Broadway Teachers Workshop B 2017 Schedule (*subject to change) Monday, July 10, 2017 Today’s workshops are held at The Sheen Center; 18 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012 9:15 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Registration/ Welcome/ Meet and Greet Your Peers 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Opening Session: Creativity and Connection: with Susan Blackwell ([title of show]) In this fun, festive welcome session, Susan Blackwell kicks off your Broadway Teachers Workshop with a bang! This year's theme is CREATIVITY and--as always--the discussion will be spirited, the ideas shared will be inspiring, and the connections made will lay the foundation for a warm, wonderful BTW adventure! Susan Blackwell is on a mission to free people’s creativity and self-expression. She champions this cause as a performer, writer, educator and business consultant. She played a character based on herself in the original Broadway musical [title of show} and the Off-Broadway musical Now. Here. This. She created and hosts the freewheeling chat show ‘Side by Side by Susan Blackwell’ on Broadway.com. As the founder of Susan Blackwell & Co., she partners with like-minded compassionate artists and thought leaders to deliver inspiring entertainment and educational offerings aimed at freeing people’s creativity and self-expression. 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. A.) EXPLORING FRANK LOESSER: A concert and class with Broadway Music Director David Loud Join Broadway Music Director David Loud (Scottsboro Boys, Curtains, The Visit) in another of his delightful inquiries into the songs of our greatest theatre composers. Frank Loesser has been called the most versatile of all Broadway composers. His five Broadway musicals, each a unique contribution to the art of the American musical theatre, were as different from each other as they were from the theatre of their day: Where’s Charley?, Guys And Dolls, The Most Happy Fella, Greenwillow, and How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. As a lyricist, he enjoyed a successful Hollywood career penning standards with Jule Styne, Hoagy Carmichael, Burton Lane and Arthur Schwartz. Discover more about this musical giant, and learn about this great source of music for your students. David Loud is a Broadway Music Director and Vocal Arranger. His credits include the original Broadway productions of Kander & Ebb’s The Visit, starring Chita Rivera and Roger Rees, The Scottsboro Boys, Sondheim on Sondheim, starring Barbara Cook, Curtains, starring David Hyde Pierce, Ragtime, Steel Pier, The Look of Love, and A Class Act, as well as revivals of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, starring Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis, Sweeney Todd, starring Patti LuPone and Michael Cerveris, She Loves Me, starring Boyd Gaines, and The Boys From Syracuse. Recent concert work includes The Story Goes On: Liz Callaway sings the songs of Maltby & Shire, A Good Thing Going: the Harold Prince Stephen Sondheim Collaboration, and First You Dream, which was broadcast on PBS. As an actor, he originated roles in Terrence McNally’s Master Class and Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We roll Along. He has been on the faculty of the Yale School of Drama and Fordham University, and he will be be the Music Director for the new Bachelor’s degree program at the Manhattan School of Music. Paul Masse’s Broadway conducting credits include: The Scottsboro Boys, Holler If Ya Hear Me, It Shoulda Been You, Fun Home, The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, Avenue Q, Wicked. Over 20 other Broadway shows as a pianist and accordionist. Musical Supervisor for London's West End premiere of The Scottsboro Boys. Off-Broadway: The Landing, Inner Voices ("Borrowed Dust"), The Scottsboro Boys, Jacques Brel.... Regional: Sense and Sensibility, First You Dream. 1st National/LA: Wicked. Various Film/TV soundtracks. Original cast albums: The Landing, The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, She Loves Me (2016 Revival), The Scottsboro Boys (Original Cast and West End Cast), Noel and Cole. Concert performances with NY Pops, Orchestra of St. Luke's, and NY Philharmonic (PBS Live from Lincoln Center broadcast of Show Boat). Lindsay Mendez appeared this season as Laura in Significant Other on Broadway. Other Broadway credits include Elphaba in Wicked, Godspell, Everyday Rapture and Grease. Off-Broadway, she created the starring role in Dogfight at Second Stage, for which she received Drama Desk, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle nominations. She also created the role of Laura in Significant Other in its Off-Broadway run at Roundabout. She appeared in The Rose Tattoo with Marissa Tomei at Williamstown, The Winters Tale at Shakespeare In The Park/Delacourt, and in 35mm. On television, she appeared on ‘Smash’ and in concert at Lincoln Center, Library of Congress and with the American Pops. Laura Darrell is a conservatory-trained