Spring Musical Production Team & More!

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 15:17:38 -0500

Hello everybody! Here's some new stuff we wanted to share with you.

Legally Blonde Creative Team

We are now accepting applications to be a part of the creative team for our spring production of Legally Blonde. This group will include Assistant Director, Vocal Director, Stage Manager (& Assistant), Intimacy Choreographer, and Choreographer. If interested, please fill out this form before December 12 at 4 PM. Interviews will be conducted after the form has closed.

Legally Blonde Creative Team Application

Future Club Communication

Starting this spring semester, announcements from the MTC Executive Board will be sent out using myUMBC. All the information will still be available to everyone, but this will allow other students who aren't already involved to see what is going on. You can also easily scroll back and find other information in a centralized place (rather than getting lost in our busy inboxes).

Don't fret if you're unsure how to find that. We will give a quick demonstration during our GBM this week. Here's a step by step process to make sure you will continue getting our emails:

1. Login to myUMBC

2. At the top, click "Groups."

3. Scroll down to "Browse Groups" and choose "Arts & Media."

4. Find "Musical Theater Club" among the clubs listed (I see it about halfway down the list).

5. In the top right, click the green "Follow" button.

6. From there, you can edit your notifications from the club.

None = None (obvi)

Important Only = all emails (what you already receive)

All Updates = all emails, notifications when events are added

This email will be posted on both myUMBC and sent through the email group, so if you receive both emails already, you're good to go!

Audition for the Theater Department

The UMBC Theater Department has extended an invitation to you all to audition for their spring production of Slime. Here is the invitation sent by them. For reference, Legally Blonde is scheduled to run from April 19th - 21st, so the performances should not conflict. Any questions about these auditions can be sent to Tessara Morgan Farley at tessara@umbc.edu.

Slime

By Bryony Lavery

Directed by: Nigel Semaj

Proscenium Theatre

We are looking for dancers and actors who consider themselves strong dancers and movers to audition for the following bolded roles in Slime by Byrony Lavery:

DUMBO she/her Dance major, ASL-trained signer. Elective mute.

BARB she/her animal language post-graduate[spec.northern marine mammals]

OLA she/her animal language post-graduate[spec.northern sea birds] Activist.

COCO she/her animal behaviour major

FREZZLE he/him animal language post graduate[Spec,Dolphins]

EV he/him Business & IT studies

GOD he/him Dance major , minoring in animal movement

MOVEMENT ENSEMBLE

There will be a movement ensemble of three. These performers will play various animals, as well as other non-human elements as needed.

About the play:

Welcome to the Third Annual Slime Crisis Conference! Seven grad students, all fluent in animal languages, linguistics, and culture, join delegates of almost every species to save life on earth from a toxic slime. As they debate and translate for dolphins, seabirds, and polar bears, they ask, "Who is coming to save us?" The answer might surprise you…

About the movement:

Slime will use a combination of contemporary, modern, and inventive movement. There will be pieces that will utilize traditional contemporary and modern dance and others will be pure invented movement that is dance adjacent to portray animals, water, air, and other non-human aspects of the world. The movement ensemble will be the primary performers dancing.

Content Disclosure:

This play includes American Sign Language, invented language, profanity, puppetry, heavy physical and vocal demand, and movement. This play portrays apocalyptic scenarios and circumstances and talks of death. It also includes kissing and embracing. Please note the play references a stylized rape in the last few scenes. This will be cut in our production.

Who can audition?

Any UMBC student registered for Spring 2024 is welcome to audition.

What’s the Commitment?

After casting, actors and understudies will enroll for THTR 390 (3 credits.) Rehearsals meet M-F, 6:30 - 10:00 pm, with extended hours during tech, dress rehearsal and performance weeks.

Rehearsal Schedule: Monday – Friday, 6:30 - 10:00 pm

First Rehearsal: Monday, January 29, 2024

Tech Week Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Performances: April 4, 5, 11 (brush up), 12, 13 at 8:00pm

April 6, 14 at 2:00pm

Strike: Monday, April 15 through Tuesday, April 16

Audition Policy

Everyone who auditions, regardless of major or track, agrees to "play as cast." This means by auditioning you are committing to accepting any role or understudy assignment, and are available for the rehearsal and production schedule.

How to audition?

Please go here to fill out your Audition form then Disclosure form. Once those forms are completed, you will be directed to the General Auditions Sign Up sheet.

General Auditions

Wednesday, December 6, from 7:00 - 10:00 pm, Dance Cube

Please prepare one 90-second non-realism text (big, bold characters in high-stakes situation), written between 1970 and now. If interested and do not have a monologue please prepare the following text from the play:

GOD

day two

weird red and purple sunrise….

one or more might photograph this weird sunrise…

I'm in with the fish….

he is with a…

There's this beautiful bump-head parrotfish

From the Palmyra Atoll

I get in the presentation tank with her…

She's

A little tremulous

come a long way

out of her comfort zone

all

Trembles and skitters….

I mirror her

I'm like

I'm fish I'm shoal I protect until she settles

I listen

look into her

her eye

read

She says

"We are not blamers

We are fish

We understand that you must eat us

We eat each other other species vegetation

It is how"

then

She's whoosh down to the bottom of the aquarium

Where she thinks it’s safe

So I'm whoosh down with her

And she’s shimmering with….

"But Land Creatures

You

Sending

Dangerous

Coming

larger

From your us

Into our us"

And now she's as deep as she can get she's on the aquarium floor

And she's pulsing with colour like she's an engine

"This slime here

from You

You put shit in our us

Our cleaning fish have been cleaning but cannot clean all your shit"

Then she does this immense leap

Up from the bottom and she's into the air

And she's communicating

fiercely

"You are helping Slime to kill us

Read the script for Slime thoroughly. The script is available for check-out in the Theatre Office (PAHB 322).

Callbacks

Thursday, December 7, from 7:00 - 10:00 pm, Dance Cube

Any materials needed for the callbacks will be made available in advance and/or at the callbacks. Callbacks will involve movement. Students should wear clothes best suitable for movement.

Actors will be notified after the general auditions as to when they should arrive at the callback. However, all students should be prepared to attend the callbacks in the meantime; directors are not obliged to accommodate conflicts.

Questions? Contact Tessara Morgan Farley at tessara@umbc.edu

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President: Andrew Opincar (He/Him)

Vice President: Morgan Decker (She/Her)

Treasurer: Trent Longest (He/Him)

Secretary: M Kidwell (They/Them)

Public Relations Officer: Kim Alston-Akers (She/They)

Human Relations Officer: Ann Davies (She/They) HR Form

Production Manager: Chris Hutton (He/Him)

Club Advisor: Suzanne Braunshweig sbraun@umbc.edu