December Newsletter

In This Issue

Tickets for 13, URINETOWN, and ANNIE GET YOUR GUN

Winter Classes: Enroll Now!

Vacation Workshop: FROZEN

Music Director Internship

Bring ROBIN HOOD To Your School!

Fall Coat Drive

Ambassadors' Blog: Experience on the Edge and Showcase Success

Kids For A Cause Theme Song

Casting: LIKE YOU LIKE IT

Kids in the Spotlight

On Broadway Now

Gallery: ANNIE GET YOUR GUN

A look back... Alice In Wonderland, Jellybeans, Fall 2011

TICKETS FOR UPCOMING SHOWS

Mark your calendars for the upcoming shows at Random Farms!

ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
Jellybeans (Performers in Grades K-2)
Click here to see who you know in the cast!

Performance Dates and Location

December 5-7 at Yorktown Stage

Tickets

$6 Regular Seats, $11 Premium Seats

Sold at box office before performance.

URINETOWN

The Edge (Performers in High School)

Click here to see who you know in the cast!

Performance Dates and Location

December 20-21 at the Archbishop Stepinac High School Theater

Tickets

$16 Regular Seating, $23 Premium Seats

Sold at box office before performance.

THIRTEEN, THE MUSICAL

Mainstage (Performers in Grades 6-12)

Click here to see who you know in the cast!

Performance Dates and Location

February 3-8 at the Tarrytown Music Hall

Tickets

$16 Student/Senior, $18 Adult

$23 Premium Seats

Sold online here or at box office.

ENROLLMENT IN WINTER CLASSES

IS NOW OPEN

DANCE

Classes in tap and theater dance are available for various ages and skill levels.

VOICE

Group voice classes for different age ranges will focus on harmonizing, vocal technique, and repertoire.

ACTING

Students in the acting classes will work on scenes and monologues.

AUDITION TECHNIQUE

Learn about vocal performance and presentation for auditions.

FROZEN VACATION WORKSHOP

Stay busy during the December holiday break with one of our half-day Vacation Workshops. Performers will learn songs and a scene from the hit Disney movie Frozen.

Grades
Open to performers in grades 2-8

Program Dates

Group A: Monday, December 29 @ 9am-1pm
Group B: Monday, December 29 @ 2pm-6pm
Group C: Sunday, December 28 @ 2pm-6pm
Group D: Sunday, December 28 @ 9am-1pm (Group D will open if other groups fill.)

Program Fee

$145

MUSIC DIRECTOR INTERNSHIP FOR
13

Random Farms is seeking an intern to work with our resident Music Director, Chip Colvin, on our winter Mainstage production of Jason Robert Brown's 13. This is the perfect position for a pianist looking to get into the field of music directing. Candidates should be excellent pianists, as they will be both accompanying rehearsals and playing key 2 for performances. Commitment is Jan 5 - Feb 8 (click here for the schedule). If interested, please email chip@randomfarms.com and make sure to indicate your availability during that time. No pay but intern will receive one-on-one coaching on piano and music direction technique.

BRING ROBIN HOOD TO YOUR SCHOOL!

Last year Random Farms commissioned an original musical, Robin Hood Meets Maid Marian, for the Fall Workshop and Jellybeans. The show is now available to license for production and the costumes are also available to rent. If your school, church, temple, or community group is looking for a show suitable for young performers, check out this video about Robin Hood Meets Maid Marian:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWWx72OBibo

In fact, many of the costumes and sets from past Random Farms productions are available to rent as well as licenses to several original kid-friendly musicals. Click here to view the full list of rentals and show licenses.

IT'S GETTING COLD OUT THERE!

Once again, Random Farms will be collecting coats to donate to the New York Cares Coat Drive. Please leave your gently-used coats in the plastic bin by the counter in the Random Farms Studio lobby in Elmsford. You can also drop them off at any Jellybeans performance of Annie Get Your Gun. For more information about donating coats, please email julie@randomfarms.com.

FINAL DATE FOR DROP-OFFS

Friday, December 19

YOUNG VOICES ON THE BLOG

Our Ambassadors continue to share their perspectives on theater. Last month, Hannah Lewis discussed what it has been like to participate in her first Edge production and Carly Baron shared her amazing story about meeting her talent agent because of the Random Farms Industry Showcase.

HEAR THE KIDS FOR A CAUSE THEME SONG

The Kids For A Cause Holiday Troupe will begin their December tour next week! This talented and generous group of young performers will present a revue of holiday songs and show tunes at homeless shelters, senior centers, and a children's hospital.

Click here to listen to the Kids for a Cause theme song! Special thanks to our studio singers: Leighann Deluca, Kiera Jeanne Higham, Avery Johnson, Alexis Kileen,
Grace Kelly Kretzmer, and Katerina Trantzas.

CASTING NOTICE: LIKE YOU LIKE IT

Dan Acquisto and Sammy Buck, creators of the musical Like You Like It, are seeking singers for the show's cast album.

Seeking: Performers 18 years or older to play high school age featured ensemble roles in a song created especially for the high school version of Like You Like It.

Open Call: Sunday, December 14 from 10:00am-1:30pm at Ripley Grier Studios, 520 Eighth Avenue, 10th Floor, New York, NY (Sign in begins at 9:30).

Prepare: A song from Like You Like it. Visit likeyoulikeit.com/auditions and download the music and a practice scratch track. At the open call, we will ask for 32 bars of the song. An accompanist will be provided at the audition.

Dates: Rehearsals will be in early January; recording will be January 17 and 18.

Contact: auditions@likeyoulikeit.com;

Robin Carus is the casting director.

Note: Random Farms is not affiliated with this production and has posted this audition notice as a courtesy to our industry colleagues. We have no information about this project beyond what is printed here.

KIDS IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Benjamin Wenzelberg at Juilliard.

Benjamin Perry Wenzelberg and Aidan Winn are performing with the Broadway Youth Ensemble in The American Christmas Carol at Carnegie Hall.

Bejamin Wenzelberg, Aidan Winn, and Hayley Feinstein sang in GPR Records' World Premier recording of The Polar Express.

Macy McGrail is featured in the trailer for the book Surviving Middle School: An Interactive Story for Girls. (NOTE: This video clip contains mature language.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPp1XrQjfe8

Heather Braverman in TeenVogue.

Heather Braverman was featured in Teen Vogue.
http://www.teenvogue.com/fashion/street-style/2014-11/los-angeles-college-students/?slide=1

Carly Waldman shot an episode of the FOX television show The Following, airing in January.

Kiera Jeanne Higham is featured in an episode of the CBS show Person of Interest.

Maddox Skigen shot the feature film Delusions of Guinevier.

Katelyn Beicke filmed a commercial for Ultimate Autobody.

Hayley and Tori Feinstein participated in a staged reading of a new musical, By Wheel and By Wing at The Museum of Jewish Heritage (directed by Jayne Atkinson). Hayley recorded the holiday CD Polar Express and filmed a part in the Steven Spielberg movie St. James Place.

Zach Unger played Young Lyle on ABC's television show Forever.

Bryce Edwards and Alexandra Dell'Edera will perform in Those Who Missed The Boat at Urban Stages.

COMMUNITY / SCHOOL

Lauren DeMartino as Tallulah in Bugsy Malone; Julie Smith as Abby Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace; Aidan Winn as Young Scrooge in A Christmas Carol and as Shrek in Shrek; Benjamin Perry Wenzelberg accompanied himself in a recital at Juilliard singing a triptych of songs he composed for piano and soprano voice.

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