actress in LA (USC), NY (NYU) and the UK (BADA.) Shel has acted professionally since the age of 10, starting off in regional theatres before making the move to NYC and LA. To date she has appeared in several independent feature films, indie shorts, and webseries, many of which have appeared in major festivals, including Sundance and Cinequest. Laura has also performed lead roles in theaters across the country. Laura just finished working on Encores! The Golden Apple at New York City Center, directed by Michael Berresse. Before that she was Suze in John Kander and Greg Pierce’s new musical Kid Victory, which ran Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theater, directed by Liesl Tommy and choreographed by Christopher Windom. The official Off-Broadway Cast Album will drop in September 2017. Before that she debuted as Anna in the opening cast of Frozen Live at DCA, also directed by Liesl Tommy. And with its 2017 release, she will be seen playing the role of Eileen, a tough mean girl, in the feature film ‘Creedmoria’, starring Stef Dawson (Hunger Games) and directed by Alicia Slimmer, which has won many awards including best comedy at the Cinequest Film Festival. She can also be seen in several independent shorts, including ‘Hands to the Sky,’ directed by Kimberly Townes (HBO) starring Theo Perkins. Daniel Plimpton recently played Lt. Shaw in the Denver Center production of The Secret Garden. He appeared in the National Tour of The Book of Mormon and Spring Awakening. Regional Credits include Paper Mill Playhouse, O'Neill Theater Center, North Shore Music Theatre, Weston Playhouse, Engeman Theatre, New Century Theatre, Lyric Stage. Training: BFA, The Boston Conservatory. B.) FREESTYLE RAP and The New Broadway Musical with Andrew Bancroft and Ashley Pérez Flanagan Join members of Freestyle Love Supreme, the improv group created by Lin Manuel Miranda that inspired the style and story-telling of Hamilton, for an amazing ride. The Love of Freestyle workshop introduces you to the basic principles of freestyle rap, with a focus on self-expression and jumping in. Everyone will receive a beatbox lesson and be encouraged to freestyle in the class. This is the great way to bring theatre into a mode of expression your students will find familiar and exhilarating. Freestyle love isn’t about doing it right... just DOING IT! Andrew Bancroft: Founding member of Freestyle Love Supreme. The son of a former Catholic nun and an ex-pool hustler, Andrew Bancroft grew up in the woods of Maine. In the Bay Area, Andrew spent years writing and performing with the comedy troupe Killing My Lobster and hosting The Digg Reel, a weekly web show. Andrew moonlights as rapper Jelly Donut, and is a member of the improv hip hop groups Freestyle Love Supreme and The Freeze. He has been featured on MTV's TRL and in Rolling Stone and TIME. Andrew recently left his Creative Director position at ad agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners to pursue writing and performing in New York. Ashley Pérez Flanagan’s recent and favorite credits include: Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812 (u/s Sonya, Mary – Broadway, A.R.T.), Orpheus and Eurydice are F***ing in Love (Eurydice - Ars Nova), In Love with Jobim (The Girl - York Theatre), Prometheus Bound (Daughter of the Aether - A.R.T.), West Side Story (Rosalia, Maria u/s), Evita (Mistress), Once on This Island (Ti Moune), Footloose (Rusty), The Sound of Music (Liesel u/s, performed). Select New York workshops: A Moment in Time; Bull Durham; I’m Your Man; Flashdance; Beauty (Young Marguerite), Regina Spektor project. Concerts: Wunnerful Wunnerful! (Joe's Pub, Ars Nova); Moondrunk (Joe's Pub, Carnegie Hall), American Songbook Series w/ Lea Delaria, Jazz at Lincoln Center. Endless love to my amazing family and friends. 1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. Lunch Break 2:15p.m. – 3:30 p.m. A.) STAGE MANAGEMENT with Linda Marvel (Finding Neverland) Led by Broadway Production Stage Manager Linda Marvel, this class will take you through many of the skills and methods for good stage management – scheduling, notating, supporting the creative vision, creating a warm but disciplined environment, creating a calling script and maintaining a show. Linda Marvel (Production Stage Manager) was most recently the Production Stage Manager for Finding Neverland. She has over 25 years of experience working on and off Broadway and in regional theatres. Selected credits include PSM for the Broadway productions of Noises Off, Side Show, Hands on a Hardbody, Fela!, 33 Variations, and The Little Dog Laughed. Linda is also a stage manager at Radio City Music Hall, has stage managed corporate events throughout the U.S. and internationally and is an adjunct professor for the MFA Stage Management program at Columbia University School of the Arts. B.) BROADWAY DANCE CLASS: Hamilton Join Sasha Hutchings (original cast member from Broadway’s Hamilton and currently appearing in Bandstand) for a high-energy dance combination direct from the show.