Rehearsal Schedule for Friday Jan. 17, 2013

REHEARSAL WILL BE HELD ON THE RAND STAGE

2:00pm Mark and Luke to work in 204 on Act II

2:00pm Lydia Barrett, Tori Clough, Ryan Hill, Tiberius Cuipylo-Watkins, Eliza Baxter, Conor Dennin, Eddie Flannery, Jared Beaulieu, Hannah Syzdlo, Griffin Lyons, Ashton Martin, Sylvia Barjolo, Lily Filippatos, Ben Finn, Michael Seavey

2:00pm Physical Work/Scene Work

4:00pm ADD Zen, Dana Schnitzer, Hala Lord, Dan Kadish, Uriah Rodriguez, Melissa Ennulat

4:00pm Begin work on pg. 60-61, 113, 221

5:30pm-7:00pm MEAL BREAK

7:00pm Full Company Called (Excluding Dana Schnitzer, Hannah Szydlo, Aeri Kim, Zen, Jared Beaulieu, Griffin Lyons and Children’s Ensemble [Ruby Cain, Esther Sokoloff-Rubin, Gabe Randall, Sophia Schweik, Julia Edgerly, Khalila Lord, Hannah D’Alessandro, Tristan Lewis-Shurter]
“Finale” Musically

Final “Ain’t it Awful” Musically

10:30PM END OF NIGHT

Street Scene Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend Mainstage People & Programs Street Scene at a glance by Kurt Weill, Elmer Rice, and Langston Hughes directed by Gina Kaufmann musical direction by Mark Swanson choreography by Erica Wilson-Perkins special guest: bass-baritone John Cheek special guest: soprano Dana Schnitzer Feb. 21, 26, 28, March 1 at 8 p.m. Feb. 23 at 2 p.m. The Rand Theater (For this production, tickets will be reserved seating.) Buy tickets to Street Scene Related events Post-show Q&A For this landmark event, the Department of Theater expands its usual First Friday Q&A program. Audiences at the Feb. 21, 23 and 28 performances are invited to stay after the performance for a free Q&A with members of the creative team and cast. Special events The three men whose collective genius createdStreet Scene were each masters of their craft. We invite community members to join us for three FREE events in February that highlight their individual talents. Cabaret! Songs of Kurt Weill Featuring student performers with Clifton J. Noble, Music Director Sunday 02.02.14 at 4:00 PM Sweeney Recital Hall in Sage Hall, Smith College Hold Fast to Dreams: The Poetry of Langston Hughes with Steven C. Tracy, Professor of Afro-American Studies, UMass Sunday 02.09.14 at 4:00 PM Bezanson Recital Hall, UMass Stirring The Melting Pot: Elmer Rice's We, The People a staged reading directed by Paul Adolphsen, UMass Theater Department Sunday 02.16.14 at 2:00 PM University Museum of Contemporary Art, Fine Arts Center, UMass A community of artists comes together to createStreet Scene Street Scene is the most influential show you’ve never heard of. This 1947 artistic hybrid, the result of an unlikely collaboration among playwright Elmer Rice, poet Langston Hughes and composer Kurt Weill, left a huge mark on musical theater, with everyone from Cole Porter to Stephen Sondheim taking inspiration from its innovations. And just as three very different men came together to create this American opera about life in a run-down Manhattan tenement, a diverse group of artists is collaborating to mount a mammoth production with a three story set, a forty-person cast and a thirty-piece orchestra, opening Feb. 21 in the Rand Theater at UMass. The piece is a co-production of UMass Theater and Five College Opera. “It’s a coming together of over 90 collaborators, from different disciplines, across different campuses, to create a story about a multi-ethnic community and the glue that holds it together and rips it apart,” said Gina Kaufmann, a UMass Theater faculty member who is the opera’s director. The cast includes John Cheek, a world-class bass-baritone singer who has sung at the White House and appeared at the Metropolitan opera more than 350 times, and soprano Dana Schnitzer, a UMass alumna and faculty member who also serves as Artistic Director of MetroWest Opera in Boston. Cheek and Schnitzer serve as mentors to several generations of cast members across a wide range of experience, from an 8-year-old making her opera debut to students from the Five Colleges who are looking toward music or theater careers, and a number of experienced performers from across the Pioneer Valley. The characters of Street Scene are thrown together by circumstance in the run-down tenement in a multi-ethnic, working class Manhattan neighborhood during two stifling summer days in 1946. The story, by turns joyful, playful, and melancholy, centers around a romance between a Jewish and a gentile teenager and on the consequences of a mother’s extramarital affair and a father’s rage, but it is the rich undertones of longing and the layered relationships amid the tenement residents that bring the complex world of Street Scene to life. The story is in part about the limits of dreams and aspirations as a younger generation struggles to forge a path different from its parents’. The music reflects the diversity of the community from which it springs. With elements that encompass classical music forms, spoken word, the jazz esthetic, and even film noir orchestrations, this piece stretches the art of opera in fascinating directions. Some of the music underscores dance numbers influenced by the jitterbug, the charleston, and praise dancing from the Black churches of the day. “It uses all of these different musical styles that match the characters,” said Street Scene musical director Mark Swanson, an Amherst College music professor. The elements create a musical collage to shape the identity of the piece. “It’s a diverse group finding a common language,” Swanson said. He was talking about the singers and the production team, but he could just as well have been talking about Weill, Rice and Hughes and the characters they bring to life. Street Scene is a co-production of the Department of Theater and Five College Opera. This production is made possible in part by the Kurt Weill Foundation. Contact Us Dept. of Theater, Fine Arts Center 112 University of Massachusetts Amherst 151 Presidents Drive Amherst, MA 01003-9331 Penny Remsen, Department Chair General e-mail: umasstheater@theater.umass.edu General information number: (413) 545-3490 Fax: (413) 577-0025 This newsletter is maintained by UMass/Theater. © 2012 University of Massachusetts Amherst If you wish to be removed from the UMass Amherst Theater email list, click here.

