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Making it on Broadway Three Day Camp
Making it on Broadway
Austin Children’s Theater is holding auditions for ages 13 – 18 for the Making it on Broadway camp on an ongoing basis.
Direct from New York City and taught by Broadway veterans, Making it on Broadway offers intensive, professional instruction in acting, voice, song selection, and audition techniques. Camp dates are July 21-23. Austin Children’s Theater is the only location in Texas and only one of five in the nation to provide this unique theatrical opportunity.
Making it on Broadway instructors are Jodie Langel and Jose Llana. Langel has starred in many Broadway productions, including Les Miserables and CATS. Langel was awarded “Best National Anthem Singer of 2007” by the Mets and is the author of the best selling book Making it on Broadway. Jose Llana has been on the Broadway scene since 1996, starting with the King and I. He has starred in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Rent as well as the award winning The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Jose is a founding member of Asian Americans on Broadway, an organization that presents concert events across the country starring some of Broadway’s most prominent Asian American actors.
Students who wish to audition must please call 512- 927-6633 to schedule an interview. Space is limited and we expect the camp to fill up fast.
Only 30 students will be accepted, ages 13-18.
Open auditions for the camp!
- by appointment only (call to schedule or send an email)
This camp is tuition based. Once the student has completed the audition and is selected to participate, the 1st of two payments will be due. The second is due a week before camp begins. The total fee for this three day camp is $350.
ACT CAMPS RELOCATE
We have had a camp relocation. Please take note of the following.
June 9-13 (Out if this World) and June 16-20 (Give My Regards to Broadway) camp’s new location is
The VORTEX
2307 Manor Rd.
Austin TX 78722
All other camps (June 23 -August 15) will be held at
St. David’s Episcopal Church
304 E 7th St.
Austin, TX 78701
Although this is a change we are pleased to be at these new locations. Each offer a great environment for theatre education.
If you have any questions please feel free to call us at 512.927.6633
The Beauty Queen of Leenane @ The VORTEX
Parents,
Need a night of good theatre? Check out the show at The V. Make a night of it with dinner at one of the great restaurants on east Manor.
Friday is opening night for Martin McDonagh’s
THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE
directed by Frank Benge
Join us for opening weekend as Renaissance Austin Theatre and The VORTEX present this award-winning play.
Stellar cast and superb script.
“You may find images from ‘Beauty Queen’ creeping unbidden into your imagination long after you’ve seen it” -New York Times
When: May 30 – June 21, 2008, 8pm Tickets: $30-$10 ON SALE NOW
Tickets available online or at 512-478-LAVA (5282)
$30-$25 Priority Seating
$20-$15 General Admission
$10 Starving Artists
Thursdays & Sundays: Food Drive for Safe Place. 2-for-1 with 2 non-perishable food items.
2307 Manor Rd
www.vortexrep.org
512-478-LAVA
Auditions for VORTEX Summer Youth Program
The VORTEX has a great free summer youth theater program in the summer. All rehearsals take place in the evening and they believe in teaching their young artists to be great adult actors.
Get out and audition as many times and at as many places as you can.
When: May 24-June 3, 2008 by application and appointment
Where: The VORTEX, 2307 Manor Road
(1/2 mile East of I-35, between Chestnut and Maple)
Austin, TX 78722 On bus route #20
VORTEX is seeking students ages 13-17 to participate in Summer Youth Theatre 2008. Now in it’s 17th Year, the award-winning SYT program rehearses evenings and weekends in June and July and is tuition-free. SYT encourages diversity. Students of any ethnicity or heritage, or students with any disabilities or economic challenges, are welcome. Experience is not required.
SYT 2008 provides students with experiences in all aspects of theatre including acting, technical theatre, and publicity. Rehearsals and workshops are Free to all participants. The rehearsals culminate in a full production of a play presented to the public over two weekends.
Prior to the audition/interview, students must fill out a short application. For the audition, students should prepare a memorized, one-minute piece of text from a play, poem, or song. A parent or guardian is also required to attend the interview.
For 2008, SYT will present School for Scandal, the 18th-century English comedy of manners by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, directed by award-winning VORTEX veteran. Betsy McCann.
School for Scandal is a Comedy of Manners written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. First performed in London at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1777, this stylized comedy is one of English literature’s 18th-century classics. The characters have names like Surface, Teazle, Snake, Crabtree, Backbite, and Sneerwell and provide amazing acting opportunities. An updated twist places the production in the first half of the 20th century. School for Scandal illuminates themes of the deceptive nature of appearances, the fickleness of reputation. Summer Youth Theatre’s production provides students unique opportunities with great literature, challenging language, and delightful characters.
Betsy McCann directs School for Scandal. She has been a member of VORTEX Repertory Company since 2002 and has received B. Iden Payne Awards for her outstanding performances in VORTEX’s Vampyress, Wake for the Dark Poet, and Medea, as well as Pollyanna Theatre’s A Dragon’s Happy Day, Tangled Trickster’s part one, and Tangled Trickster’s part two. She has performed as an adult guest artist in SYT’s productions of Vitriol and Violets and The Good Woman of Setzuan. McCann holds a B.F.A. in Theatre Performance from Baylor University. She has performed in more than 15 shows in Austin, including work with Arts on Real, Zach Scott’s Project Interact, and Theatre at the J. She is excited to work with the Summer Youth Theatre again.
SYT is funded in part by VORTEX Repertory Company, the City of Austin under the auspices of the Austin Arts Commission, and the Texas Commission on the Arts.
To download an application, VORTEX.
