AUDITION REFRESH
October 7, 2021
At TACOMA MUSICAL PLAYHOUSE
4:00 PM & 7:30 PM
Any questions, please contact Harry Turpin
Director/Choreographer HARRY TURPIN
Director/Musical Director R.J. TANCIOCO
Two Ways to Participate:
In-Person (Limited Space Availability)
Cost: $75
Please bring sheet music in the correct key, your audition material, two contrasting verse and chorus pieces, and something to record your rehearsal tracks with at the end of the session.
Online Observer (Streaming Platform)
Cost: $20
Observe the auditions of others and ask some questions to help solidify your audition game.
Reservations are required! No walk-ups will be accepted.
Come and spend an afternoon or evening with director/choreographer HARRY TURPIN and musical director R.J. TANCIOCO in a classroom setting to refresh, redesign and relook at your book.
This dedicated time will be spent re-examining and refreshing your current audition material to help you be prepared for auditioning after a post-pandemic world.
In this classroom setting, you’ll get the opportunity to perform two songs and receive personal feedback, observe other performances, ask any questions you may have to help redefine and reframe your audition experience.
In addition, you’ll leave with a rehearsal track of your songs recorded for you.
HARRY TURPIN: Harry’s body of work includes productions of Little Shop of Horrors (Winner: Gregory Award (People’s Choice) Outstanding Director, Oustanding Production Musical), The Who’s Tommy (Bway World Winner: Best Director/Best Choreographer), Sweet Charity (Bway World nom: Best Director, Best Choreography), Anything Goes, Guys and Dolls (Bway World nom: Best Choreography) and Becoming More Less Crazy (Winner: Best of the Fest, Seattle Fringe). Fly By Night (Bway World nom: Best Director. Bway world winner: Best Ensemble), White Christmas, and Beehive (both at TMP). Other productions include an acclaimed production of Once On This Island, The Pajama Game, All Shook Up, Beauty and the Beast, Hello, Dolly!, Legally Blonde, The Music Man, City of Angels, multiple productions of Bye, Bye, Birdie!. Harry will be returning to direct and choreograph Cinderella for TMP this holiday season. Welcome back to the theatre!
R.J. TANCIOCO Select musical direction credits include: Beauty and the Beast (2022), Urinetown, Mamma Mia!, Grease, Jasper in Deadland, Little Shop of Horrors, RENT, Joseph…Dreamcoat, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Hair (The 5th Avenue Theatre); You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (2022), She Loves Me, …Howard Barnes, In the Heights, Hairspray, Newsies, Dreamgirls, Pump Boys and Dinettes (Village Theatre); The Winter’s Tale, As You Like It, The Odyssey, Here Lies Love (Seattle Rep); Head Over Heels, Violet, American Idiot (ArtsWest); The Spitfire Grill (Showtunes!); Daddy Long Legs, Bright Star (Taproot Theatre); How Can I Love You (Ignite Creative); Spring Awakening (Balagan). Music Supervisor: Lizard Boy (Seattle Rep). A 2010 Gregory Award and 2011/2014 Gypsy Rose Lee award recipient, Tancioco is a vocal coach, arranger, and composer who enjoys educating youth and cultivating new musicals. Support live theatre!
TACOMA MUSICAL PLAYHOUSE
General Auditions have taken place for Tacoma Musical Playhouse Mainstage and TMP Family Theater 2021-2022 Season. Please continue to submit your information via Casting Manager to be considered for any role in the future.
ALL ACTORS: You are required to create an account on Casting Manager to be considered for any roles at TMP. NO EXCEPTIONS.
Follow this link to create a new account for Casting Manager or to link your account with TMP. You will automatically receive an audition notice with detailed instructions.
http://castingmanager.com/audition/info/dMtWOTjjYBlLxr7
R.J. TANCIOCO Select musical direction credits include: Beauty and the Beast (2022), Urinetown, Mamma Mia!, Grease, Jasper in Deadland, Little Shop of Horrors, RENT, Joseph…Dreamcoat, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Hair (The 5th Avenue Theatre); You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (2022), She Loves Me, …Howard Barnes, In the Heights, Hairspray, Newsies, Dreamgirls, Pump Boys and Dinettes (Village Theatre); The Winter’s Tale, As You Like It, The Odyssey, Here Lies Love (Seattle Rep); Head Over Heels, Violet, American Idiot (ArtsWest); The Spitfire Grill (Showtunes!); Daddy Long Legs, Bright Star (Taproot Theatre); How Can I Love You (Ignite Creative); Spring Awakening (Balagan). Music Supervisor: Lizard Boy (Seattle Rep). A 2010 Gregory Award and 2011/2014 Gypsy Rose Lee award recipient, Tancioco is a vocal coach, arranger, and composer who enjoys educating youth and cultivating new musicals. Support live theatre!
TMP’s 2021-2022 Mainstage season
All Shook Up (September 17 – October 10, 2021) – Cast
Cinderella Enchanted Edition (November 26 – December 19, 2021) – Cast
Disenchanted! – A New Musical Comedy (January 21 – February 13, 2022)
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (March 18 – April 10, 2022)
In The Heights (May 13 – June 5, 2022)
Kinky Boots (July 8 – 31, 2022)
TMP Family Theater 2021-2022 season
Seussical TYA (February 26 – March 6, 2022)
Shrek TYA (April 23 – May 1, 2022)
Questions, please contact us:
boxoffice@tmp.org or
253-565-6867
