KJPAS Trips and Photos

Each year, performing arts trips are offered to the students of the studio. Some tours are one night in length, while others last as many as eight nights. Below are descriptions and photographs from some of our past excursions:

New York City

In July of 2009, we once again embarked on a great adventure to New York City. We had excellent seats (and met the actors!) to four "best musical" winning shows: Billy Elliot, In The Heights, Alter Boyz and The Toxic Avenger. We also took in an evening of improvisation at the Upright Citizens Brigade and shot some pool at SOHO Billiards. Other highlights of the trip included dinner with the associate conductor of Mary Poppins, Milton Granger, Broadway actress, Amy Justman, and Broadway actress Kathy Conry. We visited the Whitney Museum of American Art, took a self-guided bike tour through Central Park (and a carousel ride!), had late night gelato in Greenwich Village, lunch in Little Italy, and foot massages in Chinatown! Click on the link below to see a slide show of some of the highlights of our trip!
New York City

New York City

In July of 2008, we embarked on a great adventure to New York City. We had excellent seats to four Broadway shows: Legally Blonde, Mary Poppins, Boeing-Boeing, and Forbidden Broadway. We also took in an evening of improvisation at the Upright Citizens Brigade and shot some pool at SOHO Billiards. Other highlights of the trip included dinner with the associate conductor of Mary Poppins, Milton Granger, followed by a private backstage tour of the New Amsterdam Theatre! We visited the Frick Museum of Art toured Central Park (and took a rowboat and carousel ride!), Greenwich Village, Ground Zero, Little Italy, and spent a day at Coney Island! Click on the link below to see a slide show of some of the highlights of our trip!
New York City

Stratford Theatre Festival of Canada, plus Toronto and Niagara Falls

In July of 2006, we ventured all the way up to Canada to visit the Stratford Theatre Festival, the leading Shakespearean theatre festival in North America. With an annual budget of 56 million dollars, we were certainly impressed! We saw four shows: South Pacific, Oliver, Much Ado About Nothing, and London Assurance. We met with leading actors Cynthia Dale, Ted Baerg, Brian Bedford, Colm Feore, and Scott Beaudin, 16-year-old television actor Marc McMulkin, and with Bert Carriere, the musical director and composer for the entire Stratford Festival. We were given a backstage tour of the Festival Theatre and also of the Festival Costume Warehouse. In Toronto we saw the world premier of the musical Lord of the Rings, and toured the Rogers Center (the only stadium in the world with a retractable roof), and went up the CN Tower (the skypod at 145 stories is the tallest observation deck in the world!). On the way home we stopped for a day to visit one of the seven natural wonders of the world, Niagara Falls. We even took the Maid of the Mist boat ride to the base of the falls! Click on the link below to see a slide show of some of the highlights of our trip!
Stratford Theatre Festival of Canada, plus Toronto and Niagara Falls

The Barter Theatre

In the fall of 2002, 2003, and 2004, we traveled to Abingdon, Virginia to see South Pacific, A Tuna Christmas, and Gypsy. The Barter Theatre is the second oldest theatre in the country! We had a talk-back with the cast after the performances, and then took a backstage tour of the theatre. Click on the link below to see a slide show of some of the highlights from our trips!!
The Barter Theatre

Blackfriars Playhouse

In September 2002,  2003, and 2004, we traveled to Staunton, Virginia to see Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Nights Dream, and The Merchant of Venice at Shenandoah Shakespeare's Blackfriars Playhouse. This is the only replica of Shakespeare's Original indoor theatre in the world! It is a 16th century theatre with 21st century technology. While there, we also took a backstage tour with some of the actors, and received an acting lesson! Click on the link below to see a slide show of some of the highlights of our trip!
Blackfriars Playhouse