To receive an application by mail or to set up audition/interview time, please call Bonnie Cullum at 512-478-LAVA (5282).
Austin Chronicle Culture Flash
Culture Flash! BY ROBERT FAIRES
• Aspiring musical-theatre performers ages 13-18, take note: Auditions for Making It on Broadway, a weeklong intensive that features Broadway musical vets teaching acting, voice, and audition techniques, will be held Monday, June 2, 2-8pm. The newly formed Austin Children’s Theater is bringing the New York City-based camp to Austin, which is one of only five cities in the nation offering the camp this summer. Training focuses on musical-theatre choreography, audition techniques, building a song repertoire, and more. Instructors may include Jodi Langel (Broadway: Les Misérables, Cats), Jose Llana (Broadway: Rent, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), and Sheri Sanders (national tour: Urinetown). At the end of the camp, representatives from Broadway casting agency Telsey + Company will hold private auditions with each student. The camp runs July 21-26. Only 40 students will be accepted. Students wishing to audition must bring sheet music for and be prepared to sing 15-32 bars of one upbeat song and one ballad (songs from musicals recommended but not required). To schedule an appointment, call 927-6633. For more information on this or Austin Children’s Theater’s regular summer camps, starting June 9, visit www.austinchildrenstheater.org.
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Shoot for the Stars
We are almost ready to blast off on our first week of Camp, June 9-13, going Out Of This World.
We only have a few openings left!
Get lost in space with ACT. Don’t delay Enroll today!
Making it on Broadway Auditions
We still have slots available for the Making it on Broadway auditions! Come out and audition for your chance to be a part of this amazing Broadway camp!
Only 40 students will be accepted. Open auditions for the camp will be held on June 2, 2-8pm, location TBD, ages 13-18. The week-long camp is on July 21-26. Students whom wish to audition must come prepared to sing with sheet music for 15-32 bars of one up-beat song, and one ballad (songs from musicals recommended but not required). Call 512-927-6633 or got to the contact page to schedule an appointment.
The Original Musical Project 2008-2009
ACT has designed a project to engage children in every aspect involved in creating an original musical. Through the specific semester classes designed for this project, our students will write the script, compose the music, design the production, and perform in the final product. The process of creating this original musical, guided by career artists and musicians, allows children of all experience levels and backgrounds to participate. Several talented guest adults artists will lead the production staff of students.
The final product, produced on a traditional six week schedule in the summer of 2009, will be open to any student currently or previously enrolled in ACT. It will be completely tuition free to be a part of the final production in the summer.
Keep an eye out for more information as this amazing project develops!
Edelweiss & ACT team up
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Broadway meets Austin
For Release
NY meets Austin: This Summer, Austin Children’s Theater brings Making it on Broadway to Austin.
Austin Children’s Theater is bringing Broadway to Austin. Launched in New York City, Making it on Broadway is a week long intensive camp that focuses on acting, voice, song selection, and audition techniques, all taught by Broadway veterans. Austin will be 1 of 5 cities currently offering this camp in the nation, and currently the only one in the region.
Only 40 students will be accepted. Open auditions for the camp will be held on June 2, 2-8pm, location TBD, ages 13-18. The week-long camp is on July 21-26. Students whom wish to audition must come prepared to sing with sheet music for 15-32 bars of one up-beat song, and one ballad (songs from musicals recommended but not required). Call 512-927-6633 to schedule an appointment.
This rigorous adventure through the world of musical theater involves an intense week of training focusing on how to audition, building a song repertoire, musical theater choreography and more. Finalizing the camp, the forty lucky students selected will have an opportunity to use their training in an actual casting audition. Telsey & Compay, famous casting agency, will come and hold private auditions with each student with the possibility of being cast in a future role. Telsey & Company is well known for casting for Broadway and National Touring, with shows such as Wicked, Hairspray, Rent, Disney’s High School Musical, and Grey Gardens.
ACT will host Broadway stars like Jodie Langel, Jose Llana, and Sheri Sanders. Langel has starred in Broadway’s Les Miserables and CATS, to name a few. She was awarded “Best National Anthem Singer of 2007” by the Mets, and is the author of the best selling book Making it on Broadway. Jose Llana, long time faculty member and teacher, has been on the Broadway scene since 1996, with the King and I and since, has starred in Pulitzer prized Rent, and most recently, award winning The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. In the spring of 2007, Jose proudly became a founding member of Asian Americans on Broadway, an organization that presents concert events across the country starring some of Broadway’s most prominent Asian American actors. Sheri Sanders is best known for both her portrayal of Kitty Genovese in the Screams of Kitty Genovese, and her comic turn as Little Becky Two Shoes in the National Tour of Urinetown.
Austin Children’s Theater will also continue running their regular Summer Camps this summer for ten weeks, starting June 9th, 8-5pm. Camps will be held in Hyde Park at the Sri Atmananda Memorial School, located at 4100 Red River St., Austin, TX, 78751. Summer Camps are broken into two categories—two-week teen intensives and one-week summer camps. Enroll online or call 512-927-6633.
Now offering WhichWich weekly lunch plan
WhichWich and ACT have come together to offer the students and parents the chance to not do the rushed packed lunches every morning before heading off to camp. Let WhichWich take care of all the week’s food needs. The plan includes a lunch, drink, and two snacks each day for a low weekly cost. Choose something different every day!
Keep a look out for the WhichWich order form to order your favorite sandwich and snacks!
Introductory rate
Now offering the first week of camp, June 9-13, at $185. A $40 discount!