Patrick Wilson, Sutton Foster and Christian Borle Talk to Theatre Students this week

[beacon1]

Posted: 8/17/05 at 12:56pm

Woo hoo!

Just posted on Playbill.com

Moveable Arts, a newly formed non-profit educational organization, is hosting a workshop "retreat" at which theatre students can learn from Broadway stars in New York City.

Beginning Aug. 17, Broadway and film stars including Patrick Wilson, who recently starred in the motion picture "The Phantom of the Opera" and Broadway's The Full Monty and Oklahoma!, Sutton Foster (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Little Women) and Christian Borle (Spamalot) will share their insights and experiences with students from theatre programs across the United States.

"Students will immerse themselves in a rigorous schedule of classes geared towards making their on-stage careers a reality," according to Moveable Arts. "Classes in casting, production, cold reading, choreography, and film and TV audition technique will comprise the comprehensive weekend, amongst other invaluable course instruction, including a symposium with the cast of Spamalot."

The Moveable Arts Summer Retreat runs to Aug. 21.

Here's the link to read the rest of it:
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/94584.html

Is anyone going????

Updated On: 8/17/05 at 12:56 PM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 8/17/05 at 12:57pm

I saw the headline and was like "where's beacon?!"

[LostLeander]

Posted: 8/17/05 at 1:03pm

All three of them went to Carnegie Mellon for Musical Theatre.. but only two finished.

[beacon1]

Posted: 8/17/05 at 1:07pm

Here's the link at Moveable Arts that details what will be presented and by which artist.

http://www.moveablearts.org/

Dagmara Dominczyk will be there,too (Patrick Wilson's new wife!)

[beacon1]

Posted: 8/17/05 at 1:45pm

Is anyone going?

[Magdalene]

Posted: 8/17/05 at 1:55pm

The local critic in Pittsburgh (home of Carnegie Mellon) wrote a really nice piece on Christian Borle in the Sunday paper a few months ago---this sounds like fun!

[beacon1]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 8:45pm

Did anyone go to this?
Did all the scheduled performers show?
How big were the classes?
Would you recommend this to others?

[Aigoo]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 8:55pm

I've heard of this program. A friend of mine is a teacher there. It sounds great.

[Chrysanthemum62001]

Posted: 8/21/05 at 9:44pm

Wow! I wish I had known about this sooner. It sounds like such a great experience and is definately something I will be looking into in the future.

[beacon1]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 9:57pm

Here's a follow-up about the Moveable Arts Seminar.
It's from Backstage.com

[url]http://www.backstage.com/backstage/features/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001050653[/url]

[StephanietheStar]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 10:27pm

OMG...can they come to me

reason number 1028180812923901832189 why I need to live in NYC...

so sad...

[beacon1]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 10:29pm

That's the whole idea of Moveable Arts is that they WILL travel to give presentations.

Neat concept and I hope they get lots of invitations.