Footlite Musicals Youth Programs

Footlite Musicals Youth Programs offers summer camps, a summer youth production, and a summer children’s workshop that culminates in a fully staged musical. Participants take part in hands-on experience and classes that cover all stages in the production process, including constructing sets, creating costumes, providing technical assistance, and working as stagehands for performances. The program operates within a musical-only community theater that presents seven shows a year, including five full-scale Broadway musicals and a summer youth production, with a new musical on stage every six weeks and activity occurring year-round in a welcoming, inclusive environment.

• Schedule: Activity occurs year-round and includes five full-scale Broadway musicals, a summer youth production, and a summer children’s workshop that culminates in a fully staged musical

Footlite Musicals Youth Programs is part of an all-volunteer, 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation that is powered exclusively by a dedicated team of volunteers. Founded in 1955, the organization states that its mission is to produce musicals and other dramatic offerings and to provide for education and training of persons in the theatre through hands-on experience and classes in the various stages of dramatic and musical theatre. In July 1991, Footlite Musicals was named America’s “Number One Community Theatre” by winning the national competition of the American Community Theatre Association for its production of Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim, and this production then competed in an international competition in Toyama, Japan, in August 1992, where it won several awards. Footlite Musicals productions receive support from the Indiana Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Arts Council of Indianapolis, The Summer Youth Program Fund, Penrod Arts Fair, The Penrod Society, and others.

Last updated May 12, 2026.