Broadway Workshop’s Excel Teen Intensive is a 5-day summer program geared toward our older students with a strong passion for the performing arts. While every Excel student will study the 3 disciplines of musical theatre (Acting, Singing and Dance), this program allows students to choose a major (Acting, Voice or Dance). Students will prepare solo and small group pieces in preparation for our end of program production, where they will perform for a panel of New York agents, mangers and casting directors, as well as family and friends.
Our past showcase guests include: Telsey + Company Casting, Jennifer Rudin Casting, the LA division of Disney Talent Development, Mark Simon Casting, Tara Rubin Casting and many others.
- VOCAL MAJORS should have 2 musical theatre song selections and one contemporary monologue prepared for the EXCEL program
- ACTING MAJORS should have 2 contemporary monologues and one Musical theatre song prepared for the EXCEL program
- DANCE MAJORS should have 1 musical theatre song prepared for the EXCEL Program
In addition to their core classes Excel students will take master classes with New York’s top Casting Directors, Broadway Actors, Musical Directors and Choreographers. Broadway Workshop’s Core teachers are highly regarded professional actors/teaching artists who have starred in major Broadway shows, on Television and in Film.
Some of the guest teachers from past summers include: SIERRA BOGGESS (The Little Mermaid, Phantom), CASSIE LEVY (Les Mis, Ghost, Hair), NIKKI JAMES (Book of Mormon, Les Mis), RORY O’MALLEY (Book of Mormon), FARAH ALVIN (Nine, Grease) DAVID AYERS (Wicked, Mamma Mia), JESSICA LEE GOLDYN (A Chorus Line), ANNE L. NATHAN (Once, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Assassins, Ragtime), RACHELLE RAK (Catch Me If You Can, Flashdance, Fosse), JOY SUPRANO (HBO’s How to Make it In America) LESLIE KRITZER (Legally Blonde, A Catered Affair) and many others.
During the Excel week, students will also see a Broadway matinee of a new musical. After the performance students will have a private “Talk Back” with cast members of the show. For 2015 Excel Teen Intensive students will see the new musical – HAMILTON at the Richard Rogers Theatre on Broadway! After it’s record breaking Off-Broadway Run, Hamilton is one of the most egerly awaited musicals to ever come to Broadway. From the creative team behind the Tony Award-winning In The Heights, Hamilton is a wildly inventive new musical about the unlikely founding father determined to make his mark on a new nation as hungry and ambitious as he is. We know this show will inspire our Excel Teen Intensive students to amazing new heights.
STUDENTS ENROLLED IN THE EXCEL TEEN INTENSIVE PROGRAM SHOULD HAVE PRIOR EXPERIENCE IN SCHOOL, COMMUNITY OR PROFESSIONAL THEATRE.
Please visit http://broadwayworkshop.com/program/excel-teen-intensive/ for more information. The intensive will be held at Ripley-Grier Studios in NYC.