For a limited time, purchase a Black Friday Flex Pass Package for $90.00! One Black Friday Flex Pass Package contains 3 Black Friday Flex Passes valid for any Mainstage show at Lakewood Theatre Company through the rest of our 2023-24 season which concludes on Sunday, June 9, 2024.
Use your flex passes all at once, or for one show at a time, from January - June, 2024!
Black Friday Flex Passes will be sent to you in the mail. Please specify in the remarks section when ordering if you would like us to hold your passes at the box office.
Please Note: Choose the quantity of Black Friday Flex Pass Packages you wish under quantity. Each package contains 3 Flex Passes. You can use your flex pass on any show in the season according to availability up until Sunday, June 9, 2024.
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Sandra is an Emmy-award winning writer/producer/director and represents talent for voice over, film, and television work in Portland, the Northwest, and Los Angeles.
ACTING FOR ADULTS
Tuesdays January 23 - February 27 (6 weeks)
2:00 - 3:30 PM / $135
If you are new or remembering your love for acting, it is never too late to be in the limelight!
Share your passion in a supportive environment, whether it is just for enjoyment, or to pursue job opportunities in television, film and theater. Have fun learning a variety of skills including improvisation, commercials, interviews, scene study, and auditioning techniques. Create a video of funny senior moments! Sandra Peabody is an Emmy-award winning writer/producer/director. She represents talent for TV/Film work in the Northwest and Los Angeles. Limited to 8 students.
ACTING FOR ADULTS
Saturdays January 27 - March 2 (6 weeks)
4:00 - 5:30 PM / $135
If you are new or remembering your love for acting, it is never too late to be in the limelight!
Share your passion in a supportive environment, whether it is just for enjoyment, or to pursue job opportunities in television, film and theater. Have fun learning a variety of skills including improvisation, commercials, interviews, scene study, and auditioning techniques. Create a video of funny senior moments! Sandra Peabody is an Emmy-award winning writer/producer/director. She represents talent for TV/Film work in the Northwest and Los Angeles. Limited to 8 students.
January 31 - March 20 2024 (8 weeks)
Wednesday 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM / $160
Maximum 10 students.--------Ages 18-Adult
A Zoom acting class with a focus on skills for film and theatre. With the atmosphere of a "company of players," you'll work on scenes and monologues, inspired by the instructor's coaching and direction, and there will be the benefit of having the recording to learn from each week. Requirement: Students will need a strong wi-fi connection and be sure to download the Zoom app. Contact Nancy with any questions. Come from wherever you happen to be and bring your ideas for scenes and monologues!
Acting For Non Actors
January 29 - March 18 2024 (8 weeks)
Wednesdays 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM / $160
Maximum 10 students------Ages 18-Adult
There's nothing better on a cold dark winter night than gathering together to explore the world of acting! Come and have fun while you learn theatre skills and techniques that will enhance your ability to think on your feet and feel comfortable and relaxed in front of others. A great place to plunge in and give it a try. Returning students welcome.
How To Tell Your Story
February 1 - March 21 2024 (8 weeks)
Thursdays 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM / $160
Maximum 10 students.--------Ages 18-Adult
Returning after 5 years, "How to Tell Your Story". We are the stories of our lives, but how we tell that story requires our own unique recipe. Start with story circle, add improv, a pinch of standup, a smidge of story theatre and a bit of drama and you have a true and rewarding concoction. Whether it's storytelling, presentation, theatre, comedy or public speaking, learn to tell your story using the art of the actor in a non-threatening, creative environment.
Thursdays January 18 - March 7, 2024 (8 weeks)
3:00 - 4:00 PM / Ages 4-7 / $120
Showcase on Thursday March 7 at 3:30 PM
Creative Universe classes combine the fun of theatre improv games with music and visual art! By using a process-based, team-oriented and fun approach to the arts, we help each creative kid in our universe shine! Our final showcase will be one part art show, one part play or musical - depending on what the kids want to create. There's no right or wrong at Creative Universe - just a safe, fun space to create and collaborate!
