Crescent City Lights Youth Theater

Crescent City Lights Youth Theater The Crescent City Lights Youth Theater began in 1993 as Summer Stages and ended its run in 2018 with CCLYT transforms the lives of kids through theater!

Teaching life and job skills through the experience of putting on a musical. Since 1993 CCLYT has produced musicals each summer. Hundreds of kids have appeared in CCLYT musicals and thousands of audience members have seen our shows. What makes CCLYT different from other theater programs?
1) CCLYT shows have small casts of 30 or fewer performers.
2) CCLYT selects shows that have lots of parts allow

ing ALL cast members to shine onstage within their abilities.
3) CCLYT shows are performed with a LIVE band of professional musicians
4) CCLYT is fun!!! The staff create a safe learning environment that allows the children to thrive. Zero tolerance for bullying within the students AND the parents. (Stage moms, take note!)

CCLYT presents equal opportunities for casting for experienced and non-experienced performers. How do I sign my child up? Auditions for the summer program are held in the spring. Audition are by application which will be posted on our website. Questions: email [email protected]

Check out our upcoming shows! Join our mailing list! Click on CONTACT on the left side of the page to join our mailing list. Keep tabs on upcoming auditions and classes! Exciting things are happening here at CCLYT! We look forward to seeing you at a show soon. The young talent of New Orleans will amaze you! Description for the CCLYT Facebook Group
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Remembering the amazing Jackie Clarkson! After Katrina, when NORD could not longer afford to run a theater company, Jack...
07/07/2024

Remembering the amazing Jackie Clarkson! After Katrina, when NORD could not longer afford to run a theater company, Jackie worked a miracle and helped the Crescent City Lights Youth Theater make a home in the NORD Theater at Gallier Hall for nearly a decade. As a supporter of the children's theater, she knew what a difference such a theatrical experience made for each of those children. This photo shows her in the thick of happy young elves celebrating after a successful performance in December 2007. Thank you, Jackie, for all you did for the children of New Orleans. Our kids are all the better for your support over decades!

Ms. Julie is finally moving lots of costumes on to new homes! This is the last batch of costumes from shows including B...
10/22/2021

Ms. Julie is finally moving lots of costumes on to new homes! This is the last batch of costumes from shows including Bugsy Malone (the red dress), ghouls and vampires (Dracula Spectacula) and the witch's cape from Toy Camp. Crescent City Lights Youth Theater is winding down their storage units. Now we have only a 1/2 left. On Saturday come to Ginaware for great prices and to take a piece of the theater home with you!!! 11 - 4 on Saturday, October 23 at 4429 Bienville St. in the Stronghold Studios building. Click the link for more details!

05/19/2021

Calling all former Crescent City Lights Youth Theater and Summer Stages participants! Ms. Julie will be clearing out the storage units over the next few months. Lots of stuff will be donated to school theater programs. If YOU had a beloved costume/prop or would like a program or poster of a show you were in, please send a message on this page. It's time for all of these things to go to good homes! Hope you and yours are doing well and taken advantage of the vaccine. PM this page and I'll be in touch!

01/21/2020

The recent university research explored the educational and social benefits of taking school groups to watch live theatre performances.

01/18/2020
Very true! Not only does it increase learning capacity, it is a needed human skill. Think about this. How often do yo...
12/07/2019

Very true! Not only does it increase learning capacity, it is a needed human skill. Think about this. How often do you hear Happy Birthday sung well??? If you do, thank their music teacher. If not, then you know no one had any musical training. How sad.

Learning music can increase thinking skills, enrich strategies for learning and creativity, and enhance connections across subjects. We keep discovering more reasons to foreground music education i…

09/19/2019

Dance — and physical activity — should have the same status in schools as math, science and language. Psst: it may even help raise test scores, says Sir Ken Robinson.

This is so true regardless of art form!
09/17/2019

This is so true regardless of art form!

High school students! Anyone interested in learning how to do Zombie make up from a professional. Then sign up for the...
09/09/2019

High school students! Anyone interested in learning how to do Zombie make up from a professional. Then sign up for the class on September 28 at the New Orleans Opera Scenic Studio. The info is in the link below.

Special Effects Makeup artist, Shannon Shea (Predator, Jurassic Park, Drag Me to Hell), will lead a special “out-of-the-kit” zombie workshop on Saturday, September 28th. He will demonstrate techniques that go beyond simple highlight and shadow makeup that will elevate your zombie by using simple...

08/30/2019

The reasons that musical programs deserve as much respect as sports.

08/27/2019

One of the largest gold-standard studies on arts education ever conducted finds measurable benefits to giving students more music, theater, and dance.

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