About Center Stage Kids Daytona Beach Summer Camp

Center Stage Theatricals, was formed as an LLC this past summer of 2008. It stemmed from the Volusia County Community Schools' Summer Musical Theater Camp for Children. Under the Community Schools, the program existed for nearly 10 years. Due to the recent school board budget cuts, the Community Schools program was dissolved, as were many of the programs that fell under it's umbrella. Knowing the importance of performing arts programs for youth, and seeing these programs cut from the public schools; Center Stage Theatricals; featuring Center Stage Kids (children from New Smyrna Beach, Deland, Deltona, Port Orange, Daytona Beach, Holly Hill, Ponce Inlet, and Ormond Beach, FL) was created to pick up where the Community Schools' Summer Musical Theater Camp left off. Center Stage began it’s inaugural season in the summer of 2008, with an enrollment of 98 students and productions of Grease and Disney's Mulan to sold out audiences.  In November, of 2009, Center Stage Theatricals’ pilot production of Disney’s Aladdin KIDS raised over $1000.00 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.   The production was a world premiere and was used as the basis for the official script published and released by Disney and Music Theater International.  (Photos of the Center Stage Kids' production are prominently featured on the pages of the new script, which will be available world-wide!)  The following summer brought Disney's High School Musical 2 Jr. and Disney's Alice in Wonderland Jr. to the stage! 

As a small, independent theatrical organization, Center Stage Theatricals is one of the very few in the county that receives no outside sources of income from the city, county, schools, etc., but retains the simple goal: to bring unique theatrical opportunities to as many to children and families as possible, to promote the power and benefits of the performing arts, and to be an asset to the community.  In fact, the Center Stage Theatricals’ production of Disney’s Aladdin KIDS raised over $1500.00 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation and Cypress Creek Elementary School.

Offering classes in acting, singing, dancing and more!!!

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