The Scene: May 11th, 2022
In today's Email: The Actor's Pocket Guide, Tony Award Nominations, and Liza!
Also in today’s email:
Hot Topics: The College Audition Timeline.
Teacher Feature: Danny Viola (he/him).
The Broadway Beat: Tony nominees, new works, and advance tickets.
Shows You Should Know: One-act comedies.
Around the Globe: The historic Teatro Amazonas.
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The Music Man on Broadway announces an open call for child male dancers.
The College Musical Theatre Guide walks upcoming High School seniors through their next year of auditions with this handy college audition timeline.
Each week, The Scene spotlights one (or two) outstanding educators and shares their best advice to fellow teachers.
Danny Viola (he/him)
Newark Academy (Livingston, NJ)
Number of years teaching: 10 years
Show you loved directing: See What I Wanna See
Show you are dying to direct: Ride the Cyclone
What’s the best piece of advice you would share with other teachers?:
Listen to your students truly and honestly. They are typically the only folks who know what’s going on in their own head. It may be loud, it may be quiet, but simply listening to them with diligence and patience will guide you in empowering them to be their truest self.
A Strange Loop receives 11 Tony Award Nominations. The Lehman Trilogy tops all plays with 8. Check out the complete list of nominees here!
New Works From Anna Deveare Smith, Keenan Scott II, and more in New York Stage and Film 2022 Summer Season. Read up on Playbill.
August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson hits Broadway this fall. Get advance tickets here.
Camelot comes to St. Louis! The Muny has announced the Starring Cast for the David Lee Adaptation of Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot.
In these days of extraordinary shows with epic runtimes, sometimes it’s best to leave them wanting more. Explore these louder, faster, funnier one-act comedies:
On This Day of Theatre: May 11th
Liza Minelli made her Tony Award-winning Broadway debut at age 19 in Flora, the Red Menace.Production Tip: Learn all you need to know about rig safety from USITT’s Rig Safe Day 2022
For Fun: Watch the opening number of MJ featuring Myles Frost.
Vacation Calling: Located in Brazil at the heart of the Amazon rainforest, Teatro Amazonas was built by rubber barons in 1884.