RLT Holds CHARLIE BROWN Auditions, 9/26-27

Last year, Road Less Traveled Productions mounted a very well-received production of A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Music Of Vince Guaraldi. This unique blend of live music and gentle humor presented the beloved jazz album in a festive family-oriented production. This holiday season, RLTP brings this popular family selection back... and they're looking for help.
 
RLTP will be holding Student Auditions for its November/December production of Charlie Brown Christmas: The Music of Vince Guaraldi  on Sunday, September 26 at 6:00PM & Monday, September 27 at 6:00PM, at The Road Less Traveled Theater (639 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203 (Inside the Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre - Across from Shea's)). All appointments will be at 6:00pm.  No exceptions.
 
Interested students MUST be 8-12 year olds whose voices have not changed. Students will be asked to move and to participate in pitch matching. Student must be available for rehearsals and performances, including some prior to and immediately after Thanksgiving Day.

Interested students are asked to email RLTP at cbxmas2010@gmail.com to make an appointment.
The Peanuts TV special, A Charlie Brown Christmas, first premiered in 1965, with the soundtrack album soon to follow; the special and the album have been fixtures of the holiday season ever since. "It's never gone out of print or out of style," said RLTP Artistic Director Scott Behrend. "This is music that we look forward to hearing every year during the holidays... in fact, it's one of the few defining albums of modern Christmas music."
 
And so, Behrend (with Director Doug Weyand) sets out to invent that experience for his audience. "We recreate the entire Vince Guaraldi album onstage with a live jazz trio, led by Julie Arlotta on piano." The Trio will be accompanied by a children's choir, comprised of WNY students, and actress Bonnie Jean Taylor (Triangles, Humpty Dumpty, Grenadine), on hand to evoke some symbolic memories from the cartoon.
 
"There's a little bit of dance and movement, and some humor. Bonnie's wonderful, and she really gets the kids involved."
 
 The concert features such instantly recognizable Guaraldi originals as "Christmas Time is Here" and "Linus & Lucy", as well as traditional standards that were reimagined and re-immortalized on the album, like Guaraldi's transcendent takes "O Tennenbaum!" and  "Hark, The Herald Angels Sing".
 
A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Music Of Vince Guaraldi runs Friday, November 26 through Sunday, December 19 - Thursday and Friday at 7:30PM, Saturday at 4:30PM and 7:30PM, and Sunday at 2:00PM.