Broadway Intensive Workshop

2 Week Broadway Intensive Workshop


Instructors from Broadway!


Les Miserables

Phantom of the Opera

Miss Saigon

The Who’s Tommy

Mamma Mia

The Pirate Queen

And

High School Musical



Join us for a 2 week audition intensive. Learn how to become a working musical theater actor from Broadway Professionals. The 2 week intensive will cover:


· Song Presentation/Vocal Technique

· Original Broadway Choreography

· Scene Study

· Mock audition run exactly like a professional audition (Parents Invited)

· Special Guest Artist from Current Broadway Show Question and Answer session (Parents Invited)


*Students will be accompanied by a pianist. Sheet music must be brought to first class and song memorized.


The 2 week intensive is 3 hours each day and will be held August 4-13.


Tuesday 1:30-4:30
Wednesday 1:00-4:00
Thursday 1:00-4:00


· Tuition for the 2 week intensive is $500.00

· $250.00 due upon registration

· $250.00 due on the first class

· Class size is limited

· Ages 8 and up

· There are no make-up classes

· Please pack healthy light snack for your child



Instructors



DON BREWER recently conclude a successful run starring in the Las Vegas production of Mamma Mia. He was a member of the final Broadway cast of Les Miserables, and was recently an original cast member of the new Broadway musical 'The Pirate Queen'. His Broadway National Tour appearances include The Who's Tommy, and The Will Roger's Follies starring Mr. Larry Gatlin. Regionally, he is best known for his highly acclaimed portrayal of Joseph in Tarrytown's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream-coat.


LISA CAPPS is the only woman ever to perform all three leading ladies in the Broadway and National Touring Companies of Les Miserables: Eponine, Cosette and Fantine. She starred opposite Lea Salonga in the Philippine premiere of Miss Saigon (as Ellen) , and also appeared as Mrs. Walker in two National Touring Companies of The Who's Tommy. TV audiences best remember Lisa as 'Debbie' on the hit ABC series Growing Pains. As an instructor, Lisa has been a leading guest artist teacher for “Broadway Classroom” in New York City, headed by Broadway director Gordon Greenberg. In addition, Lisa and her husband, Don Brewer, have held musical theatre audition workshops at performing academy's in Michigan, New Jersey and Los Angeles. Having worked consistently in television and theatre, her “Business Lecture” class is highly requested and recommended. Lisa’s classes are motivating, challenging and informative. Students love the hands on business advice as well as the acting and singing techniques she offers from her own training with some of the best directors and teachers in New York City.


Kate Wray grew up in Gloucestershire, England, and trained at the Royal Ballet School in London, where she received the Teachers’ Training Course diploma, graduating in 1993. Along with her diploma, she received her teaching certifications for Cecchetti Technique and National Dance, both awarded with distinction, as well as for the Royal Academy of Dance Syllabus, Character, and Spanish Dance. Kate was a ballet instructor at schools in Gloucester and London before becoming an original cast member of the Basel, Switzerland production of The Phantom of the Opera. She spent two years in Basel, and then returned to London to join the West End production of Phantom. After getting married in 1998 and moving to New York, she joined her husband as a cast member of the Broadway Phantom, and then went on to play the principal role of Meg for four and a half years on the National Tour of Phantom, performing in over 40 cities across the United States and Canada.


Charles Bergell While in the Broadway and National Touring companies of Les Miserables, Charles had the privilege of performing the leading role of Jean Valjean. He appeared as Mssr. Andre in the 2nd National Tour of Phantom of the Opera, directed by Harold Prince, and was a member of the 2Oth Anniversary Tour of Evita. Other20credits includeChildren of Eden at The Paper Mill Playhouse (original cast recording), Father Andrew in Neil Berg's hit Off-Broadway musical, The Prince and the Pauper, and Linda' Eder's Christmas Concert, seen on Bravo Television. Charles makes frequent concert appearances in the NYC area and around the country, often performing with his friend, composer Neil Berg, in Neil Berg's 100 Years of Broadway.

Charles is the co-founder and Co-Executive Producer (with Lisa Capps, whom he met while both were in the national tour of Les Miserables) of Broadway Sings – a concert production company featuring Broadway performer (www.broadwaysings.com) . Last year, they reached a milestone by producing their first concert at Carnegie Hall.

Charles grew up in a musical family: his father, Aaron Bergell, is a professional opera singer, and some of Charles earliest memories are of sitting in opera houses all over the world watching his father perform.



Attending the prestigious Northwestern University Theatre Dept, Charles graduated in 1987 with a degree in Speech, major in Theatre. During his time there, Charles received extensive training in all aspects of acting and theatrical production, and took part in many theatrical productions, including the famous Waa-Mu20show

Charles has received vocal instruction from some of the finest teachers in the world: Ryan Edwards of the Metropolitan Opera. Lorna Haywood of Covent Gardens, Katherine Hartgrove of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Dan Ballestrero of the San Francisco Opera (not to mention Aaron Bergell, his father).

Charles is a frequent guest teacher in schools and theatre camps around the New York metropolitan area: In 2004, he helped to direct the St. Joseph Regional Highschool Production of ‘Les Miserables’, to great critical acclaim, and followed this up the next year by assisting with St. Joe’s production of ‘The Prince20and the Pauper.’ Both shows garnered rave reviews and multiple nominations and awards at the annual Helen Hayes High School Theatre Awards. For two consecutive summers, he was a teacher of voice and acting at the St. Joseph Regional High School Summer Theatre Camp. Last summer, he assisted Darren Gage and the NJ Arts Collective in the North Jersey Summer Theatre Workshop (a highschool theatre camp) in their production of "Les Miserables, and is slated to be assisting with their production this summer of "Sweeney Todd."




*Additional Instructors TBA