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College Credit Courses

In 2005, Christian Community Theater (CCT) began a partnership with San Diego Christian College (formerly Christian Heritage College founded by Dr. Tim LaHaye, of the Left Behind series fame, and Dr. Henry Morris, well-known Institute of Creation Research founder) in which High School graduates may receive a Music Degree with an emphasis in Children's Theater or Musical Theater.

San Diego is known as one of the leading cities in the nation for theater. Students will be exposed to a wide variety of professional theater as well as working directly with CCT. Students will take course work through SDCC and from CCT and will receive practical training at one of our county-wide CYT Area Programs. This unique program will equip the students to be outstanding leaders in church music programs, performing arts programs, and children’s theater programs.

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CYT@School

Sharing performing arts… one school at a time.

Mission Statement:
CYT@school is devoted to introducing performing arts to children, one school at a time, by providing a high-quality experience that is educational and enjoyable.

Many schools have had to cut their arts programs so CYT@school is dedicated to bringing to your school a low-cost, after school program developed to support the performing arts training in public and private schools. Research has shown that performing arts helps students gain confidence, build leadership skills and develop a sense of community. CYT wants to ensure that students everywhere have an opportunity to experience theater arts.

Our program consists of 8 weeks of drama, voice and dance which offer sound theater art instruction while also building character. All participating students will perform in an end-of-session showcase that is literature based while still being very popular with students. Our teachers are enthusiastic, fun, positive role models who lead and inspire.

CYT curriculum is based on visual and performing arts content standards for California public schools, Pre-K thru grades 12. There are two components to our program. One is introducing many of the California theatre content standards, and the second is to apply those standards in a performance showcase for family and friends. CYT is certified through the San Diego County Office of Education Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA).

Contact Rechelle Conde-Nau @ 858-483-8262 to get CYT@School at your school!

Participating Schools:
Hill Creek School
Muirlands Middle School
St. Martin of Tours Academy
Trinity Christian School
Faith Community School
St. Jeanne de Lestonnnac
City Tree Christian School
Blossom Valley Elementary
Zamorano Elementary
St. James Academy
St. Paul's Lutheran
Sycamore Canyon
San Carlos UM Preschool
Escondido Charter High School
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Directors' Choice Awards

Directors' Choice Awards is CYT’s version of Hollywood’s Academy Awards! Each year CYT nominates the best of the best in each category from our 18 shows around the county. The artistic director, the managing director and a select committee review all the shows and nominate outstanding work.

The accumulation of the year comes together in a special evening with an exciting awards show featuring some of the top musical numbers from the previous year. Winners are announced that evening at this special gala event.

Renaissance Award –This award recognizes exceptionally well-rounded CYT students who have had extensive experience and training in a wide variety of theater arts. They have taken three or more years of CYT classes, including drama, voice, dance, and behind-the-scenes, and have participated in CYT productions as both a cast member and a crew member.

MVP Award – A Most Valuable Performer who demonstrates outstanding abilities and gifts as a singer, dancer and actor and will become one of our CYT “legends”.

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HYPE

The goal of HYPE is to challenge and grow the advanced students of CYT to be leaders and get involved by serving the community around them. To look at all aspects of theater, not just from the actor’s point of view. And to continue to grow as an individual, committing themselves to excellence in all they do.

Want to be a member of the HYPE Stree Team & help promote CYT? Download this document to discover your task.

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Improvathon

Have you ever watched a skit from “Whose Line is it Anyway” and laughed your head off? Don’t miss this opportunity to see CYT kids at their funniest. Teams from all over the country get together each summer for workshops, joining in some hilarious games and skits. This four day event culminates with a competition to see who really is the funniest CYT area.

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Intern Directors

Overview: This course is designed to give students the background, overview, and hands on training in what it takes to be a director of a fully staged musical theater production. The course is divided into 15 hours of classroom instruction and the second have of the course practical “real life” experience in working with actual directors, musical directors and choreographers as they produce a fully staged musical production. The lab hours for this part of the course vary from 35-50 hours. The class is designed to study the process of directing a children’s theater production in a classroom setting and then the following week receive hands-on training applying the concepts that were addressed in class.

Objectives: The objective of this course is to give the students a thorough and comprehensive view of what it takes to be a director of a musical. The students will receive training and experience in all aspects of directing. Areas that will be covered are pre-audition preparation, the audition process, casting, the rehearsal process, techniques and methods of teaching performance and post production.

Fall 2010: Each student will be assigned a CYT production for their internship.

Class dates: Class #1Tuesday September 7th
Class #2 Monday September 13th
Class #3 Monday September 20th
Class #4 Monday September 27th
Class #5 Monday October 4th

Class time: 6:30pm – 9:00pm

Class location:
CCT Office
1545 Pioneer Way
El Cajon, CA 92020

Prerequisite: All interns must be high school graduates.

Class Fee: $50

Applications: The Intern Program is offered once a year (usually in the fall). Applications to be an intern director are submitted to jrussell@cctcyt.org

College Credit: 2 Units of college credit can be obtained for this course from San Diego Christian College. To receive credit one must contact Dr. Steve Branch at SDCC.

This is a hands-on practical course designed to allow the student to study and intern under current musical theater directors with Christian Community Theater / Christian Youth Theater productions. Directing philosophies, techniques and methodologies will be examined along with the opportunity to apply the various directing styles.