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Summer 2005 is fast approaching & Alli Aaronson Mikael Dubinsky Jonathon Jugo Natalie Neubert Ethan Solomkin With the coming of spring we all know that Ashley Alman Sarah Dutton Daniel Kahan Paul Neubert Cassi Sosa camp is just around the corner. Have you started your things look great! You will see from the show Stephanie Alman Rebecca Duvall Kapiolani Kassal Willa Nielsen Mark Sosa Sean Altman Sophia Edelstein Caitlin Kearney Trisha Nussbaum Andrew Stavis countdown yet? Registrations continue to pour in and descriptions at the center of this Newsletter, the Camila Alvarez Devin Ellis Michelle Keck Mica Oʼ Brien Aaron Taslitz David Banks Mellissa Ellowitz Andrew Keener Jonathan Pace Laura Thomas weʼre glad that French Woods is in your plans for line up is wonderful and we are all gearing up for Jeremy Banks Alexandereya Esquibel Michael Kelly Isabella Parisot Edwin Thompson Iv 2005. If you have any friends that are interested have Alana Barouch Max Federman Julia Kessel Jasmine Parkins Lucie Touroul some fantastic performances! Roxanna Barrios Jonathan Foster Samuel Kessler Madeleine (Coco) Paul-Henriot Malachi Trent them call today. Aitan Ben-Joseph Lexi Franc Cydney Korek Catherine Perry Phoenix Trent Scott Berger Priscilla Frank Danny Kornfeld Jack Petricone Kelly Truitt I am headed to New York to meet new and Maddie Besser Erica Freedman Rachel Korsen Kyo Pincus Susan Vandine old Frenchwoodites. Meanwhile applications continue Speaking of Performances, on a recent trip Dana Blechman Haley Freedman Karalyn Lacey Tara Pine Alexandra Vernon Sophie Blum Mark Frykman Danielle Landau Rebecca Plotnick Abdiel Vivancos to arrive for counselor positions. to NY, I was able to see a few wnderful shows, Jesse Bordwin Tatyana Gardner Rebecca Julian Pratt Eleanor Vorys In the next few weeks you will receive your Alicia Boschetti Daniel George Landman Sam Pratt Michael Waknine including The recent release of Spamalot, which Naomi Braun Lily Glimcher Emily Lanster Jesse Pruitt Rachel Walden forms for bunk placement. I intend to start on the Maggie Brennan Kira Goidel Sarah Lazar Jared Reisch Rachel Waldman features alumni Steven Rosen and The 25th Dana Bronstein Kath Goldberg Will Meredith Ribeiro David Wallace requests just as soon as they arrive in the office. Make Dillon Brout Charlotte Goodman Levatino Brenne Rimberg Rebecca Wallace sure you send in your requests. Donʼt assume I know Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which will Daniel Burns Sarah Gorayeb Melly Levay Aaron Roach Margaret Walter Brett Bushell Tyler Gustinger Rachel Lind Britney Roach Julio Sharp- Wasserman or I already have it. We work directly from these be moving to Broadway, produced Brian Bushell Emma Gutman Zachary Lindberg Andrea Rocha Julie Waters Megan Carey Sam Gutman Julia Lofthouse Hannah Rosen Gabe Weintraub forms. Send them in. by alum David Stone! In my Ryan Carey Catherine Haas Melissa Lopez Elan Rosenfeld Geoff Weiss Keep your letters, phone calls, pictures, Juliette Roman Chick Emily Harris Abigail Lopian Philip Ruderman Samantha Vogt White opinion, these are two of the best Danielle Cohen Emily Hauser Daniel Lopian Morgana Russino Anestasia Wiley faxes and e-mail coming. We always enjoy hearing Scott Crepea Maria Hauser Rebecca Lopian Stephen Sabbag Sarah Wilmot shows of the season! Rachel Damin Jordan Hemingway Katie Marlow Emma Sander Mollie Wodenshek from you. Be on the lookout for important papers. Loulou David Stephanie Hennings Jordan Martino Elisa Scaldaferri Brittany Wolf Information and forms should be arriving in your mail- Sarah David Tessa Holliday Jonathan Maurer Jessica Schiff Rachel Yoes Rachelle Davidowitz Sophia Bennett- Holmes Christine Mcintosh Tori Senicki Avery H. Yurman box shortly. They provide both you and us important See you this summer! Jamie Davis Jessica Honovich Rebecca Lily Michell Ari Faber Shaw Lex Zee information. Stay in touch! Ariel Delman Pamuz Huberman Harris Milgrim Levi Faber Shaw Brandon Zemel Jonathan Demar George Mccook Hulbert Ashley Miskoff Maya Faber