Long Island High School Performers to Hone Their Skills at Adelphi's 'A Day with the Arts'
Broadway's Jeremy Stolle will keynote the event
Garden City, NY (09/27/2023) — On Friday, October 6, over 200 aspiring actors, dancers and musicians from high schools across Long Island will spend the day at Adelphi University crafting their skills through intensive hands-on workshops led by the University's faculty. Adelphi's Day with the Arts, will run from 8:15 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. in the University's Performing Arts Center.
The workshops will cover dance, music and theater techniques including jazz, Shakespeare, makeup for stage, stage combat, college audition prep, scenic painting, intro to sound, Broadway and classical song coaching and more.
Participating high schools include:
Elmont Memorial High School
Floral Park Memorial High School
Garden City High School
George W. Hewlett High School
Greenport High School
H. Frank Carey High School
Hempstead High School
Island Trees High School
New Hyde Park Memorial High School
Our Saviour Lutheran School
Paul D Schreiber High School
Sanford H. Calhoun High School
Sewanhaka High School
Walter G. O'Connell Copiague High School
West Hempstead High School
Keynote Speaker Jeremy Stolle
After the workshops, students will hear from keynote speaker Jeremy Stolle, a recording artist and concert singer who was most recently in the Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera, in which, over the years, he played various roles, including Raoul and the titular Phantom. Recently, he starred in the brand-new Disney Theatrical Productions pre-Broadway staging of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, directed by Scott Schwartz and written by Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz and Peter Parnil. He also appears as Jehan on the original cast recording of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Stolle's other theater credits include the workshop production of Broadway's A Tale of Two Cities, Music Theatre Wichita's Thoroughly Modern Millie (Trevor Graydon), North Shore Music Theatre's Camelot (Lionel) and multiple national productions of Beauty and the Beast (Gaston). Stolle has performed his solo show, No More Talk of Darkness, at performing arts centers nationwide, including the Straz Center, the Overture Center for the Arts and the W. Carroll Coyne Center for the Performing Arts. He has also appeared at 54 Below, Birdland, Broadway.com's National Showcase for Blockbuster Musicals and Broadway in Bryant Park. His solo album, In the Moment, has sold in more than 30 countries.
To learn more about A Day with the Arts, visit adelphi.edu/events/a-day-with-the-arts
About Adelphi: A modern metropolitan university with a personalized approach to higher learning
Adelphi University, New York, is a highly awarded, nationally ranked, powerfully connected doctoral research university dedicated to transforming students' lives through small classes with world-class faculty, hands-on learning and innovative ways to support academic and career success. Adelphi offers exceptional liberal arts and sciences programs and professional training at the undergraduate and graduate level with particular strength in our Core Four-Arts and Humanities, STEM and Social Sciences, the Business and Education Professions, and Health and Wellness.
Recognized as a Best College by U.S. News & World Report, Adelphi is Long Island's oldest private coeducational university. It serves more than 7,250 students at its beautiful main campus in Garden City, New York-just 23 miles from New York City's cultural and internship opportunities-and at dynamic learning hubs in Manhattan, the Hudson Valley and Suffolk County, as well as online.
More than 119,000 Adelphi graduates have gained the skills to thrive professionally as active, engaged citizens, making their mark on the University, their communities, and the world.
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After the workshops, students will hear from keynote speaker Jeremy Stolle, a recording artist and concert singer who was most recently in the Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera, in which, over the years, he played various roles, including Raoul and the titular Phantom.
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