Name: _______________________________ Age Group: ___________________ Advisor: ___________________________ Major: _______________ Group: _____ Broadway Artists Alliance Broadway Artists Alliance – 201 2012 Alumni Only Session Alumni Only Session Schedule Schedule Tuesday, Tuesday, June 26 June 26 th th 10:30 AM Participants staying at the Wingate Inn meet in the Hotel Lobby for a brief (10 to 15 min.) Hotel Orientation 10:45 AM Hotel based participants check in with BAA escorts to depart for Ripley Grier Studios. Don’t be late! We will leave promptly Commuter Drop Off, Ripley Grier Studios, 520 8 th Avenue (between 36 th St. and 37 th St.) 11:00 AM Commuting students and parents of commuting students: Kindly plan to drop off students on the 16 th floor of the Ripley Grier Studios. Please do not arrive more than 10-15 minutes early. BAA reps will be available to guide you from the lobby area to the 16 th floor on Day One in order to help you get familiar with the building. Every other day, students should report directly to the 16 th floor. 11:00 AM- 11:30 AM Optional Parent Orientation with Michelle R. Lehrman (Admissions Director), Studio 16D ** PARENTS ** Parents of hotel based and commuting participants can get your program and schedule related questions answered in this brief informational meeting. 11:00 AM - 11:25 AM Welcome Back Orientation/ Duet, Trio and Scene Audition Sign Up/Theatre Games, Studio 16FG 11:30 AM - 1:25 PM Dance Master Class/Dance Elective – Mock Audition for a Broadway Show Broadway Theatre Dance - Levels 1&2, Studio 16D Hairspray/Seussical Repertoire (Advanced Beginning-Intermediate) Tyrick Wiltez Jones BAA’s Associate Director, Bway’s Finian’s Rainbow, Hairspray, Tours: Seussical, Fosse, Showboat, etc. Broadway Theatre Dance - Level 2&3, Studio 16FG Musical Theatre Combo (Intermediate-Advanced) Lisa Gajda Bway’s Catch Me if You Can, Finian’s Rainbow, Elf, Spamalot, Cry Baby, Movin’ Out, Taboo, Urban Cowboy, etc. 1:30 PM - 2:25 PM Catered Lunch, Meet With you Advisors! 2:30 PM - 4:25 PM ADVANCED MASTER CLASS IN YOUR MAJOR Voice: Group A "Only A Decade Away" Tips for choosing a variety of music from all different periods for your book (Studio 16T) Jennifer Johns BAA’s Program Director, Grease, Annie, 42 nd Street, Copacabana, Joseph…, Evita, TV/Film/Commercials etc. Voice: Group B "Only A Decade Away" Tips for choosing a variety of music from all different periods for your book (Studio 16FG) Alexander Gemignani Bway’s Sweeney Todd, The People in the Picture, Les Miserables, Sunday in the Park with George, etc. Acting: Group A Scene Study and Character Development (Studio 16E) Accessing Physical and Emotional Resources Within Acting Bridget Berger Bway’s Jersey Boys, Curtains, The Pajama Game, etc. Acting: Group B Perfecting Your Audition Monologue (Studio 16Q) Andi Hopkins BAA’s Acting Department Head, Nat’l Tours: Dreamgirls, Joseph…Dreamcoat, Ain’t Misbehavin, West Side Story, etc Dance: Group A Broadway Dance Repertoire Advanced Final Showcase Combination (16D) Tyrick Wiltez Jones BAA’s Associate Director, Bway’s Finian’s Rainbow, Hairspray, Tours: Seussical, Fosse, Showboat, etc. 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Final Showcase Music & Dance Rehearsal and Review: Studio 16D, 10-14 yr olds/ Studio 16FG, 15-21 yr olds Duet, Trio and Scene Auditions: Studios 16E & 16T Warm up for audition: Studios 16C, 16N, 16S 6:00 PM SIGN OUT Hotel Based Participants meet to be escorted back to Hotel by BAA Staff Commuting Students should be picked up and signed out from Ripley Grier Studios 11:00 PM Lights out! Rest up and prepare yourself for another busy day!
