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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b>Tuning In'</b><b> musical-theatre workshop and auditions in July at UA</b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Akron, OH, June 4, 2012 — In preparation for the world premiere of "Tuning In," a nostalgic new musical, The University of Akron is hosting a workshop, auditions and public reading in July with acclaimed directors George Pinney and Terry LaBolt.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Open to actors, singers, and dancers from the campus and community, auditions for the free musical-theatre workshop are July 9 from 1 to 4 p.m. The workshop runs July 10-13 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and the public reading is July 14 at 2 p.m. All of the events will be in 194 Guzzetta Hall, 139 Buchtel Ave., on the UA campus.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The free workshop is a pre-audition for roles to be cast this fall for the September 2013 world premiere of "Tuning In" at E.J. Thomas Hall at UA. Set at a nostalgia radio station in a retirement village in southern Ohio, "Tuning In" will feature 25 new songs, 26 performers, singing and dancing, and a pit orchestra reminiscent of Broadway musicals of the past.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">“Tuning In” roles are available for men and women, ages 18 and up, including older adults.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">To register for the July auditions and free musical-theatre workshop, contact 330-972-7590, 330-972-7948, or <a href="mailto:concerts@uakron.edu">concerts@uakron.edu</a>. For the workshop audition on July 9, bring a photo and resume and prepare 16 to 32 measures, preferably from the Great American Songbook of tunes from the 1930s and 1940s.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Pinney was nominated for a 2001 Tony Award and National Broadway Theatre Award in choreography, and received an Emmy Award for outstanding choreography for the PBS broadcast of "Blast!" He has directed and/or choreographed more than 150 musical theatre productions for national and international tours and regional and university theatres. He is a professor of stage movement and head of the Musical Theatre Program at Indiana University-Bloomington.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">LaBolt’s career as a Broadway conductor includes "42nd Street," "Hello, Dolly!" (with Carol Channing), "George M." (with Joel Grey), and "Sugar Babies" (with Ann Miller and Mickey Rooney). He co-authored "The Wonder Years — the Musical," which enjoyed success Off-Broadway and in Los Angeles in the 1980s. He was the music director of musical theatre for the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music for more than 10 years, conducting and supervising 30-plus productions there. He is now the musical director for the Musical Theatre Program at Indiana University-Bloomington.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The team for “Tuning In” includes Larry Kass (music and lyrics), Ron Newell (book with Kass), George Pinney (director and choreographer), and Terry LaBolt (musical director). The production is being presented by The University of Akron’s School of Music; School of Dance, Theatre, and Arts Administration; and E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Visit <a href="http://www.uakron.edu/music/tuning-in/">www.uakron.edu/music/tuning-in/</a> for more information.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </body></html>