In anticipation of the auditions, Showtune Production's Producer/Musical Director JR McAlexander and Artistic Director M. Seth Reines will host a free musical theatre audition workshop for actors 18 and older on August 19 at 6:00 pm at Chandler Center for the Arts.

The workshop will offer audition tips to help attendees prepare for professional musical theatre auditions, from song selection to performance, preparation of resumes and headshots to audition etiquette and attire.

This March, Showtune Productions produced the sold-out show of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" at Chandler Center for the Arts. Next March, Showtunes and the CCA will present an ethnically diverse, fully staged production of the "Wizard of OZ."

Workshop attendees who actively wish to participate should prepare 32 bars from a Broadway classic and sheet music or iPad music in your key. Piano accompaniment will be provided.

Come appropriately dressed for an audition; bring your headshot. No headshot? Chandler Center for the Arts will be providing a photographer to take free theatrical headshots.

LEADING THE WORKSHOP
Seth Reines

Director of the BFA/MFA Musical Theatre Program at Chicago’s Roosevelt for many years and has served as Artistic Producer of Little Theatre on the Square, Illinois' oldest Equity Stock Company for 25 years and of Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre and Prather Entertainment Group for 10 years. A member of the Society for Directors and Choreographers and Actors Equity, he has staged over 500 productions for stage and television including national tours of All Shook Up, The Wedding Singer, South Pacific, and the Tenth Anniversary tour of Sunday in the Park with George working with such stage luminaries as Sierra Boggess, Emily Loesser, Tom Wopat, and Peter Allen. Seth served as Artistic Director of Utah Musical Theatre in Ogden, UT, Promise Valley Playhouse in Salt Lake City, Waldo Astoria, and Tiffany's Attic Playhouses in Kansas City.

JR McAlexander

He is a 35-year veteran of professional theatre and music directed almost 400 productions throughout the United States and Canada including Broadway National Tours of Sunday in the Park with George, All Shook Up, The Wedding Singer, Anything Goes, Footloose and Beehive, The Musical. JR has worked with numerous stars including Donald O'Connor, Gloria Loring, Gloria DeHaven, Van Johnson, and Ken Page. Music Supervisor for Prather Entertainment Group for 18 years, he has also served as musical director/vocal coach for UA Music Theatre School in Tucson and such prestigious theatres as The Guthrie of Minneapolis, Theatre Under the Stars of Houston, The Fulton Theatre in Lancaster, PA, Cumberland County Playhouse in TN, Galveston Island Opera House, Fireside Playhouse in WI, Little Theatre on the Square, Circa ’21 in IL and Arizona Broadway Theatre.

Wizard of OZ Pre-Audition Workshop

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