ANMT’s sixth annual MUSICAL THEATRE BOOT CAMP presents:
SATURDAY NIGHT ON SUNDAY NIGHTS
Instructor: Scott Guy
Four Sunday evenings from 7pm to 10pm
July 24, 31, Aug 7, 14
Course Fee: $125 (Early Bird/ANMT Member Fee: $95)
Spend four Sunday evenings studying the lyrics of Stephen Sondheim’s very first musical, Saturday Night. We’ll spend as much as an hour on a given lyric, analyzing it for form, rhyme, character diction, point of view, progression…and hints of the mature Sondheim-to-come. We’ll play each song from the show (on a CD), and have a group exploration, lead by ANMT’s Lyric Lab instructor, Scott Guy.
Graduates of this class will be given free access to a series of online lectures on Saturday Night (the lectures are part of a projected series based on Sondheim’s book Finishing the Hat). You might enjoy this course even more if you acquire a copy of Sondheim’s book, but it is not a requirement of the course
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INSTRUCTOR INFO:
Scott Guy
Under Scott’s tenure, the Academy has developed over 50 musicals for producers across the country, and over 100 independent musicals by ANMT writers. Scott’s current and recent writing projects include: Musical version of Pirates of the Caribbean for Disney; script consultant for a musical by Placido Domingo, Jr., book/lyrics of Manson’s Girls for UC/Irvine; Master Smee’s Finishing School for Gentlemen Pirates and Ladies is Welcome Too with music by Jacques Offenbach; and Hunger at 2009 Stages Festival in Chicago, with music by 2009 Richard Rodgers composer Karlan Judd. Television credits: Six Emmy nominations, and over 100 produced television scripts for Warner Bros., FOX-TV, Disney, Discovery Channel, PBS, etc.)
Author: Elise Dewsberry
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Artistic Director of New Musicals Inc., Elise has been involved in the development of new works for over forty years: as an actor/singer, as a director, as a dramaturge, and as a writer. While living in Toronto, Elise served as the Assistant Artistic Director of the Muskoka Festival; the Co-Ordinator of the festival’s annual Musical Theatre Writer’s Colony, the Associate Dramaturge of the Canadian Stage Company; the Resident Dramaturge of the Smile Theatre Company; and was the co-founder of Toronto’s Script Lab. Elise spent many years touring Canada with Nine Months – a one-woman musical which she commissioned from writers Carl Ritchie and Stephen Woodjetts. Elise and Carl also co-wrote Any Body Home?, which was produced by the Cordova Bay Theatre in Victoria, British Columbia, and published by Dramatic Publishing. Elise joined ANMT as Associate Artistic Director in 2003; joined Founding Artistic Director John Sparks as Co-Artistic Director in 2010; and became Artistic Director of New Musicals Inc. in 2013. Elise is also the author and evaluator of the Book Lab and the Outlining Lab, offered online through www.writingmusicaltheatre.com, and publishes a monthly blog on the craft of musical theatre available at https://nmi.org/elises-video-blog/.