Class limited to 16 students.
Club Create for Teens
Thursdays January 18 - March 7, 2024 (8 weeks)
4:15 - 5:15 PM / Ages 14-18 / $120
Showcase on Thursday March 7 at 5:00 PM
In this class, students will learn basics of improv, acting, and writing / storytelling. They will have a choice of writing their own piece or doing improv with the group. This is a great class for teens who want to create in a safe, encouraging environment.
Sandra is an Emmy-award winning writer/producer/director and represents talent for voice over, film, and television work in Portland, the Northwest, and Los Angeles.
Slapstick To Stranger Things
Tuesdays January 16 - March 5 (8 weeks)
4:30 - 6:00 PM / Ages 8-12 / $185
Have a blast acting "On and Off Camera!" From creatures to funny features, create and perform your own shows! Practice improvisation, acting games, exercises, audition skills, and scenes using commercial, film, television and theater scripts (both comedy and drama). Gain confidence and see your improvements on TV.
Limited to 8 students.
Spotlight On You!
Tuesdays January 16 - March 5 (8 weeks)
6:00 - 7:30 PM / Ages 13-18 / $185
Have fun developing your acting skills for TV, Film and Theater! Learn the difference, and gain confidence presenting "On and Off Camera." Practice improvisation, acting exercises, cold reads, audition techniques, and create your own show. Enjoy performing commercial, film, television and theater scripts (both comedy and drama). Instructor Sandra Peabody represents talent for film and television work in the Northwest and Los Angeles.
Class limited to 8 students.
Starstruck
Saturdays January 20 - March 9 (8 weeks)
1:00 - 2:30 PM / Ages 7-11 / $185
Get a taste of stardom acting "On and Off Camera," for Theater, Television and Film! Have fun and gain confidence practicing improvisation and acting exercises, plus create your own show. Learn acting tips, and improve your acting using commercial, film, television, and theater scripts (both comedy and drama). Watch your progress on TV!
Class limited to 8 students.
Tv/Film Acting
Saturdays January 20 - March 9 (8 weeks)
2:30 - 4:00 PM / Ages 12-18 / $185
Enjoy acting in front of the camera! Practice improvisation, presentation, cold reads, interviews, and audition skills. Learn acting tips to be more successful, while using commercial, film, and TV scripts (both comedy and drama). Instant video feedback helps students improve their acting and develops more confidence. Create your own television episode!
Class limited to 8 students.
Ballet classes are cumulative, new students wishing to perform in our annual winter and spring performances, are required to enroll during the Fall and continue through Spring term. This allows dancers the opportunity to learn and practice ballet technique so that they are confident to perform by Spring term. Classes are pro rated if you begin after the first week of the session.
A minimum of 3 students (levels 1-3) and 5 students (PreBallet 1 & 2) per class must be enrolled in order for a class to run**
Please refer to our website https://lakewood-center.org/classes for additional information regarding dress code, studio rules, & regulations
PREPARTORY BALLET CLASSES
Creative Preschool Ballet (non-curriculum ballet)
Wednesdays, January 10 - March 20, 2024 (11 weeks)
2:30-3:15 PM ----- Ages 3-4 ----- Tuition: $136
Creative Preschool Ballet is an introductory class to ballet, basic movement and dance for preschool aged students. Students will use scarves, hula hoops, wands and other props to play and dance while enhancing their motor skills and coordination. Your child will be introduced to stretching, taking turns dancing across the floor and story-telling. No dress code required.
No experience necessary
PreBallet l
Mondays, January 8- March 18, 2024 (11 weeks)
3:30-4:15 PM ----- Ages 4- 5.5 ----- Tuition: $136
This is a fun, creative introduction to basic ballet movement. Emphasis is on coordination, rhythm, music, and mime using props, rhymes, stories and imagination. Your child will be galloping on a pony, leaping over puddles, and learning movements to accompany their favorite preschool songs! Students will learn basic ballet skills and terminology in a supportive and encouraging environment.