Shaw Jade Diplacido David Hyler Jacqueline Molnar Fallon Sloman Beth Carissa Donnelly Maria Jacob Faith Mulroy Nicole Sloman Kathleen Dreisbach Bristol Jones Sean Nanos Zoe Snow Bergen Youth Orchestra Fondly, Presents M a r c h Ron And …Many Broadway Stars B i r t h d a y s ! In 1 Morgan Davis Saida Makhmudzade Barry Van Deerlin April Walsh Alisha Feldman 11 Cody Sherrin 19 Rose Heller 26 Brian Aronow The American Premier of Kristin Guerin Jenny Sonenberg Sarah Korn Lexi Franc The Full Orchestra Version Julia Katz Elizabeth Woodham 20 Samantha Austin Josh Oleyourryk Alison Klein Doran Zimmerman Liza Friedman 27 Lana Caster Of Kyo Pincus 12 Claire Mullany Alexandra Mautone Jason Marx Zachary Sherrin Colin Poindexter 22 Dana Blechman Lexee Mcentee “Song For A New World” 2 Rachelle Davidowitz Jenna Turow Jacob Dunn Devon Zdatny with the Diana Kaplen 13 Alexandra Adolph Matthew Grossman 28 Eli Hockstein 3 Lee Burwasser Andrea Adolph Victoria Petrosky Koby Liliana Omansky BYO Symphony conducted by Sam Longenecker Klara Auesbach Jesse Pruitt Brandon Powers IN THIS ISSUE Nicole Weishoff Maraquette Koss Marisa Zable 29 Kate Kaplan Eugene Minor 5 Ashley Lehrer Emily Scheiber 23 Erica Granor Logan Knoerzer 6 Sydney Manas 14 Emily Jacobs Sarah Radov 30 Allison Shafir -A Benefit For the BYO- Katelyn Slepp 15 Jonathon Jugo Stephen Sabbag Rachel Walden Sunday, Natalie Yubas Katie Lemmon Maya Faber Shaw 31 Anna Shakeshaft *CAMPER & STAFF 7 Andrea Parente Stacey Matzkin 24 Thomas Hecker May 1, 2005, at 4:00pm 8 Alli Aaronson 16 Nora Casper Beth Sheil Peter Norton Symphony Space Rebecca Heath Lauren Goldberg Danielle Stoller NEWS Wei Yin Petersen Sydney Griffith Adam Uslan 95th and Broadway Charlotte Rosenberg Jamie Putman 25 Tyler Brown *RON, BETH & ISAAC New York City (212) 864-5400 9 Eddie Chwalisz 17 Arielle Berne Sam Hulsey Gannon Dalton Paul Neubert Dylan Jenks Tickets $55.00 Ian Feldman Britney Roach Charly Sarah Klinman *SESSION TWO SHOWS Margaux Grober 18 Phillip Skokos Abby Olan $35.00 (Senior and Students) 10 Eliza Claire Brown Lindsey Tipograph Jenna Roth Special “Meet the Performers Gala” Limited tickets available. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!! S t a f f N e w s C a m p e r N e w s After spending a couple of weeks travelling in New York and Boston, including a Kenny Marks, Stephen Scarpulla, and Four Westfield NJ French Woods week staying with Brian Warsdale in Brooklyn, with Lauren Gillies, Matt Bond and Evan Christiana Anbri (students of the Professional campers will be performing on March 4th, Englezos, Kristen Twynam-Perkins has settled down to life in Toronto. I am working a temp Performing Arts School in New York City 5th , and 6th in Roosevelt Intermediate job in an office and am trying to see as much of the city as possible. Sheʼs performing in Curtain along with other campers Tracey Mellon, Tom School production of Little Shop of Horrors. Call Players April production of Oklahoma as a dancer/ensemble. She is looking so forward to Wolfson, Lily Corvo, Tim Ehrlich, Spencer Julian Seltzer will play the part of Seymour, returning to French Woods again this year and canʼt wait for another summer of fun, friendships, Oberman, Sharon Halevy, Alex Kirshner Amanda Chang will portray Audrey, Adam laughter and amazing memories. and billions more FWFers) were recently seen Ziering is The Interviewer, and Jena Roth is on a new TV talk show The New Yorkers. They a Ronnette. They all are thrilled. Cassie Pascoli is having a fabulous time in and is planning to attend another performed a tap number on TV and Stephen was Particle concert there soon! interviewed live. Everyone from PPAS sends Misha Lambert.