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0 1 0 2 esivlo h e omn rts Ar forming Per the of val sti Fe French Woods Woods French Important Papers: Abby Klitzner Nina Sara Housley Alec Montcomery Sarah Difiore Alexa Gittle Sarah Nathaniel Dear Frenchwoodite, By now you should have received a packet of Alexa Mark Just Registered! Sarah Shane Alexander Brickel Savenko Bogdana forms including the medical and camper confi- Bryan Montoya Edward Yanosky Hannah Zelinger Jovon Faison Lou Dumon Sanders Alexander Khusanov Calloway Cox Egor Malyshev Hollan “Hadlegh” Julia Goldstein Luke Mosseri Scott Cesta dential profile both of which need to be returned Alexandra Bragin- Noah Forsythe Sean Terrey Carlos Fernandez Elan Tilayoff Hamm Julia Natt Lyndsay Goldfarb Noelle Fallacara It’s hard to understand how fast the year goes. skaya Carol Griffin Eli Caldwell Hope Harman- Julie Dornoy M. Teddy Guzzetta Senna Lauer prior to camp. If you have not already done so, Alix Schwartz Noemi Cassin Serene Murad Caroline Cannon Elisa Glavin Potteiger Julio Sanchez Mackenzie Price Olivia Wood In six weeks Barbara and I leave for camp. It’s nine you should schedule a doctor’s appointment for Allison Siegel Caroline Winchell Elisa Silverstein Ilana Vatkin Justine Rosenblat Madeline Kaye Shayna Depersia Alyssa Hricko Olivia “Tavia” Woods Shelley Yanosky weeks until session one. Unreal. This summer holds your child. New York State requires a medical Catiana Tron Elizabeth “Lily” Ines Coca Suarez- Kaitlin Brozek Madeline Wood Olivia Lulu Dunkley Amanda Leone Cayce Kolodney Gleason Zuloaga Kaitlin Jarck Mandana Biglari Siena Wise Amanda Lopez Paloma Gaspar Sierra Rafter an incredible storehouse of new things. form signed by both the physician and parent Charlie Morton Ellie Grabowski Isabella Ullmann Karen Azoulay Marcel Werder Patrick Simon Amanda Welch Charlie Wood Elliot Richardson Isabella “Bella” Galli Karen Madar Margot Hasty Silvia Alvarez- Valdes for every child in camp. Amina Theis Paula Kroll Coca Chaya Gruber Eloise Moritz Isabelle Kenet Kayla Mosseri Margot Sebbag Perry Ciriello We open the new Wellness Center. This facility Ana Juncosa Montes Chelsea Backer Emerson Glick Jack Guidera Kayleigh Foley Maria Yatsenko Sofie Danneels Remember all bunking and transportation Andrew Bartell Phoebe Backer Stephanie Ezekiel will double the capacity of the old infirmary, which Christina Nini Emily Goldblatt Jairus Maples Kaysi Mcginty Marilyn Loubier Polina Stepanova Andrew Brozek Christina Wong Emily Lobel Jake Cohen Krista Flood-Ridgaro Marley Cutrona Stephanie Machada requests are taken from the confidential form. Andrew Tartaro Priscilla Hopper Thelonious Coleman we will use for staff during 2010 but will be replaced Claire Lewin Emily Trias Jamie Martin Kyla Mcmillan Matthew Finkelstein Rachel Tucker Also included was the parents guide, which Anna Lee Cloe Coleman Emma Blackman Jean Louis Droulers Lacey Nussbaum Matthew Leone Trevon Chambers immediately after camp. Things to look forward to Anne Ross Rafael Lorie Truman Dunn contains information regarding visiting, a cloth- Colin Johnson Emma Herrmann Jeffrey Zeren Lana Allon Matthew Stolman Raymond “Burke” Annie Lemert Côme Laurans Erin Curtis Jerrod Everett Lane Ballentine Melanie Pfetsch Tyler Petrochko include a new camp store and new lodges for both Annika Wiklund Gleason Umur Can Levent ing list, phone policy, area lodgings and other Courtney Jonas Esther Vatkin Jesse Fryer Lanting Lu Meredith Wilshere Reilly Xu Anny Lutwak-Sch- Dan Davidovich Eugenie Demeure Jessica Bilhartz Laura Winter Mia Peterson Vadim Nikiforov campuses. pertinent information. If you have any questions neider Robyn Greenblatt Victoria Ungvarsky Dana Schweinler Francesca “Frankie” Jessica Gill Lauren Berman Michael Berry Romain Thiebaut- Anton Kronfeld