No experience necessary
PreBallet ll
Wednesdays, January 10 - March 20, 2024 (11 weeks)
3:30-4:15 PM ----- Ages 5.5-7 ----- Tuition: $136
This class transitions from the creative movement aspect of PreBallet l to an emphasis on the fundamentals of ballet. Basic ballet skills, terminology, rhythm, and coordination are taught, practiced, and developed through music and use of props in a supportive and encouraging environment.
Prerequisite Skills: PreBallet ll students must be able to skip and be willing to participate independently without parent.
BEGINNER BALLET CLASSES
Level l (Prerequisite: PreBallet ll)
Mondays, January 8 - March 18, 2024 (11 weeks)
4:30-5:30 PM ---- Minimum age 6.5---- Tuition: $182
This class is for the novice as well as a transition from PreBallet to a more formal ballet class. The fundamentals of ballet and barre work are introduced as well as an emphasis on ballet class etiquette. Focus is on posture, stretching for flexibility, muscle strength, technique and musicality in a disciplined yet encouraging environment.
Prerequisite Skills: One year of Pre-Ballet or formal ballet experience required
Level ll & III (Prerequisite: Level l)
Wednesdays, January 10 - March 20, 2024 (11 weeks)
4:30-5:30 PM ---- Minimum age 7.5 --- Tuition: $182
This is a formal ballet class for young students with ballet experience. Students participate in stretching, barre work and center floor work. They will further develop posture, muscle strength, flexibility, technique, and musicality in a disciplined yet encouraging environment. Dress code is required and hair should be secured back in a bun for class. No jewelry with the exception of stud earrings.
Prerequisite Skills: Ballet experience required. Students must have completed levels l and ll or have equivalent previous training and approval by instructor after placement class.
Musical Theatre Dance for Teens
Mondays, January 8 - March 18, 2024 (11 weeks)
5:30-6:30 PM ----- Ages 13 + ----- Tuition: $182
This class is for dancers ages 13 and older with musical theatre experience. Students will focus on the fundamentals of basic jazz technique while building their musicality, story-telling and stage presence. This is a choreography-based curriculum using classic and contemporary music from Broadway musicals. Students should avoid baggy clothing and jewelry for class. Jazz shoes required.
Contemporary Dance for Teens
Mondays, January 8 - March 18, 2024 (11 weeks)
6:30-7:30 PM ----- Ages 13 + ----- Tuition: $182
Contemporary Dance for Teens is for dancers 13 and older with previous dance experience of any kind. This class fuses basic ballet, jazz, modern and lyrical technique through warm ups, stretching, across the floor progressions and choreography. Students will be introduced to floor work and improvisation and continue building their story-telling techniques through dance. Students should dress in clothes that allow them to move freely. No excessive jewelry and no jeans.
Tap I
Wednesdays, January 10 - March 20, 2024 (11 weeks)
5:30-6:30 PM ----- Ages 13 + ----- Tuition: $182
Tap I is a beginner level tap class focusing on rhythm, musicality and timing. Students will be introduced to tap technique and vocabulary through warmups, across the floor and choreography. Students should avoid baggy clothing and jewelry for class. Tap shoes required.
Beginning Ballet for Teens
Wednesdays, January 10 - March 20, 2024 (11 weeks)
6:30-7:30 PM ----- Ages 13 + ----- Tuition: $182
Beginning Ballet for Teens is a beginning ballet class for the teen dancer who wants to try ballet in a safe and encouraging environment. Students will be introduced to basic ballet technique through barre work, across the floor and center work. They will have a basic understanding of ballet posture and positions while building strength and flexibility. A leotard and ballet slippers are required, but tights and skirts are optional. Leggings/bike shorts are welcome. Hair should be pulled back and no excessive jewelry.
