If there’s one thing actors know how to do, it’s how to adapt. Scripts, scenes, sets, movements, costumes and other elements frequently change as a production is fine-tuned. Breckenridge Backstage Theatre is all too familiar.
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The Breckenridge Backstage Theatre sat largely empty in 2020 as performances were canceled when the COVID-19 shutdown hit in March, but in September, the Breckenridge Backstage Theatre board decided that kids needed an outlet, and the KidsPlay program was brought to the theater for elementary- and middle-school-aged students.
Breckenridge Backstage Theatre Treasurer Laurie Rambaud said that while the group has run a kids program for years, KidsPlay didn’t happen this summer due to pandemic concerns. It was ultimately reinstated in the fall for a wider age group.
“What we found is the kids are absolutely dying to get out. We get a lot of kids that are choosing to go fully online or especially after weeks they’re in quarantine they come to the theater jumping out of their skins,” Rambaud said.
Enrollment is open for the next session of the Breckenridge Backstage Theatre’s KidsPlay courses, which start on Tuesday, Feb. 2, at the Breckenridge Theater at 121 S. Ridge St. The theater offers three different courses.