Hathaway Brown Theatre Institute - Summer 2019 Production Season

Auditions 2/8-2/10, 2/23-2/24

 

Oliver!

Book, Music and Lyrics by

LIONEL BART

Based on the novel OLIVER TWIST

By Charles Dickens

June 28 - July 7, 2019

 

Directed and Choreographed by Bebe Weinberg Katz

Music Directed by John Krol

Set Design by T. Paul Lowry

A New Brain

Music and Lyrics by William Finn and James Lapine

July 26 - August 4, 2019

 

Directed by Dan Hendrock

Music Directed by John Krol

Set Design by T. Paul Lowry

 

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 (3:30-7 pm)

Call backs /Oliver!-Feb.23rd (4-6 pm), Feb.24th (1-6 pm)

Email for an appointment: hbti_auditions@hb.edu  

 

General auditions for the shows will be held together.   Callbacks will be held separately. The rehearsal schedule is set so students can be in both shows. 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!

Book, Music and Lyrics by

LIONEL BART

Based on the novel OLIVER TWIST

By Charles Dickens

June 28 - July 7, 2019

 

Directed and Choreographed by Bebe Weinberg Katz

Music Directed by John Krol

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.

 

Oliver Twist                Fagin               Artful Dodger             Bill Sikes

Nancy                         Bet                  Mr. Bumble                Mrs Corney

Mr. Sowerberry          Charlotte         Mrs. Bedwin               Mr. Brownlow

Old Sally                    Charley Bates

Ensemble                                                                                                                  

Email for an appointment: hbti_auditions@hb.edu   

For addition information go to: https://www.mtishows.com/oliver

For more information about HBTI contact Bebe Weinberg Katz at bkatz@hb.edu

Or check out our facebook page at:  Hathaway Brown Theatre Institute

 

 

 A New Brain

Music and Lyrics by William Finn and James Lapine

July 26-August 4, 2019 

Directed by Dan Hendrock

Music Directed by John Krol

Set Design by T. Paul Lowry

 

“...Jaunty with moments of captivating eccentricity.”  The New York Times                   “...apt and original.” The New York Post

By the Tony Award winning authors of Falsettos, 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:

 

Gordon Michael Schwinn                   A Homeless Lady                 Rhoda

Waitress                                             Mr. Bungee                           Richard

Nancy D                                             Mimi Schwinn                       Dr Jafar Berensteiner

Roger Delli-Bovi                                The Minister  

Possible small ensemble of “frogs”