed. Kenji arrives at the hospital, "I've figured out a way for you to get well," he says. He reminds her of the old story about the crane. If a sick person folds a thousand origami cranes, the gods will grant her wish and make her healthy again. Sadako happily begins folding hundreds of beautiful, colorful paper cranes and calls to the spirit of her grandmother. "I have come to show you something," her grandmother says. As if in a dream, Sadako folds a giant crane which comes to life and flies them to the mountain of her ancestors.

 

*Show titles are dependant on the acquisition of rights & royalties which are subject to change with little notice.