Rehearsal Schedule Monday Janaury, 13-Saturday, January 18, 2014

Thank-you all for your hard work this week! We were very productive, and it was great to dive further into this wonderful piece. Please see below the rehearsal schedule for Monday, January 13, 2014-Saturday, January 18, 2014. Please remember as we move forward, this will change and it is pertinent that you check your e-mail nightly for those updates.

Monday, January 13:

2:00pm Liana Gineitis, Rob Stahley, Eliza Baxter, Mac Leslie, Dayna Fisk, Ben Finn, Lily Filippatos, Conor Dennin Called

Final Rose/Sam Duet (page 262-270)

“Moon-Faced Starry-Eyed” Review Choreography in Curtain

2:45pm Moon Faced in Rand

3:00pm Add Tiberius Cuipylo-Watkins

3:15pm “We’ll Go Away Together” and Scene

3:50pm Coachings With Mark:

3:50pm Mac Leslie

4:10pm Lily Filippatos

4:30pm Melissa Ennulat

4:50pm Daniel Kadish

5:10pm Michael Carotenuto

5:30-7:00pm MEAL BREAK

7:00pm Frank Aronson, Jessica Campbell, Hala Lord, Tori Clough, Melissa Ennulat, Michael Carotenuto Called

7:00pm Coaching with Frank Aronson

7:15pm “Ain’t it Awful The Heat”

7:15pm Add Peter Vaiknoras and Uriah Rodriguez

(If time allows before 7:30, “Marble and a Star”. If not, it will be after.)

7:30pm “Ice-Cream Sextet” Staging and Choreography

Coachings with Mark:

Jessica Campbell

Tori Clough

10:30pm END OF NIGHT

Tuesday, January 14:

2:00 Rob Stahley, Mac Leslie, Hannah Szydlo, Eliza Baxter, Conor Dennin, Peter Vaiknoras, Tiberius Cuipylo-Watkins, Dayna Fisk, Lily Filippatos, Heather Lord, Eddie Flannery, Peter Vaiknoras, Ryan Hill, Michael Carotenuto, Lydia Barrett, Sylvia Barjolo, Ashton Martin, Ben Finn, Michael Seavey, Daniel Kadish, Melissa Ennulat, Uriah Rodriguez, Christina Mailer, Sophia Schweik, Khalila Lord, Jessica Campbell (if possible), Hannah D’Alessandro, Esther Sokoloff-Rubin Called

