About Garden Players & The Scooches: All Friends Concert

Garden Players Kids, The Scooches & Alumni

Rising Stars and Garden Players classes perform songs and acting improv in concert with a live band and alumni at The Community House to celebrate the end of the first semester, and the beginning of our second semester. Help us raise money for the May musical and see these kids celebrate all of their hard work!

Garden Players Kids & Alumni Assistants sing songs from Musicville, our 2005 May Musical, as well as So Far From Home, our upcoming May Musical, and join the Scooches on an original sing-along of All Friends.

We are the recipients of the Mockingbird Foundation Tour Grant (funded by fans of Phish). Our Advanced Music Masterclass Participants will perform an original piece by members of the masterclass.

Garden Players

Garden Players is a small, local, musical theater program led by professional performers who love kids.

Every September-May we put on a small in-class Sharing Day in December, a concert in January with a professional band, and an original, fully staged musical in May.

Mission

Our mission is to cultivate children’s social emotional learning through community centered, socially aware, high quality theater education and performance opportunities. The results of our work are children who have learned to be brave, creative, internally motivated, and express their inner voice.

Vision

We envision a nurturing space for students, alumni, and community members to come together to make an artistic impact on each other and the world. 

We envision a world where original works with current and socially conscious themes bring laughter and fun along with deep thinking to both children and adults.

We envision a world where the development of original works is supported locally and brings joy to our community.

We envision a world where all children have access to theater. We aim to seek the participation of students who have a gift to give the art of theater and would not otherwise have theater or performance opportunities, due to economic or cultural barriers or lack of resources in their schools and communities.