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Music Theater Scene Study
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Music Theatre Scene Study
With Wendy McClellan
Music Direction by Rick Hip-Flores
What: Ever had a great first audition, but felt like you didn't nail the call back? Ever felt like you needed guidance on making bold choices with cold reading material and callback songs? Join us for this intensive and sharpen your process. These three sessions will focus on how to make quick, in-depth choices with musical theatre material and preparation techniques for call-back circumstances. More of a scene-study than an audition class, we will work to deepen your acting process when transitioning between singing and text. From scene into song, we will work with you to develop your acting with text and acting on pitch process. The instructors will provide the musical scenes for you to work on over the course of the class.
Who: This class is appropriate for music-theatre actors at all levels. Whether you're an opera singer looking to work in more musical-theatre, an actor looking to gain more musical-theatre experience, or a seasoned music-theatre performer, this class will give you the tools to attack musical auditions with more confidence and skill. Register alone or with a scene partner. Be prepared to sing a song of your choosing at the first session.
When: 3 Saturdays: Feb. 23rd, March 1st, and March 8th from 3pm-6pm
Where: Ripley-Grier Studios 520 8th Ave., studio TBA
How much: $200 for all three sessions
How to Register/For more information: Contact Wendy at mcdutchman@hotmail.com
About the Instructors:
Wendy McClellan is a director and teacher based in New York City. As a director, she has worked with a range of writers on new plays and musicals from Tony-nominated playwrights to emerging artists. Most recently, she led the workshop of Loewe Award winner The Listener of Junk City by Liz Duffy Adams and John Hodian at New Dramatists. Upcoming she is developing a new musical with Carson Kreitzer and Erin Kamler. She has held staff positions at Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Mark Taper Forum, A.S.K. Theater Projects and Actors Theatre of Louisville. While living in Los Angeles, she was also the Artistic Director of Oasis Theatre Company, the first company to bring Anne Bogart and the SITI Company to LA. As a teacher, she led the Apprentice Company at Actors Theatre of Louisville, where she developed the first ATL-produced industry showcase for the Apprentices. She has created and taught audition workshops in Louisville, Washington, DC and New York. She teaches for Abrons Arts Center and continues to privately coach actors.
In addition to numerous developmental readings and workshops, her directing credits include: Washington, D.C.: world premieres of Jennifer Maisel’s Birds (Rorschach Theatre) and Laurie Brooks’ Brave No World (The Kennedy Center). At Actors Theatre of Louisville: world premieres of Neon Mirage (2006 Humana Festival, New York International Fringe Festival), Uncle Sam’s Satiric Spectacular (2005 Humana Festival, New York International Fringe Festival), Goody Fucking Two Shoes (2005 Humana Festival), Fast and Loose (2004 Humana Festival), Trepidation Nation (2003 Humana Festival), as well as A Christmas Carol, Underneath the Lintel, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Balm in Gilead and Mad Forest. Los Angeles credits include world premieres of Gregory Gunter’s Antigone. Tertiary. Sexxx. (2001 LA Weekly Award Nominee Best Comedy Direction); Leon Martell and Penka Kouneva’s Steel: John Henry & the Shaker (2002 Ovation Award Nominee Best New Musical); Jennifer Maisel’s Impenetrable; and Antonio Sacre’s Up to the Sky (also PS 122, New York). In 2006, she and long-time collaborator Jennifer Maisel were awarded the New York Coalition for Women in the Arts and Media’s Collaboration Award. Wendy is a graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts and a member of SSDC.
Rick Hip-Flores was recently seen as pianist for the 75th Anniversary Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Other New York and regional credits include Putnam County Spelling Bee (Broadway), Jacques Brel is Alive and Well...(Zipper Theatre), Singin in the Rain (North Shore Music Theatre), Breaking Up is Hard to Do (Actors’ Playhouse), Shakespeare on Broadway (Symphony Space), 8 by Tenn (Hartford Stage), Henry and Mudge, A Christmas Carol (TheatreworksUSA), and numerous productions for Musicals Tonight. Rick has written music and lyrics to Neon Mirage (Humana Festival, 2006), A Tooth Fairy Tale, My New York (Vital Theater), Dido and Aeneas (Prospect Theater), and the Columbia Varsity Show. He has also composed scores forTartuffe and As You Like It (Worth Street Players).
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