CHILDREN LEARN THE ROPES FOR LIVE THEATER.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE Palmdale, city (1990 pop. 68,842), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in the irrigated Antelope Valley; a growing residential suburb of Los Angeles near Little Rock Creek where it forms Lake Palmdale Reservoir, inc. 1962. -- Youngsters ages 9 to 12 are getting lessons in acting, auditioning, makeup makeup In the performing arts, material used by actors for cosmetic purposes and to help create the characters they play. Not needed in Greek and Roman theatre because of the use of masks, makeup was used in the religious plays of medieval Europe, in which the angels' faces , scene painting and dance movement in the Palmdale Playhouse annual Junior Summer Theater Camp. The two-week camp will culminate culminate, in astronomy, the maximum height in the sky reached by a celestial body on a given day. At the culminate the body is crossing the observer's celestial meridian and is said to be in upper transit. in performances of ``Jack and the Beanstalk.'' Shows will be at 7 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Sunday Sunday: see Sabbath; week. at the municipal theater, 38334 10th St. E. Tickets are $7 for general admission and $5 for seniors, military, students and children age 12 and under. Call the box office for tickets at (661) 267-5685. For more information, call (661) 267-ARTS for 24-hour recorded information, or visit www.ThePalmdalePlayhouse.com. CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Children participating in a theater camp paint scenery for a production of ``Jack and the Beanstalk'' to be performed Friday and Saturday at the Palmdale Playhouse. From left are Ian Horne, 12; Ryan Ritenour, 9; Ian's sister Selene Horne, 10; and Steven Hughes Steven Hughes was an African American artist for the Chaos! Comics company. Hughes provided the art for many of the company's comics, including Lady Death, Evil Ernie, and the short-lived superhero series Detonator . ,11, all of Palmdale. (2 -- 3 -- color) At left, the technical director of the Junior Summer Theater Camp at Palmdale Playhouse, Steven Felty, shows campers how to dab on paint to resemble leaves on a tree for stage scenery. At far left, Esther Maddox, 11, left, of Pearblossom and Shannon Bunch, 10, of Palmdale use the technique. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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