Broadway Artists Alliance Broadway Artists Alliance –– 201 201 22 Alumni Only Session Alumni Only Session ScheduleSchedule
Tuesday, Tuesday, June 26June 26 thth
10:30 AM Participants staying at the Wingate Inn meet in the Hotel Lobby for a brief (10 to 15 min.) Hotel Orientation
10:45 AM Hotel based participants check in with BAA escorts to depart for Ripley Grier Studios. Don’t be late! We will leave promptly Commuter Drop Off, Ripley Grier Studios, 520 8th Avenue (between 36th St. and 37th St.) 11:00 AM Commuting students and parents of commuting students: Kindly plan to drop off students on the 16th floor of the Ripley Grier
Studios. Please do not arrive more than 10-15 minutes early. BAA reps will be available to guide you from the lobby area to the 16th
floor on Day One in order to help you get familiar with the building. Every other day, students should report directly to the 16th floor.
11:00 AM- 11:30 AM Optional Parent Orientation with Michelle R. Lehrman (Admissions Director), Studio 16D ** PARENTS ** Parents of hotel based and commuting participants can get your program and schedule related questions answered in this brief
informational meeting.
11:00 AM - 11:25 AM Welcome Back Orientation/ Duet, Trio and Scene Audition Sign Up/Theatre Games, Studio 16FG 11:30 AM - 1:25 PM Dance Master Class/Dance Elective – Mock Audition for a Broadway Show Broadway Theatre Dance - Levels 1&2, Studio 16D Hairspray/Seussical Repertoire (Advanced Beginning-Intermediate)
Tyrick Wiltez Jones BAA’s Associate Director, Bway’s Finian’s Rainbow, Hairspray, Tours: Seussical, Fosse, Showboat, etc.
Lisa Gajda Bway’s Catch Me if You Can, Finian’s Rainbow, Elf, Spamalot, Cry Baby, Movin’ Out, Taboo, Urban Cowboy, etc.
1:30 PM - 2:25 PM Catered Lunch, Meet With you Advisors! 2:30 PM - 4:25 PM ADVANCED MASTER CLASS IN YOUR MAJOR
Voice: Group A "Only A Decade Away" Tips for choosing a variety of music from all different periods for your book (Studio 16T)
Jennifer Johns BAA’s Program Director, Grease, Annie, 42nd Street, Copacabana, Joseph…, Evita, TV/Film/Commercials etc.
Voice: Group B "Only A Decade Away" Tips for choosing a variety of music from all different periods for your book (Studio 16FG)
Alexander Gemignani Bway’s Sweeney Todd, The People in the Picture, Les Miserables, Sunday in the Park with George, etc.
Acting: Group A Scene Study and Character Development (Studio 16E) Accessing Physical and Emotional Resources Within Acting Bridget Berger Bway’s Jersey Boys, Curtains, The Pajama Game, etc.
Acting: Group B Perfecting Your Audition Monologue (Studio 16Q) Andi Hopkins BAA’s Acting Department Head, Nat’l Tours: Dreamgirls, Joseph…Dreamcoat, Ain’t Misbehavin, West Side Story, etc
Dance: Group A Broadway Dance Repertoire Advanced Final Showcase Combination (16D)
Tyrick Wiltez Jones BAA’s Associate Director, Bway’s Finian’s Rainbow, Hairspray, Tours: Seussical, Fosse, Showboat, etc.
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Final Showcase Music & Dance Rehearsal and Review: Studio 16D, 10-14 yr olds/ Studio 16FG, 15-21 yr olds Duet, Trio and Scene Auditions: Studios 16E & 16T Warm up for audition: Studios 16C, 16N, 16S 6:00 PM SIGN OUT Hotel Based Participants meet to be escorted back to Hotel by BAA Staff Commuting Students should be picked up and signed out from Ripley Grier Studios
11:00 PM Lights out! Rest up and prepare yourself for another busy day!
Wednesday, Wednesday, June 27June 27 thth
9:45 AM Hotel based participants check in with BAA escorts to depart for Ripley Grier Studios.
