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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px; "><table class="mnTbl" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td class="nvtp"><br></td><td class="spc" rowspan="2" height="0" style="height: 0px; "><br></td><td class="cntnttp" width="1" style="width: 1px; "><table class="w100" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td><br></td></tr><tr><td><table class="w100" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td class="clp"><table class="w100" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td class="bdy"><div class="bdy"><div alink="#0080FF" vlink="#333366" style="background-color:#E3DFCC"><table style="text-align: justify;border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-width: 1px; border-right-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; " align="center" border="0" cellpadding="18" width="650"><tbody><tr bgcolor="#ffffff"><td style="border-bottom:1px; border-left:1px; border-top:1px; border-right:1px"><div align="center"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;"><br></span></font></div><div align="center"><img src="cid:596A0E08-60E5-4E67-83A1-8D93891EDA2F@local"></div><div align="center"><div style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#CC0066">Audition and workshop notice</font></span></font></b></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#CC0066">for actors, singers, dancers!</font></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><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; ">In preparation for the world premiere of "<a href="http://www.uakron.edu/music/tuning-in/">Tuning In</a>," a nostalgic new musical, The University of Akron is hosting a musical-theatre workshop, auditions and public reading in July with acclaimed directors <a href="http://www.uakron.edu/music/tuning-in/tuning-in-bios.dot">George Pinney</a> and <a href="http://www.uakron.edu/music/tuning-in/tuning-in-bios.dot">Terry LaBolt</a>.</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 "<a href="http://www.uakron.edu/music/tuning-in/">Tuning In</a>" at E.J. Thomas Hall at UA. Set at a nostalgia radio station in a retirement village in southern Ohio, "<a href="http://www.uakron.edu/music/tuning-in/">Tuning In</a>" 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; ">“<a href="http://www.uakron.edu/music/tuning-in/">Tuning In</a>” roles are available for men and women, ages 18 and up, including older adults. </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 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; "><a href="http://www.uakron.edu/music/tuning-in/tuning-in-bios.dot">George Pinney</a> 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!" <a href="http://www.uakron.edu/music/tuning-in/tuning-in-bios.dot">Terry LaBolt</a>’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). </div></div></span></font></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div></body></html>