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Mame
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ID # 31463
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Live Event
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Submission Type |
Open Call
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Anderson, Indiana |
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Non-union
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n/a
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Release Date |
04-24-06
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| Audition Date |
12-31-69
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Submission Deadline |
05-13-06
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| Shoot Date |
12-31-69
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| Casting Category |
Theatre - Non-Equity
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| Market(s) |
Indianapolis, IN |
Music and Lyrics - Jerry Herman
Book - Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Based on the Novel by Patrick Dennis, and the play "AUNTIE MAME" by Lawrence and Lee
July 20-23, 28, 29
Director: Bill Malone
Music Director: Cindy Pugsley
Presented by special arrangement with Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc.
NOTE: ALL TALENT UNDER THE AGE OF 18 MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY A PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN AT ALL TIMES
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Seeking 20 talent(s) for this role
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All Roles Open.
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Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Male Female
Age: from 18 to 65 |
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Harrison taught at San Jose State University and Mills College in Oakland
Harrison pioneered world music, and was among the first to create all-percussion pieces and to integrate the musical traditions and instruments of Asia and the West
In fact, there was little that Harrison didn't try Cowell introduced him to Cage, who would become a lifelong friend and artistic collaborator
But he's best known for the works that cannot be readily categorized, particularly those intended for an international gamut of percussion instruments
"From the start," he once said about his eclecticism, "I spread my toys out on a large acreage
He studied music briefly at San Francisco State University before taking private lessons with Henry Cowell His works incorporate medieval dances, Baroque sonata form, Navaho ritual, early California mission music, the Indonesian gamelan orchestra and Korean court music Composer Lou Harrison Dies
Feb 4, 1:54 PM EST
Lou Harrison, who pioneered world music and was among a line of iconoclastic 20th century American composers that included innovators such as Charles Ives and John Cage, has died at 85 , while traveling from his home in Aptos to a weeklong celebration of his music sponsored by the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and Ohio State University Colvig died in 2000
His work includes four symphonies, two operas, ballets, concertos, choral pieces, solo and chamber works
Harrison, who was born in Portland, Ore A year later, he wrote his first piano piece When the van stopped at a diner in Lafayette, he had a heart attack and died later at a local hospital
In 1967, he met William Colvig, an amateur musician and electrician, who became his life partner
As a boy, he also played French horn, clarinet, harpsichord and recorder
Harrison had a heart attack Sunday in Lafayette, Ind "
Harrison disliked flying and was traveling in a university van from the Chicago train station to Columbus
"He was just such a great friend to music," said San Francisco Symphony music director Michael Tilson Thomas, who commissioned an orchestral piece from Harrison to inaugurate his first concert season in 1995
Harrison moved to New York in 1943, then taught for two years at Black Mountain College in North Carolina before settling in Aptos in 1953 "We're going to miss him greatly
Harrison is survived by a sister-in-law and two nephews , moved with his family to Northern California when he was 9 "
"What isn't fabulous about his music?" asked the New York-based choreographer Mark Morris, who started making dances to Harrison scores in 1985 He also was an outspoken advocate for gay rights Together they built an "American" gamelan, a homespun version of a metallic Javanese percussion orchestra, but with tin cans, steel tubing and baseball bats
