Throughout, a deejay plays the season's biggest hits. Prizes awarded include sweat shirts, T-shirts, pizza parties and free water slide tickets. The Urbana Park District Summer Youth Theatre offers teens a chance to sing lead roles, which are usually performed by adults. One of the most important elements of the program is teamwork. The 10-member staff is also assisted by parents involved in the production, from ushering to sewing to building sets.
Actors meet four nights a week for six weeks to rehearse.
The emphasis is on the music and the experience, not competition. Therefore, some pages are not linked from the list below.