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This page will offer
information on upcoming opportunities
for ScriptLab members:
Talk Is Free Theatre has been
chosen as a recommender for Theatre Creators' Reserve Program with the
Ontario Arts Council. As part of this program, Talk Is Free Theatre is
interested in recommending funding to emerging writers of musical
theatre who are working on new projects. Deadline for submissions to
TIFT is September 29, 2007. Submissions must include:
1) Description/ Artistic Vision for the proposed new work 2) Proof of any rights, if an adaptation 3) Resumes of each member of the writing team 4) A brief sample of each - book, lyrics and music, if available 5) Two letters of support from the Artistic Directors/New Play Development Co-ordinators of an Ontario professional theatre company 6) Budget 7) Any other support material. Submissions may be made by e-mail or hard copy, however, applicants are required to fill out an official application form in hard copy and forward to Talk Is Free in three copies before the deadline. These forms will be available on August 13, 2007 from www.arts.on.ca For more information, please contact: Arkady Spivak Artistic Producer P.O. Box 247 Barrie, ON L4M 4T2 Telephone: (705) 792-1949 Fax: (705) 792-6108 arkady@tift.ca www.tift.ca My
name is Christine Brubaker. I'm an actor here in Toronto as well as a
teacher at Humber College. I teach voice and choral singing to
theatre students and it's my second year teaching a new course call
"Singing and Storytelling" where we use songs from the musical theatre
repetoire. Essentially we do scene work with small ensembles 4-6
voices using songs, simple staging and explore the actor/singer
relationship. I actually consider it an acting class rather than a
singing class.
Last year I used songs from Allen Cole's Strange Medicine, a song I wrote from The Trials of John Demjanjuk, a few songs from Candide, Officer Krupke from West Side Story, Three Little Maids from School from Mikado, Brush Up Your Shakespeare from KMK, plus some others. I like to use as much Canadian material as I can. I'm looking for songs for: - small ensembles 4-8 voices - strong story telling/action/pursuit component Christine can be contacted by email. Adrian Marchuk Cabaret: Adrian Marchuk is a Toronto-based actor and producer. He is putting together a cabaret to feature the works of new Canadian composers. The plan is to present the work as a one-nighter with a cast of four in Calgary and then bring it back to Toronto and see if it has a future. If you are interested in submitting material for the cabaret, please email a copy of your work to amarchuk@yahoo.com The focus of the cabaret will be on songs that can 'stand alone' outside of their context in a narrative. Songs of any type (ballads, up-tempos, solos, duets, trios, quartets) are welcome, although not every song received will be used, of course. I'll be asking permission to use the song only for the purposes of the cabaret. This is meant to provide an opportunity for Canadians artists to celebrate our homegrown talents, and to give voice to new composers whose work has not yet found an audience. We want to provide an place for Canadian work to get heard, so that people will be asking 'what is that song?', and the answer will be 'it's by a Canadian composer' . |