Summer YouthStage 2025 Presents:
About Summer YouthStage:
YouthStage Summer Productions have the fun and games of camp mixed with the performing experience of a YouthStage show. Actors will be cast in featured roles in a musical and rehearse with their ensemble as well as enjoy theater-themed workshops. The program will culminate on the Julia Morgan stage for a finale week that brings the sets, lights, live band, and costumes together into a thrilling production.
About Summer Showcase Cabarets:
YouthStage actors are invited to participate in a one-week long session where they will focus on solo and small group repertoire to hone their solo performing skills. Participants will have the opportunity to select a song of their choice to develop for a cabaret style show on the Julia Morgan stage. All friends and family will be invited to the final performance. This is a great opportunity to obtain footage for their reel!
Summer YouthStage's Once Upon A Mattress
Choose from the following sections:
Once Upon A Mattress Section 1
Grades rising 5th-11th
Rehearsals:
Monday-Friday 9am-3pm
June 30 - July 24, 2025 (no rehearsal July 4)
Mandatory Tech Week:
9am-4pm, July 21-25, 2025
Performances:
Thursday, July 24, 2025 @ 6:30pm
Friday, July 25, 2025 @ 6:30pm
Saturday, July 26, 2025 @ 1pm & 6:30pm
Tuition: $2,150
Once Upon A Mattress Section 2
Grades rising 7th-12th
Rehearsals:
Monday-Friday 9am-3pm
July 7-31, 2025
Mandatory Tech Week:
9am-4pm, July 28 - August 1, 2025
Performances:
Thursday, July 31, 2025 @ 6:30pm
Friday, August 1, 2025 @ 6:30pm
Saturday, August 2, 2025 @ 1pm & 6:30pm
Tuition: $2,150
Summer YouthStage's Showcase Cabarets
Showcase Cabaret 1: "Teen Angst"
Grades rising 8th-12th
Let your inner rebel shine through songs about the trials of being a teen from the shows YOU love!
9am-3pm, Monday-Friday, June 23-27, 2025 (1 week)
Performance on the Julia Morgan Stage: Friday, June 27, 2025 @ 4pm
Tuition: $510
Showcase Cabaret 2: "Best of BPH"
Grades rising 5th-12th
Relive the best moments of Berkeley Playhouse's 2024/2025 season! Perform songs from The Prom, Seussical, Seussical Jr., The SpongeBob Musical, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Little Mermaid, The Sound of Music, Something Rotten, and Once Upon A Mattress!
9am-3pm, Monday-Friday, August 4-8, 2025 (1 week)
Performance on the Julia Morgan Stage: Friday, August 8, 2025 @ 4pm
Tuition: $510
New students—how to audition:
Audition dates
Thursday, February 6, from 4-6pm
OR
Friday, February 7, from 4-6pm
Please review the available slots HERE .
If unavailable on any of these dates, please email youthstage@berkeleyplayhouse.org to schedule an alternate time.
What to prepare
1) Fill out the New Student Form
HERE
and bring with you to your audition.
2) Please prepare ONE (1) monologue and ONE (1) song from the list provided below:
➡ Click
HERE
for Monologues
➡ Click
HERE
for Lyric Sheets
View the links below for rehearsal tracks. There will be a live accompanist at auditions.
“Shy”
Guide Track [0:58-2:05]
Accompaniment Track- Shy [0.34- 1:42]
“Many Moons Ago”
Guide Track
Accompaniment Track