Danielle Tartaro Galli Jillian Coleman Leah Bortnick Michelle Andio Violet Marmur I wanted to remind everyone about our about anything please call us in the office. Antonin Siguier Peynichou Willa Cuthrell Tuttle- David Zaldivar Gabriela “Gaby” Joiya Ford Leah Hotchkiss Michelle Ayr Ruby Reilly Ariana Ortmann Delaney Schwartz Sommer Jonathan Kay Lia Lankford Mikayla Joffe man Broadway trip for this summer. The Addams Family If for any reason you have not received these Ariel Tilayoff Ryan Kirfeld William Vatkin Delanie Harman- Goldie Robins Jordan Brown Liam Schwartz Natalie Maguire Sally Lemkemeier has great reviews and tickets are still available thru forms call the office immediately and we will get Asher Denburg Potteiger Grace Barber Joseph Bilhartz Lilli Elias Nicholas Hasty Zachary Goldblatt Bianca Rogoff Sam Balka Zak Boilen them to you right away. The Camper Confidential Diane Danneels Grace Moritz Joseph Yanosky Lily Breck Nicholas Martin Samantha Lamster the camp. Just give Errick a call and make sure Brandon Israel Dylan Bondy Gregory Davis Josephine Rider Lily Moritz Nicole Ayr Zemia Edmondson Brennan Shoykhet Samantha Monte you don’t get left out. 1-800-634-1803 Our yearly form and Travel info can also be filled out online: Dylan Thibodbau Guillaume Laurans Joshua Davis Logan Vasquez Nicole Karmin Samantha Podell Brittany Champey Dylan Vatkin Haley Mosseri Joshua Rayham Lori Reibach Nicole Simon Broadway venture has always been great fun. http://biz.frenchwoodscamp.com/camper_confi- Bruce Xu Sami Prisco dential/addrecord.php I’ve been hearing from Camper Medication Procedures: lots of you with all kinds of requests. Keep those emails To assure your child’s health and well being, April Birthdays! and phone calls coming. we have re-evaluated the method in which our camp nurses have been dispensing and adminis- 1 Darci Papell Capucine Tibi Jared Page Sophie Hirsch Lena Feliciano Hansen I enjoy hearing from you. Emma Iskowitz Emily Mobbs Rickie Singerman 19 Adam Polevoy May Erlinger Soon, very soon, we’ll be tering medications. We require you to have your Hayden Goldberg Julia Feldman 14 Annie Barker Daniel Polevoy Nick O’brien child’s medication pre-packaged prior to arrival Josef Johnson Kayla Mosseri Emilie Naidoff Henry Gessner Zoe Dockser back at camp. Shayna Kanfer Veronica Zelner Ilan Danon 20 Christina Schwartz 26 Adam Estes Danielle at camp. This includes any herbal medica- Victor Lichtman Victoria Shaffer Olivia Gunthert Isabel Singer Raskin tions and/or vitamins! 2 Abby Klitzner 9 Amanda Leone Samantha Podell Jordan Goldberg Jordan Haberer Jack Broda Christian Nosal Sydney Krulik Joseph Weiner Olivia Weinshank Fondly, Nicholas Martin Darah Barenholtz Zoe Gunthert Juliet Brett Axon Quinn Hecker Be sure all forms are completed and nec- 3 Emma Safon Eliza Saunders 15 Daniel Greenstone Kim Justl Sarah Klein essary medications are ordered through Francesca Galli Isabel Stein Jenna Shelby-Glick 21 Alexander Sklarz 27 Alexandra Kuchinskaya Joshua Davis Marjorie Solo Miranda Levin Alisha Zafar Allison Siegel Campmeds at 954-577-0025 or www.campmeds. Ryan Slatcher Morgan Krisman 16 Cole Hecker Evan Dollar Ana Juncosa Montes com prior to your child’s arrival at camp. 4 Chloe Sariego Sydney Huffman Cole Hecker Matthew Hollis Anna Frederikse Rachel Lachaga 10 Alex Vorlicky Elisa Silverstein Maureen Steinhorn Benjamin Pick Please Note: 5 Dana Kahati Avery Brook Erin Curtis Michelle Ayr Jake Tyler French Woods on the internet Evan Schachter Emma Sander Jeremy Busch Sarah Levine Taylor Feingold All medical forms must be signed by the Leeza Lakhter Lauren Banner Lia Lankford 22 Chloe Leo Zachary Gershon Keep up with the latest Frenchwoods happen- Rachel Tannenbaum Max Weissman Stephen Spector Daniel Shnitkin 28 Andrew Miller camper’s parent/guardian and the campers doc- ings on our website, frenchwoods.com, our blog, Rebecca Himmelstein 11 Alexandra Welch Taylor Hsaine Maddy Smith Courtney tor before you send them to the French Woods Tela Diaz Eliot Dix 17 Carly Waldman 23 Alecssa Sanchez Relyea-Spivack frenchwoods.com/blog, our online forum, french- Vadim Nikiforov Louise Bejot Jacqueline Gershman Anna Lee Katie Kane Office. 