Saturday February 24
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM / $65
Ages 16 - Adult
Everyone has an amazing family history but most have no clue how truly remarkable it is, because they have never investigated the generations going far, far back in time. Led by a genealogist and author of 7 family history books, as well as the book Digging for Ancestral Gold, The Fun and Easy Way to Get Started on Your Genealogy Quest. This workshop inspires you to embark on a quest for your ancestral heritage and guides you through the steps to get you started. For those with Beginning to Intermediate experience. Bring your family histories and your questions.
Music and Lyrics by: Irving Berlin
Book by: Gordon Greenberg and Chad Hodge
Based on the Film from Universal Pictures
Directed by: Dennis Corwin
Music Director: Cyndy Ramsey-Rier
Choreographer: Laura Hiszczynskyj
Jim and his new friend Linda turn a Connecticut farmhouse into an inn with spirited performances to celebrate each holiday. But when Jim's best friend Ted tries to lure Linda to Hollywood to be his new dance partner, will Jim be able to salvage his latest chance at love? A joyous musical featuring Irving Berlin songs, including "Blue Skies," "Easter Parade," "Steppin' Out With My Baby," "Heat Wave," "White Christmas," "Be Careful, It's My Heart," and many more.
Title Sponsors: Don & Jessie Adams, Marilyn & Ron Nutting
Adults:$20.00 ---------------------Children:$15.00 Bring a group of 10 or more people for $10.00 a person
Presented in the lower level of the building on the Side Door Stage
Christmas is just around the corner and the Peppermint Bear and Santa's elves, are rehearsing for their Christmas show when the evil Sneed brothers show up plotting to take Santa's Christmas gifts before his yearly sleigh ride on Christmas Eve. Will they be able to stop the brothers before they ruin Christmas?
The Peppermint Bear show is a classic at Lakewood Theatre Company and it's perfect for families and full of holiday cheer. Each year a new 45-minute episode is presented. A light continental breakfast with rolls, juice, and coffee is provided. It's a show that is perfect for ages 3-103. Doors open 20 minutes before each show.
December 9 at 2:00 PM and 4:00 PM AND December 16 at 2:00 PM & 4:00 PM.
Location: The Lakewood Center For The Arts in Lake Oswego Oregon on The Headlee Mainstage
Ticket Prices: Adults = $15.00 Youth = $12.00
Please call the Box Office to find out about group rates at 503-635-3901
Mary Popins JR. is a one hour condensed, author-approved version of the full length musical. It is custom-tailored to the talent of young actors.
Based on one of the most popular Disney movies of all time and the Broadway musical that played for over 2,500 performances and received multiple Olivier and Tony Awards nominations, Disney and Cameron Mackintosh's Mary Poppins is capturing hearts in a whole new way:as a practically perfect Broadway Junior musical!
The jack-of-all trades, Bert, introduces us to England in 1910 and the troubled Banks family. Young Jane and Michael have sent many a nanny packing before Mary Poppins arrives on their doorstep. Using a combination of magic and common sense, she must teach the family members how to value each other again. Mary Poppins takes the children on many magical and memorable adventures, but Jane and Michael aren't the only ones upon whom she has a profound effect. Even grown-ups can learn a lesson or two from the nanny who advises that "Anything can happen if you let it."
Sponsored by The Lakewood Associates
Directed by Gavin Knox, choreographed by Jared Lingle, with music direction by Melody Knox.
By: Norman Robbins
Directed by: Nancy McDonald and Laurence Overmire
In this comedy mystery thriller, the eccentric Tomb family gathers at the family estate after the death of their father. There, a lawyer reads a will involving some millions of dollars to a family of which one member has werewolf tendencies, another wanders around in a Julius Caesar toga and a third plants more than seeds in her flower beds. Soon there are more corpses than live members left! The plot twists and turns to a very surprising conclusion.
