Veteran Parents...First Summer Experience Recommendations After MT Freshman Year?

Troykat
Tue, 16 Oct 2018 08:23:37 +0000

My son was accepted to audition at A1’s for his 3rd year, but for the past 2 summers had offers in CA and was in 2 Newsies productions. This past summer he did Newsies with McCoy-Rigby/La Mirada Theatre (produced by Cathy Rigby and husband Tom McCoy) which he absolutely loved and was able to be home for the summer and earn EMC points. The summer before he did Newsies with PCPA in Solvang and earned EMC points as well. McCoy Rigby is doing Beauty and the Beast next summer and they cast through Flores Casting and you can submit a video, but will have to be seen at callbacks in order to be cast, and PCPA is doing The Addams Family and you can audition in person or submit a video. I would highly recommend both if you are in Southern or Central California. He also did Hairspray at The Muny 3 summers ago through the Muny Emerging Young Artists program, and auditioned there the past 2 years but was not cast. He also did StrawHats this past year, but had to fly back to LA for Newsies callbacks, so missed some of the StrawHats callbacks held the day after he auditioned. 3D Theatricals will be auditioning for Shrek in late May. Those are all of the So Cal theatres where you can earn Equity points that I am aware of. Being from the LA area, it has been great having him in productions closer to home so friends and family have been able to watch him perform.