The Summer Showcase
Lisa Blair-Hawkins,
Artistic Director

Be a part of a unique group of performers who will participate in a week-long summer showcase combining learning, performing, and fun! This week will include concentrated sessions on vocal technique, choreography styles with guest choreographers, staging and production, auditioning techniques, and judged auditions for spotlight solos. The week culiminates with an exciting final performance featuring group selections with live accompaniment as well as individual spotlight solos.

Selected students from the showcase will serve as musical ambassadors for the Capital area performing in a variety of musical events and settings.

2012 Summer Showcase: June 18 - 23, 2012
Final Performance: Saturday, June 23, 2012 @ 7:30 p.m., Fletcher Theatre in the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts.

The camp is designed for
students rising ninth thru college.

The North Carolina Honors Chorus Preparation Workshop offers concentrated rehearsal of the audition piece, intense sight singing sessions with materials, and other audition techniques, tips, and materials to those individuals who are preparing for the North Carolina Honors Chorus Audition.

Sunday, September 18, 2011
3:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Highland United Methodist Church, Raleigh
Cost: $40.00
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The Total Performer Workshop, featuring Mark Madama, will present the full scope of what the total performer really is – from start to finish, with in depth discussion and demonstration of auditioning and performing. Topics to be covered will include acting, repertoire, resume, photo, attire, song, and monologue. Participants will perform and receive
individual critique and coaching.

Sunday, October 23, 2011
Session One:
10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Session Two:
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Raleigh Boychoir Centre, 1329 Ridge Rd., Raleigh
Cost: $65.00
Guest Clinician:
Mark Madama, Professor, Univ. of Michigan Musical Theatre Department
Resident Director, Music Theatre of Wichita
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Mark Madama started his career as an actor working on stage, television and film. He soon began focusing on directing, which led to his work being seen at many of the leading theatres throughout the United States and Europe. He has also been a resident director for the Music Theatre of Wichita for the past 22 seasons. Mark has had the pleasure of working with many of Broadway’s current stars, including Kristin Chenoweth, Roger Bart, Stephanie J. Block, and Kelly O’Hara. His work has been honored with awards both nationally and internationally. His production of Tintypes was the first American theatrical show to be viewed in Czechoslovakia after the fall of the Iron Curtain. As a writer, Mark’s rewritten version of the 1920’s musical Good News! has received hundreds of productions in the US and Great Britain. For the past twelve years, along with maintaining a professional directing career, Mark is a tenured faculty member in the Musical Theatre Department at the University of Michigan.

The Capital Ambassadors