MUSICAL THEATER SHOWCASE: 4-Week Class with Dale Brown, Casting Director, Dale Brown Casting plus 3 TOP NY Agents!

Thursday, October 25, 2018, 6:30pm ET / 3:30pm 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 theater/musical theater casting directors in town followed by the opportunity to showcase to THREE Musical Theater Agents in your final class!

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 Dale would like to see something different. Dale will 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 next weeks.

Dale will be tweaking and fine tuning your song selections so you leave the classes READY to nail your next audition!

Your final class will start with a warm-up and quick run-through. Our three agents will come in at 7:30pm to watch your work with written feedback provided.

Our scheduled guests are: Danny Prather, Agent/Owner, Hudson Artists Agency Lisa Price, Agent/Owner, The Price Group Talent Agency Chris Cooper, Agent, Frontier Booking International

Limited to 12 actors. **This is an intermediate to advanced class.** Actors need previous musical theatre audition and performance experience.

In his near two decades of casting, Dale has worked in independent film, reality television and industrial film, very happily returning home to legit theater for the past several years. Credits include: In the Heights (Milwaukee Rep & Cincinnati Playhouse); Off-Broadway: America Is Hard To See & Daddy Long Legs (Drama Desk Nom); Bend It Like Beckham (Toronto); The Who And The What (Milwaukee Rep); Disgraced (Syracuse); Sense & Sensibility (Chicago Shakespeare); Lives Of Reason (Two River).  Nerds (Philadelphia Theatre Co.); Maltby & Shire's Behind The Painting; Kathleen Marshall's Anything Goes (NETworks Tour). With Tara Rubin: North American companies of Phantom of the Opera and Billy Elliot; Broadway: A Little Night Music, Jesus Christ Superstar, Guys & Dolls; Off-Broadway: Old Jews Telling Jokes. dalebrowncasting.com

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

Please upload your headshot and create a resume in your online account upon registration.

TESTIMONIALS:

"Dale provides a safe, honest, constructive environment to work. He also provides insightful lessons and ideas -- it was a great refresher course on what is important in an audition room." -Serena Brook

"Dale has great knowledge on how to best portray the character... Very informative!" -Melissa Robson

"This class is truly wonderful. Dale and Bryan are all really great to work with" -Nicole Hietter

"I learned how to truly bring out my best emotionally while still performing well vocally" -Jordan Samuels

"Dale has so many years worth of knowledge that he knows what works vs. what doesn't and he's honest and forthcoming with that info. I learned how, as critical as we can be about ourselves, it all comes down to the work" -Shannon Mullen

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.