ʼs family had a big their love up to that heavenly Hancock haven and party and Alexa Lebersfeld, Lana Caster all the wonderful people who live for it. Watch who were featured singing in harmony for I s a a c ’ s C o r n e r out summer ʻ05, here they come! the crowd. I canʼt believe that as of March 1st, there are only 103 days left until we start our new session 1 in the year 2005!!!!! Dan (Loogie) Hockstein will be performing Mitchell Salmon will be in his schoolʼs Kathy and I just returned from our hiring trip to Dublin, Manchester, Leeds, and London. We in two different productions in the upcoming production of Grease at James Madison H.S found some great staff, as did Larry, Ron and Beth during their hiring excursions. months. He was invited to be a Munchkin of the He will also be dancing and in the Choirs and We spent some time with the Schectmanʼs who were visiting Florida. Amanda and Danielle spent “Lollipop Guild” in the Jonathan Dayton High dancing in my show I am in school dancing the night with Erin and Brittany. Erin continues to contribute to her HS softball team by hitting and Schoolʼs production of The Wizard of Oz. He in Folk/Square dance. fielding a great third base. Joey is playing travel basketball, the next thing to the NBA down here. And will also be playing the part of “Joe” in School Brittanyʼs playing piano and acting in the school production of Guys and Dolls. House Rock, Live with the JCC Metro West. Dan Jacob Rose performed the role of I came across this wonderful email from one of our campers and wanted to share it with our French (Loogie) and Eli (Gollem) both canʼt wait to see General Schmitt in Suessical at the Helen Woods community. their friends at camp again this summer! You Hayes Youth Theater. (January). can catch them both on an episode of HGTVʼs Dear French Woods, Mission: Organization. Hannah Rose performed the role of I miss you so much! I canʼt wait until Summer ʻ05! I wrote this a while ago, and I wanted to know if you like it. This is an appreciation of how much you have impacted me in the past 4 years. in Annie at the Helen Hayes Youth Before French Woods, I had friends, but not as many as I made here. It had everything I loved, Becca Pickett has recently been cast as the Theater.(January). Ironically she played and everything I never knew existed in a camp. I had tried many different camps before, but none were Mayorʼs Wife in her high school production of Bye Molly in last yearʼs Annie production at right for me. My Aunt is a director at another camp, but I knew I wouldnʼt like her camp because it was Bye Birdie. Additionally, she has been accepted French Woods. Hannah also can be seen an athletic based camp. I am a performer, an actress, signer, dancer, and a circus performer... WHAT? A into her schoolʼs Concert Choir, Chamber Choir in a new DVD about the history and culture circus performer you ask? Yes! At French Woods they taught me how to walk on stilts and to swing like a and Womenʼs Ensemble, as well as the Northern Jazz music. Another irony, the title of the trapeze artist.... New Jersey Region High School Womenʼs Choir. DVD is Itʼs A Hardbop Life. Wow, if you send your child here, you WONʼT be disappointed. Even if you arenʼt into Performing She will also be performing with the Morristown arts, there are sports, arts and crafts and everything you would want. I canʼt believe I have written so United Methodist Church, singing Mozartʼs full Chloe Weidenbaum performed a much about this camp, but itʼs made my life so different. I would have never met my best friend if it Requiem in the upcoming months. Wish her luck Tchaikovsky Celebration at FAU in both wasnʼt for this camp, I would have never gotten first place in a dance competition in NYC. There are so in keeping her sanity! Davie and Boca Raton for which she was many fond memories, that I hope to work there when I am older. Thanks French Woods! You are my home away from home. Oh, and one bad thing, is leaving at the end of the reviewed in the local paper as “a mature, summer. Taylor Ness will be a featured dancer in her technically assured performance”! schools production of How to Succeed in Business Iʼm sure so many of you feel the same way. Without Really Trying in March. She will also be I canʼt wait for summer at French Woods to begin. I know that all of our French celebrating her Bat Mitzvah on May 21st with all That’s the news and we’re Woodites all feel the same way. her family and friends. She is looking forward to Isaac seeing her camp friends from