JURIES
Requirements/Dates - Spring 2019
FRESHMEN
MARCH 27 & 28 – ACTING JURIES:
Prepare a one-minute modern monologue (written in the last 100 years).
SOPHOMORES
MARCH 25 & 26 – ACTING JURIES:
Prepare a one-minute modern monologue (written in the last 100 years).
APRIL 30 & May 2 – VOCAL JURIES:
Prepare 16 bars of a ballad (slow song) OR 32 bars of an uptempo (fast song)
• It does not need to be exactly those amounts of bars – you can go under or over by a few measures in order to complete the musical or lyrical phrase
• The song should be from the Musical Theatre Golden Age cannon (1940’s-1960’s). This includes work by Rodgers & Hammerstein, Lerner & Loewe, Bock & Harnick, Kander & Ebb, Frank Loesser, Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne, Meredith Willson, Betty Comden, Adolph Greene, early Sondheim, and later Porter and Berlin.
• You will choose a song from the selections rehearsed in class.
MAY 13 & 15 – DANCE JURIES:
You will be taught a combination and asked to perform in small groups.
MT JUNIORS
MARCH 25 - ACTING JURIES:
A one-minute classical monologue (i.e. Shakespeare, Moliere, Aeschylus, Sophocles, etc. – pre-late 1800’s)
APRIL 29 – VOCAL JURIES:
Prepare 16 bars of a ballad (slow song) AND 32 bars of an uptempo (fast song)
• It does not need to be exactly those amounts of bars – you can go under or over by a few measures in order to complete the musical or lyrical phrase
• At least one of these songs should be a musical theater song
• The songs should be contrasting in style (i.e. one jazz and one rock, one 1960’s rock and one classical MT, one traditional MT and one modern MT, one folk rock song and one MT Disney song)
• The songs should be contrasting in character (i.e. one comedic and one serious, one angry and one in love, one with high status and one with low status)
• The songs should show you off (give us your best notes and range)
MT SENIORS
MARCH 25 – MUSICAL SCENES JURIES (Combined Vocal and Acting Juries):
Prepare a two or three-person musical scene that is from a published musical
• There must be a substantial scene with spoken dialogue that leads into the song or occurs mid-song (more than just a few lines)
• The entire scene and song should be less than 8 minutes
• The scene should not be from any senior directed project, J-term, or class assignment you have done at SPCPA