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*This is the RSVP for auditions Tuesday, May 31st ONLY.  

Do you have what it takes?
Ginsberg Productions is calling auditions for roles in next seasons productions of “Hairspray” and “The Rocky Horror Show”. Auditions will be held in the Seminole Theatre Tuesday May 31 and Thursday June 2; auditions will go from 7:00 PM TO 9:00 PM.

Ginsberg Productions auditions are open to all interested persons, regardless of age, race, color or experience. All that is required is the desire to be involved in a production and the willingness to commit your time and effort to the project.

Rehearsals are typically 2 nights a week and Sunday afternoons for 6-8 weeks before production.

Ginsberg Productions makes a concerted effort to contact everyone who has auditioned to let them know if they are cast or not. This is done the week following auditions.

We hope you’ll audition. The director and staff wants you to join us.

Audition Guidelines
Be prepared to read cold from script. Familiarize yourself with the shows.  For more information on the shows and the roles available, make sure to visit www.seminoletheatre.org/ginsberg-productions-rocky-horror-and-hairspray-auditions

Prepare a one-minute comedic or one-minute dramatic monologue.

For Our Musical Auditions
• Anyone can audition. No show is pre-cast.
• All auditions are held at the Seminole Theatre.
• To audition you are asked to sing 32 bars of a song you have prepared. An accompanist will be provided to play for you. Please bring sheet music.
• You will be asked to learn a choreographed movement or dance routine even if you are not a dancer.
• You may be asked to read from the script. Scenes will be given to you to look over at that time.
• You will ask on site when to make callbacks. If you are not called back, you are still under consideration.

• For additional information call 305-613-9649.

See more at: www.ginpro.org

First time picking an audition song?  Read this helpful article.  

Whether you’re new to acting or a veteran looking to refine skills, don’t miss out on this opportunity to join this professional acting workshop conducted by Michael Haney.  Michael Haney is a Hollywood actor and renowned acting coach at Palm Beach Acting School.  

Acting Coach Michael Haney has appeared in films Catch Me If You Can, Nixon, Indictment-The McMartin Trial, Contact, Coneheads, The Bachelor, General’s Daughter, Next Door, For Better or Worse, Dawn of our Nation, The Witness, Case Breakers, Outlaw, Clinton & Nadine, Space Marines, Trading Hearts , Star Trek, Deep Space Nine, General Hospital, The Edge, Designing Women & Miami Vice TV series.

He has worked with noted actors James Woods, Tom Hanks, Raul Julia, Mercedes Ruehl, Andy Garcia, James Franco, Mark Pellegrino, Billy Crystal, and Jason Alexander, and directors Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis, Oliver Stone, David Steinberg, David Mirkin, Neil Leifer, Ami Mann, Mick Jackson and Joe Adler.

ON ACTING: 
Live truthfully under the imaginary circumstances of the moment.

At Palm Beach Acting School we take the position that everyone holds the key to his or her own success. The goal of the artist is to supply truthful feelings under given circumstances, and to translate dialogue into behavior and action. Acting is the art of self-realization, where art expresses human experience. The degree at which the actor will be successful is directly related to the degree at which he/she can make up meaningful situations that touch the heart.

Opening for 3RG Miami is Miami Moonshine with their Country blend. Special guests include The Homestead City Ballet Dancers and more!Follow 3RG Miami on Facebook, Instagram and at 3rgmiami.com for more information.Sponsored by : Airboat in Everglades, Music Depot, Hibachi Grill, Active Spine Center, 365 Security Management Group, Southernmost Foot & Ankle Specialist, Celebrity Rehab & Medical Center, Club Glades Homestead, Raices Latin cuisine, and 3RG-Miami inc.

Organizer: 3RG Miami

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After the event, stick around to enjoy a romantic evening on the Seminole Theatre terrace.  Wine & Chocolate will be available from Southern Hospitality Catering.

