Auditions for a class titled DEVELOPING AN AMERICAN MUSICAL: A WORKSHOP (THTR 480 3-Credits) will be held in December for singers, hip-hop and spoken word artists and dancers.
The class will be taught by well-known actor/director/playwright and composer Ricardo Pitts-Wiley who has taught Contemporary Black Theatre (THTR 261) at RIC for the past 4 years. He is also the co-founder of Mixed Magic Theatre in Pawtucket and an actor at Trinity Rep in Providence.
The class will workshop and perform a new Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul Musical titled TRAINS AND DREAMS, Written by Pitts-Wiley and guitarists/composer Robert Schleeter
Classes will meet on Tuesdays From 4-6:50 beginning January 18th, 2022
Looking for a multi-ethnic cast of 10 Women and 10 Men
(See Synopsis of the Play Below)
AUDITIONS WILL BE HELD:
- MON 12/6 10 AM-12 PM Nazarian Center 189
- TUE 12/7 5-7 PM Little Theatre
- Please be prepared to sing a song that shows your vocal range
- Spoken word and rappers must be prepared to perform a 1-2 minute selection
- You may use tracks or provide your own accompanist..
- Dancers will be required to do 1 minute hip-hop routine
To reserve an audition slot please send your name and preferred date to rpittswiley@ric.edu by December 3rd.
You may also send questions about the workshop to the same email.
TRAINS AND DREAMS
An American Musical by Ricardo Pitts-Wiley and Robert Schleeter
Ricardo Pitts-Wiley and Robert Schleeter have been song writing team for almost 40 years. They have written more than 250 songs and the musicals, Nights People, Sara’s Juke Box, Man, Woman, Chaos and Train’s and Dreams.
Trains and Dreams 28 song score includes music and songs from across the American music landscape including rhythm and blues, rock, soul, jazz and gospel.
Mixed Magic Theatre will present Trains and Dreams in Concert, September 24th- 26th at the Mixed Magic Amphitheatre located at 560 Mineral Spring Ave. in Pawtucket, RI.
Please visit our website mmtri.org for more information.
Synopsis:
A storyteller, Eccho, tell a story from a past time in America, now called The City.
Years of social upheaval and corporate and political corruption has led to The Madness Time, a chaotic and violent reality where street gangs ruled.
Out of the Madness Time, a charismatic leader named Train emerges determined to unite the warring factions and forge a new nation. He preaches that America is a failed idea whose time had passed, and the future will be a new order of his design and under his control. He is supported by a woman he calls Second, a brilliant and ambitious doctor, and Looms, a ruthless former gang member.
Also emerging from the rubble is a woman Makeda who believes in the Will, the spiritual force that connects humans to their dreams and need for self-determination.
Makeda believes that America is not a failed idea, but an unfulfilled promise Her followers include Omar, a former gang leader determined to change his life and Leta, a former teacher and with a perceptive spirit. They and others have found safety in a former prison called YESTERDAY.
As Eccho’s story unfolds, Train is on the verge of gaining complete control of The City. But he feels threatened by Makeda, his former lover, who will not bend the knee or accept his offer to be queen to his king.
While Train attends to the suppression of a rebellion in The City Second is left to hold the people at Yesterday hostage.
Concerned that Makeda could interfere with her ambitions, Second stabs her, leaving her for dead,
When news of Makeda’s death reaches Train, fearing for his own mortality, he commands Second to replace his human parts with machine parts.
When Train realizes that Makeda has survived and her power is growing, he summons his followers to march with him to destroy Yesterday.
Makeda, senses Train’s approach and must summon her fading strength and encourage her people to push the power of The Will and Dreams beyond Yesterday’s walls to reach the people in The City.
As Train closes in on Yesterday, the machine parts begin to fail and Second takes command of the march.
This leads to a dramatic showdown as the two leaders encounter each other, with the fate of the future at stake.
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