Studio Class Schedule - Fall 2025
Tuesdays
Tap - Jen Reid - (1 8-Week Session: 9.16, 9.30, 10.7, 10.14, 10,21, 11.4, 11.11, 11.18)
07:00 PM - 08:00 PM: Students
08:00 PM - 09:00 PM: Adults, Ages 18 & Up
Saturdays
Acting - Mark Morgan - (1 8-Week Session: 9.20, 9.27, 10.4, 10.18, 10,25, 11.1, 11.8, 11.22)
09:00 AM - 10:00 AM: Beginning Improv, Ages 7 to 9
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Intermediate Improv, Ages 10 to 12
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Advanced Improv, Ages 13 to 18
Music - Carol Ann Murray - (1 8-Week Session: 9.20, 9.27, 10.4, 10.18, 10,25, 11.1, 11.8, 11.22)
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Young Performers Voice, Ages 7 to 9
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Sing & Act: Musical Theater for Voice, Ages 10 to 12
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM: "Mini" Musical Theater, Ages 5 & 6
Dance - Brenna McQuoid - (1 10-Week Session: 9.20, 9.27, 10.4, 10.11, 10.18, 10,25, 11.1, 11.8, 11.15, 11.22)
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Advanced Musical Theater, Ages 13 to 18
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Beginner Musical Theater, Ages 7 to 9
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM: Intermediate Musical Theater, Ages 10 to 12
ACTING
Beginner Improv: (Mark Morgan, Saturday, Ages 7 - 9)
This Beginner class allows your young actor to enjoy the feeling of trying something new and making new friends. Students will be introduced to theatrical concepts including character development, play production, and performance by exploring various theater games, improvisation skits, and scene work from children’s musicals in this fun and exciting class.
Intermediate Improv: (Mark Morgan, Saturday, Ages 10 - 12)
This Intermediate class allows young actors to explore all the magic and mysteries in an actor's toolbox during this skills and techniques class. Students will develop their acting skills by working on core elements of theater: improvisation, ensemble making, vocalization, movement, and creativity. Students will discover what makes a good actor great. This class is a complete theater experience that includes warm-up theater games and acting exercises, with an emphasis on building collaborative and communication skills.
Advanced Improv: (Mark Morgan, Saturday, Teens)
This Advanced class starts with improvisations and moves into work on scenes. Actors will discover how to use their experiences and imagination to create a character in a musical or play. In an atmosphere of creativity and self-discovery, students will come to understand and experience the level of preparation and discipline you will need to move forward to the next level in the theater. We’ll also work on how to prepare for auditions and cold readings.
MUSIC
“Mini” Musical Theater (Carol Ann Murray, Saturday, Ages 5 & 6) – Moorestown Theater Company is excited to announce, ‘Mini Musical Theater’, a new part of our Performing Arts Studio program designed especially for children between the ages of 5 and 6! After 17 years of offering our beloved Performing Arts Studio programming, we’ve created a new class for the fall – “Mini Musical Theater” to provide an introductory theater experience tailored to our youngest performers. We will focus on Storytelling, Acting, Singing and Rhythm and Creative Movement and an end-of-session parent observation, a delightful, low-pressure "mini-show" for family and friends.
Young Performers Voice: (Carol Ann Murray, Saturday, Ages 7 - 9 ) Give your child a boost in confidence, communication, and creativity! This musical theater class uses vocal training, theater games, and performance techniques to help 7- to 9-year-olds find their voice and shine. Beyond the fun singing show tunes, your child will increase confidence, develop emotional intelligence, improve collaboration, and strengthen memory and focus, exercising their brains by memorizing songs and choreography. Our nurturing environment is designed to be a safe space for every child to explore their creativity and develop lifelong skills, and we will host an end-of-session parent observation, a delightful, low-pressure performance for family and friends.
Sing & Act: Musical Theater for Voice: (Carol Ann Murray, Saturday, Ages 10 - 12) In this high-energy musical theater class for tweens, students will discover their full vocal potential by exploring songs from classic and contemporary Broadway shows. This class goes beyond singing to teach students how to 'act a song' by interpreting lyrics and conveying emotion. We will focus on developing vocal technique, projection, and confidence, and we will host an end-of-session parent observation, a delightful, low-pressure performance for family and friends.
Required Attire for all classes: Activewear and Sneakers/Jazz Shoes
DANCE & MOVEMENT
Student Tap: (Jen Reid, Tuesday)
This class invites students who are new to tap and this class will focus on proper tap dance technique and foundational steps. Students will learn that a tap dancer is a percussionist. Tap is all about making music with your feet while having a strong sense of rhythm, clarity, timing, and individual style.
Adult Tap: (Jen Reid, Tuesday)
This class will provide attendees with a fun, safe, stress and judgment-free learning experience. The focus will be on proper tap dance technique and foundational steps. Attendees are encouraged to have at least 1 year of tap dance training experience. Together we will journey through building tap vocabulary, focusing on not only musicality and timing, but also the joy of the tap dancer within.
Beginner Musical Theater: (Brenna McQuoid, Saturday, Ages 7 - 9)
This class will be an introduction to Musical Theater and Broadway-style dancing. Dancers will learn how to not only dance, but to dance while acting for an audience. Students will learn many things, such as how to perform for an audience and how to tell a story with just movement and dance. This class aims to be a fun and informative environment, with us learning different combinations throughout the weeks to different musicals.
Intermediate Musical Theater: (Brenna McQuoid, Saturday, Ages 10 - 12)
In this class we will delve further into the world of Broadway dancing, with even more focus on different kinds of techniques that can be used in Musical Theater. Dancers will learn about and practice stage presence, within and outside of dancing, especially for ensemble dancing and acting. In this class, dancers will learn different combinations throughout the weeks to varying genres within Musical Theater.
Advanced Musical Theater: (Brenna McQuoid, Saturday, Teens)
This class will be for dancers who are truly invested in learning and performing Musical Theater. Dancers will learn many different techniques of different genres of dances alongside classic Musical Theater style, because there are so many different styles used within Musical Theater! Different styles/techniques we will learn within the dance style of Musical Theater include Ballet, Jazz, Modern, and Latin, with us learning new combinations throughout the classes.