JUL 17 | Cobb Great Hall
“Golden” – All Participants
WELCOME & INTRODUCTION
“I Want You Back/ABC” — Red Group
“Circus” — Green Group
Solos announced from stage
“Roaring On” — Green Group
“Come Alive” — Yellow Group
Solos announced from stage
“Born to Hand Jive” — Blue Group
“Splish Splash” — Red Group
Solos announced from stage
“Can’t Stop The Feeling” — Blue Group
“Brotherhood of Man/Run Freedom Run” — Yellow Group
THANK YOU
“What It Sounds Like/Golden” Finale — All Participants
Assisting Artists
Wharton Center Education Interns
Group Leaders
Red Group
Blue Group
Green Group
Yellow Group
Take It From The Top 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).
LAUREN NICOLE CHAPMAN is a 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
CARLOS ENCINIAS is originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico and his Broadway career spans more than two decades and includes How to Dance in Ohio, Les Misérables, Mamma Mia!, Good Vibrations and Scandalous.
Carlos is a passionate educator and teaches at the Professional Performing Arts High School in Manhattan and the Dreamyard Project.
As a director, he’s worked at Pittsburgh CLO, North Carolina Theatre, The Gateway and Adirondack Theatre Festival. www.carlosLencinias.com.
GREG KAMP is a performer and producer whose career has spanned stage, screen, and concert venues across the country and internationally. Management and producing credits include How to Dance in Ohio, The Last Five Years, and *The Heart *(Upcoming) on Broadway as well as work with National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Theatre Communications Group, Drama Desk Awards, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, Mariah Carey’s Christmas Spectacular, Maestra, Ogunquit Playhouse, Wharton Center, 54 Below, Broadway Dreams, Atlanta Workshop Players, Arthur Miller Foundation, and more.
He manages LML Music Presents, a boutique concert agency, representing a roster of leading Broadway artists and serves on the board of Take It From the Top, a non-profit arts education program. Greg is a graduate of University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM).
SKYE MATTOX was seen in the Broadway revival of On The Town where she understudied and performed the role of Ivy Smith. She made her Broadway debut in the revival of West Side Story when she was 18 years old, also the revival of Carousel in 2018 and has been in numerous shows at New York City Center's Encores! series. She can also be seen in the second season of NBC's TV series Smash and FX's Fosse/ Verdon.
JACOB YANDURA is a New York City based composer. Most recently, Jacob and his lyricist-collaborator Rebekah Greer Melocik are at work on a musical adaptation of the 2015 Peabody Award-winning documentary How to Dance in Ohio (directed by Sammi Cannold; supported by the Prince Fellowship and the Shubert Organization’s Artistic Circle; world premiere at Syracuse Stage, Fall 2022). His other projects include The Last Queen of Canaan (book by Harrison David Rivers), The Coup, and Wringer, a commission by New York City Children's Theater based on the novel by Jerry Spinelli (Off-Broadway; New York City Center Stage II; directed by Stephen Brackett).