Tonight, I’m going to see the latest presentation from the Hamilton, Ontario theater that started my course into entertainment. The program at Theatre Aquarius, headed by theatre choreographer and director, Lou Zamprogna, was and still is the most rigorous training ground for anyone passionate about the arts and learning what focus and sacrifice it take to mount a production under industry standards.
The direction of the program is broken into two phases. The first phase, a multi-dicipline training in scene study, monologue, dance, movement, and choral singing. All these exercises hit a crecendo with an in-house audition for parts in the yearly musical production.
The second phase, a 13-day intensive mounting a full-fledge broadway musical production. Day 1 get the script, day 12, technical rehersals. This puts the students in a professionals mind-set and accumen of how things work in the real world where time and money are the pressures that don’t give much time to find the truth in the scenes.
In 1994, the first production of Chess, a rock-musical written by Tim Rice and music by ABBA members Börjn Yulves and Benny Anderson, tells of the fictional chess match between American chess prodigy Freddy Trumper (inspired by Bobby Fischer) and Russian Grandmaster, Anatoly Sergivesky. As the players manuver the pieces during the matches the CIA and KGB play with the chess-masters emotional weaknesses.
In 2009, a Lincoln Center benefit concert of Chess was helmed by Josh Groban as Anatoly and Adam Pascal as Freddy. To grab a hold of this awesome album check it out, http://www.chessinconcert.com/.
Medre to all those in tonights performance.
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