Audition Extravaganza Day at FSPA!
SAVE THE DATE! Saturday, January 2, 2016 is Audition Extravaganza Day at FSPA!
All student productions include the musicals Grease and At the Hop!; the ballets Class Concert, Graduation Ball, and Western Revelries; the plays Mother Courage and Her Children and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves; and Opera Scenes and Arias. Must be enrolled in any class at FSPA to audition. All students who audition will be cast in the shows.
Auditions will also be held for the FSPA Summer Ballet Intensive and Future Shock.
GREASE
GREASE is the word! The worldwide sensation comes to THE BLACK BOX, with iconic characters, '50s pop culture, and electrifying rock 'n roll style. Written by Warren Casey and Jim Jacobs, the powerhouse Broadway musical became a Hollywood movie classic starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. Featuring Rydell High's Danny, Sandy, the T-Birds and Pink Ladies, the original high school musical includes energetic dance numbers and the hit songs “We Go Together,” “Summer Nights, “Greased Lightnin'” and "Born to Hand Jive.”
AT THE HOP!
Dust off your black leather and pink satin jackets! Don your poodle skirts and slick back your pompadours. Hop on back to the Fabulous Fifties for this original good-time musical revue written especially for our young musical theater performers!
METAMORPHOSES
Mary Zimmerman’s renowned theatrical adaptation based on the classical mythology of Ovid. The ancient stories from Ovid’s epic poem of the same name are woven together in a series of vignettes, retold by FSPA’s ensemble of student actors under the direction of Nick Paone. United by a common theme of transformation and change, the tales of Orpheus and Eurydice, Alcyone and Ceyx, Eros and Psyche, Aphrodite and more are explored for contemporary audiences with striking relevance to modern times.
ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES
An adaptation of a classic Arabian Night story, this exciting tale is about a boy who stumbles upon the loot of 40 thieves and steals some for himself. Ali Baba learns valuable lessons about the consequences of his actions, the dangers of greed and the value of honesty.
CLASS CONCERT, GRADUATION BALL, AND WESTERN REVELRIES
Originally choreographed in the 1960s for the Bolshoi Ballet School, Class Concert follows the structure of a ballet class and showcases dancers’ technique and precision. Graduation Ball is a comedic, exuberant ballet set to the music of Johann Strauss II. Aaron Copland provides the lively score to Western Revelries, which features dancing cowboys, chickadees and a turkey in the straw, and is choreographed by guest artist Donna Bonasera.
OPERA SCENES AND ARIAS
This FSPA Music Department presentation features opera scenes and arias from some of the most beloved repertory by Georges Bizet, Antonin Dvorak, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gioachino Rossini and Johann Strauss II.
Audition Times and Performance Dates:
Auditions for Grease (ages 13-18) and At the Hop (ages 6-13) will be held at the following times: 11:00-11:30 ages 6-9; 11:30-12:00 ages 10-13; and 12:00 (ages 14-18). Performance Dates: Grease February 5 and 6, At the Hop January 30. Please prepare 16 bars of a musical theater song.
Opera Scenes and Arias is open to students ages 12+ and enrolled in private voice lessons at FSPA. The audition time is 1:00. The performance date is May 27. Please prepare 32 bars of a classical song or aria.
Plays: Metamorphoses (ages 12-18) and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (ages 6-12). Auditions will be held at 1:00 (ages 6-9); 1:45 (ages 10-13) and 2:30 (ages 14-18). Performance Dates for Metamorphoses are March 25 and 26 and Ali Baba is March 26.
Ballet: Audition times are 10:10:45 Ballet IV/V/VI and Ballet E (off-pointe); 11:00-12:00 Ballet III/IV/V/VI (on pointe); 12:00-12:30 Ballet I (1st and 2nd year and 12:30-1:00 Ballet II/III (off-pointe). Peformance date: April 2.
There is a $150 participation fee per production.