Event entry is $25 per person and includes class, wine & chocolate for class.  Processing fees apply to online orders.  Tickets are also available at the Seminole Theatre Box Office or by calling 786-650-2073.

Seating is limited so book fast!

Alejandro Escovedo is one with his muse and his music. Over a lifetime spent traversing the bridge between words and melody, the Mexican American singer-songwriter has ranged over an emotional depth that embraces all forms of genre and presentation, a resolute voice that weathers the emotional terrain of our lives, its celebrations and despairs, landmines and blindsides and upheavals and beckoning distractions, in search for ultimate release and the healing truth of honesty.

• “…one of the genuine lights in rock music”–Billboard
• “To call Alejandro Escovedo the godfather of modern country rock would sell him short”–Rolling Stone

OPENING ACT – JADE SANDERS

NASHVILLE RECORDING ARTIST JADE SANDERS IS A 17 YR OLD SINGER/SONGWRITER FROM HOMESTEAD, FL. AFTER LEARNING HER FIRST THREE CHORDS ON GUITAR FROM HER DAD, JADE BEGAN WRITING SONGS AT THE YOUNG AGE OF 10. JADE’S ORIGINAL SONGS ARE NOW BEING PLAYED AT THUNDER COUNTRY 100.3 IN SOUTH FLORIDA & K99.1 TODAY’S COUNTRY IN BILOXI, MS. JADE HAS TRAVELED TO NASHVILLE TWICE NOW TO RECORD HER ORIGINAL MUSIC. SHE HAS RELEASED 6 OF HER SONGS WHICH YOU CAN DOWNLOAD ON ITUNES. JADE HAS BEEN CALLED AN OLD SOUL BY PEOPLE WHO HAVE LISTENED TO HER ORIGINAL MUSIC. SHE WRITES ABOUT LIFE WAY BEYOND HER YOUNG AGE & WHEN ASKED WHERE HER INSPIRATION COMES FROM SHE DESCRIBES HERSELF AS A PEOPLE WATCHER & BOOK LOVER. JADE IS LOOKING FORWARD TO THE FUTURE & WORKING HARD EVERY DAY TO ACHIEVE HER GOAL OF A LONG CAREER IN COUNTRY MUSIC! FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT JADE & TO LISTEN TO HER MUSIC YOU CAN VISIT HER WEBSITE AT WWW.JADESANDERSMUSIC.COM.

*All ticket prices include $2 facility fee.

What a year it’s been for American country singer-songwriter Brandy Clark. Named Music Row Magazine’s 2014 Breakthrough Artist of the Year after her debut album 12 Stories was named the best album of 2013 by New York Magazine, NPR, The New York Post, and The Boston Globe. Clark has garnered nominations for the 2015 CMA Awards, ACM Awards and Grammy Awards, and won the Country Music Association award for Song of the Year for co-writing the hit “Follow Your Arrow”.

“Ain’t we all the stars playing the leading part in our own soap opera?” Brandy Clark belts out that question to kick off Big Day in a Small Town, positing the premise of not just the opening track (“Soap Opera”), but all 10 songs that follow it. The towns that anchor Clark’s new album may be small enough to warrant only a single blinking light, but the lives lived in them are anything but… and neither are the hopes and dreams that rise from their backroads and bedrooms.

When you grow up in a small town, oftentimes, your dreams are all you have. Whether it’s to become a football star or a father, a homecoming queen or a hairdresser, your dreams might be the only thing that keep you going. For Clark, the dream she harbored in her small hometown of Morton, Washington, was to be a country singer. Sure, once she moved to Nashville, she had successful cuts as a songwriter [The Band Perry’s “Better Dig Two,” Miranda Lambert’s “Mama’s Broken Heart,” and Kacey Musgraves’ “Follow Your Arrow” which won the CMA Song of the Year Award in 2014], but being an artist in her own right was a dream she had stopped dreaming until three years ago when her first album, the stunning 12 Stories, debuted.

