Take It From The Top Detroit
Summer 2025 dates will be announced by December 1, 2024.
Wharton Center is thrilled to expand our partnership with Take It From The Top to Detroit for our Five-Day Intensive! For rising 5th-12th grade students, the Five-Day Intensive explores singing, acting, and dancing, the skills needed to make you a triple threat! This program is appropriate for young artists of all experience levels and abilities. The intensive culminates in a showcase for family and friends onstage at the Fisher Theatre.
August 5-9, 2024
Showcase on Friday August 9 at 6:30 pm
Rising 5th-12th grade
$425 per camper, includes T-shirt and dinner before showcase.
Monday-Thursday from 10am-5pm
Friday 12pm-end of showcase
Financial assistance is available.
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Instructors
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Paul Canaan
Broadway: Kinky Boots (dance captain / original Angel), Miss Saigon, Thoroughly Modern Millie, La Cage Aux Folles, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Legally Blonde.
He recently partnered with director/choreographer Jerry Mitchell to launch The Original Production Inc. A dance licensing company that offers high schools and theaters the opportunity to learn and perform original Broadway choreography.
He founded the arts organization Take It From The Top, which provides professional mentoring to aspiring young artists. Served as artistic director of The Broadway Dreams Foundation and also serves as a judge for The National High School Musical Theatre Awards (The JIMMY AWARDS).
Greg Kamp
Greg Kamp is a performer and producer whose career has spanned stage, screen, and concert venues across the country and internationally. Management and producing credits include How to Dance in Ohio on Broadway and work with National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Theatre Communications Group, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, Mariah Carey’s Christmas Spectacular, Maestra, Ogunquit Playhouse, Wharton Center, 54 Below, Green Room 42, Broadway Dreams Foundation, Atlanta Workshop Players, Dallas Summer Musicals and more. He is the lead Agent for LML Music Presents, a boutique concert booking agency, representing a roster of leading Broadway and Cabaret artists and the Co-Founder and Producer of MT Shorts, an award-winning production company dedicated to producing original musical films (mtshorts.com). Greg is a graduate of University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). gregkamp.com
Jerome Bell
Rising from the stage lights of The Voice (Season 15), Bell Bastien is a powerhouse vocal duo blazing a trail in the music scene. Formerly known as OneUpDuo, Adam and Jerome Bell-Bastien ignited hearts as the show’s first-ever featured LGBT couple, captivating audiences with their electrifying harmony and unforgettable performances. Since then, this Detroit-based duo has set stages across the US ablaze, from intimate clubs to sprawling arenas. Their dynamic energy landed them a coveted spot on Sirius XM Radio’s BPM with the infectious “TRN IT UP (Stonebridge and DJ Lil’ Joey Remix),” and they’re gearing up to set music streaming platforms on fire with their upcoming EP, “Embers,” dropping in Spring 2024. Get ready to be swept away by Bell Bastien – the sound of love, passion, and pure musical fire.
Adam Bastien
Rising from the stage lights of The Voice (Season 15), Bell Bastien is a powerhouse vocal duo blazing a trail in the music scene. Formerly known as OneUpDuo, Adam and Jerome Bell-Bastien ignited hearts as the show’s first-ever featured LGBT couple, captivating audiences with their electrifying harmony and unforgettable performances. Since then, this Detroit-based duo has set stages across the US ablaze, from intimate clubs to sprawling arenas. Their dynamic energy landed them a coveted spot on Sirius XM Radio’s BPM with the infectious “TRN IT UP (Stonebridge and DJ Lil’ Joey Remix),” and they’re gearing up to set music streaming platforms on fire with their upcoming EP, “Embers,” dropping in Spring 2024. Get ready to be swept away by Bell Bastien – the sound of love, passion, and pure musical fire.
Eloise Kropp
Eloise recently played Zaneeta Shinn in the Kennedy Center’s Center Stage production of The Music Man (with Jessie Mueller and Norm Lewis). She was most recently seen on Broadway as Jennyanydots in the Broadway revival of Cats. She also starred in Broadway’s Dames at Sea (Ruby), and appeared in the recent revival of On the Town. You’ll be able to catch her on the big screen as part of the Jets chorus in Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of West Side Story. Off-Broadway credits include My One and Only, Me and My Girl, The Most Happy Fella and Little Me.