Don’t be late! We will leave promptly at 9:45 AM
10:00 AM Commuter Drop Off- Ripley Grier Studios, 520 8th Avenue (between 36th St. and 37th St.) 10:00 AM - 10:55 PM Vocal Warm up and Final Showcase Music Rehearsal, Morning Announcements
11:00 AM - 1:25 PM ELECTIVE MASTER CLASS (All majors mixed) Broadway Dance Repertoire (Level 2-3): Nice Work If You Can Get It (Studio 16D) Learn original choreography from Broadway’s Nice Work If You Can Get It
Cameron Adams Bway’s Nice Work If You Can Get it, How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, Promises, Promises, Shrek, etc.
TV & Film Audition Technique (Acting) (Studio 16FG) Auditioning for and Working with an NYC Agent David Doan Generation TV (One of NYC’s top Agents for Young People)
Scene Study (Acting) (Studio 16T) Bridget Berger Bway’s Jersey Boys, Curtains, The Pajama Game, etc.
Making Your Audition Song Count: The 16 Bar Audition (Voice) (Studio 16E) Alexander Gemignani Bway’s The People in the Picture, Les Miserables, Sunday in the Park with George, etc.
1:30 PM - 1:55 PM Catered Lunch 2:00 PM - 4:25 PM ADVANCED MASTER CLASS IN YOUR MAJOR Voice: Group A Musical Theatre Audition Technique (Studio 16T) Christopher Jackson Bway’s Memphis, In the Heights, Lion King, etc.
Voice: Group B Musical Theatre Audition Technique (Studio 16FG) Megan McGinnis Bway’s Les Miserables, Little Women, Parade, etc.
Acting: Group A TV & Film Audition Technique (Studio 16E) This class will be on-camera
Tyrick Wiltez Jones BAA’s Associate Director, Bway’s Finian’s Rainbow, Hairspray, Tours: Seussical, Fosse, Showboat, etc.
Acting: Group B Scene Study and Character Development (Studio 16O) Accessing Physical and Emotional Resources Within Acting Bridget Berger Bway’s Jersey Boys, Curtains, The Pajama Game, etc.
Dance: Group A Broadway Dance Repertoire: Matilda and Billy Elliot (Studio 16D)
Cara Kjellman Bway’s Billy Elliot, 42nd Street, etc.
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Final Showcase Music & Dance Rehearsal and Review Duet, Trio and Scene Rehearsals Individual Coaching Sessions - One on One work on your audition material
Dance Rehearsal- Dance Majors meet with Tyrick Wiltez Jones to work on final showcase material 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM Dinner/ Pizza Party! Dinner provided for all students in between rehearsal and the evening event!
* Parents please note that all students must remain at Ripley Grier Studios. BAA Staff will escort students directly to the evening’s Broadway Show. Parents holding show tickets to the same show should meet us at the theater’s lobby.
8:00 PM BROADWAY SHOW!
Broadway Show: Nice Work If You Can Get It All participants will be attending this show! (Walk to theatre escorted by BAA Staff)
After the Show Chaperones escort BAA hotel participants back to Wingate Inn and Wyndham Garden Hotel
Commuter sign out/ pick up at the Imperial Theatre (Nice Work…) 249 West 45th Street (between 7th and 8th Avenues) (11:00pm sharp pick up! There will be a Cast Talk-Back after the show, however we must leave the theater by 11pm promptly!) 11:30 PM Lights out! Rest up and prepare yourself for another busy day!
Thursday, Thursday, June 28June 28 thth 9:45 AM Hotel based participants check in with BAA escorts to depart for Ripley Grier Studios.
Don’t be late! We will leave promptly at 9:45 AM
10:00 AM Commuter Drop Off- Ripley Grier Studios, 520 8th Avenue (between 36th St. and 37th St.) 10:00 AM - 10:55 AM Vocal Warm up and Final Showcase Music Rehearsal, Morning Announcements Work with Top Music Directors and Vocal Coaches on Broadway Repertoire
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM **SPECIAL “Let’s Talk Shop: The Business of Show” Master Class for PARENTS**, Studio 16D **PARENTS** with Jennifer Johns, Program Director Get your questions answered regarding New York auditions, the unions, marketing,
mailings, pictures and résumés, working well with an agent or manager, entertainment taxes, choosing and preparing for college auditions, casting director submissions, transitioning from kids in the biz to young adult careers, etc. ** This class is optional and open to all parents and participant guardians **
11:00 AM - 1:25 PM ELECTIVE MASTER CLASS (All majors mixed) Broadway Dance Repertoire (Level 1-2): Hairspray (Studio 16E) Learn original choreography from Broadway’s Hairspray
Tyrick Wiltez Jones BAA’s Associate Director, Bway’s Finian’s Rainbow, Hairspray, Tours: Seussical, Fosse, Showboat, etc.