At the time, it was a passion project, more than anything… a passion project that went on to become a GRAMMY- and CMA-nominated release that topped a myriad of “Best Albums of 2013” lists; earn her opening slots on tours with Eric Church, Jennifer Nettles, and Alan Jackson; land her performances onThe Ellen DeGeneres Show , Good Morning America, The Late Show with David Letterman, and a much-talked about collaboration with Dwight Yoakam on the 2015 GRAMMY Awards in recognition of her nomination in the all-genre Best New Artist category; and win her a Warner Bros. Records deal. Now, as she gears up for her sophomore set, the alternately feisty and poignant Big Day in a Small Town, Clark has much higher hopes.

Opening Act: Levon

Levon’s lead singer and guitarist Michael Hall remembers his father listening to country and 70’s rock bands and thinking, “This is the kind of music people want to get back to, music I want to get back to. Honest lyrics and memorable melodies. Hopefully our music speaks to that,” he says. With influences like Pure Prairie League, CSN, Keith Urban and The Eagles, Levon’s sound is a combination of “Then” and “Now”. 

In 2013, Michael Hall was in Los Angeles working with songwriter/producer Jamie Houston. Michael and Jamie quickly discovered each others love for three part harmony and decided to explore the possibilities. One night in early 2014, Hall, and Jake Singleton happened to be playing with different bands at the same venue in Franklin, TN. “Finding others with the same focus was proving to be difficult,” Hall says.

*Ticket prices include a $2 facility fee.

Tickets can also be purchased at the box office at 18 N Krome Ave, Homestead, FL, or by calling 786-650-2073.

“Conscience Under Fire” an original Spoken Word Theater piece that ranges from powerful to humorous and features solos and group work. The group shares their military and Veteran experiences to raise awareness of veteran’s issues and promote Post-Traumatic Growth.

The Seminole Theatre has partnered with the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4127, and every Premium Ticket ($47) purchased for the Combat Hippies will sponsor a Military Veteran to see “Conscience Under Fire” and attend a talk-back after the show with the group.

Led by world renowned theater artist and director Teo Castellanos and backed by one of Miami’s most well-known DJ’s, Brimstone 127, The Combat Hippies are a group of military veteran performing artists. The group’s core members consist of Hipolito “Beardman” Arriaga, Anthony “I.E.D.” Torres, Allen “Tatsel” Minor, and Andrew “Dru Phoenix” Cuthbert.

The Combat Hippies were born as a result of the MDC Live Arts’ season-long veterans’ initiative in which they shared their experiences in an original spoken word piece as part of the O, Miami Poetry Festival. The piece, featuring solo and group work, and was debuted under the title “Conscience Under Fire”.

Conscience Under Fire made its theatrical debut on September 11th and 12th at the Prometeo Theater under the banner of Miami’s DWNTWN Art Days.

*All ticket prices include $2 facility fee. 

Tickets are also available in person at the box office at 18 N Krome Ave, Homestead, FL or by calling 786-650-2073.

Directed by Larry Lapin, The Miami Jazz Cooperative (MJC) Voices is a jazz vocal ensemble made up of 13 talented amateurs, professional musicians, music educators and college students. Membership in the group is by invitation and/or audition. Its mission is to sustain and promote the art form by presenting high quality jazz to audiences in South Florida and elsewhere.

MJC Voices teams up with jazz/pop/R&B vocalist Arianna Neikrug. Neikrug is the winner of the 2015 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition (the “Sassy” Awards) and has shared the stage with various artists including Steve Miller, Alice Cooper, Kenny Burrell, Neil Young, Al Jarreau, Mindy Abair, James Moody, George Benson, Karrin Allyson, Gretchen Par-lato, and Roseanna Vitro.