Title Sponsors: Drs. Bill & Ricky Korach
Directorial Sponsor: Lakewood Center Associates
3 Performances Only! Friday at 7:00 PM and Saturday at 2:00 PM and 7:00 PM A Lost Treasure Production performed on The side Door Stage
Ticket Prices: $20.00
Book and Lyrics by: Barry Harman
Music by: Keith Herrmann
Romance/Romance is composed of two one-act musicals linked only by the common theme of love and one song performed in both acts.
The first musical,The Little Comedy, explores the budding relationship between two people who have adopted personas other than their own. Set in late 19th century Vienna, we find Josefine, weary of the social life provided by her upper-class lovers, and wealthy playboy Alfred, who has tired of a seemingly endless round of inconsequential affairs. She assumes the guise of a working-class woman, while he pretends to be a struggling poet, and the two meet while enjoying their new identities.
Summer Share, the second musical is set in The Hamptons, where two married couples in their thirties are spending the season in a rented cottage. Sam, who is married to Barb, and Monica, who is married to Lenny, find themselves gradually progressing from harmless flirtation to the serious possibility of an illicit affair.
Lost Treasures Collection - Curated by Dennis Corwin
The Lost Treasures Collection, now in its 13th season, is a series of obscure and rarely performed musicals presented in concert/cabaret version for one weekend only on our Side Door Stage. No sets, no props and none of the usual trappings of a fully staged production. Picture Portland's foremost performers presenting some of the most beautiful, comedic, and witty songs of musical theatre. Food, wine, and other beverages are available for purchase before and during the show.
This season we are pleased to have our Lost Treasures Collection Sponsered by Fritz Camp.
Playbill Sponsor by Ed & Judy McKenney
A U.S. soldier is dead, and military lawyers want to know why. Accused are two Marines stationed at Guantanamo Bay, but who is really to blame? Was this a simple murder or something far more incendiary? Aaron Sorkin's searing courtroom drama is a provocative and engaging meditation on the inevitable corruption of power, and the responsibilities of those who are just following orders. As timely today as the day it was written!
3 Performances Only! Friday at 7:00 PM and Saturday at 2:00 PM and 7:00 PM A Lost Treasure Production performed on The Side Door Stage
Ticket Prices: $20.00
Book by: Dick VosburghMusic by Jerry Herman, Frank Lazarus
Lyrics by: Jerry Herman, Dick Vosburgh
This Tony Award-winning musical comedy of two one-act musicals is a double feature more hilarious than any presented in Hollywood's heyday.
The first musical A Day in Hollywood is a musical tribute form the ushers at Grauman's Chinese Theatre who imagine themselves upon the silver screen.
in the second musical we are off to A Night in the Ukraineat a Russian mansion and a fast-paced comedy a la the Marx Brothers, including tap dancing and rubber chickens!
Lost Treasures Collection - Curated by Dennis Corwin
The Lost Treasures Collection, now in its 13th season, is a series of obscure and rarely performed musicals presented in concert/cabaret version for one weekend only on our Side Door Stage. No sets, no props and none of the usual trappings of a fully staged production. Picture Portland's foremost performers presenting some of the most beautiful, comedic, and witty songs of musical theatre. Food, wine, and other beverages are available for purchase before and during the show.
This season we are pleased to have our Lost Treasures Collection Sponsered by Fritz Camp.
Playbill Sponsor by Ed & Judy McKenney
Music and lyrics by: Dolly Parton
Book by: Patricia Resnick
Based on the screenplay by: Patricia Resnick and Colin Higgins
Directed by: Dennis Corwin
Music Director: Mak Kastelic
Choreographer: Laura Hiszczynskyj
Based on the 1980 hit movie, three female co-workers concoct a plan to get even with the sexist, egotistical, lying man they call their boss. In a hilarious turn of events, the women live out their wildest fantasy - giving their boss the boot! The women give their workplace a dream makeover, taking control of the company that had always kept them down. Hey, a girl can scheme, can't she? Winner of a record-breaking 15 Drama Desk Awards.
Title Sponsors: Stephen & Nancy Dudley
Directorial Sponsor: Samantha Richardson
