Thursday, May 15, 2008

Musical Theatre Audition Workshop tonight

I'm excited about attending Jane Seaman's musical theatre acting and audition technique workshop tonight. Something like a dozen young actors, mostly early to mid-twenties, gather to rehearse material, work moments, learn those helpful little vocal tricks. I was asked to attend tonight to hear them and enter into the critique from a songwriter's point of view. When they are done I've expected to regale them with half a dozen numbers to expose them to new work. That will be fun. I'm opening with "Waterloo" and "The Golden Boy of Ames" from Iowa 08, then "When I Imagined Me" and "My First Mistake" from The Conjuring, and I will close with "When You Loved Me" and "The Man Reading Kafka on the Train" from Sylvia So Far. I've gotten to the point where I adore opportunities to perform my stuff and, in the case of girl songs like "Waterloo" and "Imagined Me", classes and seminars create the chance to sing songs I couldn't perform at, say, Don't Tell Mama. So tonight should be fun. And I think I'll drop off at Suite afterwards for a quick drink.

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