Date:
Wednesday, September 26, 2018, 5:00pm
Location:
Farkas Hall Stage, 12 Holyoke Street, Cambridge
Be a part of TDM's first musical!
TDM’s Fall Production is Mahagonny; A Song Cycle and Seven Deadly Sins
Two Chamber Musicals written by Bertolt Brecht
Composed by Kurt Weill
Directed by Ashley Tata
Music Directed by Ed Jones
LOOKING TO FILL SEVERAL MALE SINGING ROLES AND ONE SOPRANO ROLE!
AUDITIONS
Wednesday, September 26, 5-7:30PM
ALL AUDITIONS TAKE PLACE AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY FARKAS HALL STAGE, 12 HOLYOKE STREET, CAMBRIDGE
Rehearsals start Oct 15. Performances run Dec 6-9.
TO AUDITION FOR MAHAGONNY; A SONG CYCLE AND SEVEN DEADLY SINS:
Please email Dana Knox at danaknox@fas.harvard.edu with two “one-hour” availability slots (first choice and second choice) between 5-7:30pmon Sept 26. You will be assigned a 10 minute slot within those hours and receive audition materials. Walk up auditions will be accommodated as the schedule allows.
Students are encouraged to sign up in advance. Students will be asked to either perform a prepared monologue or read a side provided (likely a Brecht poem), and they will be asked to bring in 16-32 bars of a prepared song to sing. Those who sign up early will be provided receive the sides in advance, as well as The Alabama Song from Mahagonny, but students may prepare their own pieces instead.
TO FIND OUT ABOUT ORCHESTRA OPPORTUNITIES:
Please email Dana Knox at danaknox@fas.harvard.edu with your instrument(s). This is an opportunity to work with a full team of professional guest artists.
More information: tdm.fas.harvard.edu
ABOUT MAHAGONNY; A SONG CYCLE AND SEVEN DEADLY SINS:
Mahagonny; A Song Cycle and The Seven Deadly Sins are songspiel[en] made between 1927 and 1933 by German theater-makers Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht. They were created at home in Berlin and in exile in Europe. At the time they introduced new methods that these theorist/creators would continue to develop throughout their careers. Among these are experiments in the function of theater as a space for ideas and civic discourse and confrontation and the function of music as popular form and tool for dissonance within the theatrical medium. This production of The Sins of Mahagonny will bring both pieces to the stage in a contemporary context with songs, protest, dance, video and electronics for a 21st century expressionist Amerikana club-kabaret nightmare. A hearth-and-home dream-in-flames.
Learn more about Ashley Tata & Ed Jones here:
www.ashleytata.com
www.edwardelwynjones.com
TDM’s Fall Production is Mahagonny; A Song Cycle and Seven Deadly Sins
Two Chamber Musicals written by Bertolt Brecht
Composed by Kurt Weill
Directed by Ashley Tata
Music Directed by Ed Jones
LOOKING TO FILL SEVERAL MALE SINGING ROLES AND ONE SOPRANO ROLE!
AUDITIONS
Wednesday, September 26, 5-7:30PM
ALL AUDITIONS TAKE PLACE AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY FARKAS HALL STAGE, 12 HOLYOKE STREET, CAMBRIDGE
Rehearsals start Oct 15. Performances run Dec 6-9.
TO AUDITION FOR MAHAGONNY; A SONG CYCLE AND SEVEN DEADLY SINS:
Please email Dana Knox at danaknox@fas.harvard.edu with two “one-hour” availability slots (first choice and second choice) between 5-7:30pmon Sept 26. You will be assigned a 10 minute slot within those hours and receive audition materials. Walk up auditions will be accommodated as the schedule allows.
Students are encouraged to sign up in advance. Students will be asked to either perform a prepared monologue or read a side provided (likely a Brecht poem), and they will be asked to bring in 16-32 bars of a prepared song to sing. Those who sign up early will be provided receive the sides in advance, as well as The Alabama Song from Mahagonny, but students may prepare their own pieces instead.
TO FIND OUT ABOUT ORCHESTRA OPPORTUNITIES:
Please email Dana Knox at danaknox@fas.harvard.edu with your instrument(s). This is an opportunity to work with a full team of professional guest artists.
More information: tdm.fas.harvard.edu
ABOUT MAHAGONNY; A SONG CYCLE AND SEVEN DEADLY SINS:
Mahagonny; A Song Cycle and The Seven Deadly Sins are songspiel[en] made between 1927 and 1933 by German theater-makers Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht. They were created at home in Berlin and in exile in Europe. At the time they introduced new methods that these theorist/creators would continue to develop throughout their careers. Among these are experiments in the function of theater as a space for ideas and civic discourse and confrontation and the function of music as popular form and tool for dissonance within the theatrical medium. This production of The Sins of Mahagonny will bring both pieces to the stage in a contemporary context with songs, protest, dance, video and electronics for a 21st century expressionist Amerikana club-kabaret nightmare. A hearth-and-home dream-in-flames.
Learn more about Ashley Tata & Ed Jones here:
www.ashleytata.com
www.edwardelwynjones.com