            “Lament”

Sections 13 & 14 Scene Work:

            Liana G, Dayna Fisk, Lily Filippatos, Ben Finn, Conor Dennin, Mac Leslie, Griffin Lyons, Rob Stahley, Heather Lord, Peter Vaiknoras, Peter Vaiknoras, (John Cheek if

available)

4:00 add Liana G, Griffin Lyons, (John Cheek if available)

5:30-7:00pm- MEAL BREAK

7:00pm Rob Stahley, Liana G, Peter Vaiknoras, Mac Leslie, Hannah Szydlo, Eliza Baxter, Conor Dennin, Tiberius Cuipylo-Watkins, Dayna Fisk, Lily Filippatos, Heather Lord, Eddie Flannery, Peter Vaiknoras, Ryan Hill, Michael Carotenuto, Lydia Barrett, Sylvia Barjolo, Ashton Martin, Michael Seavey, Daniel Kadish, Melissa Ennulat, Uriah Rodriguez, Christina Mailer, Zen, John Cheek, Sophia Schweik, Khalila Lord, Hannah D’Alessandro, Esther Sokoloff-Rubin, Jared Beaulieu, Jessica Campbell, Dana Schnitzer, Ben Finn, Tristan Lewis-Shurter Called

            “Lament” & Scene work on Sections 18 & 19

            Finale if time allows

10:30pm END OF NIGHT

Wednesday, January 15:

2:00pm Liana Gineitis, Eliza Baxter, Dana Schnitzer, John Cheek, Heather Lord, Sylvia Barjolo, Ruby Cain, Uriah Rodriguez, Christina Mailer, Griffin Lyons, Ryan Hill, Jared Beaulieu, Michael Seavey Called

2:00pm Sections 16, 17, Interlude, 20, 21

4:00pm Add Peter Vaiknoras, Ben Finn and Peter Vaiknoras

5:30-7:00pm MEAL BREAK

7:00pm Michael Seavey, Liana Gineitis, Eliza Baxter, Peter Vaiknoras, Rob Stahley, Mac Leslie, Frank Aronson, Michael Carotenuto, Jessica Campbell, Hala Lord, Uriah Rodriguez, Daniel Kadish, Melissa Ennulat, John Cheek, Ben Finn, Peter Vaiknoras, Dayna Fisk, Lily Filippatos, Sophia Schweik, Ruby Cain, Lydia Barrett, Ryan Hill, Eddie Flannery Called

7:00pm Section 22-End of Show (Including Finale)

10:30 END OF NIGHT

Thursday, January 16:

2:00pm TBD

5:30-7:00pm MEAL BREAK

7:00pm Full Company Called- Read/Sing Thru

10:30pm END OF NIGHT

Friday, January 17:

2:00pm Full Company Called (Specific Call Times TBD)

2:00pm Work Act I

5:30-7:00pm MEAL BREAK

7:00pm TBA

10:30pm END OF NIGHT

Saturday, January 18:

1:00pm Full Company Called (Specific Call Times TBD)

1:00pm “Wrapped in a Ribbon and Tied in a Bow” & Act II

5:00-6:30pm MEAL BREAK

6:30pm Full Company Called (Specific Call Times TBD)

6:30pm “Wrapped in a Ribbon and Tied in a Bow” & Act II

9:30 END OF NIGHT

All the Best, 

Stage Management

Rehearsal Schedule Jan. 5-Jan. 11, 2014

Thank-you everyone involved in the first couple of days of rehearsal! It is great to finally get started on this wonderful project.

