Auditions for Camp Broadway will be held at Theatreworks/Chelsea
Studios (151 W. 26th St., between 6th and 7th Ave.) on August 6th at 10 AM, as well as in a number of other US cities. The
award-winning theater arts education company is seeking 400 young performers, ages 9-13, to take part in a one-week
program in New York City and to perform live in the 79th Annual Macy's
Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Camp
Broadway has been selected to perform the parade's opening number, "We
Give Thanks Today," written by Broadway composer Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party),
which "celebrates kids across America waking up on Thanksgiving morning
to the fantasy world of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade." Camp
Broadway has created a special one-week program leading up to the
parade performance, including a series of Broadway workshops, classes
and rehearsals to prepare the kids for the nationally televised
performance.The
Camp Broadway We Give Thanks Today program will includes rehearsals and
run-throughs, a Broadway dance workshop, a Herald Square camera
blocking rehearsal, a costume fitting and make-up tips, a cast pizza
party, a costume parade, a professionally-choreographed musical
routine, a nationally-televised parade performance, a commemorative CD
recording of the original Lippa song, a commemorative T-shirt and
Macy's Parade pin, and snacks and drinks.
Camp Broadway
auditions will also be held in Providence, RI (August 13); Dallas, TX
(August 20); Saint Louis, MO (August 28); and Boston, MA (September 10).Those
auditioning should bring a completed application, wear dance shoes and
comfortable clothes and be ready to dance. The children will learn a
combination by a Broadway choreographer.Camp Broadway,
recipient of the 2002 Standing Ovation Award from the Educational
Theatre Association, is a theater arts education and audience
development company dedicated to helping educators, students and
families to experience theater in creative and meaningful ways.
Programs are designed to serve the unique needs of both the education
and theater industry by connecting professional artists with young
audiences, ages 6-17, throughout the year.Visit www.campbroadway.com
for audition applications, program fees and additional audition cities
and dates. For those unable to attend an audition, video tape
submissions will also be accepted for consideration. For more
information, email info@campbroadway.com or call 212-575-2929.
