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Camp Rolling Hills on Broadway World

6/23/2016

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New Musical CAMP ROLLING HILLS set for NYMF
June 22, 2016

This summer, relive the days of lanyards, bunk beds and bug juice with The New York Musical Festival and Camp Rolling Hills Musical, LLC/ Center Stage Theatre Company's production of CAMP ROLLING HILLS, a new musical with book and lyrics by Stacy Davidowitz and David Spiegel and music and lyrics by Adam Spiegel and directed by Jill Jaysen.

The production will play on Wednesday, August 3, 2016 at 8:00 pm, Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 5:00 pm, Friday, August 5, 2016 at 5:00 pm, Friday, August 5, 2016 at 9:00 pm, Saturday, August 6, 2016 at 1:00 pm at The Pearl Theatre, located at 555 West 42nd Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues on the north side of 42nd Street). General Admission tickets are $29.50. For reservations and information visit http://nymf.org/camprollinghills or call (866) 811-4111.

Pack up your duffle bags and head to CAMP ROLLING HILLS for another wild summer of tune-filled campfires, bunk beds, and treasure hunts (for missing underwear, that is!). From learning a new sport, to discovering a new talent, to finding their first love, these 12 tweens are off on an 8-week adventure that will forever change their lives. It doesn't matter if you are a nerd, a jock, a tomboy, or a girly-girl, because true friendships are made when all the rules are broken. After all, there is a different definition of cool at Camp!

Adam Spiegel (Composer & Lyricist) is a New York-based composer, singer, actor and pianist. His first musical, Camp Rolling Hills, is being produced this summer at New York Musical Festival, and has been adapted into a series of young adult novels published by Abrams Books. He is also the composer of Cloned!, a New York Times Critic's Pick and winner of NYMF 2014's Best of Fest Audience Prize!, and The Whole Megillah! He completed two years as a composer in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, where he worked on a musical adaptation of Back To The Future with lyricist Dan Wolpow. Adam is also the keyboardist and lead singer of his band Brain Salt, and plays keyboards and sings for the band Hide & Seek. As an actor, he has been seen as Peter in Vital Theatre Company's Pinkalicious, The Musical! Adam is a graduate of NYU Steinhardt's program in Music Business.

David Spiegel (Book, Music, Lyrics) learned to write at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, where he received a Bachelor's degree in Television, Radio & Film. He also has a Master's in Business Administration (MBA) from Rutgers Business School. Full time, he is an Editorial Manager at CNBC Business News. Before that, he was a writer/producer of business news at CNN. And long before that, he was a counselor, head counselor, and theatre director at a small overnight summer camp in Upstate New York.

Stacy Davidowitz is the author of the Camp Rolling Hills book series and a bookwriter and lyricist of Camp Rolling Hills the Musical. She is a NYC-based writer whose plays include The Rubber Room (Old Vic, London; Naked Angels), PINK! (NYIT Nominee; Lark Finalist), Sacred Water (Rag and Bone), JOAN: Voices in the Fire (co-writer, The Guthrie), and Miracle Village(Shakespeare's Sister Semifinalist; Leah Ryan Finalist). Her musicals include Hank & Gretchen(produced in schools regionally) and Camp Rolling Hills. Her short plays have been produced at The Flea, Sam French, Williamstown, NYMadness, Amios, etc. Stacy's indie feature In The Rubber Room is in production with All the Way Around. Published by Broadway Play Publishing, Indie Theater Now, Steele Spring Stage Rights, YouthPLAYS. Her alma maters are British American Drama Academy; BS, Tufts University; MFA in Acting, Columbia University; Tyler Hill Camp.

Jill Jaysen (Director) is an award-winning director and published playwright who founded Center Stage Theatre Company in Westport, CT with the vision of awakening dreams for all who experience it. Jill is a strong proponent of creating new works while engaging her students in the creative process. Since 2005, her original musicals have received multiple awards from the NETC, including the prestigious Moss Hart Memorial Award for Best Musical in New England. Most recently, Center Stage was honored alongside the Shubert Theatre and Long Wharf for their Outstanding Achievement In The American Theatre. Jill's tween and teen-centric musicals have been performed nationally, as well as internationally. Her students can be seen on Broadway, Film, TV, National Tours, Disney Radio Live, as well as on stage, accepting a TONY. Jill comes from a diverse background. She is a founding producer of NYMF, a corporate communications coach and strategist, President of Optimum Edge Communications and a former stockbroker.