G7A. outta here!!! T h i r d S e s s i o n S h o w s 2 0 0 5 ! Pinocchio their lives in the highly publicized disaster. Anything My Fair Lady required is a quick trip home to tell Mortimerʼs two Are you a real boy? Pinocchio is the timeless story of Goes, Freedley decided, would have to be rewritten. Can Music by , Lyrics & Book by Alan Jay maiden aunts. While trying to break the news, he the love of a toy maker, who longs for a son. In this you be apart of this Dream team? Lerner, Produced by Herman Levin, Directed by Moss finds out his auntsʼ hobby; killing lonely old men classic tale, about a Marionette who dreams of being a Hart, Choreography by Hanya Holm, Based On 1914 and burying them in the cellar. It gets worse. This real boy, is given the chance to live like one. The story Oliver! comedy Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw comedy is one that will sure to please. is filled with adventurous tales of Pinocchio finding Book, Music and Lyrics by Lionel Bart The first encounter between Professor Henry Higgins, his way back home as he realizes his . Based on the brilliant, crotchety, middle-aged bachelor who is Death of a Salesman They dream about the meal the meal they are looking Englandʼs leading phoneticist, and Eliza Doolittle, the By Arthur Miller The Boyfriend forward to. ʻPlease sir, I want some moreʼ, London is an little gutter sparrow, takes place near the Royal In homage to the playwright we feel compelled Wonʼt you Charleston with us? Set in the Roaring overwhelming world of thriving commerce and bustling Opera House, Covent Garden, late on a cold March night. to bring this story to our stages. Although this is Twenties, against the lavish backdrop of the French crowds. An older boy soon takes Oliver under his wing: Eliza is selling violets. Higgins is out on his endless quest probably one of the hardest plays we could ever Riviera, The Boyfriend follows Polly, an heiress at he is the Artful Dodger, the ringleader of a gang of boy for new dialects of Londonʼs speech. A handsome young challenge our campers to do, we feel its message an all-girls school who becomes infatuated with a thieves run by a wizard of pickpocketry, . This only aristocrat, Freddy Eynsford-Hill, takes no notice of her and ultimate value for truth is at the heart of what delivery boy named Tony. The show includes catchy the beginning. Watch our young actors fill the stage with when she tries to sell him violets. Colonel Pickering, makes a good show for our campers. jazz-era tunes and a sea of glamorous costumes. The the tale of Oliver! also a linguistic expert, comes to stay with Higgins at his Here is a little synopsis of the show: Salesman Boyfriend will feature a large cast of performers ages flat. Elizaʼs squalid father, Alfred Doolittle, outlines his Willy Loman is in a crisis. Heʼs about to lose his 8-13. Sugar optimistic if somewhat unorthodox philosophy of life in job, he canʼt pay his bills, and his sons Biff and Music by , Lyrics by Bob Merrill, Book by the rousing With a Little Bit of Luck. Happy donʼt respect him and canʼt seem to live up Snow White Peter Stone Based on the screenplay Some Like It Hot by to their potential. He wonders what went wrong and We all know the Classic tale. Here is how she got Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond Tommy how he can make things up to his family. her name: Once upon a time in mid winter, when the Joe and Jerry, two musicians down on their luck while Book by and Des McAnuff, Lyrics by snowflakes were falling like feathers from heaven, a wandering through Chicago, by chance witness a gang Pete Townshend, Music by Pete Townshend, Movie 1973 The Diary of Anne Frank beautiful queen sat sewing at her window, which had a rub-out in the Clark Street Garage. The rub-out was After he witnesses the murder of his motherʼs lover by Based on Anne Frankʼs diary, and the stage play frame of black ebony wood. As she sewed, she looked ordered by Spats Palazzo, a notorious Chicago hood. his father, Tommy becomes catatonic, even as he suffers that was adapted from it: In Nazi-occupied