Carol Marrs
Mrs. Marrs is a wife, mother, teacher, actor, singer, and writer. She received a degree in Speech, Drama, and English Education from West Texas State University. She also received certification in Elementary Education and ESL and has experience teaching kindergarten through 12th grade.
Mrs. Marrs retired from teaching public school after 28 years in theatre arts education She was selected Teacher of the Year at Indian Creek Elementary and was a Top Five Finalist for LISD Elementary Teacher of the Year. Mrs. Marrs was selected as an Outstanding Young Woman of America and is a Texas Lifetime PTA member.
Mrs. Marrs is a published author, with credits including a children’s book of poetry entitled Pet Cobwebs and a speech textbook entitled The Complete Book of Speech Communication. Currently, Mrs. Marrs is continuing her love of theatre and teaching as co-director of Little Bit of Broadway. When not having dramatic fun, she enjoys being Mimi to her two grandsons and granddaughter!
Laurie Gruenloh
Laurie Gruenloh’s academic and professional training include a BA with honors in Dance from the University of Iowa, a BS in Elementary Education and a Masters in Science with emphasis in Elementary Classroom teaching from Northern State University. She taught Elementary Theatre Arts (Creative Dramatics) in Lewisville ISD for 16 years and has 26 years teaching experience. Throughout her career, she has danced and choreographed many pieces for dance studios, theatre productions, schools, and colleges.
Mrs. G. was honored in 2007 with the K-8 Theatre Teacher of the Year by the Texas Educational Theatre Association. She is proud to be a Texas Lifetime PTA member and recently was honored with a PTA Extended Service Award. She has coordinated meetings, in-services, and staff development for all the Creative Dramatics teachers in LISD, and presented in various conferences across the country. She co-authored and revised the LISD curriculum and revised it twice since then.
Mrs. G. has enjoyed building Little Bit of Broadway with Carol while staying at home with her school-aged sons. When not co-directing, she enjoys spending time with her family, baking, sewing, reading, and crafting.
Little Bit of Broadway: A Brief History
In the summer of 2006, drama educators Carol Marrs and Laurie Gruenloh came together to form the summer musical/drama camp called Little Bit of Broadway. It was a performance-based camp designed to give young performers the opportunity to experience a stage production from audition to performance. The week-long camp would emphasize speaking skills, movement skills, acting skills, theatre terminology, focus, teamwork, costume design, character research and much more. Students are encouraged to continually reach new challenges as individuals and cooperatively as group members of our theatre group. Little Bit of Broadway has now expanded to being a full-year drama program offering classes and performance opportunities in several LISD schools and Flower Mound United Methodist Church.
Our Mission
To help develop well-rounded, creative, expressive, confident children that can work cooperatively through process-based and performance-based theatre experiences.