Auditions for Youth in San Antonio: Cinderella and Rent, Jonathan Pennington Studios, January 25, 2014

 

Jonathan Pennington Studios open auditions for youth:

CINDERELLA (Youth and Teens) and RENT, School edition (Teens)

Open Auditions on Saturday, January 25, 10:00am - 1:00pm.

Pick any song of your choice. We will hear a verse and a chorus (16-32 bars)
Bring your own accompaniment music. (CD, IPOD, IPHONE...)
You will be asked to slate (Name, age, audition song)
Arrive 10 minutes prior to audition to fill out paper work
Head Shot and resume preferred

Cinderella Younger Cast: Rehearsals on Tuesdays 5:30-8:30 PM;

Cinderella Teen Cast: Rehearsals on Saturdays 2:30-5:30 PM

Rent Teen Cast: Rehearsals on Saturdays 2:30-5:30 PM

Audition Location: Cameo Theatre, 1123 E Commerce St San Antonio, TX 78205 - click for map

Click for show information and character lists for both productions

(*) RENT by Jonathan Larson, St. Mary's University, San Antonio, April 11 - 17, 2013

presents

RENT

by Jonathan Larson

Directed by Adam Burke

Musical Direction by Jacob Cantu

Scenic & Lighting Design by Dion Denevan

Choreography by Bernadette Hamilton-Brady

St. Mary's University Theatre
 

Location: 1 Camino Santa Maria, San Antonio, Texas, 78228-8580

Click to view campus map with Reinboldt Theatre highlighted

Times: April 11-14, 16-17. Curtain is at 7:30 p.m. for all performance dates.
Tickets: $15 for General Admission $10 for Students (with ID),Senior Citizens, Military and SATCO members

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For further information on reservations and ticket purchase, please contact us via e-mail at stmutheatre@stmarytx.edu or call us at 210.436.3545. Cash, checks or credit cards are accepted at the box office.

Creator Jonathan Larson summarizes his musical in December 1995 as this: "RENT is about a community celebrating life, in the face of death and AIDS, at the turn of the century." Based loosely on Puccini's LA BOHEME, RENT reflects a new generation's approach to the American musical.

This is a joint production of St. Mary's University Music and Drama Departments.

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Upcoming: Rent, the live musical, Woodlawn Theatre, San Antonio, January 27 - February 26

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presents

Rent

the live musical

book, music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson

January 27 - February 26, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 3 p.m.

Special Valentine's Day performance on Tuesday, February 14 at 8 p.m.

Woodlawn Theatre, 1920 Fredericksburg Road, San Antonio, 78201 (click for map)

Tickets $20 - $23 available on-line at www.woodlawntheatre.com

Set in the East Village of New York City, RENT is about falling in love, finding your voice and living for today. Winner of the Tony Award® for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, RENT has become a pop cultural phenomenon with songs that rock and a story that resonates with audiences of all ages.

Based loosely on Puccini’s La Boheme, RENT follows a year in the life of a group of friends struggling to make it in the big city. They include Mark, a filmmaker and the narrator of the story; his former girlfriend, Maureen, a performance artist; Maureen’s lover, Joanne, a public interest lawyer; Mark’s roommate Roger, a musician; Mimi, an exotic dancer, with whom Roger falls in love; Tom Collins, a computer genius; Collins’ lover, Angel, a street musician and drag queen; and Benny, a former member of the group who, after marrying into a wealthy family, has become their landlord. How these young bohemians negotiate their dreams, loves, and conflicts provides the narrative thread to this groundbreaking musical.Set in the East Village of New York City, RENT is about falling in love, finding your voice and living for today. Winner of the Tony Award® for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, RENT has become a pop cultural phenomenon with songs that rock and a story that resonates with audiences of all ages.

Cast: MIMI MARQUEZ-Kerissa Arrington ROGER DAVIS-Lucas Ruiz MARK COHEN-Corey Weaver MAUREEN JOHNSON-Katie Oliveira ANGEL DUMOTT SCHUNARD-Myke McAnderson TOM COLLINS-Frank Grisby JOANNE JEFERSON-Cyndi Lucas BENJAMIN COFFIN III-Dwight Robinson COVER-MIMI MARQUEZ/COMPANY-Tiffani Willis ALEXI DARLING/COMPANY-Ellen Reynolds MRS JEFFERSON,HOMELESS LADY,COAT VENDOR,SEASONS OF LOVE SOLOIST, COMPANY-Michelle Burnett MRS. COHEN, COMPANY-Natalia Skovorodiva PAUL,HOMELESS SQUEEGEE MAN,COMPANY-E.J. Crowell WAITER/COMPANY-Kevin Harris MR GREY/THE MAN-Sean Salazar COMPANY-Rachel Pena COMPANY-Katie Thompson COMPANY-Thad Payne COMPANY-Timothy Bowman

Ongoing: Rent, Zach Theatre, September 16 - November 28

UPDATE, October 10 from www.thefoodiegirls.com: Sensational news is that Foodie Girl Verity Branco has stepped up in the lead role - playing Mimi - in the hit musical, RENT!

