As part of the Summer Research Community, Dr. Charles Gran (Music) and Prof. David Charles Goyette (Theater) have been awarded an Interdisciplinary Research Community Grant. This summer, they will be mentoring students Shelley Washington (composer, Music) and Joshua Reinhardt (bookwriter, Theater/Creative Writing) in the creation of a new musical. The students were selected in a competitive process, and have been awarded $2,500 each in support of their work.  The intensive 8-week program will result in a completed book (the play) and score ready for a performance at a later date.

Truman Office of Student Research

Departments of Theatre and Music

 Summer opportunity:
Write a musical.
Get paid.

 Two $2500 individual grants available for this program:

One composer, one playwright.

 This is an opportunity for 2 students to collaborate on a
one-act musical this summer.

Each student will receive a $2500 grant from the
Office of Student Research.

The students will be mentored by
David Charles Goyette (Theater)
and Charles Gran (Music).

 Requirements:

1. You are continuing at Truman in the Fall of 2013.
2. You will be in residence in Kirksville for the duration of the 8-week program.

To apply :

Application deadline: Friday, March 29th, 2013.

Composers: Email your interest to Dr. Gran (cgran@truman.edu). Please include a list of any past experience you have in songwriting, composing, as well as other music experience (lessons, courses, workshops, performing, etc.).  Example work attached or linked is encouraged.

Playwrights: Email your interest to Prof. Goyette (dcgoyette@truman.edu). Please include a list of any past experience you have in playwriting, other creative writing, other theater experience (acting, directing, tech, etc.), and a 10 page playwriting sample (PDF).

7 New Directors Auditioning For 7 Different One Act Plays

The Directing Class will be holding auditions for the Spring 2013 One Act Festival. Auditions Monday, March 18th at 6:30 pm in the Ophelia Parrish Black Box Theatre on the 2nd floor. All Truman students are encouraged to audition. Every audition is limited to 60 seconds in which to demonstrate to the directors what their talents are. Performers are encouraged to creatively engage their bodies, their voices and their imaginations in order to be considered. Any text may be used or devised for the audition. Examples include but are not limited to monologues from plays, poems, prose, comedic sketches, back of a cereal box, etc. Auditioners are allowed to team up for the audition and will be allowed to add their allotted time together.

Callbacks will be held on Tuesday, March 19 and Wednesday, March 20. Cast lists will be posted on Thursday, March 21 on the bulletin board outside OP 1331.  Performances are Thursday, May 2 and Friday, May 3 at 8:00 pm.

STAGE MANAGERS–if you want to stage manage one of the shows in the 2013-2014 Truman Theatre Season, you need to submit a letter of application no later than Thursday, March 28th at 5 p.m.  You may compose only one letter, but please submit a copy of the letter to each director you’re hoping to work with.  Show #1 will be a contemporary comedy directed by Randy Bame.  Show #2 will be a Modern classic (something that could be from Hist-Lit 3), directed by Dana Smith.  Show #3 will be a classic play (History-Lit 2-ish) directed by David Charles Goyette, and Show #4 will be a contemporary musical directed by Dana Smith.

Your letter of application should:

* Address your experience in stage management;

* Discuss your unique approach to the job, including a philosophical statement about what a good stage manager should do and be;

* Indicate which shows you’re hoping to work on, ranked in ascending order with top choice as #1, second choice as #2, etc.

* Include a statement regarding your ability to maintain good standing at the university (keep grades up–you must be in good standing already in order to be eligible for SM positions)

* Include a list of courses that you are planning on taking in the fall, including credit hours of each.

We look forward to hearing from you!  If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Smith at dasmith@truman.edu.

Sign ups will be for 5 minute time slots and will be posted outside the scene shop around February 25. Please prepare a monologue of approximately 1 minute, either of your own choosing or from one of the selections from show. Below is a link to the selections and more information about monologues. Copies will also be available in the theatre library and the Department office OP 1109.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/56649999/Final%20Big%20Meal%20Audition%20Monologues.pdf

Callbacks will take place on March 4 and will be prepared readings from the script. There will be a reader in the room who will read with everyone who has a callback.

A tentative rehearsal schedule is posted below. Please note that while most weeks will be Sunday-Thursday 6:00-9:00, there are rehearsals the last Sunday of Spring break and Easter Monday. Please also note that from tech week on rehearsals will run longer than 9:00. If you have any conflicts, please make sure to list them on your audition form.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/56649999/Big%20Meal%20Production%20Schedule%20Tentative.pdf

PLAY DESCRIPTION: Somewhere in America, in a typical suburban restaurant on a typical night, Sam and Nicole first meet. Sparks fly.  And so begins an expansive tale that traverses five generations of a modern family, from first kiss to final goodbye. A stunning, big-hearted play that spans nearly eighty years in roughly ninety minutes, The Big Meal tells the extraordinary story of an ordinary family. “A life-in-overdrive comic drama…Dan LeFranc’s snappy dialogue captures the tumultuous tenor of family gatherings.”  -Charles Isherwood, New York Times. “Packed with humanity and humor, The Big Meal dishes up laughs and tears.” – New York Daily News.  “Sharp and stunning…Touching and engrossing…You’ll recognize something of yourself or your family members in these people.” – Associated Press

Auditions for Little Women will be held January 13th and 14th at 6:00p.m. both nights. Choose one song from this list. Below you can find sheet music and instrumental tracks as well as tracks of the full song.

Women

Astonishing: measure 75 to end.

• Astonishing Sheet Music
• Astonishing Instrumental
• Astonishing Full Song

Better: from the beginning to measure 58.

• Better Sheet music
• Better Instrumental
• Better Full Song

Here Alone: From beginning to measure 59.

• Here Alone Sheet music
• Here Alone Instrumental
• Here Alone Full Song

Men

How I Am: From beginning to emasure 69. The instrumental for this will start at 1:15 seconds in.

• How I Am Sheet music
• How I Am Instrumental
• How I Am Full Song

Take a Chance on Me: measure 30 to measure 72.

• Take a Chance on Me Sheet Music
• Take a Chance on Me Instrumental
• Take a Chance on Me Full Song

The 13th will be only singing Auditions. There will be a sign up sheet posted on the Theatre call board. Please make sure you sign up in order, that is to say, take the next available slot.

The 14th will be composed of singing, movement and readings. All those who are called back will start at 6:00.

If you have any questions contact Randy Bame at rbame@truman.edu.

Thank you and break a leg!

George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s Pulitzer Prize winning comedy, You Can’t Take It with You, premiered at the Booth Theater on December 14, 1936, and had a respectable run of 838 performances. It has since enjoyed several successful Broadway revivals and was the basis for the 1938 Academy Award winning film directed by Frank Capra.  The show will be held in the James G. Severns Theatre in the Ophelia Parrish Building at 8:00 pm.  Admission is free; ticket reservations may be made at the Box Office in the lobby of Ophelia Parrish 10:30 am – 4:30 pm or by calling 660-785-4515.  The show is appropriate for all ages and will be approximately 1 hour and 50 minutes including a 10 minute intermission.