Notes for Sunday January 17

Hi everyone!

We are gearing up for Rehearsal #2 on The House of Bernarda Alba! Here's the plan for this Sunday:

Sunday Jan 17

1:15 Physical Warm-Up
1:25 Vocal Warm-Up
1:35 Music Session I
3:00 Break
3:15 Read-through + Audition briefing
4:00 Music Session II

You'll be receiving scripts this Sunday, and we'll do a read-through of the show to help familiarize you with the nuances of the script. 

Auditions

Auditions for all vocal solos and speaking roles will be Sunday January 24th. Here are the vocal solos:

La luna asoma: soprano
Cancion de jinete: alto and 2 sopranos

The spoken roles we will audition for are Angustias, Magdalena, Amelia, Martirio, Adela, Poncia, and the Servant. There are some small additional speaking roles that we will not audition separately but we will determine from the pool of those auditioning for the above roles. We highly encourage everyone to audition for as many roles as you are interested in! There is the possibility that we will assign understudies for certain roles in case of sickness, or to accommodate our touring schedule. Note that Poncia and the Servant have heavier solo movement requirements than most of the daughters (not extreme, but some).

Following the January 17th rehearsal, we will post the short scenes on the blog that we will use for the auditions. You do not have to have them memorized but we will be expecting you to be familiar with the character and the scene.

Schedule

Please take a look at the Google Calendar as it has been updated. We have released all dates for the last week of April. Our Halifax show dates remain as May 6&7 with our tech week days and times noted in the Calendar.

We have confirmed a run-out performance of Bernarda Alba on Saturday, June 11 at the Kings Theatre in Annapolis Royal. Please make sure to mark that date on your calendars. We are expecting 1-2 additional runouts and will let you know as soon as we have dates confirmed (hopefully within the next week). ***Update as of Jan 12 we have now booked another runout on Saturday May 14 at the Chester Playhouse. Please add this to your calendars.

One additional thing to note, we will be singing at Edgewood-Oxford United Church the morning of Sunday, April 3rd, as a thank you to them for lending us their basement for our Christmas wreath fundraiser.

Our memorization schedule and reference recordings will be available on the blog later this week so keep your eyes open!

Thanks everyone! See you Sunday!