A few announcements and reminders:
1. Please check your e-mails nightly for updated rehearsal schedules. As we move forward in the process, the schedule will be updated depending on the work done during the day. It is imperative that you are vigilant about checking these updates as you may have been added for an afternoon or evening rehearsal that you were not previously called for.
2. Please arrive promptly to rehearsal. As you know, there are many people involved in this production, and prompt arrival aids the process. If you are going to be late, even by 5 minutes, please call or text a member of the stage management team (all of our phone numbers are below.) Lateness by even 5 minutes holds up the entire rehearsal and is disrespectful to your fellow company members.
Stage Management Team:
Arielle Herold (SM): 781-413-7695Kathryn McNall (ASM): 339-203-0173Jessica Gill (ASM): 914-482-7922Mike Smith (ASM): 339-832-8885
3. Please arrive warmed up and prepared with your music, a pencil, and water to each rehearsal. If you are called for a 2pm rehearsal, we will begin at 2pm, with the expectation that you have warmed up prior. Stage management is in the space an hour before each rehearsal to prep the space, so if you would like to arrive early it is open and you are more than welcome to.
Please see below the schedule for the upcoming week of Street Scene rehearsals.

As always, please e-mail with questions. If it's urgent please use my cell phone.

Monday, January 6:

2:00pm Rob Stahley, Liana Gineitis, Mac Leslie and Eliza Baxter Called

2:00pm- Section 10 (with “Lonely House”)

“What Good would the Moon Be” (Song only)

Section 18 (with “We’ll Go Away Together”)

3:00pm- Add Peter Vaiknoras

Section 14 (with “Remember that I Care”)

5:30-7:00pm- MEAL BREAK

7:00pm Frank Aronson, Melissa Ennulat, Jessica Campbell, Heather Lord, Michael Carotenuto

7:00pm Sections 1, 2, and 3 + “Ice Cream Sextet”

8:00pm- Add Peter Vaiknoras

9:00pm- Add Daniel Kadish, Mac Leslie and Uriah Rodriguez

10:30 END OF NIGHT

Tuesday, January 7:

2:00- Heather Lord, Melissa Ennulat, Dana Schnitzer, John Cheek, Uriah Rodriguez, Daniel Kadish, Michael Carotenuto, Peter Vaiknoras

2:00pm- Section 5 (“with Somehow I Never Could Believe”

Section 8 (with “Let Things Be Like They Always Was”)

4:00pm Section 16 and Section 17 (There’ll Be Trouble)

4:00 – add Liana G., Ruby Cain, Rob Stahley

5:30-7:00pm- MEAL BREAK

7:00pm Frank Aronson, Melissa Ennulat, Heather Lord, Jessica Campbell, Michael Carotenuto, Dana Schnitzer, Peter Vaiknoras, Gabriel Randall, Sophia Schweik, Ruby Cain Called

7:00pm- Sections 1-8

8:00pm- Add Rob Stahley and Mac Leslie

8:30pm- Add John Cheek, Uriah Rodriguez, Daniel Kadish, and Zen (if available)

10:30 END OF NIGHT

Wednesday, January 8:

2:00pm Liana Gineitis, Tiberius Cuipylo-Watkins, Mac Leslie, Ben Finn, Dayna Fisk, Lily Filippatos, Conor Dennin, Eliza Baxter Called (Heather Lord, John Cheek

2:00pm- 11, 12, 13 – “Wouldn’t You Like to Be On Broadway”, “What Good Would the Moon Be”, “Moon-Faced Starry-Eyed”

5:30-7:00pm- MEAL BREAK

7:00pm- Liana Gineitis, Tiberius Cuipylo-Watkins, Mac Leslie, Dayna Fisk, Ben Finn, Lily Filippatos, Conor Dennin, Eliza Baxter, Aeri Kim, Ashton Martin, Gabriel Randall, Julia Edgerly, Esther Sokoloff-Rubin, Hannah D’Alessandro, Sophia Schweik, Hannah Syzdlo, Dana Schnitzer, Uriah Rodriguez, Heather Lord, Melissa Ennulat, Daniel Kadish, Jessica Campbell, Michael Carotenuto, Peter Vaiknoras

7:00pm- “Moon-Faced Starry-Eyed” Choreography:

Liana Gineitis,  Mac Leslie, Dayna Fisk, Ben Finn, , Conor Dennin, Eliza Baxter, Tiberius Cuipylo-Watkins

7:00 – “Wrapped in a Ribbon” Scene Work:

Aeri Kim, Ashton Martin, Lily Filippatos, Gabriel Randall, Julia Edgerly, Esther Sokoloff-Rubin, Hannah D’Alessandro, Sophia Schweik, Hannah Syzdlo, Uriah Rodriguez, Melissa Ennulat, Daniel Kadish, Jessica Campbell, Michael Carotenuto, Dana Schnitzer, Peter Vaiknoras

