AT: REHEARSAL & PERFORMANCE
Do you want to feel like a real, actual, WORKING actor again? PAUSE on preparing to be an audition machine with Actor Therapy’s R&P (Rehearsal and Performance) Class.
Past Sessions of Rehearsal & Performance have focused on RSO’s 35MM: THE CLASS; RADIO MUSIC (Pop, Rock, Country, Folk, & Jazz) (with special guest teachers Jessie Hooker-Bailey, Lindsay Levine, Emily Kristen Morris, & Drew Gasparini); THE MUSIC OF ANDREW LIPPA & MICHAEL JOHN LACHIUSA (with special guest teachers Eden Espinosa, Julia Murney, and Kate Baldwin); THE MUSIC OF JASON ROBERT BROWN (with special guest teachers Hunter Foster, Adam Kantor, and Elena Shaddow); THE MUSIC OF STEPHEN SCHWARTZ; THE MUSIC OF STEPHEN SONDHEIM (with special guest teachers Kate Baldwin, Adam Chanler-Berat, Britney Coleman, Alexander Gemignani, Telly Leung, Heath Saunders, and Eleri Ward); THE MUSIC OF KANDER & EBB (with special guest teachers Kate Baldwin, Julia Murney, and Ann L. Nathan); CONTEMPORARY M.T. SONGWRITERS (with special guest teachers Adam Gwon, Jeff Blumenkrantz, and Zoe Sarnak); JEANINE TESORI & LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA (with special guest teachers Kyle Beltran, Kirsten Wyatt, Stephen Sposito, & Taylor Iman-Jones); and SIR ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER (with special guest teachers Sara Jean Ford, Meghan Picerno, Jason Gotay, & Michael Patrick Walker.)
CLASS STRUCTURE
CLASS 1: Students have a mock audition (as though auditioning for a musical revue of songs by that session’s composer), singing from their own books and practicing a strategic audition (what songs do you pick to encourage the folx behind the table to see you for the material you see for yourself?) Students will then be “cast”* in two or more songs by the composer and will be assigned that material to work on throughout the 5-week session. *Please note that all songs and roles are open to students of all gender-identities.
CLASSES 2–4: Students will coach the material with Actor Therapy staff & special guest teachers.
CLASS 5: Students will rehearse their final performance, and then present their material to a small audience of invited friends/family and guests from the Actor Therapy community.
The class will be offered in-person only at Open Jar Studios.
WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS CLASS?
This class is ideal for early-career actors who are anxious to dig into work, who are looking to perform full songs in a more serious (but safe!) setting, who are looking to collaborate with other artists and to get new footage for their websites and social media.
Ryan Scott Oliver introducing the final performance for the first installment of “Actor Therapy Rehearsal & Performance: The Music of Stephen Sondheim” in early 2022.
UPCOMING…
R&P SESSION 71 - THE MUSIC OF STEPHEN SONDHEIM
(May 9th — June 6th, 2024)
WITH SPECIAL GUEST TEACHERS TBA