Click for ALT review, September 24

UPDATE: Click on 'Read more' to view "Mark's Actual Movie: Zach's Rent Post Show," posted September 28 (4min 45sec)

UPDATE: Zach posts cast headshots and bios, September 8

UPDATE: Review by Nick Mannix for AustinOnStage.com, September 18

UPDATE: Review by Cate Blouke for the Statesman's Austin360 "Seeing Things" blog, September 23

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presents

Rent

September 16 - November 28
Kleberg Stage, 1421 Riverside Drive at Lamar

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m.

Tickets range from $20 to $57. $15 tickets are available to students starting one hour prior to curtain time. Charge tickets by phone at 512-476-0541, ext. 1 or visit http://www.zachtheatre.org.

Book, Music & Lyrics by Jonathan Larson | Directed by Dave Steakley | Musical Direction by Allen Robertson
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Immerse yourself in the vibrant world of New York City bohemia when ZACH transports you to the lively East Village where performance artists, musicians, and hipsters of all persuasions band together to revolt against convention. The artist squatters have taken over the theatre and have created an environment in which you are fully surrounded by Austin’s finest rock vocalists and musicians and visual artists’ creative expressions of sculptural whimsy. And when Mimi locks eyes with Roger, and Angel spies Colin, and Maureen tugs at Joanne this rock opera ignites sparks of love that redefine what family can be. Viva la vie boheme!

Read more and view videos at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Rent, Zach Theatre, September 16 - October 31

Rent is the sort of production the Zach theatre uses to pay the rent: the staging of a familiar rock and roll work with appeal for the young, for the young professionals, for the creatives and for the club goers. Seen as daring at its 1996 debut, Rent has become sufficiently mainstream that it can be staged in community theatres, summer theatres, and, this past February, even by the kidsActing studio here in Austin.

Director Dave Steakley gets a powerhouse performance from a cast consisting redundantly of "local Austin artists."

You just can't help being seduced by the spotlight numbers in this show: winsome Andrew Cannata and Kristen Bennett doing the wickedly funny Tango Maureen, the irrepressibly strutting Joshua Denning as Angel the drag queen extraordinaire in the damn-your-eyes-love-me glitzy Today 4 U (Tomorrow 4 Me), and Ginger Leigh's leering, laughing physicality in the trippy story about the cow that jumped Over the Moon.

Multi-talented Jonathan Larson did book, music and lyrics for a story that he based loosely on Puccini's La Bohème, the elegantly sentimental 1896 opera portraying a bunch of down and art artists in Paris and the doomed romance between a writer and Mimi, the street waif who dies of tuberculosis in the last act.

Puccini's work has been called the most popular opera of all time, and Larson's use of it is a savagely ironic premise. No doubt all those affluent parents in Scarsdale and similar well-trimmed suburbs (West Lake Hills, for example, or Lakeway) had the cash and leisure to buy opera tickets, as their neglected children grew up unguided and then slipped off to the grim-smeared once-upon-a-time low-rent districts of the Bowery.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: Rent, The Musical, KidsActing at Center Stage, February 19 - March 7

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presents

RENT

February 19 - March 7
Fridays - Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Sundays at 3 p.m.
Special fundraiser reception and benefit performance on Friday, March 5
Center Stage Texas, 2628 Real Street
Tickets $14.00, available on-line through Center Stage
Info (512)836-5437

Artistic Director Dede Clark and Musical Director Noel Alford celebrate the 30th year of KidsActing with the widely acclaimed musical RENT. Featuring the actors of the advanced musical program, RENT is the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to endure and create in New York City. In the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, these friends tell an unforgettable tale of learning to survive, falling in love, finding their voices, and living for today.

Upcoming: SummerStock Austin, July - August 2010

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announces the 2010 season and March auditions for

Rent
Directed by David Valdes

A rock musical with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson, Rent is based on Puccini's opera La Boheme. The story centers around a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive in New York's Lower East Side in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City. Two resident squatters are shocked when a former friend buys their building and demands back rent. This results in the eclectic neighborhood coming together for a Christmas protest after which we follow their lives for the next year.

Although the controversial themes of drugs and HIV set at the end of the 20th century in New York City may not seem timeless, Rent remains fresh for new audiences through its sheer exuberance and its longer running themes of tolerance, understanding and acceptance.

Sweet Charity
Directed by Ginger Morris

Sweet Charity, based on Federico Fellini's screenplay for Nights of Cabiria, was originally choreographed and conceived by Bob Fosse, with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields, and book by Neil Simon.

Top hats, canes, slinky costumes and Bob Fosse's stunning choreography typically outshine the true heart of this charming musical. The driving force is a young woman trying to find relevance and fulfillment in an America that didn’t readily offer opportunities to women. On a more universal level, it’s also about being trapped; trapped in dead-end jobs, toxic relationships, and the gender roles imposed by a rigid, unimaginative value system.

Featuring well known songs such as "If My Friends Could See Me Now" and "Big Spender," Sweet Charity is an upbeat, touching tale of a young woman's search for Something Better....

AUDITIONS

Auditions are set for March 7, 13, and 14. SummerStock Austin is for students enrolled in high school or college. SummerStock Austin seeks both performing artists and theatre technicial artists. CLICK for further information, schedules and application forms.