North Texas Performing Arts (NTPA) proudly publicizes the creation of the primary regional Musical Theatre Orchestra in North Texas, increasing its dedication to offering distinctive academic alternatives in performing arts. Senior Music Director Preston Page has been named Artistic Director of this new flagship stay music program, the NTPA Musical Theatre Orchestra.
“We are proud to launch this thrilling new addition to our musical theatre expertise,” says NTPA Chief Executive Officer Darrell Rodenbaugh. “Creating a live-music expertise for choose NTPA reveals willcreate a complete new efficiency expertise for audiences.”
“Learning to carry out alongside stay musicians stays a necessary a part of a complete creative training in musical theatre,” stated Page. “With hundreds of proficient scholar and collegiate musicians throughout North Texas, the barrier to entry for entry to enjoying in musical theatre orchestras stays inaccessibly excessive for many. Our audition-based program is ideal for any succesful musician taken with gaining the distinctive expertise of performing in a musical theatre pit, networking with professionals, and increasing their creative skills.”
Launching with a deliberate eight-show season, the NTPA Musical Theatre Orchestra will function a cornerstone of the group’s professional-level coaching mannequin. NTPA is actively in search of neighborhood and company sponsorships to broaden stay music academic alternatives and maintain this groundbreaking initiative.
The NTPA Musical Theatre Orchestra will make its official debut with NTPA Repertory Theatre’s manufacturing of The Rocky Horror Show, operating October 24–November 2 on the Rodenbaugh Theatre in Willow Bend Center of the Arts.
Tickets can be found at www.ntpa.org/tickets.
“Our imaginative and prescient is to create a pipeline for proficient younger musicians to realize expertise enjoying the usual musical theatre repertoire alongside skilled music administrators,” stated Page. “Although we consider this distinctive program is educationally important to our rising arts infrastructure, paying professionals to accomplice with these college students prices greater than our normal manufacturing mannequin. We welcome the patronage of anybody who believes within the energy of stay music to assist us broaden orchestral programming — protecting prices of instrument leases, technical gear, and the time and experience of pros who prepare the following technology of musicians and performers.”
The NTPA Musical Theatre Orchestra will make its official debut with NTPA Repertory Theatre’s manufacturing of The Rocky Horror Show, operating October 24–November 2 on the Rodenbaugh Theatre in Willow Bend Center of the Arts.
Tickets can be found at www.ntpa.org/tickets.
Auditions will likely be ongoing, with college students employed based mostly on talent stage and availability. Interested musicians can start the method by finishing the Audition Form on the NTPA web site.
For questions or to study extra about supporting the NTPA Musical Theatre Orchestra, please go to www.ntpa.org/orchestra or contact Preston Page, Senior Music Director of North Texas Performing Arts and Artistic Director of the NTPA Musical Theatre Orchestra at ppage@ntpa.org.
