About this Event
Join Broadway Veteran Marguerite Willbanks and Music Director Terri Matthews in The STAR Centre Black Box for “An Audition Workshop!”
The Workshop will cover:
1. An overview on audition preparation
a. How to find music that expresses your best self, both vocally and personally.
b. How to create the best cut of music to fit into the time constraints of most auditions.
c. How to prepare a book or tablet of your best pieces that are readily available for any audition circumstance.
2. The audition
a. How to enter the room and approach an accompanist.
b. How to communicate with the accompanist to get the best out of your audition song.
c. How to start, finish and exit the room.
FREE, but Space is Limited and REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.
Marguerite Willbanks Bio:
Marguerite grew up in Maryland, performing in various community theatres and dinner theatres before moving to New York City. She worked as a professional musical theatre performer for over thirty years before recently returning to Maryland.
Performance Credits include: Broadway-Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Madame de la Grande Bouche) National Tours-The Phantom of the Opera, A Christmas Story, The Musical; Young Frankenstein (Frau Blucher); Disney’s Beauty and the Beast; The Secret Garden. Regional Theatre Souvenir(Florence Foster Jenkins) Milwaukee Rep; Paramour (She) The Old Globe Theatre; The Merry Widow, Paper Mill Playhouse. Concerts-
Children and Art, A 75th Birthday Celebration for Stephen Sondheim, The New Amsterdam Theatre; Very Warm for May (Liz) Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall; Babes in Toyland (Bo Peep) Avery Fisher Hall. Movie Soundtracks- The Producers, Disney’s Enchanted.
Marguerite was Assistant Director/Choreographer on the Havre de Grace Opera House Production of Sweeney Todd and a Producer on their most recent production of Jekyll and Hyde.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The STAR Centre, 700 Congress Avenue, Havre de Grace, United States
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