Holland, up at the snow and pricked her finger with her needle. Spats and his boys immediately chase after Joe and Jerry, abuse at the hands of his sadistic relatives and neighbors Otto Frank and his family have decided to go into Three drops of blood fell into the snow. The red on the determined to silence them as witnesses to the crime. in post World War II England. But one day heʼs discovered hiding, because of the increasing persecutions white looked so beautiful, that she thought, “If only I Desperate for a quick way out of town, Joe and Jerry hear playing a pinball machine with such a knack that heʼs against Jews. The businessman Kraler and his had a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as about jobs available for a saxophone and a bass player, enabled to break from his catatonia and he becomes an assistant Miep prepare a hiding place in the rooms black as this frame.” Soon afterward she had a little which are their specialties. And coincidently, the band is international superstar. The classic ʻ60s rock opera by The above their place of business, and arrange for the daughter that was as white as snow, as red as blood, scheduled to leave at once for Florida. There is only one Who is transformed into one of the most thrilling musical Franks and another family, the Van Daans, to stay and as black as ebony wood, and therefore they called problem; the band is made up of Women. “Some Like It smashes of the ʻ90s. there. Later on, they are joined by the dentist Dussel. her Little Snow-White. Hot” which is considered the greatest movie comedy will Together, they try to avoid detection while hoping provide the vehicle the laughs as a our campers explore for Holland to be liberated by the Allies, but even Anything Goes this perfect Musical Comedy. Music & Lyrics: , Book: James meeting basic needs can become a challenge, and Music: , Lyrics: Cole Porter, Book: Guy Lapine even minor incidents could present a grave risk. Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay & Russel Me And My Girl One of the most frequent images in folk literature is that Crouse Book & Lyrics by: L. Arthur Rose & Douglas Furber, of a character traveling through a dark forest. Noted child Anything Goes was first envisioned by producer Music by Noel Gay, Opened December 16, 1937 at the psychologist Bruno Bettelheim explains the symbolism Vinton Freedley while hiding out aboard a fishing Victoria Palace Theatre, (London) of the woods in these fairy tales as “the place in which One Act Play Festival (11-17) - To be announced. boat in the Gulf of Panama after fleeing the country Tells the tale of Bill Snibson, a Cockney bloke who inner darkness is confronted and ... where uncertainty is to escape creditors. His idea was based on the premise suddenly becomes heir to an earldom. resolved about who one is ... or who one wants to be.” In * All shows are subject to change. of an ocean liner facing the threat of a possible The Hareford clan are clinging to their blue-blooded ways Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine lead shipwreck. He returned to New York and, after paying by the tips of their well-manicured fingers. The familyʼs a conglomeration of new and old storybook characters on off his debts, began assembling his dream team: Cole precarious financial situation can only be remedied by just such a journey of growth and self-discovery. See you next summer! Porter, Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse, Ethel Merman. locating a legitimate heir to the earldom of Hareford. Soon Freedley had a script that he felt sure would In due course an heir is found, but, unfortunately for Arsenic and Old Lace reverse his sagging fortunes. Then, with rehearsals the haughty Harefords, he turns out to be the decidedly Mortimer Bruster is a newspaperman and author known just about to begin, the S.S. Morro Castle went down non-noble Bill Snibson, a swaggering Cockney from for his diatribes against marriage. We watch him being off the coast of New Jersey. Over 125 passengers lost Lambeth. married at city hall in the opening scene. Now all that is