10:30 END OF NIGHT

Thursday, January 9:

2:00pm Sylvia Barjolo and Eliza Baxter Called for Scenework & music

2:00pm Section 20 (with “Lullaby”) – 2 Nursemaids

2:00pm Liana Gineitis, Tiberius, Mac Leslie, Ben Finn, Dayna Fisk, Lily Filippatos, Conor Dennin Called for Choreography:

Sections 11 – 13  (with “Wouldn’t you Like to Be on Broadway”, “What Good Would the Moon Be” and “Moon-Faced Starry-Eyed”)

5:30-7:00pm- MEAL BREAK

7:00pm– Frank Aronson, Melissa Ennulat, Heather Lord, Gabriel Randall, Jessica Campbell, Michael Carotenuto, Christina Mailer, Ben Finn, Peter Vaiknoras, Sophia Schweik, Rob Stahley, Mac Leslie, Ruby Cain, Dana Schnitzer, Ashton Martin, Sylvia Barjolo Called

7:00pm Sections 1 – 7

8:30pm- Add Zen, Daniel Kadish, Uriah Rodriguez

10:30 END OF NIGHT

Friday, January 10:

2:00pm-Rob Stahley, Mac Leslie, Liana Gineitis, Eliza Baxter, Tiberius, Dana Schnitzer, Dayna Fisk, Lily Filippatos, Ben Finn, Conor Dennin Called

2:00pm- Sections 10 – 14

“Lonely House”, “Wouldn’t U Like to Be On Broadway”, “What Good Would the Moon Be”, “Moon-Faced Starry-Eyed” and “Remember That I Care”)

4:30pm Add Peter Vaiknoras

5:30-7:00pm- MEAL BREAK

7:00pm Aeri Kim, Ashton Martin, Lily Filippatos, Gabriel Randall, Julia Edgerly, Esther Sokoloff-Rubin, Hannah D’Alessandro, Sophia Schweik, Hannah Syzdlo, Uriah Rodriguez, Melissa Ennulat, Daniel Kadish, Jessica Campbell, Michael Carotenuto, Dana Schnitzer, Peter Vaiknoras

7:00pm- Section 9

“Wrapped in a Ribbon and Tied in a Bow”

10:30 END OF NIGHT

Saturday, January 11:

1:00pm Aeri Kim, Ashton Martin, Eliza Baxter, Gabriel Randall, Esther Sokoloff-Rubin, Sophia Schweik, Hannah D’Alessandro, Julia Edgerly, Jessica Campbell, Michael Carotenuto, Peter Vaiknoras, Heather Lord, Uriah Rodriguez, Dana Schnitzer, Melissa Ennulat, Daniel Kadish, Hannah Szydlo Called

            “Wrapped in a Ribbon and Tied in a Bow”

3:00 ADD Tristan, Ruby, Khalila

3:00pm- Section 15. – “Catch Me if You Can”

5:00pm-6:30 MEAL BREAK

6:30 TBA

9:30pm END OF NIGHT

URGENT: NO REHEARSAL FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 2014

URGENT STREET SCENE REHEARSAL UPDATE:

Unfortunately due to the storm, UMass has closed campus tomorrow January 3, 2014.

Please continue to check your e-mails for updates from UMass and myself regarding scheduling for Saturday, January 4, 2014. Please visit http://umass.edu/closings for more information and updates.

If there are questions or concerns, please let me know via e-mail. If it is urgent please call my cellphone.

Thank-you,

Stage Management

URGENT: Rehearsal Thursday, January 2, 2014 CANCELLED AFTER 3:00pm

Hello everyone, 

Unfortunately due to the weather, UMass has issued a closing at 3pm today, Thursday January 2, 2014. Below is the message from UMass:

The University of Massachusetts Amherst is closing today, Thursday, Jan.2, 2014 at 3 p.m. Buses are operating. No staggered departure isrequired. For further information, visit www.umass.edu/closing.

Those called at 3:00pm or later (after our meal break) will not have rehearsal today. I apologize for the inconvenience if you are traveling. 


