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Students--please let me know when you have a performance coming up, are in a show, have won a competition, or have some other interesting news regarding your singing. trilletta@msn.com Cristina Eustace is back from Puerto Rico and her year as the winner of "Objetivo Fama 5" (the singing contest on Telefutura). She is preparing for her upcoming CD which will be on the label Fonovisa. She is now under the management of Sara Soto.
Cristina says:
Coming
in July 2008 Vicki Cravens is rehearsing for a production of The Music Man with The McKinney Summer Musicals. Vicki will have a lot of fun and BE a lot of fun as one of the “Pick-a-little” ladies. Performances will be July 5, 6, & 11-13. Times, location and further details can be found at www.mckinneysummermusicals.com. Coming
in June 2008 In the upcoming
production of Cole Porter’s Anything
Goes, presented by Spirit
Expressing Theater Company of Unity Church Dallas, Steve
Lovett will surely be hilarious playing the role of Moonface Martin, Public
Enemy #13. Laurie Johnson has
been cast in the same production as Mrs.
Wadsworth T. Harcourt (oh, my). The
show runs June 26, 27, 28 and 29. Laurie
Johnson has also just been cast
in the juicy role of Frau
Schneider in the Coppell Community Theater’s upcoming production of Cabaret. Details later. May
2008 Cristina
Eustace
was the winner of Objetivo Fama
V, 2008, on the Telefutura network.
Out of a field of very talented singers who were competing,
Cristina proved that she was a truly exceptional artist, with a uniquely
beautiful and powerful voice and a talent for touching the hearts of
listeners with her emotional vulnerability.
Cristina now has a recording contract with Univision. Best wishes
in your career, Cristina. I
hope it brings you all that you have wished for. If
anyone would like to hear Cristina in concert, she will be performing at
the Gran Plaza located at 4200 South Freeway in Fort Worth.
The concert will begin at 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 7, 2008. Abigail
Jackson, who will be a sophomore
at the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts
in Fall 2008, auditioned for and was accepted into the
Lab Singers, which is the Booker T. Washington small vocal jazz
ensemble. Congratulations,
Abigail! Janis
Roeton is on tour again with Menopause,
the Musical. At
present, she is reprising her role of “The
Earth Mother” with this fun show in Omaha, Nebraska. Jan Roeton is still on the road with Menopause,
the Musical. At the present time, she is in Anchorage,
Alaska. THEN, her tour has been extended for a couple of weeks and
she goes on April 6th to Honolulu, Hawaii. Some
people have such sad lives! We will all be thinking about you,
Jan--soaking up the sun and watching the waves and the palm trees.
You poor, poor thing. February 2008 Laurie Johnson
is much in demand, nowadays, as a singer and an actress. Here
are some upcoming performances:
Spring Concert, Singing Unity Choir, May 18, 2008, at 7:00 p.m. I miss seeing Cristina Eustace, but the good news is that she has gone to Puerto Rico to participate in the finals of a singing competition on Spanish language television. Cristina looked and sounded wonderful last night on Channel 49 (KSTR) in an airing of clips from the auditions of Objetivo Fama, which is a singing contest for Spanish language pop singers, very similar to the American Idol Contest. There were clips of Cristina singing “Open Arms” in Spanish and “La gata bajo la lluvia” (the cat under the rain). I believe the shows are going to air on Sunday evenings on Channel 49 and go on for several months, as contestants are eliminated one by one. Even though my Spanish is not good, I enjoyed watching the show last night and hearing a lot of very good singers. Best of luck to Cristina in her journey. January 2008 Jan Roeton is
on the road again playing the role of the Earth
Mother in a tour of Menopause
the Musical. The
cities she is playing include Albuquerque, New Mexico, Salt Lake City,
Utah, and Anchorage, Alaska. Chuck Day
from Greenville is rehearsing for A
Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum which opens February
15, 2008, at the Kaufman County Community Theater in Terrell, Texas.
Chuck is having a lot of fun playing the role of
Senex.
Amy
Smith from Greenville, TX, has just been cast in the
role of Cecily Cardew in the Rockwall Community Playhouse production of The
Importance of Being Earnest.
