Beauty and the Beast

Step into the enchanted world of this modern classic. Based on the Academy Award winning animated feature, the stage version of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast includes all of the wonderful songs from the film, written by Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman, plus new songs written especially for the Broadway version by Mr. Menken and Tim Rice.The show begins in a French provincial town where Belle lives with her father – a dotty inventor. When her father doesn’t return from a trip to the local fair, Belle rushes off to find him. To her dismay, she discovers he is being held captive in an old castle by a horrible beast. She trades her freedom for his and the “tale as old as time” begins.How Belle tames the unfortunate Beast and his ultimate transformation into a handsome prince enthralls audiences!

Season runs from 9 - 23 September 2006 at The Bruce Mason Centre, Takapuna

We are now taking bookings for auditions of the principal roles. Find out more about the roles and requirements at http://www.nsmt.org.nz/beauty-beast/auditions-principals.shtml

Fame the musical

FAME - The Musical is a comedy-drama in song and dance set at New York City's High School of Performing Arts. It follows a group of young students (actors, dancers and musicians) as they interact with each other through a four year period between 1980 and 1984. They are the last class to graduate from the landmark building on West 46th Street. The characters in FAME - The Musical are aware of FAME - The Movie. Miss Sherman, the English/home-room teacher, announces to the incoming class, "If you believe you're gonna live forever or envision dancing on tops of cars down 46th Street, you are humming the wrong tune!"

Season runs from 20 May - 3 June 2006 at The PumpHouse Theatre, Takapuna

Auditions will be held at the North Shore Music Theatre Clubrooms in January... Monday 30th from 1pm - 8pmTuesday 31st from 7pm -10pmRecalls (as required) will be Thursday 2nd February 7-10pm.

To book an audition time, please complete the form at http://www.nsmt.org.nz/fame/auditions.shtml

Complete Wireless Communication Solution

It is becoming increasingly important in this day and age for Stage Managers and crew to be both mobile, yet remain in communication with the rest of the production team. In many cases the only solution available was to provide handheld radios to the mobile team, however there was no method of integrating the handheld’s to the wired communications network. North Shore Music Theatre, in recognition of this problem, has imported a Clear-Com solution to overcome the shortfalls of handheld radios, and is now able to hire this package out to theatres and societies.The solution being offered by NSMT consists of a base station which supports the four full-duplex (Send and receive simultaneously) belt packs. The base station comes with its own headset and is best positioned with the lighting or sound operators. The system can be integrated with existing wired communications enabling the wireless units to hear and communicate with the wired users, or used on its own for those venues that don’t have an existing communications solution.For booking/availability, pricing information, technical specifications or to have a demonstration please contact Colin James of North Shore Music Theatre on (09) 533 8959 after hours or on (021) 383 011.

NSMT presents: By Jeeves, for the 2007 British Festival

Background
Discover the melodic and terpsichorean delights of the most cheering of entertainments. No singing nazis, no masked murders, no dangerous chandeliers, no Swedish pop songs and absolutely no male nudity. It is as refreshing and English as a cup of tea!
When Bertie Wooster’s banjo mysteriously disappears just as he is about to give a concert in a church hall, his quick-witted and unflappable manservant Jeeves suggests that he entertain his audience by relating the hapless romantic misadventures of his circle of high-society London cronies. With members of the audience playing the roles of Bertie’s friends onstage and Jeeves serving as writer, composer, director and props master, an impromptu theatrical extravaganza unfolds, featuring farcical site gags, nimble word-play, ingenious staging and thirteen delightful songs composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber with lyrics by Alan Ayckbourn.
By Jeeves is a totally rewritten version of a 1975 production. The show opened in Scarborough, UK in 1996, transferring to the Duke of Yorks Theatre and the Lyric Theatre in London. The North American premier of By Jeeves was at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam in December 1996. A revised Goodspeed production played on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre in 2001. The Broadway production was also filmed for video release.

Rent now a movie

Based on Puccini’s classic opera La Boheme, Jonathan Larson’s revolutionary rock opera “Rent” tells the story of a group of Bohemians struggling to live and pay their rent in the gritty background of New York’s East Village. “Measuring their lives in love,” these starving artists strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, ilness and the AIDS epidemic.
One of the longest running shows on Broadway, “Rent” was the winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drame, the Obie Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, four Tony Awards and three Drama Desk awards.
This new film version of the stage show is due for release in November 2005

Rent Movie Site: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/rent/
Rent Movie blog: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/rent/blog/