Broadway, Here I Come: Vocal Audition Preparation, Grade 9 to 12 (IN-PERSON)
REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.
Instructor: Matthew Stolfi
Mondays, 4:00pm to 5:30pm
9/20, 9/27, 10/4, 10/18, 10/25, 11/1, 11/8, 11/15
*No class 10/11 for Columbus Day (schools closed).
In this class, students will receive one-on-one attention as they work on developing a standard audition section (16 to 32 bars) of an up-tempo and ballad piece to add to the audition repertoire. Students can use these pieces for school, community theatre or professional audition situations, and older teens can use this class to help prepare for auditions for colleges or other college-level programs. Students will strengthen their vocal technique while also finding the acting moments in their songs that will help build a story/character arc in their performance.
*No class 10/11 for Columbus Day (schools closed).
Acting for the camera more closely reflects the way we perceive things in reality than acting on the stage, and requires its own unique set of skills. Explore how the camera lens can become your best friend. In this eight-week workshop, you’ll build the basic skills needed to act and audition for television, film and commercials as well as set up your own camera and recording system at home for creating submissions and promoting yourself as an actor. Classroom footage will be made available to students to observe their progress and see how they read on-camera. (For reasons based around COVID-19, we will focus on monologues and shooting any scenes as individual shots so as to maintain safe protocols and social distancing.) You’ll also receive tips for how to find the right agent or manager and book professional work. Class materials and recordings of student work will be posted through a Google Classroom.
Acting for the camera more closely reflects the way we perceive things in reality than acting on the stage, and requires its own unique set of skills. Explore how the camera lens can become your best friend. In this eight-week workshop, you’ll build the basic skills needed to act and audition for television, film and commercials as well as set up your own camera and recording system at home for creating submissions and promoting yourself as an actor. Classroom footage will be made available to students to observe their progress and see how they read on-camera. (For reasons based around COVID-19, we will focus on monologues and shooting any scenes as individual shots so as to maintain safe protocols and social distancing.) You’ll also receive tips for how to find the right agent or manager and book professional work. Class materials and recordings of student work will be posted through a Google Classroom.
Using song, character expression and choreographed movements and gestures as storytelling tools students will assemble a mini-musical based upon a story or fable. Students will be cast in various roles and provided with a script and recorded music tracks. The class will also include special craft projects that can be done with items at home which will be incorporated into their performance. All students must be available for the showcase performance on the final date. Class materials and recordings will be provided through a Google Classroom.
Designed for young actors with one to two years tap experience looking to get a “leg up,” our Broadway Tap classes explore a trademark style featured in popular musicals like Anything Goes,42nd Street, Shuffle Along, Book of Mormon, Newsies, Something Rotten and TV shows like So You Think You Can Dance.
Registration: $128 for all eight weeks or register as a drop-in at just $18 per class.
Designed for actors with a year and a half tap experience looking to get a “leg up,” our Broadway Tap classes explore a trademark style featured in popular musicals like Anything Goes,42nd Street, Shuffle Along, Book of Mormon, Newsies, Something Rotten and TV shows like So You Think You Can Dance.
Registration: $128 for all eight weeks or register as a drop-in at just $18 per class.
Broadway Tap Continuing for Adults (IN-PERSON) *Grades 9 to 12 welcome
DROP-IN REGISTRATION STILL AVAILABLE!
Instructor: Caitlin Roberts
Tuesdays, 7:00pm to 8:55pm
9/21, 9/28, 10/5, 10/12, 10/19, 11/2, 11/9, 11/16
Designed for actors with two years or more tap experience looking to get a “leg up,” our Broadway Tap classes explore a trademark style featured in popular musicals like Anything Goes,42nd Street, Shuffle Along, Book of Mormon, Newsies, Something Rotten and TV shows like So You Think You Can Dance.
Laughter is something we all share, enjoy and can particularly use at this time. Humor speaks to all personalities and is also an effective way of channeling creativity to make poignant and relevant commentary on important issues and ideas. In this eight-week, low-pressure, workshop, young actors will tap into their own creative ideas and instincts as they explore improv, sketches, physical comedy, parody and joke-telling! They’ll build confidence and teamwork as they learn to trust in themselves and their fellow actors, and recognize the difference between appropriate and inappropriate humor.
If you’ve got a talent and a love for making people laugh, this eight-week workshop is for you! Laughter is something we all share, enjoy and can particularly use at this time. Humor speaks to all personalities and is also an effective way of channeling creativity to make poignant and relevant commentary on important issues and ideas. Sharpen your timing, heighten your creative instincts, and develop your own comedic characters and ideas as you explore improv, sketch, physical comedy, parody and stand-up.
Improv is unscripted, allowing artists to draw from their own instincts, shed their inhibitions, build ease and confidence onstage, and develop trust among fellow performers. These skills also apply to social, interview, audition and business situations. In this eight-week class, you’ll develop creative reflexes through a series of theatre games, impromptu scenarios, and character and team-building exercises. Our in-person class will be held here at Curtain Call.
Musical theatre singing is not just about vocal quality, but character and storytelling as well. In this class, students will examine a few Broadway numbers, exploring character choices and story line as well building vocal technique and blending as an ensemble. Over the eight-week session, students will rehearse and stage a few different musical numbers from a variety of musical favorites!
Humor speaks to all personalities and is also an effective way of channeling creativity to make poignant and relevant commentary on important issues and ideas. In this eight-week workshop, students will use structured games and exercises to help tap into their creative instincts, sharpen their comedic timing, build confidence in themselves and their performance as well as trust in their scene partners. They will develop their own characters and original scenes and monologues, and also explore the art of satire and parody.
In this class, students will receive one-on-one attention as they work on solos, duets and small group features. They will also each develop an up-tempo and ballad piece to add to the audition repertoire.
Designed for young actors with less than a year or no tap experience looking to get a “leg up,” our Broadway Tap classes explore a trademark style featured in popular musicals like Anything Goes,42nd Street, Shuffle Along, Book of Mormon, Newsies, Something Rotten and TV shows like So You Think You Can Dance.
Registration: $128 for all eight weeks or register as a drop-in at just $18 per class.
Designed for young actors who may not be trained dancers but want to improve their dance skills for musical theatre performance and auditions, and become more confident and secure with their body movement onstage. Each class includes combinations that include steps commonly used in musical choreography set to musical tracks from various Broadway favorites.
Registration: $128 for all eight weeks or register as a drop-in at just $18 per class.
This class is for high school drama students who have a yearning to sit on the other side of the production table. Students will learn how to examine plot and dialogue, break scenes down into beats for actors, how to visualize and create a concept for a production and how to balance their knowledge and focus between the onstage and offstage elements of any production. Students will work on and develop a scene, five minute one act or excerpt calling upon peer actors to perform.
Broadway, Here I Come: Vocal Audition Preparation, Grade 9 to 12 (IN-PERSON)