Applause Studio

📸 Pre-order your recital media package for access to professional photos and video taken of the performance! 🎥

This way you can sit back and enjoy the performance live! Pre-order here: https://forms.gle/hRn8QJeEeHxmKmZG8

Distribution of photos and video will be done in August.

💐 Pre-order flowers for easy pick up at the recital!
👕 You can also purchase this special addition recital t-shirt with all the performers' names on the back!
25% of pre-order commissions goes toward our Youth Parent Organization, who raises money for our scholarship program. Pre-order today at thecommencementgroup.com/applausestudio

Our production of The Yellow Boat opens THIS WEEKEND ONLY! Order tickets today:

Applause Studio Presents: The Yellow Boat Tickets are available now! Dates: Jun 12 - Jun 14 2026

Happy birthday to one of our music instructors, Miss Olivia! 🥳

Applause is closed for Memorial Day weekend from Friday, May 22nd through Monday, May 25th. We'll see you back on Tuesday, May 26th!

Tomorrow our Performance Team will be performing in the Aquasox pre-show at Funko Field, 6:35pm! Come support us and find us on the field (and watch Rylee throw the first pitch!) ⚾

Tickets for the Out of the Box Players production of Yellow Boat are on sale now! Order yours today: https://our.show/yellowboatapplause ⛵

THE YELLOW BOAT
By David Saar

The story of The Yellow Boat is a glorious affirmation of a child’s life and the strength and courage of all children. This dramatization is based on the true story of David and Sonja Saar’s son, Benjamin, who was born with congenital hemophilia and died in 1987 at the age of 8 of AIDS-related complications. A uniquely gifted visual artist, Benjamin’s buoyant imagination transformed his physical and emotional pain into a blaze of colors and shapes in his fanciful drawings and paintings. A Scandinavian folksong tells of three little boats: “One was blue, one was red and one was yellow as the sun. They sailed far out to sea. The blue one returned to the harbor. The red one sailed home, too. But the yellow boat sailed up to the sun.” Benjamin always concluded his bedtime ritual by saying, “Mom, you can be the red boat or the blue boat, but I am the yellow boat.” Benjamin’s remarkable voyage continues to touch audiences around the world. Recommended for children age 8 and older, parents, families and adults.