When Valley Youth Theatre streams its VYTal Affair-athon fundraiser on Saturday, Aug. 21, Mesa residents may recognize some familiar faces on VYT’s stage.
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EXCLUSIVE: She couldn t be further from Cruella! Emma Stone s former acting coach reflects on the Oscar-winner s humble beginnings in theater and tells how she begged her parents to move to Hollywood at 14 as her new Disney movie soars at the box office
Emma Stone s acting coach Bobb Cooper tells DailyMail.com that he is incredibly proud of her after she landed yet another big hit with the film Cruella
Emma, 32, has been hailed by critics and fans for her performance in the new Disney movie, which is projected to gross up to $30 million
The Oscar-winner began her acting career by training with acting coach Cooper at the Youth Valley Theater in Phoenix, Arizona
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Emma Stone does a lot of work in “Cruella,” the new film opening May 28 that serves as an origin story for the future “101 Dalmatians” villain.
She essentially plays two roles, that of Cruella, the evil version of the character, and Estella, the good one. It’s a showy role, big, dark. Stone isn’t in every scene, but she is in most of them. It seems like a taxing role to play.
“It was,” Stone said in a recent phone interview. “But I never can really get down with actors complaining, especially publicly, about their jobs. It really takes some (guts) to head out there and talk to a journalist about how taxing it was to play Cruella de Vil in Disney’s ‘Cruella’ movie.”
Valley Youth Theatre uses performance to educate the community on adoption
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Valley Youth Theatre actress performs in the 2019 production of They Chose Me (Photo credit: Valley Youth Theatre)
Valley Youth Theatre streamed their rendition of “They Chose Me,” on Friday evening, a play told from the perspective of kids and teenagers about adoption.
The play tackles several topics that are common for people who are adopted such as foster homes, parental loss, gay adoption, and multi-cultural families, according to the Valley Youth Theatre website. The cast even has some members who are adoptees themselves, which is an important step of inclusion for leadership at the theater.