PROJECT BROADWAY
Another Avenue of Performing: “Curtain up! Hit the lights!” What exciting words these are when they are ringing in the ears of the awaiting performers, ready to spring onto the stage with every ounce of skill and energy they can gather! The theater experience for children can play a major role in the nurturing of personal growth as kids discover their growing self-confidence and self-esteem.
Furthering Our Mission: Kids Unlimited Institute of the Arts has developed a new theater program in accordance with the furthering its mission of providing professional high-quality theatrical experiences to help young people develop dignity, character and a sense of belonging through the performing arts. The ultimate goal being to provide children with the tools they need to succeed in life.
Success In Life: We know that some of our performers have gone on to have successful careers in the performing arts. What is even more important to us are the 99% of our performers who will go on to greater success in life because of their time with Kids Unlimited. Theater is one of the vehicles we can use to build the skills needed for success as they travel the road towards adulthood. The applause, the ovations, the accolades and the smiling faces are the bonuses our performers receive along the way. Our approach is that everyone who auditions for a show makes the cast and performs on stage. We don’t believe that the path to greater self-confidence begins with the message, “you’re not good enough to be in the show.” We cast every child in the role or part that we feel will best suit their skills and will best build their confidence and character.
Program Director: Kids Unlimited Project Broadway Director, Stephanie Hudson, has been working in Sacramento theater since 1997. She has worked both onstage and offstage, Stephanie wanted to do anything she could to be a part of this wonderful world called theater. Stephanie’s involvement and experience eventually lead her to direct many highly successful shows including Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, Mulan Jr., Pippin, Smokey Joe's Cafe, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, and Into The Woods, to name just a few.
Since 2002 Stephanie, along with her husband Louis Hudson, has managed her family's entertainment production company which has produced the lighting and effects for all of the Kids Unlimited summer shows since 1996. For the past several years, Stephanie has worked as technical director and scenic artist for a prominent children's theater company in Sacramento. Stephanie is excited to have this opportunity to work with the kids of Redding through Kids Unlimited's new theater program, Project Broadway.
Many of Stephanie’s former students have gone on to have successful careers both on and off Broadway. Her students have appeared
- On Broadway in Chorus Line as Maggie; Drowsy Chaperone as Janet Van De Graaf; No, No Nannette as Nanette.
- Off-Broadway in Housewives of Mannhiem.
- In Vegas in Mamma Mia as Sophie.
- National Tours in 42nd Street as Peggy Sawyer.
- At Disney Tokyo in Beauty and the Beast as Belle.
- In various lead roles in cruise line shows.
SPRING SHOW 2011
