The Cabaret Conference at Yale University

[ptate]

Posted: 2/14/08 at 3:09pm

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SIXTH ANNUAL
THE CABARET CONFERENCE
AT YALE UNIVERSITY
July 25- August 3, 2008
SUMMER PROGRAM

The Sixth Annual Cabaret Conference At Yale University is a unique nine-day program that offers intensive training in the art of cabaret performance technique, and trains professionals for the live entertainment industry. Our international body of students have hailed from the United States, Australia, Canada, Germany, Greece, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa and the United Kingdom and from the worlds of cabaret, musical theater, jazz, pop and classical music.

The award-winning faculty and renowned consultants includes: Tovah Feldshuh, Jason Graae, Carol Hall, George Hall, Laurel Masse, Sally Mayes, Sharon McNight, Erv Raible, Fred Voelpel, and Julie Wilson.

Classes and lectures include:
* cabaret performance technique
* acting for singers, lyric interpretation, focus and concentration
* act structure, act writing, material research, and comedic
development.
* working with a musical director and director,
* image consultation
* club relations, marketing, press and public relations,
* representation, booking, management and personal networking

Public performances by our illustrious faculty and guest performers allow students to observe first-hand the performance techniques of professionals in the industry. At the Cabaret Conference Curtain Call students perform, demonstrating what they have accomplished in their nine days at the Cabaret Conference at Yale.

The Cabaret Conference is held on the historic Yale University campus in New Haven, Connecticut USA. Dorm housing and meals are included in the tuition of $3100.00.

Auditions are held in: New York, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland,
London UK, Los Angeles, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New Orleans, Seattle, Toronto and Washington DC.

To schedule an audition or for additional information, contact Pam Tate, Executive Associate at 212-629-2000 or visit our website at:

www.TheCabaretConferenceAtYale.com

Auditions on video, CD, cassette or DVD, may be submitted, along with a picture and resume, to:

The Cabaret Conference at Yale University
520 Hudson Street
Suite 120
New York, New York 10014 USA

Posted: 2/14/08 at 3:21pm

Wow doesn't that seem like a big deal for just one musical? How many times does Cabaret get performed these days? And six years in a row? Couldn't they do a workshop about how to perform in Cabaret one year, then the next year do Gyspy or Urinetown or something else? How useful is it to focus on one musical over and over and over? This just makes no sense to me.

[hellzapoppin2000]

Posted: 2/14/08 at 4:32pm

This is just a posting to advertise the Cabaret Conference at Yale. Yale is just the space that Raible rents -- his dead boyfriend went there. it has nothing to do with the Conference itself. It is just a way to exploit the location -- people who go often get "managed" by Erv Raible. No one has ever heard of them. Liza was his friend once but now even she doesn't speak to him. This posting should be deleted.

[ptate]

Posted: 2/16/08 at 5:04pm

Wow, I can't let these two messages go by unanswered. First, it's a conference to work on cabaret performance skills - not the musical "Cabaret," duh. Secondly, this conference has been going on for six years under Erv Raible's fantastic and intuitive Artistic Direction, attracting a first-rate faculty including people like Tovah Feldshuh, Sharon McNight, Heather MacCrae, Julie Wilson and others. It's not about management deals or bookings. If you haven't heard of many of these performers yet, it's because they come from all over America and Europe. They do intensive, deep work at the Conference, then go back to their communities where many of the alums have created Cabaret Associations and developed thriving cabaret performance scenes in places as diverse as St.Paul/Minneapolis, Birmingham,Alabama & St. Louis. The Cabaret Conference at Yale plays a huge role in keeping the art of cabaret not only alive, but vital, in large metropolitan cities as well as the "hinterlands." And PS - Yale has a very stringent criteria for any program that's housed on their campus and allowed to use their name. So the vitriol aimed at the posting for The Cabaret Conference at Yale is just too too weird. The conference received a special Bistro Award as well as grants from such organizations as ASCAP, among others. Check out the website www.thecabaretconferenceatyale.com and read testimonials from past participants. They're fantastic! Oh, and by the way, Erv and Liza remain buddies to this day.

[irememberitwell]

Posted: 2/17/08 at 10:57am

Take a lookie to the left. Ths is Cabaret at its finest: 9/11: The Musical Response booked into Danny's while the city was still in shock. Why are the people in this picture smiling? Because its Cabaret! They are going to put on a show!That's Erv Raible on the right! Opportunism at the expense of the city's dead. Shame on them all.

[hellzapoppin2000]

Posted: 2/17/08 at 11:35am

That is just disgusting. I remember seeing this picture on the flyer around town and thought at the time it was totally inappropriate, no matter whether or not the show was to raise money. That is the main problem with these cabaret rooms -- the owners just want to sell drinks and you can call it a "benefit" but who knows where the money really goes. Do you think they deducted the cost of there outfits from the cover charges? Gotta hand it to Erv though, the sweater is a step up from those blouses. check out ervraible.com for more fabulous seventies fashions!