Queens Cast Members Featured in TADA! Youth Theater Performances this Month

By Forum Sta

TADA! Youth eater announced on Friday that it will be presenting “Everything about Camp (almost)” from July 13 through July 29 at TADA! Youth eater at 15 West 28th Street, 2nd Floor, in Manhattan between Broadway and Fi h Avenue.

is one-hour comic musical revue chronicles a summer at camp—playing pranks, taking hikes, swimming, making new friends, and more, theater leaders noted.

Performed by members of the Resident Youth Ensemble of TADA! (RYET), Queens cast members featured in “Everything about Camp (almost)” include Lucas Soares, 11, from Astoria; Rebekah Summerville, 12, from Rego Park; Sherell Hubahib, 12, from South Ozone Park; and Story Handy, 13, from Jamaica. Story has participated in TADA! Youth eater for the past two years.

“It’s great to be in the cast and share my interests with the other members of the TADA! ensemble,” she said. “I’m really excited to be on stage and a bit nervous too, especially since my friends and family will come to see the show and my character. In every rehearsal, I learn new steps in dance or new ways to make my scene more dramatic.

“My character is a prankster, and she is kind of a bossy person,” Story continued. “I can relate to my character, because I am a middle child with four sisters. I can be really bossy to my younger sisters whenever I’m in the mood, but my parents don’t like it. All I can say is, sometimes the bossiness works! TADA! is really interesting and helps in all sorts of ways for me to gain more con dence and improve my performances.”

According to the theater, “Everything about Camp (almost)” is a comic musical revue that chronicles a summer at camp. Happily campers spend their days playing pranks, taking hikes, swimming, making new friends and developing crushes. As the summer’s end approaches, it’s time to return to their siblings, parents and school friends back home. ere is one thing they certainly won’t long for and that is the slop the cafeteria claims to be food! All the rest will be missed (except maybe the bugs!), until they come back again next year when the school year is done. e young actors represent New York City in all its diversity. ey come from di er- ent neighborhoods and boroughs, di erent economic, racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds, have di erent abilities and are members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

TADA! o cials said the theater is commi ed to making its productions accessible to all and o ers a limited number of Pay What You Can Tickets for each performance starting at $1, in addition to group sales for nonpro t organizations at $10.

“Everything about Camp (almost)” presents scenes by Michael Slade with music and lyrics by Jon Agee, Gary Bagley, James Belo , Jamie Bernstein, Mary Ehlinger, David Evans, Dan Feigelson, Faye Greenberg, David Lawrence, Robby Merkin, Mary Mur , Eric Rockwell and Margaret Rose.

According to TADA!, performances are a ordable, fun- lled musicals that are perfect for family audiences of ages 3 and above. ey are performed by talented young people who are members of RYET (Resident Youth Ensemble of TADA!).