The New York Musical Festival nurtures the creation, production, and public presentation of stylistically, thematically, and culturally diverse new musicals to ensure the future vitality of musical theater.

Now in its thirteenth year, the Festival is the premier musical theater event in the world. The preeminent site for launching new musicals and discovering new talent, the Festival provides an affordable platform for artists to mount professional productions that reach their peers, industry leaders, and musical theater fans. More than 90 Festival shows have gone on to productions on and Off-Broadway, in regional theaters in all 50 states, and in more than 24 countries worldwide. Festival alumni have received a wide array of awards including the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In 2013, NYMF received a special Drama Desk Award in recognition of its work "creating and nurturing new musical theatre, ensuring the future of this essential art form."

NYMF is the flagship program of National Music Theater Network, Inc., a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit organization. NYMF 2015 is sponsored by The City of New York Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment, Fuzzrocket, PRG, TheaterMania, and Clear Channel Spectacolor, and is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
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The NYMF PASS is a great way to experience The New York Musical Festival. With a NYMF PASS, you can get into the theater before individual ticket holders. Passes also offer the exclusive ability to book tickets before they go on sale to the public. NYMF Passholder ticket booking begins June 6. Individual tickets go on sale June 20.
The 2016 New York Musical Festival will take place July 11 - August 7. For more information, please visit: www.nymf.org.
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Camp Rolling Hills - NYMF - Cast Announcements & Tix on Sale!

6/21/2016

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Camp Rolling Hills at Center Stage in Westport, CT!

6/8/2016

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This weekend, Camp Rolling Hills made its east coast premiere with Center Stage Theatre Company! The kids blew us away. Such talent! The production was musical directed by Adam Spiegel and directed by Jill Jaysen. 
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Camp Rolling Hills at NYMF this summer!

5/2/2016

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THEATERMANIA: THEATER NEWS

Additional Productions Announced for 2016 New York Musical Festival

Find out what's on tap for the annual summer event.
Editorial Staff • New York City • Apr 29, 2016

Additional selections for the 2016 New York Musical Festival have been announced. The festival, formerly named the New York Musical Theatre Festival, will take place from July 11-August 7 at various venues around Manhattan.

The production lineup will include The Gold, by Phil Yosowitz and Andrea Lepcio;Single by Karen Bishko and Nat Bennett; Camp Rolling Hills by Adam Spiegel, David Spiegel, and Stacy Davidowitz; and Ludo's Broken Bride by Ludo, Stacey Weingarten, and Dana Levinson.

The developmental reading selections are Artemis in the Parking Lot by Shayok Misha Chowdhury and Laura Grill; Crude by Maureen Condon; and Molly Murphy and Neil deGrasse Tyson on Our Last Day on Earth, by Molly Beach Murphy and Loren Berí.

The 2016 special events include presentations of Ronvé O'Daniel and Jevares Myrick'siLLA! A Hip Hop Musical and Amy Steinberg's Breaking the Moon.
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Dan Markley serves as NYMF's executive director and producer. Curation of the 2016 Festival is led by Rachel Sussman, who joins NYMF this year as director of programming and artist services.

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Gallery of Rancho Bernardo High School production shots!

3/3/2016

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Camp Rolling Hills premieres at Rancho Bernardo!

3/2/2016

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http://www.pomeradonews.com/news/2016/mar/02/camp-rolling-hills-premieres-at-rb-high/

Students in Rancho Bernardo High School’s drama department are in a unique position — presenting a musical’s world premiere.

“Camp Rolling Hills” opens at 7 tonight (Thursday) in the Rancho Bernardo High School Performing Arts Center, 13010 Paseo Lucido. Additional performances will be at 7 p.m. Friday, March 4 plus 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, March 5.

Tickets, sold at the door, are $10 for adults and $5 for students. For details, go to rbbroncoplayers.com.
It is about a group of 12-year-olds spending eight weeks at summer camp. Some are eager to be there while others would have preferred other activities during their time out of school. As the weeks progress, friendships form, romances blossom and antics reign as the boys in San Juan Hill cabin and the girls in Anita Hill cabin play pranks on each other.