Please check your e-mail often for updates regarding tomorrow rehearsal from me and from the University. 


If you have questions, I am available via e-mail or cell phone (781) 413-7695.

Thank-you,
Stage Management

Rehearsal Schedule: January 2, 2014-January 5, 2014

Happy New Year! 

Below is rehearsal schedule for the upcoming week of rehearsals. Please remember that this schedule is guarunteed to change as we move through the rehearsal process, and updates will be posted here as well as e-mailed out nightly. 

We will meet in the Rand Theater, and the best way to enter is the lower pond entrance of the theater department or the Art Bridge door on the Haigis Mall side. If you have any difficulty getting into the building, please call my cellphone (which can be found below) and someone will meet you to let you in. 

Please bring your libretto/script and a pencil in order to take down blocking or notes. If you have a bound libretto please remember that these are to be written in with pencil only. 

If you are driving to rehearsal, parking is available at the Visitor Lot across from Haigis Mall. There is also parking in the Haigis Mall horseshoe. We ask that you arrive to rehearsal promptly, so please plan your commute accordingly. 

There is no food or drink allowed in the theater other than bottled water. You will have access to the Green Room to store your belongings, including any snacks you may have with you.
In past years during the January rehearsal session, the theater tends to be rather chilly, so we encourage you to wear layers just in case. 

If there are any questions please e-mail Arielle Herold (Stage Manager) at aherold@umass.edu (Urgent matters please use cellphone: 781-413-7695)

Thursday, January 2:

2:00pm Rob Stahley, Liana Gineitis, Mac Leslie and Eliza Baxter Called

2:00pm- Section 10 (with “Lonely House”)

“What Good would the Moon Be” (Song only)

Section 14 (with “Remember that I Care”)

Section 18 (with “We’ll Go Away Together”)

3:00pm- Add Peter Vaiknoras

5:30-7:00pm- MEAL BREAK

7:00pm Frank Aronson, Melissa Ennulat, Jessica Campbell, Michael Carotenuto, Heather Lord

7:00pm Sections 1, 2, and 3 + “Ice Cream Sextet”

8:00pm- Add Peter Vaiknoras

9:00pm- Add Daniel Kadish and Uriah Rodriguez

10:30 END OF NIGHT

Friday, January 3:

2:00pm Heather Lord, Melissa Ennulat, Dana Schnitzer, John Cheek, Uriah Rodriguez, Daniel Kadish, Michael Carotenuto, Peter Vaiknoras Called

2:00 – Section 5 (“with Somehow I Never Could Believe”

8 (with “Let Things Be Like They Always Was”)

4:00pm- Section 16 (with There’ll Be Trouble”)

4:00pm- Add Liana Gineitis and Eliza Baxter

5:30-7:00pm MEAL BREAK

7:00pm- Frank Aronson, Melissa Ennulat, Heather Lord, Jessica Campbell, Michael Carotenuto, Peter Vaiknoras, Dana Schnitzer, Gabe Randall, Sophia Schweik, Ruby Cain Called

7:00pm- Sections 1 – 3 and 5 – 8

8:00pm- Add Rob Stahley and Mac Leslie

8:30pm- Add John Cheek, Uriah Rodriguez, Daniel Kadish, and Zen (if available)

10:30 END OF NIGHT

Saturday, January 4:

1:00pm Sophia Schweik, Ruby Cain, Khalila Lord, Hannah D’Alessandro, Tristan Lewis-Shurter, Julia Edgerly, Gabriel Randall, Esther Sokoloff-Rubin Called

1:00pm- Section 15 (with “Catch Me if You Can”)

Section 17 (with “A Boy Like You”)

3:00pm Add Rob Stahley, Liana Gineitis, Mac Leslie, Eliza Baxter, Dana Schnitzer, Heather Lord, Daniel Kadish, Melissa Ennulat

5:00-6:30pm MEAL BREAK

6:30pm Mac Leslie, Melissa Ennulat, Dana Schnitzer, Heather Lord

6:30pm- Section 4 (includes “When a Woman Has Baby”)

9:30 END OF NIGHT

Sunday, January 5:

DAY OFF