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August, 2006 - Table of Contents & Preview
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COVER STORY
Cutting to the Core at Boston Casting
by Chris Cardoni

NEED's ANNUAL CASTING ISSUE

Professional Theatre:
bulletAre You BetweenGigs Niche Casting in New Hampshire by Chris Cardoni
bulletDisney's Beauty & the Beast: "Once Upon a Time" - Once Again by Frank Roberts
bulletThe Penis Responds!  Boston Premiere (MA)
bulletBTF Announces Casting of Amelia Campbell & Scott Lowell (MA)
bulletYellow Taxi Productions Continues Summer Fun with Musical in Greeley Park (NH)
bulletThe Merry Wives of Windsor Barrels Onto Shakespeare & Company's Founders' Stage (MA)
bulletBroadway Today: Antonique Smith by Jim DeBlasi of The Cue
bulletTwp 2006 Tony-Nominated Plays Complete The Huntington's 25th Season Line-up (MA)
bulletOBIE Award-winner Ty Jones Presents Creation: A Clown Show (NY)
bulletSquare One Subscribers Award Actors (CT)
bulletLong Wharf Announces Final Play for 2006-2007 (CT)
bulletTrinity Rep Welcomes William Petersen (RI)
bulletSide-Splitting Laughtyer This Summer at Rochester Opera House (NH)
bulletSalem Theatre Company Presents Two Gentlemen of Soho (MA)
bulletAudition With Authority
bulletTheatre Matters: Litchfield Festival Jazzes Up Summer by Joanne Greco Rochman
bulletMerry-Go-Round Marches Along With The Music Man (NY)
bulletTime Travels at K&K Productions (MA)
bulletNational Icon Auditions (NY)
bulletCombatting Stage Fright
bulletActing Career FAQ: Agent of Manager by Bob Fraser
bulletAudition Tips to Remember
bulletGetting the Perfect Headshot

Colleges/Universities/Schools/Training

bulletBrandeis Theater Company 2006-2007 Features Discovery, Politics, Conflict, Hope, Despair & Intervention (MA)

Community Theatre

bulletUn-Common Theatre Young Adult Company Presents Assassins (MA)
bulletMedway Survives Despite Library's Problems (MA)
bulletComedy by Committee at Gateway (MA)
bulletConcord Players Open 2006-2007 With Miller's All My Sons (MA)
bulletStar Players Celebrates 20th Anniversary with Anything Goes (MA)
bulletHole in the Wall T heatre Displays Love! Valour! Compassion! (CT)

Children's/Youth/Family Theatre

bulletFramingham High School Drama Company State Champions (MA)
bulletLong Wharf Theatre Announces Expanded 2006-2007 Children's Series (CT)
bulletNew Instructors to Lead Majestic Theatre Summer Camps for Youth (NH)
bullet2006 Summmer Children's Series Continues (NH)

Film/Video/Tech

bulletScreen Reels: Chris Paine & Chelsea Sexton by Cecille Markell
bulletWGBH/Boston Video Chronicles the Tragedies & Recovery from the Nation's Worst Storms with the DVD Debut of Hurricane! Katrina, Gilbert & Camille (MA)
bulletCharlie Chaplin's First Full-Length Comedy to Screen at MASS MoCA (MA)
bulletSpecial 3-Day Jon Jost Workshop at WHFF (MA)

Music

bulletAnn Hampton Callaway & Irma Thompson Added to 2006 Tanglewood Jazz Festival Line-Up (MA)
bulletPendragon & Antje Duvekot Add Spark to Newport Folk Festival Line-Up (RI)
bulletRhythm & Roots Festival Hits Charlestown (RI)
bulletNew Orleans Trumpeter Christian Scott Joins JVC Jazz Festial-Newport'06 Line-Up on Waterside Stage (RI)
bulletO'Neill's 2006 Cabaret & Performance Conference Projects Feature Award-winning Performers & Artists (CT)
bulletGreat Entertainment in the Great Outdoors (ME)
bulletLittle Feat's Kickin' It At The Barn Comes to Ridgefield Playhouse (CT)
bulletGlobal Cooling: The Music of Jose Gonzalez by Jeff Hutton
bulletM. Steinert & Sons Hosts Four Hands for a Cure (MA)

Dance

bulletReinforcing Her Return to the U.S., Karole Armitage Shows Brash Balletic Works of Molten Steel (MA)
bulletTrey McIntyre Project in Two Works (MA)

Miscellaneous

bulletProtecting Your Good Ideas: Threesome, Parts Two & Three by Sydelle Pittas

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Reviewed In This Issue

bulletThe Beard of Avon (Publick Theatre, Brighton)
bulletSingin' in the Rain (North Shore Music Theatre, Beverly)
bulletJohn Pizarelli & His Trio (Boston Pops)
bulletThe Will Rogers Follies (Reagle Players, Waltham)
bulletRosa (Alarm Clock Theatre, BCA, Boston)
bulletOnce Upon a Mattress (Animus Ensemble, Boston)
bulletThe Fox (Basement on the Hill, Boston)
bulletThe Good Body (Cutler Majestic, Boston)
bulletCharlie Victor Romeo (A.R.T., Cambridge)
bulletSwan Lake (Colonial Theatre, Boston)
bulletThe Most Fabulous Story Ever Told (Encore  Theatre Co., Boston)

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bulletNEED Theatre Listings
bulletNEED Audition Listings
bulletNEED Music Listings
bulletNEED Dance Listings
bulletOpportunity Knocks
bulletQuick Takes by Jules Becker
bulletActing FAQ by Bob Fraser
bulletBroadway Today by Jim DeBlasi
bulletTheatre Matters - Connecticut Style by Joanne Greco Rochman
bulletScreen Reels by Cecille Markell
bulletJump Cut by George T. Marshall
bulletSound Thinking: Conversations in Music by Jeff Hutton
bulletProtecting Your Good Ideas by Sydelle Pittas

 

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