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Month: January, 2018
January 30, 2018
General Audition & General Audition Notice for Young People’s Theatre
General Audition and General Musical Audition Notice
Young People’s Theatre (YPT) is accepting resumes for its 2018 General and General Musical Auditions on March 5th, 6th and 7th at 165 Front Street East, Toronto ON M5A 3Z4. Members of Canadian Actor’s Equity Association who haven’t previously auditioned will have priority.
YPT wants to see as broad of a range of actors as possible at our auditions. Performers of all races, ethnicities and body types are strongly encouraged to request an audition. We would also encourage individuals with a range of All Abilities, regardless of level of training, to apply.
Requirements:
General Audition: 2 contrasting modern monologues, of which one must be by a Canadian playwright, totaling no more than 5 minutes.
General Musical Audition: One Broadway-style song and one monologue. An accompanist will be provided.
Send headshot/resume/cover letter clearly marked “General Audition” or “General Musical Audition” to the attention of Stephen Colella. Please do not apply if you have auditioned for YPT in the last three years. No e-mail submissions. Materials must be received by 5 pm on Wednesday February 7th. Only those selected for an audition will be contacted.
Please send materials to:
Stephen Colella
YPT
165 Front Street East
Toronto, ON M5A 3Z4
January 29, 2018
ExpressionWorks Update
Dear ExpressionWorks Family,
We had yet another fabulous week last week.
Dancing to songs like Shake it Off during our Stretch was fun. The group clearly enjoyed getting silly and had fun being loose. Everyone was laughing as we chose different tongue twisters to explore with during our communication circle.
We loved watching some of the participants showcase their dance movements. During news we could see many participants were working in new terms and words along with different phrasing to express themselves. This was exciting to see. Our hope is to continue expanding language as we move on in further weeks.
During our Photography segment, no one was shy about modeling, or while taking on role of Head Photographer. It was also fun to take turns being Directors. Everyone was ready to showcase their talents during this session and it was lovely to see. Everyone had fun dressing up and was creative using their imaginations when enacting the scenes they chose out of the several that were presented to them.
Many favourites were identified at the end of the night: A Dance Party, A Crime Scene, A Bear Chasing Campers, Two Queens Getting Married, Riding the TTC, Two Countries at War
Another night of great photography and wonderful memories made!
January 25, 2018
DramaWorks Update – Check in
Hello DramaWay DramaWorks Families and Performers:
We’d strongly encourage everyone in DramaWorks to work hard on learning your lines OUTSIDE of Program as well as at Program. If you only practise when at class, it’s not likely you will feel confident when performing at our big year end showcase on May 14 (for DramaWorks Mississauga) and June 16 for (DramaWorks A, B, East & West). Therefore, we ask that you work with your Support Workers/EA’s /Staff at Program or Family Members, to memorize your lines as much as possible. We also still have our dance for Hot Lunch Jam posted previously, so we encourage everyone to learn and work on that weekly. We strongly encourage you to keep learning and practising the dance and lines weekly.
You are likely aware, that our staff feel it’s imperative that our Performers follow-up with at home weekly rehearsals. Rehearsing outside of class is so necessary and strongly encouraged. We understand and acknowledge that Family members/Caregivers don’t know our specific choreography or the movement sections, but lines are something that everyone can help with as they are clearly outlined in the scripts. Please know that we respect everyone is busy, and that it’s not always realistic to find time in our hectic lives to practise. However, keeping that in mind, this is a gentle reminder that it does indeed help to rehearse assigned lines at least 5 minutes per day or a minimum of 3 times weekly OUTSIDE of Program. Please do what works for your lives. DramaWay is not meant to bring on stress, but for pure enjoyment and learning. We know that our particpiants return year after year as they love to perform. Part of performing is putting on the best show possible. This includes rehearsing when time allows.
For the Actors who have roles that contain a monologue (group of lines one after another), it does definitely help to memorize and review the lines daily. Otherwise, the monologue sections in particular won’t be as powerful as Danielle will have to Narrate in between. The less she has to Narrate, the more focus there is on the actual Performers themselves. We want to spotlight everyone’s amazing talent as as possible.
For those playing the role of Lydia Grant/Dance/Musical Theatre Teacher we’d like to give you a few reminders. This is one of the most coveted roles for this Production; many were hoping to get this role, but you were chosen and selected to play her. We love this character and want the audience to love her to. We thought it might help if we attached the famous Speech from Fame, so that everyone playing the Lydia Grant character can watch it and get inspired by it. This is the character we based our Teacher off of. Each person in this role, has had their speech edited and adapted specifically based on how we think s/he may handle it best. But we may still have to do a few tweaks as we go along. From what we’ve seen in class so far, it’s been going wonderfully and everyone is understanding the emotion this character brings to the table!
We encourage you to do the best to help with the memorization of the lines as much as possible.
Here is the clip to help:
Let us know if you have any questions or concerns.
Thanks
January 23, 2018
ExpressionWorks update – January 2018
Happy New Year! Welcome Back Friends to another exciting term filled with fun activities and interesting topics to explore.
To kickstart the year the first class reminded some of us when we were in school. It’s like after a long break, there’s such a sense of joy and happiness seeing your friends again. We were delighted to see everyone once again.
It was heart warming to watch everyone wishing each other well and exchanging stories and details about what everyone did over the holidays. It was wonderful to see everyone again with their smiling faces and eagerness to get back into the rhythm of our Program.
We started the night off with our warm-ups and everyone had a chance to lead the group in a dance to the song of their choice. Next, the group was eager to share their news that then led to us dancing our way into the communication circle. It was nice to hear updates from everyone. We sure are a busy group !
The transition from snack to the second hour was very smooth, everyone was calm and relaxed. The second hour was focused towards photographing each other and creating memories with a sense of accomplishment. Everyone got to dress up, direct the models on how to pose, learn about angles and shots (medium, close, low, high, far), learn about lighting, take profiles, portraits and group shots. We have posted some of these on our Instagram account.
The night ended on a very positive note, we took some great photos as a group and individually. All in all, it was a perfect day back.
Until the next class, have yourselves a wonderful weekend
January 4, 2018
Campaign almost complete!
Happy New year Everyone!
We have been extremely busy maintaining our online Campaign and getting ready for the distribution of our DramaWorks Scripts.
We are attaching the document we gave out and sent out via email with our January Start dates for all the DramaWay programs, Please check to ensure you know when your class/program starts back.
We also wanted to let you know that we are delighted to announce we only have $529 left to raise in our campaign. We encourage you to share the campaign with family and friends as we are finally so close to our goal. We have until January 30th to raise all the funds.
Thanks for your time and consideration.Program 2017 end dates & 2018 start dates – SENT OUT BY HOLLY jan 2018
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