6 Annabelle Janssens Lucy Macgowan Laura Blank Isabel Yang Samuel Miller woods.com/forums, or become a fan on our face- Winter Address: Marina Lebowich Raven Perez Noemi Cassin Rachael Klein Uma Raja book page or follow frenchwoods on twitter. Olivia Canning Scott Feiner Olympia Peters Shannon Thaler 29 Dennis Brookner Zoe Shimada 12 Brian Brundage Shayna Depersia Sophie Lewis Max Liben Please address any mail sent after May 5th 7 Alexandra Epstein Hannah Frankel 18 Anabel Keany 24 Daniella Ava Sklarz 30 Adam Cohn to the New York Address: Derek Stanley Jennifer Stack Benjamin Gilbert Edward Burns Alex Russell Have a website or blog? Georgia Fraser Lena Heller Geoff Weiss Isaac Burns Blaine Fuller Go to www.frenchwoods.com/link PO BOX 609, HANCOCK, NY 13783 Steven Jathas Ryan Cohane Hayden Davis Joshua Rayham Isabella Shoji 8 Alexa Aaronson Sara Frankel John- Miles Nathaniel Hyman Jillian O’leary and copy and paste the code to put our logo and Alexa Skolnik 13 Catiana Tron Dullahan Bates 25 Ivy Erlinger a link to our website on your page. Annie Lemert Christina Wong Julian Gilbert Katherine Evans HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!! 2011 Summer Camp Free Tuition Raffle in Full Swing Twice each summer, we will pick a winning ticket awarding one free camp tuition for the session of your Camper & Staff News choice for Summer 2011 at French Woods. A single raffle ticket costs $50.00. You can get 7 tickets Rachel Weisbart just finished a week of Juliet: An 80s Poppin’ Tragedy at the North Shore for $250.00 or increase your odds even further by purchasing 15 chances for $500.00 or 35 tickets for performances as the cat-in-the-hat in her middle Middle School. She is performing her own rendition of $1000.00. school’s production of Seussical. U2’s Sunday, Bloody Sunday at a school talent show and in the Morgan Park Festival Young Performer’s The French Woods family is committed to hiring the best counselors from near and far who are talented, Noah Weisbart is playing Gaston in his high school Competition. production of Beauty And The Beast. Both Noah and nurturing, culturally diverse and in a number of cases financially needy. Throughout the years, French Rachel are writing songs and playing music. Olivia McDonagh performed in the North Shore High Woods has supported many of our disadvantaged counselors by assisting them outside of camp by pay- School’s production of The Laramie Project. She is Eve Plank perfomed as a member of the childrens now in the last week of rehearsals for Oklahoma at ing for their college tuitions. 100% of the proceeds of this raffle will go towards increasing the amount of choir in the Annapolis, MD opera production of Tosca. college financial aid French Woods provides. No administrative costs will be deducted. NSHS, where she is playing Aunt Eller. Erika Lowenthal just completed playing the part of Steven Breiter will be perfoming the role of Coach Look for our mailing and raffle tickets in the mail, or call our office at 954-346-7455 to participate. Don’t Peter in Peter Pan in the Hillel Day School production Bolton in High School Musical at Palmetto Middle be left out. Help us continue to support the educations of our needy counselors who work to enrich your in Michigan. School this month. children every summer at French Woods and in doing so, you are able to take a chance on winning a free Gillian Lieberman got accepted to the Professional Julian Cardazone