• Golden from KPOP Demon Hunters
• ALL
• Welcome and Introductions
• Paul Canaan, Take It From The Top Co-Founder and Executive Director
• I Want You Back/ABC from MJ The Musical
• Red Group
• Brotherhood of Man from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
  Run, Freedom, Run! from Urinetown
• Green Group
• Solos
• Announced from Stage
• Come Alive from The Greatest Showman
• Blue Group
• Splish Splash from Just In Time
• Red Group
• Solos
• Announced from Stage
• Born to Hand Jive from Grease!
• Blue Group
• Roaring On from The Great Gatsby
• Green Group
• Solos
• Announced from Stage
• Thank You’s
• Paul Canann
• Heart and Music from A New Brain
• TIFTT Participants and Faculty

Paul Canaan 

Broadway: Kinky Boots (dance captain / original Angel), Miss Saigon, Thoroughly Modern Millie, La Cage Aux Folles, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Legally Blonde. Co-Producer: How to Dance in Ohio.

He partnered with Tony Award-winning director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell to launch Choreography Guides with MTI and Broadway Media, which enables schools and theaters to learn and perform original Broadway choreography. 

Paul also founded the non-profit arts education organization Take It From The Top, which provides professional mentoring and training opportunities for aspiring young artists. He also served as a judge for The National High School Musical Theatre Awards (The JIMMY AWARDS).  

Kate Bailey 

KATE BAILEY (She/Her) Theater: Death Becomes Her (Broadway); Frozen (Broadway/National Tour); Beetlejuice (Broadway); A Chorus Line, Love Life (NYCC Encores!); Something Rotten! (National Tour); Oliver!, Grease (PaperMill Playhouse); Camelot (Barrington Stage Company). Film and television: Fosse/Verdon (FX). @katerosebailey.

Lauren Chapman 

Lauren Nicole Chapman is New York based actor, singer and dancer who is most recently known for her 7 year journey with Frozen on Broadway and the North American tour. Lauren is a powerhouse vocalist working in NYC for the past 12 years on and off Broadway. Fresh off the road from playing Princess Anna, she is so thrilled to be able to pass on all that she's learned to all the students she's fortunate enough to work with and is so excited to return to Take It From the Top! Her favorite past credits include Kinky Boots on Broadway and the first National tour, Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, Serena in Legally Blonde and Corrie Bratter in Barefoot in the Park. @laurennicolechapman

Josh Daniel

Broadway & National Tour: The Book of Mormon. Off-Broadway: u/s Seymour/Orin et al. in Little Shop of Horrors, Hunter in [title of show]. Select regional: St. Louis MUNY, Weston Playhouse, Music Theatre Wichita. TV: "The Other Two". BFA: CCM MT. Gratefully represented by CGF Talent. More life!

Jacob Yandura 

Jacob Yandura is a New York City-based composer. Jacob most recently made his Broadway debut with How to Dance in Ohio, a musical adaptation of the Peabody Award-winning documentary. He is the recipient of the 2024 Human Rights Campaign Visibility Award and was nominated for a 2024 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Broadway Production. His other projects include It Comes with the Building (Berkeley Rep Ground Floor), The Coup (Ars Nova Uncharted), The Last Queen of Canaan, and Wringer (Off-Broadway; New York City Center Stage II). Jacob holds a B.A. in Music Composition from Kenyon College and an M.F.A from NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.

Assisting Artists 

David Howland, Accompanist/Music Director

Elyse Gray, Bass 

Dan Ingman, Drums

Group Leaders 

Olivia Cortez

Olivia Mason

Maddie McKeown

Red Group 

• Addison Riddell 
• Andelina Bruscato 
• Anne Schienke 
• Aria Vazzano 
• Brady Filipek 
• Caiden Lange 
• Carmen Etheridge 
• Cece Brown 
• Charlotte Boon 
• Eleanor Malosh 
• Ella Forshee 
• Ellie Korte 
• Eloise Schanne 
• Emma Geiringer 
• Evy Migletti 
• Gwen Wesorick 
• Harper Streicher 
• Josie Danley 
• Lilly Bruster 
• Lilly Carroll 
• Lucy Martin 
• Lucy Mitchell 
• Maeryn Calnin 
• Nina Ventimiglia 
• Noelle Runyon 
• Nora List 
• Raymond Filipek 
• Saia Lenhoff 
• Vanessa Sanchez 
• Victoria Panzenhagen 

Blue Group 

• Asher Buss 
• August Huffman 
• Ben West 
• Caleb Bassin 
• Charlie Henze 
• Dylan Krajny 
• Echo Hall 
• Elliott Cox 
• Hadley Roth 
• James Johnson 
• Julia Peck 
• Juliana French 
• Kade Brinn 
• Kaedyn Smith 
• Kennedy Schultz 
• Laura Stoll 
• Leah Ranalli 
• Lucy Dodd 
• Macklan Kohler 
• Madi Butler 
• Makayla Nance 
• Nora Mosher 
• Norah Perez 
• Reese Bassin 
• Riley Birsul 
• Shiloh Olinyk 
• Sophia Chilson 
• Vaida Obenour 
• Vivian El-jawad 
• Wanda Wenczel 

Green Group 

• Abigail Woodruff 
• Alexis Frei 
• Amelia List 
• Anna Steiger 
• Avery Rothermel 
• Caroline Wyckoff 
• Cassandra Castelnero 
• Charlotte Thornbury 
• Charlotte Torrento 
• Daisy Ammel 
• Emma Kuhlman 
• Emma Rozenzweig 
• Harlow Thurman 
• James Newell 
• Jameson Olinyk 
• John Howland-Streng 
• Juliana Rushing 
• Karisa Green 
• Kaylynn Kiss 
• Kenny Bassett 
• Lennon Peluso 
• Liberty Steege 
• Lilly Brinn 
• Lily Renaud 
• Matthew Banks 
• Olivia Berman 
• Quientin Pierre 
• Sadahra Thomas 
• Sara Peltier 
• Sawyer Lackowski 
• Sienna Mann 
• Sloane Jackson 
• Sophia Gorbatoff

Wharton Center Institute for Arts & Creativity 

Kelly Stuible-Clark, Senior Education Manager  

Laurie Briseño, Education Operations Manager 

Ben English, Education & Community Engagement Coordinator  

Eric Olmscheid  , Wharton Center Executive Director

Fisher Theatre Staff

James Kuhl, General Manager

Jim Manduzzi, Theatre Manager

Christopher Nuñez, Deputy General Manager

Special Thanks

MSU Detroit Center

MSU Community Music School—Detroit