Vocal Scholarship Program For Actors’ Equity Members |
Singers Forum, in cooperation with Actors’ Equity, will launch a pilot program to provide substantially underwritten private voice lessons exclusively to Equity members.
Singers Forum is a Manhattan-based vocal training center that will provide scholarships to 12 Equity Members to take weekly, private 45-minute voice lessons for a $39 per lesson fee - a significant reduction from any comparable quality school. Weekly lessons will begin in February 2010 for three months. Students for the pilot program will be chosen by audition.
Auditions will be by appointment only: Tuesday, January 19, and Wednesday, January 20 from 10:30 am – 6:30 pm with a break from 1:30 – 2:30 pm each day. Auditions will be held at Singers Forum, 49 W. 24th Street (bet. B'way & 6th Ave.), 4th Floor. To request an appointment please e-mail Don Rebic at drebic@singersforum.org beginning Monday, January 4th at 9:00 am. Appointments will be held at 10 minute intervals. Prepare two brief contrasting Broadway and/or pop songs of your choice, not to exceed 3 minutes total. Bring music in your key as well as a picture & resume, stapled together. Experienced singers as well as non-singers serious about learning to sing are welcome. Performers of all ages, ethnic and racial backgrounds are encouraged to attend.
The first phase of this program has been made possible with the generous cooperation of Actors’ Equity and an anonymous grant. This program is designed to provide Equity Members with privately subsidized assistance to access its faculty of musical theater professionals for the purpose of training, maintaining or rehabilitating a healthy vocal instrument. The first phase will rely on student feedback to maximize the effectiveness of this training program and Singers Forum is committed to assuring that additional funding for a greatly expanded program is forthcoming.
The roster of teachers includes: John Capes, whose work includes Les Miserables on Broadway and national tours in numerous Equity shows; Bradley Dean, currently appearing on Broadway in A Little Night Music, was also on Broadway in Spamalot, Company and Man of La Mancha; Eric Michael Gillett, who has directed concert and cabaret artists, has been seen in Broadway’s Kiss Me, Kate, Sweet Smell of Success and The Frogs as well as many off-Broadways musicals and is an award-winning cabaret vocalist; Teri Ralston, whose Broadway work includes creating roles in the original casts of Company, The Baker’s Wife and A Little Night Music, Mama Rose in Gypsy, Yvonne in Sunday In The Park With George and has appeared in Putting It Together and a new Sondheim revue Moving On.; and Melanie Vaughan, who has been a member of the Broadway cast of 10 shows including Ring of Fire, Parade and Sunday in the Park with George.
Singers Forum is a not-for-profit vocal training center in Manhattan with its studios located at 49 West 24th Street. Founded in 1978 by Andy Anselmo and John Albert Harris, its Artistic Director is Don Rebic, an award-winning musical director for Broadway, concert and cabaret artists, his Broadway credits include conducting Jesus Christ Superstar, Dancin’, Sweet Charity and more, as well as national tours of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Kiss of the Spider Woman starring Chita Rivera.
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