The nonprofit provides youth opportunities to participate in high-caliber theater productions.
Participants learn from working industry directors, choreographers and technicians.
Shows are staged at the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District’s Performing Arts Center on the campus of El Dorado High School, 1651 N. Valencia Ave.
For information, go to mtoc.org.
What: Based on the Disney film, the musical about a man raised by gorillas who falls in love with Jane features the music of Phil Collins.
When: 7:30 p.m. July 18-20 and 25-26 and 2 p.m. July 27
Tickets: $25
Information: mtoc.org
Dave Avanzino’s brother, Peter Avanzino, is an animation director who won an Emmy Award in 2011 for his work on the animated sitcom “Futurama.”
If he’s not designing a set for a stage production, he could be crafting be a 3D sculpture of Donald Duck.
Or he could be mentoring a group of youngsters on the art of set building and then watching the group perform on a set he created.
Welcome to the world of Fullerton artist Dave Avanzino, whose artistry is far-reaching.
From his Fullerton studio, Avanzino, 50, crafts three-dimensional sculptures using paper, wood, wire and metal.
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