Musical Theatre - Studio Company - Assassins

Come and watch the Studio Company perform their production of Assassins - see what the Studio Company is all about. For more info see: www.city-academy.com/assassins

The Studio Company is our exciting Musical Theatre performance group, returning in Autumn 2018 with their production of Stephen Sondheim’s acclaimed musical ‘Assassins’. Previous productions include ‘Sweeney Todd’, ’Urinetown’, ‘Into The Woods’ and ‘Company, all of which had sold out houses and rave reviews!

This exciting Musical Theatre performance group rehearses and performs small-scale musicals in unique and quirky London studio theatre spaces with live musicians to a paying audience. With rehearsals on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday evenings over two months, The Studio Company aims to produce excellent Musical Theatre shows for a discerning audience.

With a whole week’s run of performances this process will be intense and rewarding, whilst still fitting around your normal working life.

Every cast member must audition for their place in each show, all cast members will have heavily featured roles.

You will work with a Director, a Musical Director and a Choreographer, all with extensive experience of professional Theatre, to produce a show of excellent quality.

WHO CAN JOIN?

The Studio Company is by audition only, and auditions will be held to form a new company for each specific production rather than for an ongoing group.

The group is aimed at performers with previous experience, who are able to act and sing to a high standard. Dance ability is not the primary focus but musicality and script work are very important as rehearsals will be fast paced and intensive. The result will be a show of professional quality. Auditions are currently closed.

AUDITIONS

The first round of auditions cost £5 and will take place 29th July from 11.30am - 3.30pm at City Academy, 38 Rosebery Avenue, EC1R 4RN. You will be allocated a one hour time-slot, in which you will sing your audition song/s for our creative team. Auditions will not be performed in front of other auditionees. Auditions are currently closed.

All potential members should prepare two songs from the classic Broadway Repertoire; one Comedy/Patter/Character song, and a contrasting Musical Theatre or light Opera piece that shows off your vocal tone and range. You are not required to choose any Stephen Sondheim songs, although you are welcome to. We prefer not to hear material from the show in the first round. Your audition songs will be performed for the Director and Musical Director, and we may only hear one, or both depending on what we need. Your songs should ideally be less than 3 minutes (if they are longer, please cut them). Please bring your own printed taped or filed sheet music for our pianist.

RECALLS

If you are called back for our recall workshop, you will be notified within 24 hours of your first audition. All auditionees must be able to attend the workshop in order to be eligible for the production as we need to see all performers act and sing with other potential cast members. Material for the recalls will be sent out a week in advance to give people time to learn the scenes and songs we would like to hear. The Recall Audition Workshop will take place on Monday 6th August 6.00pm -10.00pm at The Arts Theatre in Leicester Square. There is no charge to attend recalls.

THE PERFORMANCE

The performance will take place in ‘The Landor’ Theatre in Clapham. This unique and completely open performance space allows us flexible staging with endless possibilities, enabling us to take a different approach to Musical Theatre staging and the traditional ‘end on’ theatre. This is one of London’s leading fringe theatre venues and we hope our production will take pride of place amongst its professional season. We will perform with live music provided by our Musical Director and band.

SCHEDULE FOR ‘Assassins’ AUTUMN 2018

REHEARSALS:

Rehearsals will take place each week on Tuesdays and Fridays 7.00pm - 9.30pm and Sundays 6.00pm - 8.30pm for eight weeks 2nd October - 25th November. 

Tuesdays and Fridays will take place at the Arts Theatre
Sundays will take place at City Academy Head Office

Cast will not be required for every single rehearsal as we will schedule the actors for the specific scenes and songs that need work rather than full company each night.

STUDIO PRODUCTION WEEK:

Performers must be available for all of the dates below to be eligible for this production:
All day tech and dress rehearsal: Monday 26th November (you will have to be available for the full day and evening)the first 
Evening Performances: 26th November - 2nd December
Matinees: 1st and 2nd December

SUBSCRIPTION

The whole 9-week process will cost lead performers £700
Our ensemble will pay the reduced rate of £600