Youth Theater

Thu, Oct 22

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Oct 25

Trolls the Musical Jr.

A K-5th Grade Musical

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Mon, Nov 16

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Nov 18

Auditions for Mary Poppins The Broadway Musical

9th – 12th grade production

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Upcoming

2026-2027 Season

Trolls the Musical Jr. | October 22-25

Disney’s Mary Poppins | February 18-21

How to Train Your Dragon the Musical Jr. | May 13-16

Mary Poppins Auditions

The Franke Center is thrilled to announce auditions for the high school production of Mary Poppins, the Broadway Musical. This show is open to all youth currently in 9th-12th grades.

Auditions will be held at The Franke Center. The dates are:
– Learning Day – Monday, November 16th from 5 to 7 pm
– Auditions – Tuesday, November 17th from 5 to 7 pm
– Possible Callbacks – Wednesday, November 18th from 5 to 7 pm

Show Dates are February 18-21st, 2027.

This season, due to continued high interest in our youth theater program, we are introducing an audition waitlist process for the first time. While we have not needed this system in previous years, we have been experiencing an overwhelming response to auditions. Many surrounding theaters have found it to be an effective process, and it is the best way to accommodate the size of our theater while reducing the likelihood of making heartbreaking cuts when audition turnout exceeds our capacity.

Registration is now open. You can sign up here.

Please see the link below for additional audition and show information, as well as access to the registration links.Band Link:
https://band.us/n/aca7b9j3je40c

Scholarships to cover audition fees are available upon request.

About

The Franke Center’s award-winning Youth Theater program has been providing extraordinary theater experiences for young people since 2004! The Youth Theater stages plays, offers performance workshops, and performs educational outreach throughout Calhoun County. Director Allison Ebner and Assistant Director Jen Popovits, along with many devoted artistic staff members and volunteers, are committed to promoting education, creativity, imagination through the performing arts.

Full and partial scholarships to all Youth Theater programming are available upon request.

Our staff and performers recently won 13 National Youth Arts awards! Click here to learn more.

Get involved!

We announce our upcoming auditions, plays, and workshops in the newspaper, on social media, and on our email list. To stay up to date with upcoming opportunities: