Tuesdays, 7:00:00 PM - 10:00:00 PM and Saturdays, 10:00:00 AM- 1:00:00 PM
3/16 - 6/15, plus 6/16 (6-11pm)
Students on-call Wednesdays
Performances 6/17-6/19 and 6/24-6/26
Instructors: Paul Douglas Michnewicz and Elisa Rosman
This double session course takes students through the entire process of rehearsing and performing a major musical. The course replicates a typical professional production experience, from learning the notes through taking the bow. Issues explored include vocal production, how to act a song, how to sing a scene, defining the arc of a character, and all other aspects of singing and acting a musical role. No experience is necessary, but major roles will be assigned by audition. Chorus roles will not require auditions and will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. This year the course culminates in six public performances of Merrily We Roll Along, one of Stephen Sondheim’s best-loved and most accessible shows. Many roles for actors and singers of all types, at all levels of experience. Call 202-824-0449 or email amal@theatrelab.org to schedule an audition. REGISTRATION AVAILABLE ONLY FOR THOSE CAST IN PRODUCTION
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| Paul Douglas is the Artistic Director of Theater Alliance where he directed 13 productions including the critically acclaimed Lazarus Syndrome, Gospel at Colonus, The Spitfire Grill and 3/4 of a Mass for St. Vivian (nominated for the Helen Hayes Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Work). He continues his long relationship with VSA arts, directing 18 world premier productions for the Playwright Discovery Program at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts where he also directs the International Young Soloists Concert and has been the Start With The Arts Festival Director. He has directed for the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities, the Source Festival, the Chicago Humanities Festival, Madcap Players, Scena Theater and others, the Virginia Opera and the Maryland Opera Studio and Assistant Directed at The Washington Opera, Houston Grand Opera and Wolf Trap Opera. He holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. |
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| Elisa Rosman has music directed extensively at community theaters in the DC-VA area. Credits include Passion, Falsettos, Side Show, and Suburb (all at Elden Street Players), A New Brain (Foundry Players), Urinetown, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Honk!, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Mame, and Merrily We Roll Along (all at Reston Community Players). Elisa has also music directed two “Broadway Lights the Night” benefits. This winter she will be music directing I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change for the Reston Community Players, and this summer, she will be music directing Little Women with the McLean Community Players. By day Elisa is a policy consultant on early childhood issues as well as mom to three. |
