Hathaway Brown Theatre Institute Summer 2019 Production Season * OLIVER! and A NEW BRAIN* Auditions for 2019 season: February 8th (6:30-8:30 pm) Feb 9th (2:30-5:30 pm) Feb. 10th(12-3 pm) Call backs/A New Brain - Feb 10th (3:30-7pm) Call backs /Oliver!-Feb.23rd (4-6 pm), Feb.24th (1-6 pm) General auditions for the shows will be held together. Callbacks will be held separately. The rehearsal schedule is set up so that students can participate in both productions. Email for an appointment: hbti_auditions@hb.edu Please prepare a one minute memorized musical selection that is character driven and a one minute memorized monologue from a play. Bring sheet music - an accompanist will be provided. There will be dance call for Oliver! at call backs. Please Note: to be eligible to participate in this production you must attend at least 1 session of HBTI 2019 Summer Training. There is a production fee associated with each show. *OLIVER!*, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart is based on the Charles Dickens novel, Oliver Twist. HBTI's production of Oliver runs for 6 performances: June 28 - July 7, 2019. It is directed and choreographed by Bebe Weinberg Katz, musical direction by John Krol and set design by T.Paul Lowry. This Tony award-winning musical adaptation of the classic Dickens’ novel springs to life with some of the memorable characters and songs ever to hit the stage; Food Glorious Food, Where Is Love, Consider Yourself and As Long As He Needs Me to name just a few of the songs that earned Lionel Bart the Tony for Best Original Score. OLIVER is one of the few musicals to win an academy award for Best Picture and is widely hailed as a true theatrical masterpiece by actor and audiences alike. About OLIVER!: The streets of Victorian England come to life as Oliver, a malnourished orphan in a workhouse,becomes a neglected apprentice of an undertaker. Oliver escapes to London and finds acceptance among a group of petty thieves and pickpockets lead by elderly Fagin. When Oliver is captured for a theft he did not commit, the benevolent victim, Mr Brownlow, takes him in. Fearing for the safety of his hideout, Fagin employs the sinister Bill Sikes and sympathetic Nancy to kidnap him back, leaving Oliver’s chances of discovering the true love of family. Roles available from grade 3 through college. For addition information go to: https://www.mtishows.com/oliver For information about HBTI contact Bebe Weinberg Katz : bkatz@hb.edu Email for an appointment: hbti_auditions@hb.edu A New Brain, written by William Finn and James Lapine, the Tony Award winning authors of Falsettos. HBTI's production of A New Brain witll run for 6 performances from June 28 - July 7, 2019. It is directed by Dan Hendrock, musical direction by John Krol and set design by T.Paul Lowry. Here is an energetic, sardonic, often comical musical about a composer during a medical emergency. Gordon collapses into his lunch and awakes in the hospital surrounded by his maritime-enthusiast lover, his mother, a co-worker, the doctor and the nurses. Reluctantly, he had been composing a song for a children’s television show that features a frog- Mr. Bungee- and the specter of the this large green character and unfinished work haunts him throughout his medical ordeal. What was thought to be a tumor turns out to be something more operable and Gordon recovers, grateful for a chance to compose the songs he yearns to produce. Roles available from 7th grade through college: For additional Information go to: https://samuelfrench.com/p/217/a-new-brain For information about HBTI contact Bebe Weinberg Katz at bkatz@hb.edu Email for an appointment: hbti_auditions@hb.edu