Kilroy Productions, Inc.

May 2007

KPMS Notes

May 2007

Notes from the Director:
Dear Studio:
Finally the trees are coming back to life, and oh the opportunities they bring with them!

This issue is filled with opportunities!
Opportunity: upcoming benefit concert (*read just below)
Opportunity: KPMS Westchester/CT Spring Studio Concerts.
Opportunity: summer study & workshops
Opportunity: the 2007 NYSSMA festivals.

*I would like to take a moment to speak with you about the 1st Annual KPMS Play-off. It is the opportunity to do something as a community that makes a difference. I invite you to participate in the largest way you can, even if you cannot attend, be a part, donate, bake for the reception, and invite others to attend.

As always feel free to contact our office with any questions, concerns or ideas.
Jerry

The 1st annual KPMS Playoff

It’s coming to town!
Featuring the immensly talented working aritists fo our studio with special guest appearances by the student of KPMS. All to benfit Cherish our Children International whose mission is To develop and fund projects and programs that provide a brighter future for the world's most vulnerable children
Reminder List:
o Have you got your tuickets for your family & frineds?
o Has your child gathered their sponsorships (There is a prize for the most donations gathered)
o When: Sunday, May 20
o Where: the Westchester Conservatory of Music, 216 Central Avenue, White Plains at .6:30PM
o Sponsor a performer or technical support crew
o Agree to Match any participants’ donations
o Have your business match the total raised.
o COCI (www.cherishourchildren,.org) is a 501(c)(3) Charity and all proceeds are tax deductible to the extent allowed.
All directions, rehearsals and performance information can be found on the website.

Given that 2007 has been dubbed the year of Dreams. We are committed that everyone associated with Kilroy be involved in some manner, whether performing, tech crew, production crew (box office, reception team, distributing fliers, selling tickets, or just gathering donations).

Two KPMS students out to shoot the moon:


For the 2nd year in a row Pleasantville HS junior Stephanie Corvino has submitted a recording of herself for this prestigious contest. Last year she was heard on the radio as they highlighted some of the best applicants!
This year Stephanie sang Someone Like You from the musical Jekyll & Hyde. The recording can be heard on the KPMS website listening room: (www.kilroyproductions.com)

The top six singers will be announced on The WOR Morning Show, and WOR listeners will have the opportunity to vote for their favorite.
We’ll let you know if you need to VOTE!! GO Steph!


14-year old Alexis Marino has been cast in Zombie Prom at the Westchester Broadway Theater on Monday 5/14 and Tuesday 5/15. The story, about a high school rebel who hurls himself into a nuclear reactor only to emerge as an undead green slimy thing, is an excuse for riffing on '50s conventions, keeping the cast in perpetual dancing motion, and parading one outrageous getup after another. Zombie Prom is a breath of freshness and vitality, an exhilarating sign of spring and renewed life in today's musical landscape of spectacles and revivals.

Alexis prevailed in the auditions, & is the 2d-youngest one in the cast (total of about 50 young performers in 2 casts)
Kudos Alexis!!

Spring Studio Concerts 2007:

The Westchester Studio Concerts are coming up on Tuesday, June 19 & Thursday 21, at the Katonah Village Library. And with 2007 dubbed the Year of Dreams we are going to be taking performance to the next level. This will be the opportunity for each and every student to really take ownership of the ground they have personally taken this year. It will be a celebration of music and growth!

Directions & casts for each concert will be sent in a separate email. We look forward to seeing you and your family there.

Summer is almost here:
The KPMS Spring semester ends Friday, June 23. The summer semester begins officially on Monday, June 26. We will run through Labor Day for those interested in getting a jump on music during the summer months. Students can sign-up for the whole semester, in-between camps and vacations and even for 2 weeks at a time. We will be offering guest artists as well as some of our faculty. Speak with your teacher about your plans, so that you can get on the schedule.

Maybe even pick up that other instrument that they’ve been waiting of more time to study.

NYSSMA is Here:
The NYSSMA Festivals will take place this month. We are busy preparing students for their adjudication. IF your child is planning on participating and you need assistance please contact us ASAP.

NYSSMA Coming Up:
Westchester-Up-County Friday-Saturday May 11 & 12, 2007
Down-County Friday-Saturday April 20 & 21, 2007
NYC- May 31
For more information please visit www.nyssma.org (click on zone 11 for Westchester & zone 12 for Manhattan & www.cmea.org for CT.)

Way to go Stephanie Corvino for being accepted to the NYU Summer Musical Theatre program. She was one of hundreds of applicants all vying for 40 spaces.

Bravi to Marlee Weill, Olivia Green & Oliver Barnett on their Roaring Brook Elementary production of Annie.

Congratulations to new students Caroline & Charlotte Whalen on being cast in the Random Farms Kids Theater Workshop production of Bye, Bye Birdie.
DENISE SIMON’S ACTORS WORKSHOP
PRESENTS:
SUMMER 2007 WORKSHOP
Ages 10 – 18
2-week workshop
July 9 – July 19
9:30 am – 2:30 pm

45 hours of Acting, Singing and Dancing with material from the musical, “The Me, Nobody Knows“

Directed by Denise Simon
Choreography and Musical Direction
by Jerry Fishman

Fee: $775
Classes held in South Salem
Performance Thursday, July 19 (theatre TBA)

KPMS Faculty in the spotlight:
Our faculty is very busy creating the year of their dreams. Performing all around the world here is what is going on this month

Judith Berkson, (piano & voice) was heard with Platz Machen @ Zebulon, 258 Wythe Avenue, between Metropolitan and N.3rd in Williamsburg.
Judith Berkson - voice, Wurlitzer, music paper
Brandon Seabrook - guitar
Jacob Garchik - tuba
Vinnie Sperrazza - drums

As well as at Cantorial Metal @ The Annex
152 Orchard St (between Irvington and Stanton)

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