A Lesson from Lee Strasberg

You'll meet a lot of great acting teachers in life. Today, meet Lee Strasberg.

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Meet the TADW Costume Designer: Maro

Maro will be making lots of animals - get ready for Junglebook!

Ronnie Sperling is Ready to Direct Junglebook

We're doing Junglebook this summer, and Ronnie Sperling is the director. Wherever you're coming from, one show or a dozen, the immersion of TADW brings students up to a professional production level all while having a great time!

Meet the Music Man Directors at the Meet & Greet Sunday, 4/17 1-2:30

Meet the directors of our second show this summer, Music Man, Raymond Saar and Diane Ketchie-Saar, right here, right now in the virtual world.

Meet them in the real world this Sunday at the TADW Meet & Greet. Details about the event appear on the post that follows this one (below). See you Sunday, yes?

Meet and Greet Sunday, April 17th, 1 - 2:30

It's time for the annual pre-summer TADW Meet & Greet on the CSUN Campus (18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge, 91330) in the CSUN Theatre Building (Nordhoff Hall) room 107 (aka, the Organ Room). Sunday, April 17, 1-2:30.

We'll have music, refreshments and lots of info about this summer's program. Welcome returning participants, alumni and new or prospective students and/or families.

Please share this info to anyone who might be interested in TADW this summer -  bring 'em along!

Questions, RSVP's?  Call Brent at 818-571-4007 or email him at BrentRosen79@gmail.com by April 10th. (Let Brent know whether you plan to sign up for the acting program or the technical theatre program.)

We hope you are as excited as we are for this summer's TADW program!  (Way!)

Five Jungle Book Fun Facts

TADW's putting on Disney's Jungle Book this summer!  Here are five fun facts!

1)  The original Jungle Book was written by Rudyard Kipling.  Want to study story development?  Read the original: free download here.

2)  Disney's 1967 animated film version of Jungle Book, inspired by the Mowgli stories in Kipling's book, reworks some of the elements of the plot, characters and even the pronunciation of the characters' names.

3)  Disney's Robin Hood, features a version of Little John (voiced by Phil Harris) that strongly resembles Baloo.

4) Turns out Baloo also speaks Dutch!

5)  Jungle Book was done in Anime as a Japanese series in the late 1980's: