Irvington Performing Arts Academy

I have two girls in The Little Mermaid, and have been appalled by Michelle's behavior toward the end of the session. Two and a half weeks before the final show (after 4 months of rehearsals) Michelle abruptly cancelled the performance. She first sent out an extremely nasty email to all the parents telling us that we were awful, and our children are replaceable. She then held a parent meeting, where her behavior went downhill fast. She cancelled the show and then made a couple scenes in front of the kids on the way out the door. I don't understand what brought all this on, but what she did to our children is Unforgivable.

Unforgivable........Wow.I thought we all made mistakes as Humans.Everyone in Life is going thru something and I'm glad that I AM forgiven, because you only get what you give & you can only keep what you give away.....Try this if your heart allows you. (~);}

My son had been apart of several of the productions through IPAA with Michelle As each performance got closer she became pretty unstable with dealing with the children in an appropriate way and extremely unpredictable of her actions Also the start of this spring 2017 classes of The Little Mermaid began and three weeks before the production she canceled the classes, production, and cast party for ALL HOMESCHOOLING students and bad mouthed parents and students on facebook saying that all children are replaceable and was very emotionally unstable to the point of needing someone with her Some comments were made in front of the children which they had never heard before and made them not only uncomfortable with Michelle but also scared of Michelle Our family had donated many supplies to make props for the production as well as money that was suppose to go to purchase microphones for the children to use for that production and future productions but we never saw anything the extra donations were ask for Our family had planned to stay with the IPAA until Kristopher was no longer interested in theater which would probably be highschool he is now 8 yrs old But due to the safety issues, the unprofessionalism and the unstable mental state we will never return to it again I did not write this review to bash anyone I just want to post the awareness of the situations that we have been put through with this place and Michelle the owner/teacher Many of the other parents still have never received any type of refund nor explanation of her actions I hope that one day she will be able to fulfill her dreams of making her business what God intended but she has a lot of work to do