Highlighting a local business every week.
Welcome to our weekly Business of the Week feature, where we highlight a business in town. All businesses we highlight are listed in our business directory. This week's spotlight is on The Performing Arts Connection. The Performing Arts Connection is a full service dance and performing arts school for children, teenagers, and adults. Classes are offered through programs, workshops and private instruction. Class topics include creative movement, pointe, musical theater, acting, voice, youth musicals, competition dance teams, an adult glee club, recording studio workshops, summer theater programs, vacation theater programs, celebrity master classes, parent seminars, adult classes and more. Is your business listed on Sudbury Patch? If so, did…
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The Performing Arts Connection
31 Union Ave, Sudbury, MA
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Sudbury native Samantha Hammel says the controversial show's message makes it worth taking on.
When told by her Performing Arts Connection students that they wanted to produce the rock musical adaptation of "Spring Awakening," director Samantha Hammel hesitated. "Spring Awakening" isn't the typical musical you'd expect high school-aged, or younger, students acting in. There's talk about sex, suicide, child abuse and other experiences suited for mature audiences only. But after a lot of deep thought and the approval by her students' parents, Hammel is giving it a go. "Once I decided this was a show I wanted to do, I did a lot of soul searching to make sure I really was comfortable with the content," she says. "There was really one scene in the show that was the kicker, the deal breaker. And I basically knew I wasn't going to have …
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321 Arsenal St, Watertown, MA
Arsenal Center for the Arts
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