Bobbie Scott and Oliver Miller of Footliters explain the rehearsal plans to the Susan Andrew Summer Children’s Theatre Camp participants. This is the third collaboration with the Webster City Community Theatre.

“Another opening, another show.”

It’s more than a show, it’s a camp and it’s at the Webster City Community Theater–WCCT– this week.

The camp is a joint effort between WCCT and the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts’ Footliters Youth Theatre teaching music, dance and stage presence.

Renamed the Susan Andrew Summer Children’s Theatre Camp this past year, this is the third year WCCT has teamed up with Footliters. This camp is for children between the ages of 7 and those entering 8th grade in the fall. The cost of the workshop are reduced in honor of Susan Stocks Andrew, a long-time WCCT member and frequent stage performer who passed away last fall. Donations from a childhood friend, Cindy Anderson, set up this fund to offset the costs for campers.

WCCT provided children’s camps starting in 2013 until Covid shut down all activities. At that time it was the Old Creamery Theatre — OCT –. There was a four year hiatus, until WCCT connected with the Coralville group.

“It was Camp Creamery out of the Old Creamery Theatre in Amana from 2013-2019,” said Loween Getter, one of the organizers from WCCT. “After Covid, OCT closed. We switched to the Footliters Traveling Playhouse in 2023.”

Bobbie Scott, Madison Hovancik and Oliver Miller are the three professional teaching artists who are in Webster City this week.

“There are three teams traveling throughout Iowa,” said Scott, “We are in a different city each week, and will teach over 1,000 kids over the summer.” Scott is in her second year traveling with the Footliters.

The students all auditioned for various roles in the production of “The School for Spies,” by Katie Colletta and Jason Sifford. It is designed for students at all levels of theatre experience, and at the end of the week they will perform a musical along the three teaching artists.

The children involved with the camp this year are from far beyond Webster City. Participants are from Baxter, Blairsburg, Boone, Clarion, Fort Dodge, Jewell, Lawton, Lohrville, Newton, Stanhope and Stratford in addition to Webster City.