MUSICAL THEATER SHOWCASE-5-Week Class with Dale Brown, Casting Consultant, Tara Rubin Casting plus 5 TOP NY Agents!

Monday, June 10, 2013, 7pm ET / 4pm PT

After RAVE reviews and many actors signed to agencies after taking this showcase, this MUSICAL THEATER Class is designed for you to work with one of the best Musical Theater CD's in town followed by the opportunity to showcase to YOUR CHOICE of 5 Musical Theater Agents/CD's!

The first week, please bring in 2 contrasting songs. Full audition cuts (roughly 32 bars). It can be new or something from your book. Please however, bring your book in case they would like to see something different. Dale as well as Joel Carlton, will discuss give you feedback on your presentation, "package", defining your true style, audition appearance and demeanor, and selected song choices. Collectively you will decide on material that you will work on with Dale over the course of the upcoming weeks.

The fourth week, Joel will return as a "check in" to see how you have grown through out the course and offer additional suggestions. Following, Joel and Dale will spend the rest of the evening speaking with you about various agents and agencies, which to target and why, pros and cons of signing vs. freelancing, boutique agencies vs. larger agencies, etc.. and most importantly guide YOU in the right direction. The final week will be with Dale revisiting critiques given in weeks prior, tweaking and fine tuning your song selections so you leave the classes READY to nail that next audition!

At the end of the class, we will give you 5 FREE seminars to use at your discretion in order to meet the agencies and/or casting directors YOU are specifically interested in meeting.

Dale has been consulting with this high profile casting office since 2007. Projects with Tara Rubin: all North American companies of The Phantom of the Opera and Billy Elliot. Broadway productions of A Little Night Music, Jesus Christ Superstar and Guys & Dolls. Daddy Long Legs: regional and original London production. Regional theaters including: Arena Stage, Baltimore Center State, Westport Country Playhouse & BANFF. Independently, he has cast independent film, reality television, industrial films and more other theater projects. His casting work follows 15 years as a professional actor, bringing unique insight into the paths and challenges facing actors as they pursue their professional careers.

Joel is a partner at Carlton, Goddard and Freer Talent (CGF) after having worked at both DGRW and Nicolosi & Co. He has clients on Broadway Has clients on Broadway (THE BOOK OF MORMON, THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, THE OTHER PLACE, ANNIE, EVITA, ELF, NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT, CHAPLIN, BRING IT ON, WICKED, THE LION KING, ROCK OF AGES and the upcoming MOTOWN, KINKY BOOTS, TUCK EVERLASTING and HANDS ON A HARD BODY) in National Tours (MARY POPPINS, BILLY ELLIOT and WICKED) and on television (Deception, Zero Hour, 666 Park Avenue, Girls, Louie, The Big C, Boardwalk Empire, The Good Wife, 30 Rock, Gossip Girl, Person of Interest, White Collar, Blue Bloods, Smash, Royal Pains, L&O: SVU and Homeland). He has had clients work at most every major regional and Off-Broadway theater including The Guthrie, Old Globe Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, The Goodman Theatre, Hartford Stage, Roundabout Theatre Co, Lincoln Center Theatre, Second Stage, New York Theatre Workshop, Primary Stages and Goodspeed Musicals. A former actor, Joel started his industry business career as a casting director followed by a position as a Business Representative at AEA.

This is truly an amazing opportunity for the ADVANCED Musical Theater performer. Register now as this class will sell out fast!

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Dale Brown

In his two plus decades of casting, Dale has worked in independent film, reality television and industrial film, very happily returning home to legit theater.  He recently completed casting for the interactive production of The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (with Jason Syres) playing at the Faena Theater in Miami and a special holiday engagement of Kris Kringle for Proctor's Mainstage.  His work with Milwaukee Rep continues the recent acclaimed production of Mark Clements' West Side Story, following last season's Things I Know To Be True, May Adrales' productions of The Chinese Lady and In the Heights; a three way production of Milwaukee Rep, Seattle Rep and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.  Other recent projects include the critically acclaimed production of the Life Jacket Theatre's America Is Hard To See Off-Broadway, the NYC production of Daddy Long Legs (Drama Desk Nom.), Lives of Reason for Two River Theater and Chicago Shakespeare’s production of Paul Gordon’s Sense and Sensibility.

Dale started casting with Susan Fried, working in independent film and the first 2 seasons of “The Next Food Network Star”.  He was introduced to Broadway casting when he joined Tara Rubin Casting in 2007.  There, highlights of his work were spearheading ongoing casting for the Broadway, tour and Las Vegas companies of The Phantom of the Opera and the joy of being on the team casting Billy Elliot from the original Broadway cast through it’s 3 subsequent tours.?

In collaboration with Stewart/Whitley Casting, Dale cast the new musical Nerds for the Philadelphia Theatre Company, the NYC lab production of Maltby & Shire’s new musical Waterfall and the Networks tours of Kathleen Marshall’s production of Anything Goes and Flashdance: The Musical.

Dale’s work with regional theaters includes Arena Stage, Baltimore Center Stage, Westport Country Playhouse, Milwaukee Rep., Syracuse Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Two River Theater and the BANFF Centre in Canada. He has taught for many university programs, and is on the faculty of Stella Adler Studio of Acting, teaching audition technique.  His casting career follows 15 years as a professional actor, bringing unique insight to the paths and challenges facing actors as they pursue their professional careers.  

Dale is a member of the Casting Society of America and an honors graduate of Kalamazoo College and the BESGL Theater Program in London.