Community Little Theatre fall classes are well received; instructor returns for another season.

LEWISTON – The Lewiston-Auburn Community Little Theatre’s fall acting classes have been so well received that instructor Colleen Mahan has agreed to teach a second series starting the second week of January.

The classes will be held weekly at the Great Falls Performing Arts Center, Academy Street. The six-week series will encompass students from kindergarten through adults. New in the curriculum will be a two night workshop on musical theater and a story dramatization for kindergarten through second grade.

Mahan is well known in local theater circles, having appeared onstage at CLT in “Brigadoon,” “Nunsense” and “The Sound of Music.” She has advanced degrees in music and acting from Boston University, San Diego State University and Trinity Conservatory, Providence, R.I. She has more than 20 years of experience in performance and directing at professional and community theaters and teaching in her private studio, schools and theaters on both coasts.

The two-night musical theater audition workshop will focus on preparation and performance of a song for musical theater auditions. Students should bring in a song that they have memorized and have the sheet music for.

Choices will be analyzed for appropriateness and effectiveness. Students will be coached for performance and technique. Proper presentation at an audition will also be discussed and practiced.

Story Dramatization (grades kindergarten through two) classes will focus on the process of storytelling through dramatization (using action, narration and dialogue). Emphasis will be place on movement, physical and vocal development, and imagination expansion. Parents will be invited to the final day of class so that students may share their experience.

Creative Drama (grades three to five) is storytelling through action and dialogue. The focus will be to create a short play on an existing story and ideas from the students. The process will involve physical and vocal development, movement, imagination exercises, improvisation and ensemble building.

Each student may also be assigned a monologue. Memorization of lines will be necessary. Parents will be invited to the final day so that students may share their experience.

Acting for the Stage 1 (grades six to eight) will include character exploration, movement and script analysis. It will be done through scene study and/or monologues. Each class will involve warm-ups (physical and vocal), movement, improvisation and imagination games.

The class may include work on a short play. Memorization of lines will be necessary. Parents will be invited to the final day so that students may share their “work in progress.”

Acting for the Stage 2 (grades nine through 12) will focus on character exploration, movement and script analysis through scene study and monologues. Each class will involve warm-ups (physical and vocal), movement, improvisation and imagination games. Each student will be assigned a short scene and a monologue.

Scene work will be done in class. Memorization of lines will be necessary. Parents will be invited to the final day so that students may share their “work in progress.”

Acting for the Stage 3 (adults) will be similar to Acting for the Stage 2, but with adult themes. Family can be invited to the final class, if the students desire.

Interested persons may call the box office at 783-0958 for registration information.