Broadway Mock Auditions

and

Master Class

2012 Musical Theater

Master Class Chairs

Dr. Gail Humphries Mardirosian and Brenda Brody

The Washington DC Chapter

Presents

The Third Annual Broadway Mock Auditions and Master Class

Saturday, January 28, 2012

1:00 to 5:00

At The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Broadway artists and industry professionals will provide invaluable insight into the world of musical theater auditions and master class for the Broadway stage during our Third Annual Broadway Mock Auditions and Master Class.  The age range is from 10^th grade in high school through senior year in college.  There is no charge for the Master Class but advance registration is required as the number of participants is limited.  No parents or teachers may attend.

Students interested in participating may download

the registration form by clicking on:

Please complete the form by January 13, 2012, and email the information along with any questions to jcjohnston@kennedy-center.org.

Participants should utilize the following information to prepare for the Broadway Mock Audition:

This program is held in cooperation with the

Education Department of

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

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Please take a look back at last season’s

Broadway Mock Auditions and Master Class

Co-Chairs: Celia Josephs (above)

and Gail Humphries Mardirosian

NSAL’s Washington Chapter held its Second Annual Broadway Mock Auditions and Master Class in the Rehearsal Room for The Eisenhower Theater at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, February 5, 2011 

Once again, a panel of four Broadway artists and industry professionals posed first as “Auditioners” and later as “Master Teachers” in order to provide valuable insight into the world of musical theater auditions for the Broadway stage.  Participating students from the 10^th grade in high school through seniors in college auditioned in three categories: dance, singing, and drama.  As dancers, the students were taught a short jazz combination and then promptly required to perform in small groups.  As singers, the students were charged with singing two sixteen-bar excerpts from a Broadway musical, one Up Tempo and one Ballade, in Broadway classic style.  Then as actors, the students paired with one another to perform a scene from The Music Man.

The Washington Chapter is planning to continue holding similar Mock Auditions and Master Classes on an annual basis to help young actors in their future careers and to encourage them to take part in the 2012 NSAL Career Award Competition in Musical Theater.

Master Class Teachers and Students

Acting…

Singing…

and Dancing…

Critique

Recap in Small Groups

The following “Casting Notice” was sent out to students prior to the mock auditions in preparation for the event:

Master Teachers

Choreographer Karma Camp

Singer and Actress Susan Derry

Actor/Director/Musical Performer Elmore James

Kennedy Center Producer Robert Pullen

The Washington Chapter deeply appreciates the time and talent of the following artists who participated as our mock audition judges and mentors:

KARMA CAMP has extensive credits including The Graduate on Broadway with Kathleen Turner, Merrily We Roll Along at The Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration, the first national tour of Big, and the off-Broadway production of Never The Sinner (Drama Desk Award, Best New Play).  Recently she worked on Shakespeare in Hollywood at Arena Stage.  She is a two-time nominee of the Helen Hayes Award, one for Signature’s original production of Nijinsky’s Last Dance which was remounted at The Kennedy Center in 2003.  As an artistic associate of Signature she has choreographed over 15 productions, most with Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer.  Additional regional theatres include The Shakespeare Theatre, Arena Stage, Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, McCarter Theatre, and Tennessee Reperatory Theatre.  Ms. Camp directed/choreographed the 1992 Inaugural Gala for Vice President Al Gore as well as Remember the Children featuring Kathie Lee Gifford at the Lincoln Memorial.  Opera credits include Goya with Placido Domingo, Vanessa for the Washington Opera, and Kurt Weill’s Street Scene with the Wolf Trap Opera Company.  TV credits include The Sounds of WWII for PBS, All My Children for ABC, and over 18 international commercials.  Her most recent collaboration was Snow White for Disney.

SUSAN DERRY has numerous Kennedy Center credits including Ragtime and the Eisenhower Theater Re-Opening Celebration, and she also appeared in the recent revival of Mame.  Ms. Derry’s Broadway and Regional credits include Wonderful Town, Desdemona in Othello, Meg in Crimes of the Heart, Eliza in My Fair Lady, Gwendolyn in The Importance of Being Ernest, Betty Haynes in White Christmas, Agnes in I do! I do!, Nora in Nora, Fiona in Brigadoon, Maria in West Side Story, Mary Stuart in Mary Stuart, and Christine in Phantom of the Opera in Germany.  Ms. Derry has been a guest soloist with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Northwestern University, and the Manhattan School of Music.

ELMORE JAMES is an award-winning director, actor, opera singer, musical performer, writer-poet, composer/lyricist, and educator.  His versatile career encompasses 40 years in the professional theater with 35 years in arts education in the United States and in Europe.  He is a veteran of five Broadway shows, among them Big River, Your Arms Too Short to Box with God, and the original Broadway company of Beauty and The Beast.  He has performed at Carnegie Hall in South Pacific with Reba McEntire and Alec Baldwin, at The Kennedy Center, and at Lincoln Center, including with the Metropolitan Opera.  He sings in eight languages and now dedicates his time to the pursuit of teaching young performers.  Mr. James has taught at NYU, SUNY Purchase, Fordham University, Temple University, and at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland. 

ROBERT C. PULLEN comes to The Kennedy Center after a career on Broadway.  His Broadway producing and/or general and company management credits include The Music Man, Footloose, Chicago, the Musical, Annie Get Your Gun, Titanic, Seussical the Musical, 42^nd Street, Blast, and Broadway Salutes Hillary Clinton with Rosie O’Donnell.  Mr. Pullen’s Kennedy Center producing highlights include Trial of Hamlet with Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy; An Evening of August Wilson starring Leslie Uggams, Viola Davis, and Ruben Santiago-Hudson; The Art of Film Music with Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and John Williams; Marc Blitzstein’s Regina starring Patti LuPone; A Recital of French Song starring Renée Fleming; Voices of the Arts with John Lithgow, Susan Stroman, Harold Prince, and Christine Baranski; and The 35^th Anniversary of The Kennedy Center starring Angela Lansbury, Savion Glover, George Hearn, and Marvin Hamlisch.  Television specials to which he has contributed include the 2005 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor honoring Steve Martin (PBS), the 2006 Mark Twain Prize honoring Neil Simon (PBS), the 2007 Mark Twain Prize honoring Billy Crystal (PBS), and the 2008 Mark Twain Prize honoring George Carlin (Emmy™ nomination, PBS).  Other credits include directing and producing Bravo Network’s On With the Show.  Mr. Pullen produced the Aretha Franklin segment of President Obama’s inaugural swearing-in ceremony.  In March of 2009, Mr. Pullen produced Salute to Senator Ted Kennedy with Bill Cosby, Bernadette Peters, James Taylor, President Obama and more, followed in May by A Celebration of Women in the Arts with Patti LaBelle, k.d. lang, LeAnn Rimes, Caroline Kennedy, Kathleen Turner, Stockard Channing and more.

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