‘It’s like a one-stop-shop.’ Youth program in Rexburg teaches theater, music and dance

REXBURG — An after-school younker theatre programme successful Rexburg is helping young artists succeed.

The Palace Theatre, a organization theatre successful Chubbuck, launched The Palace Theatre Rexburg Conservatory successful February 2024. The programme is unfastened to those ages 8 to 18 willing successful learning acting, singing and dancing skills.

Emily Capson, conservatory coordinator, said nan programme primitively started successful Chubbuck successful 2019 aft laminitis and head Jenna Davies bought nan erstwhile Palace Playhouse and rebranded it to The Palace Theatre.

“This has been … her dream to create this conservatory programme to springiness kids successful nan area thing she really didn’t person increasing up,” Capson said of Davies. “We person dance, euphony and opportunities for theater, but this is location they tin get each of that from group who person training, acquisition and degrees successful that field. It’s for illustration a one-stop-shop.”

Capson said they had “a batch of demand” from parents wanting this type of programme successful nan Upper Valley.

“They were beautiful excited astir america being capable to unfastened that 2nd location,” she mentioned.

For nan program’s first twelvemonth successful Rexburg, participants had astir 4 months to put together their first production, “The Little Mermaid Jr.” This year, students will person from September until nan extremity of April to hole for their end-of-program show, “Frozen Jr.”

“(This programme is) an opportunity to participate successful thing that’s age-appropriate, that’s reasonably priced and really unfastened to anybody,” Capson said. “There’s nary auditions aliases immoderate typical requirements that we ask. We conscionable want them to travel and see, person nosy and effort it out.”

The ensemble people is $60 per month. In this people students will study acting techniques that they transportation into nan institution class, which is $65 per month. The institution people puts connected nan accumulation astatine nan extremity of nan year. They require students successful nan institution people besides enroll successful nan ensemble people but nan ensemble people tin beryllium taken connected its own.

Capson said their dream pinch this programme is to springiness nan younker nan assurance and foundational skills they request to “pursue their dreams.”

“We decidedly would induce (parents) to travel cheque it out. Come effort a people for free to spot what we’re each about,” Capson said. “We’re ever excited to turn our programme and to springiness (parents) immoderate accusation that tin thief them make nan champion determination for their kids.”

Classes for nan Rexburg programme are held Mondays and Wednesdays from 4 to 6 p.m. astatine 84 Professional Plaza Way.

Registration is unfastened now done mid-October. There is simply a $30 nonrefundable registration fee.
Click here for much accusation connected nan programme and to register.