Life• Style - The Adderley School for the Performing Arts

Life • Style
by Judy Foreman
Ms Foreman, a Santa Barbara freelance writer, has been covering fitness, beauty, health, fashion, new businesses and lifestyle trends for the Journal since
1998. She blogs @ judyforemanknowssantabarbara.com
Lights, Action, and Janet Adderley
The Adderley School
Staff: recording artist
Todd Jenkins, former
Adderley School director and recording
artist Akina Adderley,
associate director
Alana Adderley, owner
and artistic director
Janet Adderley, musical director Anthony
Janssen and instructor
Maria Alfieri
Janet and Alana Adderley and their students (and aspiring students) at the Adderley School Open House
T
he smell of the greasepaint and
the roar of the crowd were in
full regalia on the afternoon
of September 5 as over one hundred
people gathered to attend the Open
House and grand opening of Janet
Adderley’s new theatrical studio for
children. Aspiring thespians and their
parents noshed on food and were
treated to entertainment by many of
the children present (some as young
as 3 years old!). Girls and boys who
had performed in the Adderley
School’s most recent summer musical
dance production of “Footloose,” also
entertained with several song and
dance numbers.
Janet, who puts the “E” in enthusiasm, had the audience in the palm
of her hand as attendees stood or
sat on the bleached hardwood floors
surrounded by industrial-height 12-fthigh open ceilings and exposed brick
walls in an almost NY urban dance
studio environment. Ms Adderley
Maryanne Contreras, Tammy Hughes and Kyle
Brace at the Adderley School Open House
explained her love of live theater and
how it can provide a healthy vehicle not just for entertainment but an
opportunity and place for children to
succeed. She said theatre can transform an otherwise shy child and help
develop self-confidence.
Having two daughters of her own,
she opened a studio in Pacific Palisades
in 1997. As an actress, Ms Adderley
enjoyed a career on Broadway that
included roles in “Cats” and “Starlight
Express,” so she knows theater from
the inside out, as a performer and a
mom. When she first visited Montecito
and Santa Barbara in 2005, she quickly
found her niche with children from
5 years old, putting on professional
quality productions. My own daughter, Lizzy, now 17, performed in one
of her first productions of “Grease” as
the sultry Rizzo.
The Adderley School’s Fall 2009-10
season will include “The Sound of
Music,” “Shrek the Musical,” “Damn
Yankees,” “Cinderella,” “Snow White
and the Seven Dwarfs,” “Mama Mia,”
“The Wiz,” “Pinocchio,” “Grease,”
and “Guys and Dolls.” Ms Adderley
will also be expanding her class
roster to include dance workshops
including beginning-level adult ballet, tap, jazz and other intensive
workshops for those with dance
experience. The school has teamed
up with Lobero Theater, where the
youth ensemble theater will perform
its production of “How to Succeed
in Business without Really Trying”
in the spring.
The newly enlarged State Street
Studio has already been used to film
rehearsal sequences for the television
hit “Dancing with the Stars,” where
celebrity Montecito resident Kathy
Ireland is preparing for this season’s
competition.
Judging by the number of people at the opening, including the
kids who adore and look up to Ms
Adderley, she and her staff already
have lots of fans before the curtain
even goes up.
The studio is located at 316 A State
Street in Santa Barbara. For more
information call 805-899-3680 or visit
www.adderleyschool.com. The school
is now registering for Fall.
•MJ
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