Rockbridge Academy Presents!
The Rockbridge Academy drama program is designed to give students an in depth understanding of what it takes to bring a full-length musical, or musical variety production, to completion. Students learn the value of godly character, hard work, and cooperation as they go from initial auditions and read-throughs, to the final curtain, always encouraged to keep in mind standards of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty (Phil. 4:8). In addition, musical stage productions serve a distinctive role in giving "flesh" to the concept of rhetoric. Students use their talents to persuade and articulate in a way that a traditional class never could. Students are encouraged to be part of the stage crew if that is where their particular gifts and talents lie.
Typically, students perform a full-length musical and a student-led Variety Show in alternating years. Last year, Rockbridge Academy performed Back to the Belltower—a dramatic journey through time!
Into the Woods
Into the Woods is a funny, thought-provoking, relatable story that is made up of familiar fairy tales and extraordinary music. Want to know what Jack in the Beanstalk really thinks about giants? Curious about Little Red Riding Hood after meeting the wolf? Wondering about Cinderella and her Prince beyond the glass slipper?
If so, come see the Rockbridge Academy's production of Into the Woods. It's a story worth seeing!
Every child who is taught to read and write will not author a great novel. Every child who is trained to play a musical instrument will not compose a symphony. Every child who is taught to draw will not see his work hanging in the Louvre. However, the reader will have access to great literature; the musician will have an understanding and appreciation for great music; and the one who studied art will be able to discriminate between good and bad art.
Classical education at Rockbridge Academy seeks to train the affections of our students to value goodness, truth and beauty. For the grammar student these intangible values are experienced through careful study of art and music in its historical context and through learning the grammar of these disciplines, a study which culminates in performance opportunities at school concerts and presentation of their art work at the Rockbridge Academy Art Exhibit. The dialectic and rhetoric student builds upon these principles through academic electives such as choir, orchestra, drawing, painting, photography, or drama.
Rockbridge Academy Presents!
The Rockbridge Academy drama program is designed to give students an in depth understanding of what it takes to bring a full-length musical, or musical variety production, to completion. Students learn the value of godly character, hard work, and cooperation as they go from initial auditions and read-throughs, to the final curtain, always encouraged to keep in mind standards of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty (Phil. 4:8). In addition, musical stage productions serve a distinctive role in giving "flesh" to the concept of rhetoric. Students use their talents to persuade and articulate in a way that a traditional class never could. Students are encouraged to be part of the stage crew if that is where their particular gifts and talents lie.
Typically, students perform a full-length musical and a student-led Variety Show in alternating years. Last year, Rockbridge Academy performed Back to the Belltower—a dramatic journey through time!