San Angelo Broadway Academy Holds Auditons

The King and I

The San Angelo Broadway Academy will be holding auditions for the programs upcoming Fall tuition based production workshop on August 27th, 2011 at Sunset Mall next to Chick-fil-A. The Fall musical will be Rogers and Hammerstein’s classic, The King and I, and auditions are opened to students between the ages of 8-18. Students casted in the production will be in educational workshop classes and rehearsals throughout the Fall semester and performances will be open to the public December 9th- December 11th at the Foster Communications Coliseum.

For those students auditioning, they are required to come prepared with 16-32 bars of a musical selection. This can be from a musical theatre piece or any other similar genre. Students can sing acapella, with a non-vocal CD track, or a pianist will be provided on site for those with sheet music. Students will also be grouped together to learn a short dance combination from the show as well as reads from the script. Interested students must call to set up an audition time during the set times of either 9am, 11am, 1pm, or 3pm and the audition can be expected to last the entire 2 hour window. To set up an audition time, please call the SABA office at 763-4807 or 763-7222 or go to http://www.sabroadwayacademy.org for more information.

East versus West makes for a dramatic, richly textured and ultimately uplifting tale of enormous fascination. It is 1862 in Siam when an English widow, Anna, and her young son arrive at the Royal Palace in Bangkok, having been summoned by the King to serve as tutor to his many children and wives. The King is largely considered to be a barbarian by those in the West, and he seeks Anna’s assistance in changing his image, if not his ways. With both keeping a firm grip on their respective traditions and values, Anna and the King grow to understand and, eventually, respect one another, in a truly unique love-story. Along with the dazzling score, breathtaking costumes, and Jerome Robbins ballet pieces, The King and I is truly a marvel of the musical stage.