Theatre Production is a Theater Arts course that provides intensive instruction in character / song / scene /musical show analysis and development, and in the preparation necessary to perform for a public audience. Students work on the separate skills of singing, acting, and movement, and synthesize these three skills into the presentation of comedic, dramatic, or musical scenes, culminating in the performance of a full-length play or musical. In-class exercises and performances are the workshop for learning, substantiated by research, analysis, observation, writing, and rehearsal. Students learn theatre vocabulary and a structure of sequential tasks for analyzing characters, lyrics and movement. The acting principles and exercises used are based on a simplified version of Meisner acting methods (a behavioral strand of Stanislavski’s system where students work on a series of progressively complex exercises to develop an ability to improvise and bring a richness of personal response to textual work). Students learn theater history and/or musical theatre history in the context of the shows and songs studied.