4 Week Musical Theater WORKOUT with Kimberly Vaughn, Director, Audition Coach and Producer and Cindi Rush, CD, Cindi Rush Casting

Tuesday, September 28, 2010, 2pm ET / 11am PT

Do you ever leave your auditions thinking, "I wonder if I booked this job? I'm not sure the casting director got to see what I can really do." Register for this class and you WILL CONNECT with your real personal human truth and your PERFORMANCE POWER. Join Kimberly Vaughn, Broadway performance coach, regional director and Tony-Award nominated producer for a musical theater class that will CHANGE your audition process and INSURE more callbacks and bookings. Be among those working on Broadway, in National tours and Regional theater! Essential skills you will develop: • Step-by-step audition protocol that will build your CONFIDENCE and CONTROL in the room and allow you to successfully FOCUS your storytelling to DELIVER a powerful PERFORMANCE LEVEL audition every time. • How to personalize the lyrics and make them yours like you actually wrote them. • How to bring the real "you" into your audition and book the callback. • How to choose songs that fit your look, personality, and voice type and range. For the first class, please prepare, fully memorized, 2 contrasting 16 bar cuts and 2 contrasting 32 bar cuts. Bring typed lyric sheets and your songbook. This first class will run from 2-6pm so Kimberly can choose the 16 and 32 bar cut you'll be refining for the next three weeks. In the second and third classes, you'll work your two cuts as you continue to develop the skills listed above. The fourth class will include an audition rehearsal of your two songs with Kimberly followed by your audition showcase and interview with Top NY Casting Director Cindi Rush. Each week will cover lyric interpretation, freeing your instrument, and audition protocol. For all classes, please bring your audition book, typed lyric sheets and your picture and resume. Also, please dress as you normally dress for auditions. "My secret weapon!" -Tyler Hanes, Larry, A Chorus Line, Broadway "Here's a quick note to say how much I got out of Kimberly Vaughn's class. I have taken a handful of these musical theatre audition classes, and her's is the first I can truthfully say fulfilled its promise. She is patient, insightful, collaborative and very honest without ever bringing you down. I'm looking forward to re-enlisting in her class at Actors Connection. -Mark Lanham "Kimberly Vaughn uses her gifts of wisdom, experience and supreme intuition to evoke the gifts in her students. Her enthusiasm for teaching is refreshing and her passion for the artistic community contagious..." -Alaine Alldaffer, Casting Director Playwrights Horizons "Kimberly Vaughn helped me find my centre and confidence again at a low point for me. She has a unique understanding of the craft of acting and imparts her knowledge with ease and accessibility...two days after lesson number one I picked up my first theatre job in 4 months! Thanks again Kimberly!" -Euan Morton, Tony-Award nominated for Boy George in Taboo, Broadway "Kimberly is one of those teachers who "gets it." She understands the nature of performing and how it interacts with our humanness. I've watched her again and again take a performer and get them to think and feel from a place where they haven't been before, forgetting the room and people around them, resulting in magical moments that they will take with them into the audition room. She has totally transformed my work - and because of that - my life!" -Mary Mossberg, Mamma Mia! National Tour, The Baker's Wife, Paper Mill Playhouse "My recent class with Kimberly Vaughn was everything I had hoped for…and more. Her ability to recognize, direct and transform lifted the entire class to an unexpected level. She consistently coupled her unique understanding of the demands of our business with the compassion necessary to affect a personal awakening in each of us. I consider Kimberly a very important guide on any artist's journey to find their true career path." -Paul Geiger, Singer/Actor