Nurture your child's desire to sing and dance with this package to participate in a Metropolitan Educational Theatre Network musical production.  The package includes the workshop training fee, one show T-shirt, and one special gift package.  The group is currently in rehearsals for "Beauty and the Beast" to be performed the last week of June in the San Fernando Valley!

Met2 produces full Broadway style musicals at some of the Los Angeles area's finest theatres.  With age-appropriate casting and a developmental approach to working with children, the program strives to help each cast member reach their full potential.  Children as young as kindergarten and adults alike are all welcome in this program, and unlike other groups, every cast member is in every show!  With programs in the San Fernando Valley, the South Bay, the East San Gabriel Valley and Northern San Diego County, Met2 reaches a large part of Southern California.  See photos of recent productions of The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, Seussical the Musical, Annie and Oliver; read more about the Artistic Director below and see a list of National Youth Arts Awards winners and nominations from recent MET2 productions!

(Certificate is valid for any production during the Spring 2014/Spring 2015 season in any of the network's four areas listed above; winner will be responsible for costume fee and administration fee (usually $100).

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The Artistic Director:

Artistic Director, Alison Bretches has been working with MET2 and its founder Alex H. Urban as a director, choreographer, and educator for 20 years. In that time, she has directed and choreographed dozens of productions in California, Moscow, Paris and Sydney.  Alison graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.F.A. in Musical Theatre from Boston's Emerson College where she is proud to be the Lead Teacher for the Emerson College Musical Theatre Pre-College Summer Studio Program, a summer intensive for high school juniors and seniors.  Alison also holds an M.F.A in Musical Theatre from San Diego State University, one of only three such programs in the country, and she briefly studied at the Artisten School of Theatre, Opera, and Musical Theatre at Gothenberg University in Sweden.  Alison has taught acting at Grossmont College and San Diego State University, various musical theatre master classes throughout Southern California (favorites being at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and for the Drama Teachers Association of Southern California Festival), musical theatre dance styles at SDSU’s M.F.A. program, as well as private coaching and college counseling for those interested in pursuing a career in the performing arts.  Below are some of the National Youth Arts nominations and winners from MET2 productions Alison has directed:

National Youth Arts  Award Winners (children's names have been removed for their privacy)

2012

Outstanding Production for Seussical the Musical

Outstanding Ensemble for Seussical the Musical

Artist of the Year (one performer playing: Miss Hannigan” in Annie, “King” in Big River, and “Gertrude” in Seussical the Musical)

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical: “Huck” in Big River

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Musical : “Gertrude” in Seussical the Musical

Outstanding Direction of a Musical: Alison Bretches, Seussical the Musical

2011

Outstanding Ensemble for Annie

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical (Jr Div, 13 and under): “Annie” in Annie

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical (Jr Div): “Oliver” in Oliver!

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical: “Fagin” in Oliver!

Artist of the Year: (One performer playing both: “Grace Farrell” in Annie and “Nancy” in Oliver!)

2010

Outstanding Ensemble for The Wizard of Oz

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical: “Beauty” in Beauty and the Beast

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical (Jr Div): “Dorothy” in The Wizard of Oz

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical: “Lion/Zeke” in The Wizard of Oz & “Elipsis” in Beauty and the Beast

2009

Outstanding Ensemble for Seussical the Musical

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical: “Gertrude” in Seussical the Musical

2008

Outstanding Direction of a Musical: Alison Bretches, Big River

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical:  “Tom Sawyer” in Big River

National Youth Arts  Awards Nominations

2012

Outstanding Production for Seussical the Musical

Outstanding Guest Actors in a Musical: “Horton” in Seussical the Musical; “Daddy Warbucks” in Annie; “Jim” in Big River; “Pap” in Big River

Outstanding Guest Actresses in a Musical: “Sour Kangaroo” in Seussical the Musical; “Lily St. Regis” in Annie

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Musical: “Grace Farrell” in Annie

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical: “Louisa” in The Sound of Music

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical (Jr Div, 13): “Jojo” in Seussical the Musical

Outstanding Featured Actresses in a Musical (Jr Div)
“Young Kangaroo” in Seussical the Musical in Seussical the Musical & “Tessie” in Annie

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical (Jr Div):  “Kurt” in The Sound of Music

Outstanding Costume Design: Andrae Gonzalo and Kathie Bretches-Urban, Seussical the Musical

Outstanding Ensemble for Annie

Outstanding Direction of a Musical: Alison Bretches for Annie

Outstanding Choreography of a Musical: Alison Bretches, Seussical the Musical & Annie

2011

Outstanding Production for Annie

Outstanding Direction of a Musical: Alison Bretches, Annie

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical: “Bill Sykes” in Oliver!

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Musical: “Widow Corney” in Oliver!

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical: “Mister Bumble” in Oliver!

Outstanding Featured Actress (Jr Div): “Molly” in Annie

2010

Outstanding Costume Design: Kathie Urban, Beauty and the Beast

2009

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Musical (Jr Div) : “Jojo” in Seussical the Musical

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical:  “Sour Kangaroo” in Seussical the Musical

Outstanding Direction of a Musical: Alison Bretches, Seussical the Musical

2008

Oustanding Supporting Actor in a Musical: “The Duke” in Big River