performed in School of Rock’s 3 week French Woods session in 2011. Remember your contribution is tax deductable. Good luck and Performing Arts School (PPAS) in manhattan for 6th Ramones show at Just Jake’s in Montclair, NJ. He is grade! thank you for being part of our French Woods Family ! now gearing up for a Metallica show in the spring. Lauren Gottesman will be playing Martha Brewster in We would also like to thank all of our French Woods families who have supported our educational scholar- Ryan Norville has been accepted into Interlochen Arsenic and Old Lace at her high school. Arts Academy high school. ship programs throughout the years. Congratulations to all of our raffle winners. Sabrina Diamond worked on set design and as a Tori Cott was accepted into the Lighthouse Youth stage hand for her Amity Middle School Bethany Theatre’s teen company, Protege. She just finished a show, Beauty and the Beast. run in The Laramie Project and will be performing as I s a ac’s C o r ne r Beth Backstage Marly Paige Pred will be appearing as Laurey in her Glinda in The Wiz in June. She has also been cast as middle school’s production of Oklahoma! in April. Maddy in an NYU thesis project film, Flagpole. I can’t wait for the summer of Michael and I have completed Marly has also been playing the first flute position in Emilie Naidoff is playing Annie in Annie Jr. at her 2010, because as Dave Weinstein our travels for the year and I think the advanced jazz band this year. In addition, Marly middle school. She was recently in West Side Story as sings in select chorus and plays flute and piccolo in a shark. tells us, “Keep it zen in 2010.” we have brought together an both the concert and marching bands at her middle incredible mix of new and old time school. Sydney Gough performed in the Youth Choir for the There are, as of April 1, only 69 talent. The staff for the upcoming Pop Goes the World Open Artists with Open Arms Xander Trop has a call back for the role of Mamillius days until session 1 begins our summer looks fantastic and we charity event in Hollywood. In addition, she was in The Winter’s Tale for Shakespeare in the park for selected to perform in the 6th grade talent show at 40th summer, and 89 days ‘til the are looking forward to getting up to the Public Theater. beginning of session 2. See you school camp for 2010. Lisa Graye is filming 10 spots for Walmart set to air then. Karlye Denner with fellow camper, Amanda Britz April 16th on NBC during the premire of Secrets of the earned a Gold Award in the 2010 Adrenaline Dance The theater schedule is shaping up nicely and a Mountain. Love and kisses, Competition for a jazz dance. She also competed performance date schedule will be posted in next Alison Kleinman is in a series of Noel Coward plays, in a hip-hop dance, earning a High Gold Award and months newsletter. I’m very excited about the sum- with a short interval of Noel Coward songs. advancing to compete in “Best in Show”. mer’s show selections, as we are including several Zach Flick performed the role of Jack in Shipley’s Erica Rothman has just finished performing as Kim French Woods premiers including; How Can You Upper School production of Into the Woods. Zach was Macafee in a community production of Bye Bye Birdie. Run With A Shell on Your Back, All Shook Up, Hair- also just cast as the Romeo understudy, along with She is currently performing as Wendy Darling in the spray, Rent, La Cage, The Prince and the Pauper, The Friar in Shakespeare’s production of Romeo and musical Peter Pan. Erica has also just landed the role Juliet. of Rapunzel in a community production of Into the and Grand Hotel. Woods. Her modern and lyrical dance teams both Daniel Flick was cast as the Wizard in his middle earned platinum rank at their first competition, and her school’s production