2023 Fall AUDITIONS
Uptown Singers, Grades 6-12
The Uptown Singers gives your performer pre-professional musical theatre training, teaching soloists to listen to the lyrics of a song as well as themselves, all while telling a story. The Uptown Singers will create a cabaret-style show of solos, duets and group numbers which is then performed at multiple area locations and events. Performers continue to develop the skill to carry a harmony line, perform a solo of professional quality and dance.
It is recommended that performers take The Singing Artist (formerly WCStudio Singers), or Glee Week camp at least once before auditioning for Uptown! Singers. Admission is by audition only.
To Audition: Submit a 32 measure video singing a song that highlights your vocal strength and demonstrates your ability to perform and interpret a song by Sept 1 to therese@uptownwestchester.org. Please sing with a karaoke track or an accompaniment of some kind. Do not sing A Cappella.
Callbacks: September 5th at 5:00-7:00 pm. Anyone being called back will need to learn a short harmony and sing it at the callback. We will also have a short dance call.
Cost: $370
Time: 6:00-8:30
Fall Schedule: Sept 19-Nov 21 (No Class Oct 31)
10 Lessons plus additional rehearsals for Holiday Cheer Concert on Main Stage: Nov 11: 12:30-3:30, Nov 18: 12:30-3:30, Nov 27: 4:30-6:30, Nov 30: 4:30-7:30
Holiday Cheer Concert: Dec 1
Call time: 4:30
Show at 5:00-6:15 pm.
Winter Schedule:
Tuesdays, Jan 9-March 5
10 Lessons plus additional rehearsals for Future Stars Benefit on Main Stage: Feb 25: 1:00-4:00, March 3: 1:00-4:00, March 8: 4:30-7:30
Future Stars Benefit: March 9: Call time 12:30, Show at 2:00.
Semi-Pro Show:
A Year With frog & Toad
Synopsis: Arnold Lobel’s treasured characters hop from page to stage in a story of friendship and adventure. Waking from hibernation in the Spring, Frog and Toad plant gardens, swim, rake leaves, go sledding and learn life lessons along the way. The two best friends celebrate and rejoice in the differences that make them unique and special. Part vaudeville, part make believe… all charm, A Year with Frog and Toad tells the story of a friendship that endures throughout the seasons.
Auditions will be September 13th from 6:00-9:00 pm.
To register for a time slot click here use this link: Sign-up Genius
You must also fill out this audition form: Google Form Link
A Year with Frog & Toad Roles
The vocal keys for all songs will be adjusted to suit the actor playing the roles.
Frog is a friendly, confidant, positive and caring character. This leading role requires a strong actor and singer. He/She should always seem comfortable solving Toad’s problems and reacting to Toad’s traumas.
Gender: Female
Vocal range top: D5
Vocal range bottom: B3
Toad is serious, irritable, self-conscious yet an oddly charismatic character. The friendship that he shares with Frog must appear loyal through and through. This role requires a good actor and singer.
Gender: Male
Vocal range top: D5
Vocal range bottom: Bb3
Ensemble Roles
Each of the 7 ensemble members will play multiple roles.
Turtle is a “rabble-rouser” and loves to get the whole gang to tease Toad in fun! This actor should be a strong singer and be able to be a comedian at the same time.
Gender: Any
Vocal range top: C5
Vocal range bottom: B3
Mouse is always able to ask all the right questions like a talk-show host. Mouse, like Turtle, is full of fun and they should have a good chemistry because of their call/response dialogue and song.
Gender: Any
Vocal range top: C5
Vocal range bottom: B3
Lizard is definitely the most confused of the Turtle, Mouse, Lizard trio, but eventually joins in the fun. The Lizard must be a confident singer/actor.
Gender: Any
Vocal range top: C5
Vocal range bottom: B3
The Snail is simply unflappable. He/She will deliver without fail “in the rain or sleet or snow.” The Snail must deliver Her/His songs with personality, confidence and musical accuracy.
Gender: Any
Vocal range top: D5
Vocal range bottom: C4
The Birds communicate the passage of time (seasons) and set the stage for the story to follow. Must have a good sense of musical timing and the ability to sell their songs like cabaret singers!
Gender: Any
Vocal range top: D5
Vocal range bottom: B3
The Moles should have expressive faces to convey the excitement in Down The Hill as well as sincerity in their angelic solo Merry Almost Christmas. The Moles should be beautiful singers.
Gender: Any
Vocal range top: D5
Vocal range bottom: Bb3
The Squirrels are full of mischief and the actors should be comfortable moving, talking and singing with squirrel like qualities. Actors must have good diction, as their soft shoe rendition of “He’ll Never Know” is wordy and quick.
Gender: Any
Vocal range top: C5
Vocal range bottom: Bb3
Father Frog, Mother Frog & Young Frog
Gender: Any
Vocal range top: C5
Vocal range bottom: Bb3