Orientation for parents and students will be held on the first day of camp from 9:10-9:30am.

Camp will be held at the Hippodrome. Instructors will be on the Hippodrome front steps at 8:50 a.m. to meet you and supervise your children. Please pick up your child promptly by 5:10 p.m. Please refer to the late pick-up policy for further information. If your child needs to be dismissed early, or to leave at any time during the day, please let us know in writing. For safety purposes, no unsupervised children are allowed on the Hippodrome property.

All students should have a monologue prepared for the first day of camp. The monologue simply serves as a tool for staff to determine how your child can best participate in the final production. All children, regardless of experience, receive a role in the final performance.

Please send a bag lunch (including beverage) with your child every day. Students will not be allowed to leave the building to purchase lunch. You may also want to send snacks with your child for the morning and afternoon break. Please send no foods that require preparation; no microwave, refrigerator, or soda/snack machine will be available.

Students will be climbing stairs throughout the day and backless shoes can be dangerous. Therefore we suggest tennis shoes or closed shoes. Workshops require physical movement, and many exercises require sitting or laying on the floor. Students should wear clothes that they can move in comfortably. For the technical theater class, please send a smock or cover up (an old oversized shirt, for example) that will protect their clothing from paint, glue, make-up, etc.

Spring Break-A-Leg - There will be no final performance for this camp. Summer Spectacular - Performances will be presented on the last three days of camp. Cast and times vary and will be posted on the web.

We welcome all young actors to our camp. The Hippodrome is a professional theater, and in order to maintain a professional atmosphere, we ask that young actors:

• Attend all rehearsals. Learn the lines. Students may be reassigned to a non-performance activity if the Director determines that these requirements are not being met.
• Do not bring glass containers or chewing gum to camp.
• Stay on the premises during class until an authorized person picks you up.
• Do not bring headsets, video games to camp.
• Do not go anywhere in the building without a teacher's knowledge and permission.

The Hippodrome reserves the right to dismiss any student from the program for behavior that jeopardizes the safety of the participants and staff and/or disrupts the learning, rehearsal or production process. Bringing alcohol, drugs or weapons to the program will be cause for automatic dismissal. The Hippodrome will not provide a tuition refund for any child dismissed for behavioral reasons.