Team Improv

Taught by David Lee Rock, these 90 minute weekly courses teach students short form improv comedy in a fun, friendly and safe environment. Designed for 3rd graders and up, these workshops give a foundation in improvisational theatre. Improv I introduces basic techniques for maintaining focus and mental agility. Improv II expands on techniques to include characterization and maintaining storyline. Each workshop culminates in a live performance. Upon completion of Improv III, students, fully prepared, compete with the Improv Performance Team. Learning Improv helps to improve self-esteem, confidence under pressure, collaboration, problem solving, IMAGINATION and much more.

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Dates and Times

Classes begin Sept. 7, 2-3:30pm

Final Performance Oct. 26 at 5pm (call 4pm)

We hold this class at 4609 New Horizon Blvd #3, Bakersfield, CA 93313

Prerequisites

Students must take classes in sequential order.

Tuition

$150 per child per workshop2

Hours of Instruction - 12.5hrs

Total Workshop Time - 10.5hrs

Performance Time (incl. call) - 2hrs

Students will learn...

  • Heightened listening, focus, commitment, and teamwork skills
  • Mime and space work
  • Storytelling and public speaking

Extra Expenses

Family and friends are invited to participate in the Final Performance for $10.00 per admission.

Summer Theatre Workshop

Tonicism's online theatre program for children ages 5 - 18 is perfect for experienced young performers wanting to improve their craft or those just starting out onstage. Or if the limelight makes them wither join the workshop as a student stage manager or student technician in our Theatre Tech program. Make lifelong friends, improve acting skills and expand student’s creative horizon while producing full length productions of musicals and plays. We meet and perform at The Empty Theatre on their intimate three quarter thrust stage. Through the use of exercises in pantomime, improvisation, voice/diction work, scene work, character analysis, and dance/movement students gain a solid foundation of theatre fundamentals. Auditions techniques and theatre etiquette will also be taught.

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Technical Theatre Track

Does your child love the theatre but prefer to work behind the scenes? Join our workshops on a technical theatre track! Student stage managers and student technicians needed for both productions. Just sign up for either workshop and add technical theatre to the notes.

Squirrel Girl Goes to College

Tonicism's AM Session meets 8am - Noon - In the Marvel Spotlight play Squirrel Girl Goes to College we meet Doreen Green. Otherwise known as Squirrel Girl, she has taken her share of bad guys, but now she faces something far more terrifying… living authentically. Doreen arrives with her squirrel sidekick, Tippy Toe, at Empire State University eager to make some true friends and keep her identity as Squirrel Girl secret. She soon becomes pals with her smart roommate, Nancy, and a potential love interest, Tomás. The three friends love their computer science class, taught by Professor Brightmind, and bond over childhood memories. But after he is kidnapped, Doreen begins to suspect that she can’t have the life of a normal girl and needs to be her true self: Squirrel Girl. This Marvel Spotlight play features popular characters and lesson we all need about being our best truest self.

Dates and Times

July 11 - August 5

Class meets Mondays through Fridays from 8am-12pm

    Final Performances
  • First two Weekends in August

Location1

We hold this class at The Empty Space

Auditions

All students will audition for all roles.

Every student will get a speaking role.

Tuition2

$375 per child

Total Workshop Time - 100hrs

Hours of Instruction - 80hrs

Performance Time (incl. call) - 20hrs

Students will learn3...

  • Fight Choreography
  • Character Development
  • Audition and acting techniques
  • Script Analysis

Extra Expenses4

Family and friends are invited to attend final performances at The Empty Space. Admission price is $15 for adults and $5 for children under 18. Each enrolled student will receive one (1) complimentary adult admission. Complimentary admission must be purchased with another admission for the same performance.

*15% sibling discount and scholarships available.

Please make a deposit to hold your student's spot!


Legally Blonde Jr. The Musical

Tonicism's PM Session meets 1 - 5pm - Legally Blonde JR. follows the transformation of Elle Woods as she tackles stereotypes, snobbery and scandal in pursuit of her dreams. When Elle's boyfriend dumps her and heads to Harvard, claiming she's not "serious" enough, Elle takes matters into her own hands, charming her way into law school. Befriending classmate, Emmett, and spunky hairdresser, Paulette, along the way, Elle finds that books and looks aren't mutually exclusive.  As Elle begins outsmarting her peers, she realizes that law may be her natural calling after all. The show's instantly recognizable songs are filled with humor, wit and sass — leaving cast members and audiences alike seeing pink!

Dates and Times

July 11 - August 5

Class meets Mondays through Fridays from 1pm-5pm

    Final Performances
  • First two weekends in August

Location1

We hold this class at The Empty Space

Auditions

All students will audition for all roles.

Every student will get a speaking role.

Tuition2

$425 per child

Total Workshop Time - 100hrs

Hours of Instruction - 80hrs

Performance Time (incl. call) - 20hrs

Students will learn3...

  • Voice work and proper diction
  • Audition and acting techniques
  • Singing and Sol-fege
  • Dance Choreography
  • Character and script analysis

Extra Expenses4

Family and friends are invited to attend final performances at The Empty Space. Admission price is $15 for adults and $5 for children under 18. Each enrolled student will receive one (1) complimentary adult admission. Complimentary admission must be purchased with another admission for the same performance.

*15% sibling discount and scholarships available.

Please make a deposit to hold your student's spot!


  1. Workshop and Performance venue subject to change.
  2. Sibling discount is automatically calculated when adding duplicate items to your cart.
  3. At Tonicism we believe theatre is a discipline: a craft brought forth with hard work and passion. In order to learn and have the most fun while in class and on-stage, it is imperative that students practice techniques and assignments learned in class at home every day. There will be homework after every class.  In general, homework should take around 10 - 30 minutes to complete. We want every actor to shine onstage and always know that they have put their best into every performance!
  4. Adult complimentary admission not available for opening night or closing performances.