This season the group has performed for MJC’s Monday night “Rent Party” at the Open Stage Club in Coral Gables, for the “Jazz In The Gables” series at the Coral Gables Museum, for the “Inside Outside” jazz series at Christ The King Lutheran Church and at the Seminole Theatre in Homestead, Florida. MJC Voices has just sent an application to perform at the 2017 Jazz Education Network International Conference in New Orleans this coming January. A recording project is underway and should be finished and available by spring, 2017.

*Ticket prices include a $2 facility fee. 

Tickets are also available in person or by calling the box office Monday-Friday 12:00-6:00pm 18 N Krome Ave, Homestead, FL 786-650-2073

More about the South Beach Chamber Ensemble

The South Beach Chamber Ensemble began in 1997 with a free concert of Haydn and Dvorak Piano Trios at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach. Since then we have played at the Miami Beach Botanical Garden, Jewish Museum of Florida, Wolfsonian Museum, Miami Beach Community Church, St. John’s on the Lake United Methodist Church, the Dave and Mary Alper JCC, Performing Arts Network and the Sanctuary at ArtSouth in Homestead. The ensemble is one of the only arts organizations in south Florida dedicated to offering affordable chamber music programs to new audiences while showcasing local musical talent.

Our mission is to promote and perform chamber music in all its diverse forms, from its origins in the distant past to the varied cultural creations being produced today, bringing together performers, composers and audiences to experience the beauty and intimacy of the human spirit. Our vision is a world where music inspires and energizes all people, creating peace, harmony, joy and unprecedented satisfaction in being alive.

In the past twelve years the ensemble has performed works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Haydn, Hummel, Dvorak, Schubert, Saint-Saens, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Onslow, Prokofiev, Poulenc, Couperin, Copland, Turina, Piazzolla, Villa-Lobos and Vaughan Williams.

In February 2004 we were delighted that our Executive Director, Michael Andrews, was invited to Budapest, Hungary where he met brilliant, young, blind pianist Tamas Erdi. We played the spectacular Schumann Piano Quintet in Eb major with Mr. Erdi in March 2004 in Miami Beach and Miami.

Music in Motion: Miami to Rio, August and September 2005, was a great success. Our performances of Villa-Lobos, Copland and Mendelssohn Piano Trios at the Villa-Lobos Museum, Rio de Janeiro and Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, were highlights of our eleven years together. Music in Motion: Miami-Argentina-Brazil, September 2007, included concerts and student programs in Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Buenos Aires, Miami Beach and Miami Shores. We performed a worldwide radio broadcast of Music in Motion on Arts Beat with Ed Bell, WLRN.

In June 2006 the inaugural South Beach Up North, a summer chamber music festival in Wausau, Wisconsin, Mr. Andrews’ hometown, was a great accomplishment. Over two hundred people attended the free outdoor concert on the Square to listen to string quartets by Haydn, Barber and Dvorak. Following South Beach Up North Thomas Moore and Michael Andrews helped inaugurate the Wausau Conservatory of Music’s String Camp for high school students in the central Wisconsin area. South Beach Up North on August 1-2, 2009 was a great success, with standing room only at the Woodson Art Museum concert with Miami poet Carlos Pintado and Boston composer Pamela Marshall.

We have appeared on Wisconsin Public Radio’s Rt. 51 with Glen Moberg every year since South Beach Up North started. The hour-long live broadcast gives the players a chance to perform for a much broader audience and chat informally about their life and music making. In December 2008 Mr. Moberg chose our June 2008 performance as one of the highlights of the year in central Wisconsin.

We were invited to perform the Miami premiere of Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov’s La Pasion segun San Marco in January 2007 at the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts. Others included in the performance were Venezuela’s world-renowned choir La Schola Cantorum, directed by Maria Guinard, a salsa and percussion band and Mr. Golijov himself.

The South Beach Chamber Ensemble was excited to be named ensemble-in-residence at Barry University, Miami Shores in the fall of 2008.

*Ticket prices include a $2 facility fee.