of Once Upon a Mattress. modern earned the high score! Ally Rosenblum is going to be Velma Kelly in As many of you know, French Woods will be Lena Heller will be appearing as Tootie in an Broadway Bound’s production of Chicago at the upcoming middle school production of Meet Me In St. taking select campers to the Broadway’s show, Township center for the Arts in Coconut Creek,Fl. Louis. Her sister, Rosie Heller, is student directing, The Addams Family, during the third session of Olivia Mitzner ,who looks forward to attending her and even got to choreograph a fight scene. the 2010 summer season. first summer at French Woods, was just cast as Elsie A few spots are still available for the trip. Please in an NYU project film, Beasts Need Beasts. call the Camp Office for further details! Michela McDonagh just finished a run of Romeo and That’s the news and we’re outta here!!! Fourth Session Shows 2010! Flat Stanley 7-11 turned upside down, things get ugly when an in a journey that wasn’t always smooth on the popular Corny Collins Show. When Book music and lyrics by: Jonathan Waller, unseemly ogre — not a handsome prince — sailing. By turns inspirational and hilarious, we her dream comes true, Tracy is transformed David Weinstein, Stephen Gabriel and shows up to rescue a feisty princess. Throw discover that being chosen by God for great from social outcast to sudden star, but she Timothy McDonald. in a donkey who won’t shut up, a bad guy with things does not necessarily simplify the daily must use her newfound power to vanquish Stanley Lambchop is your normal, every day, a SHORT temper, a cookie with an attitude demands made of a father and husband. the reigning Teen Queen, win the affections run-of-the-mill kid. But one night while he’s and over a dozen other fairy tale misfits, and The Boys From Syracuse 11-14 of heartthrob Link Larkin and integrate a TV sleeping, the bulletin board on the wall above you’ve got the kind of mess that calls for a Music by Cy Coleman, Lyrics by Carolyn network - all without denting her ‘do! his bed comes loose and falls – right on top real hero. Leigh Fuddy Meers 11-17 of Stanley! And the next morning, Stanley Cinderella 7-11 The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Play by David Lindsay-Abaire. Lambchop wakes up flat! At first it’s not so Music and lyrics by Mack David and Al Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts It starts off just as just another normal day for bad. He can slide under locked doors or fly Hoffman and Jerry Livingston. of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus Claire. She wakes up and greets the morning. like a kite. If he has to be flat, at least he is Cinderella is treated as a slave by her selfish and his servant Dromio, to find their long- Her husband, Richard, brings her a cup of going to make the best of it. So, Stanley puts step family. She dreams of going to the lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, coffee, and patiently explains that she suffers himself in a big envelope and travels the world Prince’s ball. She gets her wish courtesy of are also named Anthipholus and Dromio. from a form of psychogenic amnesia that as a human letter! In a whirlwind musical her Fairy Godmother, who does the pumpkin- Complications arise when the wife of the erases her memory every night when she travelogue, Stanley – the ultimate exchange into-coach bit, then delivers the requisite Ephesians, Adriana and her servant Luce, goes to sleep. Claire takes the news rather student – is stamped, posted and cancelled “be home by midnight” warning. Thoroughly mistake the two strangers for their husbands, cheerfully, but unlike other mornings, has a from Paris, France to Honolulu and beyond. enchanting the prince at the ball, our heroine though the couples eventually get