November 30
– December 16, 2007 James Kille
utilized his singing and guitar-playing skills in his haunting portrayal
of Uncle
George in the Dallas Children’s Theater production of A
Little House Christmas. Niki Britten
played the role of Belle in the Rockwall Community Playhouse production of A
Christmas Carol. Christina Eustace is working hard on her audition material for the semi-finals of the singing contest on Univision, Objetivo Fama. The contestants are all singers of Spanish language popular music and come from the U.S. and from countries in Central and South America. The forty contestants who have made it to the semi-finals in mid-December, will be narrowed to a final twenty who will appear in a reality show on Univision. Laurie Johnson
is rehearsing with a new professional theater, Life Song Studio in
Grapevine, TX, for a December production of the musical Scrooge.
Laurie is playing multiple roles, among them Mrs. Fezziwig and Mrs.
Dilbert. October 26 – November 11, 2007 James Kille
and Janis Roeton are both
performing roles in the Casa
Manana Children’s Playhouse production of the musical version of
Charlotte’s
Web, in which they both give outstanding performances (true
professionals that they are). James
is a children’s favorite in the role of Templeton,
the rat, in which he displays true rat-like qualities. Jan
is cute, feisty, funny and full of energy as Mrs. Zuckerman, the
farmer’s wife. Saturday
November 10, 2007 Abigail Jackson performed in a concert as 6th Chair in the Alto Section of the DISD Freshman Treble Honors Choir. Abigail is a freshman in the music program at the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Nikki
Britten will
be playing the role of Helena in Shakespeare’s Midsummer
Night’s Dream at Rockwall-Heath High School the weekend before
Thanksgiving, November 16th and 17th, 2007. October 26-28 Shellie
Lynch sang
and acted beautifully as Marian the
Librarian in the Waxahachie Community Playhouse production of The Music Man.
In fact,
her singing was so flawless that an audience member asked if she was
lip-syncing to a recording. Please! October seems to have been the month for The Music Man with several local theaters. At Rockwall Community Playhouse, Amy Smith was cast in the singing/dancing ensemble, but when the leading lady (Marian the Librarian) became ill and totally lost her voice for the final Saturday performances (October 14), Amy was called in by the director to sing the lead role for the matinee and the evening performance, which she did with great success. Congratulations, Amy! You are much braver than I am. It is an interesting coincidence that Shellie and Amy have been doing the same roles in the same time frame at theaters on opposite ends of the Metroplex. Both of you are very talented. October
19-21 and 26-28 Laurie
Johnson demonstrated
her versatility by portraying a wide variety of characters, most notably Grace the mill worker, in
a production of the musical Working
at Unity Church of Dallas’ Creekside on Forest. Nikki Britten was accepted into a pre-college music theater program at Carnegie-Mellon Institute where she spent July and August of 2007 studying dance, acting, singing and music theater literature, coming home with a veritable suitcase full of new audition songs. Sept. 24, 2007: An email from Sharon O'Rourke, about her competition in Oklahoma City:
August 26, 2007: An email from Janis Roeton, who's "on the road":
July
24 – August 2, 2007 Sylvia Turner participated in Mifgash Musicale, a training workshop for cantors and cantorial soloists at Hebrew Union College. This workshop, which was sponsored by the Guild of Temple Musicians, included sessions by Bonia Shur and Samuel Adler, among others. June 5 – July 1, 2007 I (Patricia) had the privilege of working at her favorite theater, Theatre Three in Dallas, with her favorite director, Jac Alder. I was cast in the role of Grandma Gellman in a wonderful production of Caroline, or Change. It was an honor to be a part of this powerful show and to work with such a talented cast and crew. In May, 2007, two area theaters on opposite ends of D/FW presented the popular music, Oklahoma! At Waxahachie Community Theater, feisty Shellie Lynch performed the role of “Laurie”, while, at Rockwall Community Playhouse, Amy Smith portrayed “Laurie” with equal success. Charles Day transformed himself into a very funny “Ali Hakim”. Loved the suit, Chuck!
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