Cold Reading Audition Technique (Acting) (Studio 16T) Bob Cline Casting Director – Bob Cline Casting Perfecting Your Audition Monologues (Acting) (Studio 16O) Please have at least 1 contemporary one minute monologue prepared for this class
"Only A Decade Away" (Voice) (Studio 16N) Tips for choosing a variety of music from all different periods for your book
Julie Danielson Telsey + Co. Casting Assistant / Music Director / Vocal Coach / Musician (Spring Awakening), MTV’s Legally Blonde: The Search for the Next Elle Woods
Song Interpretation (Voice) (Studio 16FG) Beth Leavel Bway’s The Drowsy Chaperone (Tony® Award Winner), Baby It’s You, 42nd Street, Crazy for You, etc.
1:30 PM - 1:55 PM Catered Lunch 2:00 PM - 4:25 PM ADVANCED MASTER CLASS IN YOUR MAJOR
Voice: Group A Song Interpretation: The Story of the Song (Studio 16T) Beth Leavel Bway’s The Drowsy Chaperone (Tony® Award Winner), Baby It’s You, 42nd Street, Crazy for You, etc.
Voice: Group B Making the Song Your Own (Studio 16FG) Andrea Burns Bway’s In the Heights, Beauty and the Beast, etc.
Acting: Group A Scene Study and Character Development (Studio 16E) Bob Cline Casting Director – Bob Cline Casting
Acting: Group B Scene Study and Character Development (Studio 16O) Alexander Gemignani Bway’s The People in the Picture, Les Miserables, Sunday in the Park with George, etc.
Dance: Group A Broadway Dance Repertoire: Ghost (Studio 16D) Michael Balderrama Bway’s Ghost, In the Heights, etc.
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Final Showcase Music & Dance Rehearsal and Review, Studio 16D, Studio 16FG Duet, Trio and Scene Rehearsals, Studio 16E, 16N, 16O, 16S, 16C 4:45 PM – 6:00 PM **PARENTS** SPECIAL Broadway Dance Master Class for PARENTS**, Studio 16T **PARENTS** Parents learn to Broadway Boogie with Associate Director Tyrick Wiltez Jones (Featuring Broadway Choreography and Excerpts
from shows like Mamma Mia, Legally Blonde, and Hairspray) ** This class is optional and open to all parents and participant guardians ** Please note this class was previously on Friday and has been rescheduled to today, Thursday!
6:00 PM SIGN OUT Hotel Based Participants meet to be escorted back to Hotel by BAA Staff Commuting Students should be picked up and signed out from Ripley Grier Studios
11:00 PM Lights out! Rest up and prepare yourself for another busy day!
Friday, Friday, June 29June 29 thth 9:10 AM Hotel based participants check in with BAA escorts to depart for Ripley Grier Studios.
Don’t be late! We will leave promptly at 9:15 AM 10:00 AM Commuter Drop Off- Ripley Grier Studios, 520 8th Avenue (between 36th St. and 37th St.) 10:00 AM - 10:55 AM Vocal Warm up and Final Showcase Music Rehearsal, Morning Announcements
11:00 AM - 1:25 PM ELECTIVE MASTER CLASS (All majors mixed) Auditioning For Broadway (Voice) (Studio 16FG) Christopher Jackson Bway’s Memphis, In the Heights, Lion King, etc.
“The Healthy Belt and Singer’s Wisdom” (Voice) (Studio 16T) Understanding Healthy Vocal Technique & Song Interpretation Celeste Simone Top NYC Vocal Coach to the Stars
The Business of Broadway: “Let’s Talk Shop” (Studio 16E) Choosing and preparing for college auditions, preparing to audition in NYC, the unions, marketing yourself, mailings, Ross Reports, pictures and resumes, transitioning from the child to young adult actor, exploring other jobs in the theatre, working with an agent etc.
