South of Broadway Theatre Company

Summer in the City

2012 Auditions will be held

February 4, 1-3PM

February 7, 5:30-6:30PM

Auditions in order of sign-up
Print application 2012 Summer in the City Application and Guidelines below and bring to audition
Auditions are at South of Broadway Theatre Company, 1080 E. Montague Ave.

2012 Summer in the City Application and Guidelines

Talented young artists ages 14-19 studying theatre, instruments voice,dance and musical theatre are invited to the Summer In The City Auditions.

Students selected for SITC enrollment will attend a month-long artistic residency in New York City this summer June 3 - June 30. More than 70 aspiring young Lowcountry artists have successfully completed the SITC program now in its 8th sponsorship year by the South of Broadway Theatre Company.

SITC participants will reside at The Juilliard School while taking masterclasses and workshops with world class mentors. Some previous SITC mentors have included:

Music faculty Juilliard, Manhattan School of Music
Instrumentalists New York Philharmonic
Jazz Great Marcus Roberts Violinist Joshua Bell
NY School for Film and Television teacher/actor Neal Lerner
Talent management/casting consultant Bob Luke
Broadway Choreographer Jerry Mitchell

EXPERIENCE SITC IN NEW YORK JUNE 3-JUNE 30

Scholarships for worthy students may be available through The South of Broadway Theatre Company thanks to the generosity of The Zucker Family Endowment/InterTech Corporation, Sherman Capital LLC and The Yaschik Foundation. Annually, up to $20,000 in total scholarships have been awarded.

Call Mary Gould 843-814-4451 for additional information

See what others had to say about previous years on the auditions page.

Summer in the City

Program Description

The New York Residency:

SITC is a month long residency in NYC where the participants reside at The Juilliard School, working with and meeting world class mentors such as: violinist, Joshua Bell, internationally acclaimed concert pianists, Seymour Lipkin, Lang, Lang, and jazz great, Marcus Roberts. Broadway stars Leah Hocking ("Hairspray", 'Mamma Mia"), "Mary Poppins" leads: Megan Osterhaus (Mary) and Dan Jenkins (Mr. Banks), and Broadway's newest hit: "Legally Blonde" Choreographer/Director, Jerry Mitchell. Individual programs of intensive study is designed for each participant in his/her specific discipline as well as a variety of group seminars and workshops. They also attend many performances on Broadway, at the New York Philharmonic, American Ballet Theatre, and the Metropolitan Opera.

The Charleston segment (throughout the school year):

brings pro bono workshops and classes to the public school districts (coordinated through each county's "Fine Arts Coordinators.") These are conducted by SITC's world class mentors who travel to Charleston for workshops and classes. This part of the program reached around 200 youth in the low country our first year. In the current 07/08 school year we expect the program to grow by about 50%.

Summer in the City

Objective

A life-altering month long artistic residency in New York City for emerging South Carolina artists. The 2012 residency dates will be from June 3 to June 30.

Summer in the City: an "arts as discipline" program to provide emerging South Carolina talent the same opportunities afforded their contemporaries residing in major metropolitan areas. Thereby fostering competitive standards for South Carolina youth through the study of and exposure to world class artistic achievement.

This project will foster a network of personal contacts with internationally recognized educators and artists for South Carolina's emerging young artists, and will acquaint them with the disciplinary, physical and scholastic demands of World Class Excellence.

Summer in the City continues in the vein of the more than forty years of research beginning with Manuel Barkan's (Ohio State University) movement of "arts as discipline" during the 1960's, which provided stimulus for J. Paul Getty's second phase during the 1980's and finally the third movement: "Transforming Education Through the Arts Challenge" (TETAC) during the 1990's.

Summer in the City will challenge and inspire South Carolina's youth to broaden the horizons of individual potential, and instill the discipline required for a career in the arts, or equally; a productive and rewarding life.

"Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill but a necessary part of communication. The quality of civilization can be measured through its music, dance, drama, architecture, visual art and literature. We must give our children knowledge and understanding of civilization's most profound works."

--Ernest L. Boyer, Former U.S. Secretary of Education