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PYT announces auditions for both our
popular "Dickens Carolers" ensemble and Hollywood
Hosts 2007.
Up to 12 performers will be selected to perform at our
fabulous "Hollywood Hosts" special event on Sunday,
September 16. Performers will sing songs from
PYT's upcoming 2007/08 season as well as songs
from great movies. There will be some
dance/movement incorporated in group songs.
Performers will be expected to work on their songs
independently, as well as at up to six group
rehearsals, to be scheduled based on performer
availability in August and early September.
We are looking for performers between the ages of 8
and 18 to represent PYT at this special event.
Previous performers have been featured in a full-color
spread in Gentry Magazine. You must have performed
in a PYT show within the last two seasons to be
eligible.
"Dickens Carolers" is PYT's touring holiday troupe.
The group has performs at a variety of events during
the holiday season, including "Christmas in the Park"
and the City of Mountain View Holiday Tree Lighting.
In previous years the group has also performed at
Pier 39 and Disney's magic music days.
Auditions for both ensembles will take place on
Saturday, June
16 by appointment only.
To schedule an appointment, or learn more about this
opportunity, please call Karen at (650) 988-8798 x303
or email ksimpson@pytnet.org.
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| Steppin' Up, Movin' Out |
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Steppin' Up, Moving Out, the 2007 Alumni
Cabaret
Night featuring song and dance numbers from favorite
musicals, will begin at 7:30 p.m. June 30 at King's
Academy, 562 N. Britton Ave., Sunnyvale, with a
reception immediately following. Performers expected
to participate include Kendall Bartlett,
Sarah Cook, Christopher Custer,
Blythe Faxon, Tony Feenan, Neev
Garbi, Sarah Goer, Alisa Healy,
Dan Hurst, Alison Koch, Andrew
Krach, Sean Kranz, Justine
Lauren, Fiona Lawson, Kyle
Nielsen, Megan Putnam, Jessica
Uher and Peter Woolhouse.
Advance tickets cost $12 for adults, $10 for seniors 62
and over and children 12 and under. Orders can be
dropped off at PYT or mailed to:
PYT Alumni
Association
2500 Old Middlefield Way
Mountain View, CA 94043
Checks should be
made payable to the PYT
Alumni Association. Advance orders must be received
no later than
June 25. Tickets also will be sold at the
door for $14 for adults and $12 for seniors and
children. Proceeds will fund future alumni events and
PYT benefits.
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| Order "Harry Potter" and Support PYT! |
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Thanks to the efforts of PYT Board secretary Carol
Doup Muller and
the generosity of Hicklebee's bookstore in
San Jose, PYT has the opportunity to raise $7 for each
Harry Potter And the Deathly
Hallows that we pre-sell. You may return the form
to the PYT offices or fax it to (650) 988-0823.
If you haven't already pre-ordered your book, now is
the time to do so. Please ask your friends and
relatives if they would like to pre-purchase a copy and
support PYT!
You will be able to pick up your copy on or after July
21 at the PYT office.
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| College Night Canceled |
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Please note that the alumni association college night
schedule for June 9th has been canceled. The
alumni association hopes to reschedule in the winter.
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So You Think You Can Dance... |
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This weekend, PYT will hold auditions for Sweet
Charity, a Broadway hit of 1966 and the final show
of PYT's 2006-07 "Rags and Riches" season. This
production will introduce PYT's teens and alumni to a
script by Neil Simon, one of the world's most beloved
playwrights; the songs of Cy Coleman and Dorothy
Fields, a master at matching the rhythms of colloquial
speech to music; and choreography inspired by Bob
Fosse, who revolutionized dance with his signature
moves mixing sentiment and cynicism.
It also will shed light on an exciting time and place: the
1960s, a decade of rapid social change, in New York,
a restless city of infinite possibilities. At the outset, big-
hearted, all-too-eager Charity Hope Valentine dreams
of being swept off her feet and settling down in
suburbia. By the end, she learns the necessity of
taking responsibility for her own happiness and
success. But her optimistic world view never wavers.
Many of the scenes take place in the Fandango
Ballroom, where Charity earns a living as a taxi
dancer. Starting in the 1920s, nightclubs like the
Fandango employed taxi dancers, or "dime-a-dance
girls," to dance with patrons (or occasionally to teach
dance to patrons) for a fee. The term derives from the
fact that the dancers were hired, like taxis, for a short
period of time. Typically, they kept half the proceeds
from each dance and gave the rest to the club
owners. In his 1932 sociological study, "The Taxi-
Dance Hall," Paul G. Cressey concluded that taxi-
dancing was a way for city dwellers to counter
rootlessness, loneliness and alienation in a mobile,
modern society.
The dancers' lot was described in a Richard Rogers-
Lorenz Hart song titled "Ten Cents a Dance," first
recorded by Ruth Etting in 1930 and sung by Michelle
Pfeiffer in the film "The Fabulous Baker Boys":
I work at the Palace Ballroom, but gee that Palace
is cheap.
When I get back to my chilly hall room, I'm much too
tired to sleep.
I'm one of those lady teachers, a beautiful hostess you
know;
One that the Palace features, at exactly a dime a
throw.
This form of recreation was revived in the 1960s, but
the dance halls died out in most U.S. cities shortly
thereafter as women's liberation took hold. It persists,
however, in such countries as Argentina, where
friendly male taxi dancers get paid by the hour to
partner female tourists in the tango.
Those interested in auditioning for Sweet
Charity are welcome to peruse a copy of the script
at the PYT studios.
Click HERE for audition information!
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