Director Marie Morris said the musical’s script was among a group she bought at a drama teachers’ convention a few years ago. “Last spring, I was looking at scripts and (realized) this is a really cute musical, perfect for my kids,” she said. Upon getting the show’s rights, Morris said she found out no one has ever performed “Camp Rolling Hills” beyond workshops and staged readings. That has led to a few unique opportunities for the cast and crew. For example, a representative from the show’s Los Angeles-based licensing company is coming to see the performance and Assistant Director Victoria Manvelian, a RB High senior, said the company plans to use photos of the cast in its future advertising.

Morris said she has also been in communication with Stacy Davidowitz, who wrote the musical’s book and lyrics with David Spiegel, and is trying to get a Skype session set up so Davidowitz — in New York — can talk with the cast and crew. “She is writing a book series about the same characters … and sent over some artwork and the book cover,” Morris said.

“It’s really exciting (to premiere a show) because we have nothing to live up to,” Morris said. “At the same time, we’re it. We’ll be the example. That’s really cool because it allows for a lot of creativity.” Morris said that opportunity comes at the right time, since she has been building up the program, not only on the acting side, but the technical side too. “This is my fifth year; we’ve come a really long way.”

According to Morris, this show is the first time that student designers have been able to take a real lead in designing the set, costumes and lighting. She added that because the actors will sing to recorded music tracks, the technical demands are increased. “It’s extremely complicated … a learning experience for all.”
Because of all the work they have done, Manvelian said in a few weeks they will enter their lighting, costume, makeup and scenic work in a theater festival held in Fullerton. The students are assembling a portfolio that will include photos of the show, sketches of their set and color samples. While RB High has entered the festival before, she said they have not focused on its technical competitions.

“In the past years, we haven’t put as much effort into the set,” Manvelian said. “This year we went all out.”
The experience is something Manvelian said she and a few other seniors are embracing, since they plan to study various technical theater aspects in college. Manvelian said her career aspiration is to become a professional stage manager.

“My mom raised me in the arts … they are a big part of my life,” she said. “Being a technical member (of a show) allows me to channel (my creativity) in a different way, rather than being on the stage.”
Manvelian has performed in RB High’s one-act shows, but prefers the job of stage manager, which she has done since sophomore year for its larger performances. In that role her responsibilities are mostly during the show by making sure everything from actors to lighting and sound occur on cue. This is her first time as an assistant director. “I have a bigger part in the pre-production by blocking scenes and helping design the set,” she said.

The cast members are Lucy Arvizu, Jeffrey Atterbury, Paywand Baghal, Hannah Blackburn, Abigail Bleakley, Chris Cadet, Taylor Davis, Marilynn Do, Sara Ghadimi, Sam Hagshenas, Kate Hustosky, Maddie Levesque, Maddy Marnin, Trinity McDevitt, Connor McGarvey, Kaivan Mohsenzadeh, Dakota Nank, Kaitlin Neppl, Audrey Nonaka, Grant Parlett, Jordan Primrose, Courtland Ramsay, Kenneth Rayburn, Alexis Rivkin, Amanda Risher, Michayla Shields, Joel Segraves, Megan Standifer, Callum Sydserff, Trevor Tibbs, Raymond Velasquez and Carly Weingartner.

Students in the Bronco Players crew are Eric Barnett, Imogene Bleakley, Sadaf Dadafshar, Erika Dannhauser, Carter Ferratt, Giselle Hernandez, Victoria Manvelian, Deijah Martin-Valle, Elvira Melgoza, Zade Noman, Chloe Novet, Leo Paredes, Melina Perez, Jordan Primrose, Jack Schwinkendorf and Kiley Velasquez.


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Camp Rolling Hills is up on Amazon!

2/21/2016

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Camp Rolling Hills on Amazon - click here!
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Check out the artwork for Rancho Bernardo Bronco Players!

2/7/2016

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Premiering in San Diego!

12/16/2015

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Camp Rolling Hills the Musical will premiere at Rancho Bernardo High School in San Diego, CA in February 2016!
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One Step Closer 

3/21/2013

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Thanks to our very loyal longtime fans, we are getting closer to securing a producer for this summer's New York Musical Theatre Festival! (NYMF) We've gotten some great response from friends, family, and our amazing cast members and we're pursuing every contact they've sent our way. We hope to have some good news for everyone by the end of the month. 

Of course, this doesn't mean we're done looking. We are still happy to take your suggestions. 

And here's another way you can help the show -- help us build up our following! Tell your friends to Like us on Facebook (Facebook.com/CRHMusical) and follow us on Twitter @CRHMusical.  Tell them to listen to our demo -- after a song or two, we know they'll be hooked!
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