Jennifer Johns BAA’s Program Director, Grease, 42nd Street, Copacabana, Joseph…, Evita, TV/Film/Commercials etc.
The Musical Theatre “Cold” Song (Voice) (Studio 16D) Preparing for the final callback - cold reading with new music
Alexander Gemignani Bway’s The People in the Picture, Les Miserables, Sunday in the Park with George, etc.
1:30 PM - 1:55 PM Catered Lunch 2:00 PM - 4:25 PM ADVANCED MASTER CLASS IN YOUR MAJOR
Voice: Group A “Making it on Broadway” The 16 Bar Audition (Studio 16T) Bob Cline Casting Director – Bob Cline Casting
Voice: Group B “Making it on Broadway” The 16 Bar Audition (Studio 16FG) Seth Rudetsky Bway Actor, Music Director, Radio Host, Author, etc.
Acting: Group A Cold Reading Audition Technique: Auditioning for Comedy (Studio 16E) Leslie Zaslower Executive Casting Director
Acting: Group B Cold Reading Audition Technique (Studio 16Q) Joe Langworth Director/Choreographer, Bway’s South Pacific, Next Fall, etc.
Dance: Group A Broadway Dance Repertoire, Styles, and Skills (Studio 16D) Jeff Shade Top NYC Director/Choreographer, Performer: Bway’s Chicago, Sweet Charity (director/choreographer Bob Fosse), Radio City Hall, etc.
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Final Showcase Music & Dance Rehearsal and Review, Studio 16D, Studio 16FG Duet, Trio and Scene Rehearsals, Studio 16E, 16N, 16O, 16S, 16C 4:45 PM – 6:00 PM **PARENTS** Please note that the SPECIAL Broadway Dance Master Class for PARENTS**
that was previously scheduled for this date and time has been MOVED to Thursday, June 28th! 6:00 PM SIGN OUT Hotel Based Participants meet to be escorted back to Hotel by BAA Staff Commuting Students should be picked up and signed out from Ripley Grier Studios
11:00 PM Lights out! Rest up and prepare yourself for another busy day!
Saturday, Saturday, June 30June 30 thth 9:45 AM Hotel based participant’s check in with BAA escorts to depart for Ripley Grier Studios.
Don’t be late! We will leave promptly at 9:45 AM
10:00 AM Commuter Drop Off- Ripley Grier Studios, 520 8th Avenue (between 36th St. and 37th St.)
10:00 AM - 10:55 AM Warm up and Showcase Dress Rehearsal Work with Top Music Directors and Vocal Coaches on Broadway Repertoire 11:00 AM - 12:55 PM Tony® Award Winning Guest Speaker – Q&A Session Studio 16FG **Our Special Surprise TONY® Award-Winning Guest Speaker will answer your questions about the business of Musical Theatre! ** 1:00 PM - 1:25 PM Catered Lunch 1:30 PM - 1:55 PM Final Showcase Half Hour Call 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM FINAL INDUSTRY PANEL - Showcase your coached and prepared material for direct industry feedback! Studios 16FG & 16D
Past Industry guests have included: Abrams Artists Agency Binder Casting Nora Brennan Casting Jim Carnahan Casting Carson Adler Agency Carson Kolker Agency CESD Talent Agency Creative Artists Michael Cassara Casting Clemmons/Dewing Casting Bob Cline Casting DDO Artists Agency DGRW, Inc. Talent Agency
Gersh Agency Generation TV Shirley Grant Management Holly Anne Ruggiero, Director Frontier Booking International Megan Larche Casting Nani-Saperstein Management Nickelodeon Talent and Casting RKS Management Tara Rubin Casting Sinclair Management Station Three Entertainment Telsey + Company Casting
(The final Industry list is subject to change based on casting schedules and availability. No less than 15 Industry guests will be present for the Panel and Final Showcase!)
(Sorry, no parents or guests: Industry only!)
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM Farewells! Group Photo! Parents, please do not arrive to pick up your students before 6:00 pm (Waiting area is limited)
All Students (including hotel students) should be picked up and signed out from Ripley Grier Studios
