Audition Opportunities:
musical, (ages 12 – 19)
- see summer programs for full description
PAJAMA GAME.
stephen stearns with nick bombicino, louisa sullivan & shoshi bass
july 19 – august 6, shows august 6 - 8, august 11 – 14
AUDITION DATES MARCH 31, 4 - 6 pm at NEYT
* Sign up (via e-mail michelle@neyt.org or phone
Michelle at 802-246-6398 ext. 101)
Please prepare 16 bars of a ballad song and 16 bars of an up tempo "belt" type song from the musical theatre repertoire. Remember to act while singing! And bring your sheet music with you. Dress in comfortable clothing as there will be a short sequence of dance steps for everyone to learn together. (Pajama Game has lots of dancing and lots of big chorus dance numbers.) We will ask you to read short scenes from the play with other actors - you may choose which character(s) you want to read for. Reading selections will be copied and available in the office for you to take home to review and study before the audition date. Auditions will run from 4:00 to 6:00 and we expect everyone to come at the start and stay until the end as we will be doing some call backs right then and there and want to mix and match actors within various scenes.
sr. shakespeare (ages 14 and up)
- see summer programs for full description
CYMBELINE
keely eastley and harry poster
june 21 – july 9, shows july 9 – 11
AUDITION DATE: APRIL 27, 4 - 6 pm at NEYT
Each student is to present only one passage from Shakespeare's plays, approximately 20 lines long. Be sure to research the words in your text that you are unsure of and learn the piece by heart. Know what you are saying and why. Know who you are and where your are and to whom you are speaking. (You will most likely be asked to discuss this at the audition, so really get to know the circumstances of your piece.) Look at the text with an eye towards what your character wants. Be bold. Dive in. Play with all the passion and clarity you can. Have fun!!
* Sign up (via e-mail michelle@neyt.org or phone Michelle at 802-246-6398 ext. 101)
Upcoming: JAZZ
This script and score will have an initial public appearance during Salmagundi week - on Monday, May 10th. Actors will be given an opportunity to audition for roles in this workshop - TBA
Jazz is a musical play written by NEYT Founder and Artistic Director, Stephen Stearns and Vermont Jazz Center Artistic Director, Eugene Uman currently being workshopped for a 2011 production.
Set in November, 1956 in and around Greenwich Village, New York City, Jazz is a celebration of the power of music to transform and heal, set against the explosive backdrop of the 1950’s: the Russian Communist threat and H Bomb terror, the emerging
Civil Rights movement, the dynamic musical shift in jazz from Dixieland and swing into Bebop and Free Jazz, the growth of television, the emergence of beat poetry and avant-garde art, and the agony of adolescent loneliness.
Jazz tells the story of a city high school ruled by fear and intimidation: a paranoid, abusive history teacher, an ex-Marine dictator/principal and a territorial greaser gang led by rock ‘n roller, Eddie Nalon, and his Nightriders. In the midst of this volatile environment, four alienated, teens - Judy (aka Jazzlyn) a poet-singer; Jake, a jazz pianist, Chano, a street kid who drums on cardboard boxes for nickels, and Chester Quinn, a blossoming bebop sax player - meet and discover friendship through playing music together.
In retaliation for the abuse they suffer at the hands of the greasers, Jazzlyn, Jake, Chano and Chet invade Hudson High with their new Latin Jazz groove. A battle of the bands erupts - Jazz vs. Rock - and all hell breaks loose. Jazz is loaded with action, comedy, suspense and toe-tapping rhythms – a relevant tragedy honoring the resilience of the human spirit to triumph over fear.