DESCRIPTION

A one-week residency in which Roadside Theater comes to your community, college, or high school and mount a production of Betsy using a local actor as the narrator and your local musicians as the jazz band, performing with Roadside.

REQUIREMENTS

• Enthusiastic, accomplished musicians for the jazz band
• Can be at the high school, college, or adult level
• A music teacher or jazz band director willing to teach and rehearse the Betsy musical score with local musicians in advance of the residency and during the residency week
• A talented local actor to play the role of Narrator
• A rehearsal space for pre-residency rehearsals
• A performance space with good acoustics and general theatrical lighting that is available for residency
  week rehearsals and performances
• Acoustics may need to be supported by a sound system

RESIDENCY TIMELINE
Prior to residency

• Musical score, script, and sound recording are sent to teacher/jazz band director
• Roadside conducts phone consultation with teacher/jazz band director
• Musicians/students learn the musical score by residency week
• Local actor learns Narrator’s part by residency week

Residency Week

• Day 1
  • Beegie Adair meets with the teacher/jazz band director to coordinate the coming week
• Day 2
  • Ms. Adair rehearses local musicians, and Roadside and Ms. Adair are available to teach master classes
• Day 3
  • Ms. Adair rehearses local musicians, and Roadside and Ms. Adair are available to teach master classes
• Day 4
  • Design and technical set-up
  • Rehearsal & staging with local musicians and actor, Roadside director, Ms. Adair, and two
    Roadside musician/actors
• Day 5
  • Technical run-through and dress rehearsal
• Day 6
  • Final rehearsal
  • Performance
• Day 7
  • Reflection on process with teacher/jazz band director, local artists, and Roadside
  • Performance

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