SPCPA Students About Town
During second semester, SPCPA students will be appearing in the following productions:
Musical theatre sophomore Rosie Linsner will be singing on Friday Jan. 27th from 4:30-5pm for the Winter Carnival! She will perform solo a selection of original songs and will accompany herself on guitar.
Instrumental junior DeCarlo Jackson will be performing at The Capri Theater in Minneapolis on Sunday, February 19th at 3:00 p.m. as part of a concert celebrating Black History Month and Valentine’s Day. For more information, please visit www.capribigband.com.
Junior Xander Krohnfeldt is co-starring as “Tyler” in a short film called Fallen Branches by local filmmakers Matt Kane and Andrew Gingerich. Xander also recorded a radio spot for the Explore MN campaign last month.
Freshman Eva Krohnfeldt is modeling for MN state arts board grant recipient, Anna Eveslage, for her multi-media project about obsession. She is portraying “Jules,” the deceased wife of a bowling fanatic (as a teen and young married woman).
Sophomore musical theatre student Alexandra Nedved is performing in And a Child Shall Lead at the Howard Conn Fine Arts Center on February 9th-February 26th. Please visit www.youthperformanceco.com for additional information.
Sophomore instrumental student Liam Smith is appearing in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice at Open Eye Figure Theatre in Minneapolis on February 10th-March 11th. Please visit www.openeyetheatre.org for more information.
SPCPA students Nathan Stocker, Whistler Allen, David Kramer and DeCarlo Jackson, members of the band Danger Will Robinson will be opening for Tricia Brock of Superchick on February 25th at the North Star Room in Saint Paul. Please visit the following link for more information: http://www.reverbnation.com/show/6227721
Freshman Kloee Larson and sophomore Cara Lahti are performing in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the O’Shaughnessy Auditorium on the Saint Catherine University campus on March 1st-3rd. Please visit www.outonalimbdance.org for more information.
Sophomore musical theatre student Chaos Bebault is the understudy for the role of Willis Hurd in the Children’s Theatre Company’s upcoming performance of Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy. The show will run from March 16th-April 8th. For more information, please visit www.childrenstheatre.org.
SPCPA Students About Town
SPCPA students are appearing at:
SPCPA Sophomore Dylan Wald spent 3 weeks at Julliard’s Summer Dance Intensive, in New York this past summer. He auditioned and was one of only 45 high school students chosen from all over the world for the program. He studied ballet, modern, partnering and ballroom dance. For more information on the summer program, please visit
http://www.juilliard.edu/journal/2011-2012/1109/articles/1109_dance_intensive/index.php
Over the summer, SPCPA students Lexi Parra, Lexi Duffy, Mary Berthelson, Andrew Kohagen, Sarah Smith, Alexandra Nedved, and Marianna Mattes were awarded the opportunity to study Musical Theatre Performance at the Open Jar Institute Actor Training Program in New York City. For one week they attended high intensity workshops in acting, singing, dance, and audition technique taught by Broadway professionals and New York casting directors and agents. Each night, they saw a Broadway show and met the cast afterwards for backstage tours. “This was the best week of my life!” raved Musical Theatre senior Andrew Kohagen.
SPCPA students Celena Morgan and Eli Newell participated in the Children’s Theatre Company’s production of Assassins.
SPCPA sophomore Kennadi Hurst will be performing in Come on Children, Let’s Sing!, a special musical tribute to Mahali a Jackson, the Queen of Gospel. The show is presented by Penumbra Theatre with three performances on October 21,22,23 at Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church. Please visit www.penumbratheatre.org for more information.
SPCPA senior Ben Share is starring in Rabbit Hole at Workhouse Theatre Company on October 7 through October 23. For more information, please visit http://workhousetheatre.org/site/productions_rabbit_hole.htm
SPCPA sophomore Kelly Jones is involved with the upcoming production of “My Secret Language of Wishes,” part of the Center of the Margins festival at the Mixed Blood Theatre. The show runs from November 11- November 27. Kelly is an advisor and understudy. For more information, please visit
http://www.mixedblood.com/index.phpoption=com_content&view=article&id=113&Itemid=167 .
SPCPA junior Xander Krohnfreldt will be playing the role of Antoine in the Wild Intention Improv Group’s One-Act Play, “Ballast” at Steppingstone Theater on November 3-5 & November 10-13th. For more information, please visit http://www.steppingstonetheatre.org/mainstage/wildintention.html
SPCPA sophomore DeCarlo Jackson will perform two songs “My Funny Valentine” and “Billy’s Bounce” on Sunday, November 13 as part of PipJazz Sundays at the Landmark Center. Please visit http://www.pipjazz.com for more information.
SPCPA junior Maddey Kenn is performing in Children of Eden at the Maplewood Community Center which runs the weekends of November 4-6 and November 11-13. For more information, please visit http://ashlandproductions.org/shows.cfm#
SPCPA sophomore Mac Rasmus will be appearing in”Speech and Debate” at the Lowry Lab Theatre on November 17 through November 27. For more information, please visit www.wix.com/gadflytheatre/gadfly.
SPCPA sophomores Kenzie Allen and Eli Newell and junior Emily Scinto will appear in Children’s Theatre Company’s production of The Wizard of Oz which runs November 8-January 8. For more information, please visit www.childrenstheatre.org
Instrumental students Whistler Allen, DeCarlo Jackson, David Kramer, and Nathan Stocker, members of the band “Danger Will Robinson”, competed in “Battle of the Bands” which was sponsored by Famous Dave’s. They made it to the finals and finished in the top four out of sixteen bands.
Sophia Johnson, SPCPA freshman in the dance track, performed the song “Beautiful” on October 1, 2011 at the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Imagination Ball at the Depot in Minneapolis in front of hundreds of people.
SPCPA sophomores Emily Kleinschmidt, Gabby Nelson, Dylan Wald, and freshman Annie Richardson will be performing in Loyce Houlton’s Nutcracker Fantasy at the newly furbished Cowles Center which runs from December 23rd to December 31st. Please visit http://www.mndance.org/performances/nutcracker_fantasy.html for more information.
SPCPA alumni Lexi Bruns was chosen to study dance in Sorrento, Italy in a two week dance intensive with Staib Dance of Atlanta Georgia with other students from California Berkley, Florida State, Winthrop University, and University of Georgia. Lexi was one of two high school students that were chosen to participate.
Sophomore Elizabeth Lambert is performing in Woodbury Community Theatre’s A Christmas Carol: The Musical. Please visit http://woodburycommunitytheatre.org for more information.
SPCPA dance students Berea Ames, Celesta Brainard, Niklas Nelson, and Hannah Wagner are performing in The Classic Nutcracker at O’Shaughnessy on December 16-18. For more information, please visit http://oshaughnessy.stkate.edu/allevents.html.
SPCPA instrumental junior Nathan Stocker recently released his first cd which can be listened to at www.5oaks.bandcamp.com.