sorted few serious questions to ask. David Lindsay- Pete’s Dragon 7-11 hightails it at midnight, leaving a glass slipper out after Adriana’s sister Luciana and the Abaire’s wacky yet poignant comedy proves In New England in the early 20th century, behind. Syracuse Antipholus admit their love. The that no family dysfunction is insurmountable. Pete is a nine-year-old orphan escaping from Wildcat 11-14 Rodgers and Hart classic will charm ages Steel Magnolias 11-17 his brutal adoptive parents, the Gogans, Book by N. Richard Nash, lyrics by Carolyn eleven to fourteen. By Robert Harling with his only friend, a cartoon dragon named Leigh, and music by Cy Coleman. Bye Bye Birdie 11-17 A play about the bond among a group of Elliott. Pete and Elliott successfully escape to Wildcat “Wildy” Jackson arrives in 1912 in Music: Charles Strouse Lyrics: Lee Adams Southern women in northwest Louisiana. The Passamaquoddy, Maine, and live with Nora, Centavo City with dreams of striking oil but Tells the story of a rock and roll singer (aka action centers on Truvy’s beauty parlour and a lighthouse keeper, and her father, Lampie. with neither capital nor know-how to help her Elvis) who is about to be inducted into the some women who regularly gather there. The Elliott is sought for medicinal purposes by the accomplish her goal. Joe Dynamite, the most army. It is a satire done with the fondest drama begins on the morning of Shelby’s corrupt Doctor Terminus. Campers from seven successful crew foreman in the territory, finds affection. wedding to Jackson and covers events over to eleven will enjoy this family classic. her ruggedness appealing and agrees to work Rent 11-17 the next three years. The Prince and the Pauper 7-11 with her if she can prove ownership to her A rock opera with music and lyrics by The Importance of being Ernest 11-17 Music and Lyrics by Neil Berg and Bernie claimed land and hire a crew. Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini’s (A Trivial Comedy for Serious People) is a play Garzia, Book by Bernie Garza and Ray All Shook Up 11-14 opera La Bohème. It tells a story of a group by Oscar Wilde. Set in England during the late Roderick. Book by Joe DiPietro. Music and lyrics by of impoverished young artists and musicians Victorian era, the play’s humour derives in part Two young look-a-likes, Tom Canty, a poor Various Authors. struggling to survive and create in New from characters maintaining fictitious identities lad from Pudding Lane, a London slum, and A jukebox musical with Elvis Presley music, York’s Lower East Side in the thriving days of to escape unwelcome social obligations. It is Prince Edward, son of the notorious Henry VIII with a book by Joe DiPietro. The story is Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of replete with witty dialogue and satirises some of England, exchange places “for an hour or based on William Shakespeare’s Twelfth HIV/AIDS. of the foibles and hypocrisy of late Victorian two.” What was to have been a harmless jest Night. Hairspray 11-17 society. It has proved Wilde’s most enduringly turns into a grand, swashbuckling adventure in popular play. which Tom himself is nearly crowned king. Two by Two 11-14 Music and lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Music by Richard Rodgers Book by Peter Wittman book by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Shrek 7-11 One Act Play Festival (11-17) Stone Lyrics by Martin Charnin Meehan. - To be announced Music by Jeanine Tesori, book and lyrics by It seems that the building of the ark was only It’s 1962, and pleasantly plump Baltimore teen David Lindsay-Abaire. It is based on the 2001 the first of Noah’s many daunting challenges Tracy Turnblad has only one desire - to dance All shows are subject to availability*** DreamWorks film Shrek, In a faraway kingdom