DUT Drama and Production Studies Department is hosting auditions for boy sopranos age 7-13 with acting skills and the ability to perform.
Auditions for Oliver!by Lionel Bart
Auditions: Mon 19 Jan from 9am
Season: Courtyard Theatre, DUT: 22- 28 March 2015
They are having the second phase of auditions on Monday, 19 January from 9 am at DUT Drama Department. Parking is at Gate 6. The audition piece is ‘Food Glorious Food’ which can be sent to you on request, but another song which can show the range of the voice is also acceptable.
On the day of the audition further arrangements such as rehearsal times and transport will be discussed.
The boys will be trained for the performance musically by Madlen Tzankova and for staging by Pamela Tancsik plus stage manager and theatre manager. An indemnity letter needs to be signed when agreement to participate in the production has been confirmed.
DUT starts the year with a musical flurry – staging the iconic Lionel Bart evergreen, Oliver! based on the Charles Dickens classical story, which comes to the DUT Courtyard Theatre from 22 – 28 March.
Oliver! is a delicious feel-good tale of young Oliver Twist – and a host of colourful and eccentric characters. It is also a hugely significant social commentary looking at the miserable life of a vulnerable young orphan living in Dickensian London.
Oliver! will take place at the newly-refurbished Courtyard Theatre at DUT – and is family-friendly. It boasts a host of much-loved songs: Food Glorious Food; Oliver!; Consider Yourself; You’ve got to Pick a Pocket or Two; As Long as He Needs Me; I’d Do Anything and Omm-Pah-Pah. It has had a myriad incarnations with West End and Broadway versions, film versions and countless school and amateur renditions.
The cast will be a combination of DUT students and young children who made it through open auditions. It will be directed by Dr Pamela Tancsik and musical director is Madlen Tzankova.
Oliver! will be staged from 22 – 28 March 2015 at Courtyard Theatre. For more information contact Pamela Tancsik (Cell: 082 403 1707) or call the Departmental Secretary, Lebohang Sibisi on 031 373 2194 / lebohangs@dut.ac.za
Media enquiries to Illa Thompson, 083 326 3234 / 031 201 1638 / illa@pubmat.co.za For further questions about the audition process, please contact Pamela 082 403 1707 or e-mail pamelat@dut.ac.za
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