THELMA’s youth theater camp, On Stage @ THELMA, is a two-week camp where fourth through eighth grade students learn the lines, the songs, the choreography, and build the sets for full-fledged a theatre production. On the final day of the camp, students will perform the musical for family and friends to enjoy!
Your Summer 2025 show!
PRESS START transports us inside the bright, pixelated world of video games! When the famous characters we know and love run out of lives, they decide to put on a musical fundraiser that will help them raise gold rings and play on. Through hilarious and heartfelt musical numbers we see the heroes, villains and sidekicks like we’ve never seen them before. But when things go terribly awry, it’s the quiet sidekick Little Mushroom who must find the hero within to help save the day!
JUL 28 - AUG 8, 9am-2pm
Final performance is on the last day of camp, August 8th, 3-4pm.
Meet the Staff!
Eva Thelen-Dunphy, director of the Fond du Lac Children’s Chorale at THELMA will direct the production again this year. Eva has more than 10 years of experience directing and producing Children’s Theater, including the last several years' On Stage @ THELMA productions.
The children will also gain hands-on experience with set design by working with visual arts instructor Anoush Cowles. Anoush teaches at Evans and Rosenow elementary schools.
Travis Worth, aka “Banjo Man”, serves as the accompanist and bandleader for OnStage@Thelma, where he does his best to make the kids sound fabulous (it’s not hard). Travis is a multifaceted, genre-fluid musician with an education firmly rooted in both formal and informal training.
