JAN 2024 UPDATE — This summer we are back at the Hilltown Charter School August 5th-18th for a new adventure with Shiprock & Anchordog and friends:
DOGS OF YORE 2024
DESCRIPTION: Summer 2024: director Seana Lamothe and writer Evan Curran will guide students in staging an original rock musical about dogs, cats, microdogs and magic at the subatomic level.
LOCATION: Hilltown Charter School, Easthampton
DATES: 8/5/24 - 8/16/24, 9am-2pm. Showcase performances: evening show on 8/17/24 at 6pm and a matinee show on 8/18/24 at 2pm. Also at Hilltown!
AGES: 5 and up. Middle/high schoolers can apply to be counselors-in-training.
COST: No fixed cost. Families typically pay from about $300 to $600 for each student. We try to make sure to include everyone, regardless of ability to pay. Over the years our sliding scale system has subsidized many families.
A typical day at Shiprock and Anchordog camp looks like this:
9am: Dropoff, morning meeting, and then sing-along vocal warmup.
9:30am: Theatre stretch and warmup.
9:45am: Musical rehearsal: singing, “blocking”, etc.
10:30am: Snack, then free time.
11am: More rehearsal, singing and blocking.
12noon: Lunch, then free time.
12:45pm: More rehearsal, singing and blocking.
1:45pm: End of the day check-in.
2pm: Pick up.
Sophie with an amazing rap moment from our 2017 musical Shiprock & Anchordog Get Energized
A flyer from our first rock musical in 2011, which featured an ensemble cast of local kids.
The Blue Barn at Stone Soup Farm, where multiple Shiprock musicals were staged from 2011 to 2013.
We’ve staged THIRTEEN adventure musicals since 2011! Here’s a history of Shiprock & Anchordog music workshops…
We’ve collaborated with many local kids through the years…
Inside the blue barn before the 2012 musical.
Another dramatic scene from our 2017 musical Shiprock & Anchordog Get Energized
The fields of Stone Soup Farm, where we staged Shiprock musicals from 2011 to 2013.
Inside the Blue Barn in 2012
A moment of song from our musical Shiprock & Anchordog Get Energized at the Hilltown School in Easthampton