that's the great thing about the players theater is that it does have its own school we might have anywhere from one hundred two hundred fifty and our student body everything from ballet to acting classes to modern miracle jazz tap voice acting play we also have for adults play reading things that have to do with the theater one i love it it's a really loving community and i learned a lot because when i was four and i could paint when  seventh grade i had been going through a lot of really weird family stuff and just hide stuff and my social and school life and my parents there were odd turn of events could afford to give me singing lessons and lessons and i'd always wanted to take because i really enjoy singing and acting and dancing and so on they said well we can afford it now so we should put her there because she's unhappy at school much and i'm happy everywhere else she really wants to do this will probably be happy there and so april of seventh grade they rolled me here let's see next and eighth grade i started players kids for the first year on the players kids our outreach program it's a group of children who are addition once a year part of the student body actually however we do pick out several children who we think have a little more or maybe the spark maybe potential may be talent there's a lot of things that go in and to it maybe they're not as talented as some of the other members student body however you see some kind of a little different energy or drive there that we know might blossom and turn into some kind of a professional s it's a safe environment you can always tell kids in my studio this is the place where you can make the mistakes this is a place where your voice can crack this is a place that you can do whatever you want and it's go ok i think that's what peter and being in the arts will do for a kid i think that allows them a place where they can make mistakes they can stand up in front of an audience and they can forget their line and know that what that feels like but they're not to die nobody's going to die today nobody's going to get their head chopped off and it's ok and life goes on and you'll be fine and you know you just laugh about it and go on my favorite thing to there oh it's probably go out hundred hundred fifty of us do bobby and they get to perform their acting scenes or their songs that they learn during the year or their dance that is our showcase for the whole student body but we do one show a year which is just focused on the players kids and this year it'll be the little mermaid here isn't like you're assuming isn't your thing there teaches character teaches discipline and you get into a group of kids like the players kids are put into this group of kids and you have to learn to work with that  and so if you get into an argument with another child i often encourage them to settle it amongst themselves with a little bit of guidance and it's just a great way to learn to work with other people and to come to an agreement with another person and to get out there it's great to see a kid i can only use myself in these as an example but i was that kid who once i found performing and in musical theater especially for me i was allowed to become somebody else i didn't have to be just boring little me i could be a keen that could be you know a prince i could be whatever i wanted and then when that kid the new kid that comes in  they latch on to this and they find that that that there's something special about being able to perform in front of an audience and you don't have to be yourself you can forget about your problems you can forget about everything that's going on in the world and for an hour or two hours you can entertain another person and to see that in the sea that light go off it's honestly the most rewarding thing but now i don't and i and that's because of the players i would say ninety percent of the children leave here after however many years they've been with us going one through life but have a special quality about them that stands apart apart from the rest be they do know how to speak to people they do know how to function they do know how to communicate with others and be part of a group without feeling so left out if there's a so many other qualities the boys especially i have to say it's tough for boys you know the brain they always come to me later on and so i'm glad we let him do this being able to step on stage in front of somebody out even if it's one person or two hundred people and and be ok with it indeed there's it helps with math skills it helps with well speaking interviewing does all these great things for life experience is that regardless of whether or not you go into the arts as a career it helps you in all these  it really helps with kids confidence cuz even if they don't want to become an actor or actress it helps with everything my mom is a financial advisor and she asked h and i came here and people just nurtured me and you know told me that was good at things and said you know you have talent you're good and i never tore me down my teachers here have  always constructively built me up and i've even made a lot of friends here that have just been really really good to me and never told me that i suck or that i'm better that i'm stupid and so