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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

“Stage Right Seniors Realize their Dreams!”

Young performers accepted to the colleges of their choice

GREENSBURG, PA - Stage Right! School for the Performing Arts has always used the motto; “Where Dreams Begin” and this year, as in years past, Senior students have found those dreams realized with acceptance into some of the best college programs in the country. This year, three seniors, Zakk Mannella (Penn Trafford), Kati Falk (Norwin), and Brittany Basenback (Latrobe), enrolled in Stage Right’s College Track Program, prepared their audition material under the guidance of the SR staff which included Anthony Marino (Acting, Audition Technique) Renata Marino (Dance, Musical Theatre) and Cindy Baltzer (Voice, Vocal Audition Technique). The 3 started the season by taking part in Stage Right’s first professional
show of the season, The King and I, playing supporting leads. After that they concentrated their efforts on preparing for their first auditions which began in November. Each student auditioned for between 4 and 8 schools. Every year thousands of talented kids audition for the top 15 Acting and Musical Theatre Schools. (CMU, NYU, Emerson, Point Park, Shenandaoah, Etc.) These schools only accept approximately 150 to 200 students combined, meaning this is one of the most highly-competitive majors in all of college academia.
The student has to prepare two monologues for acting programs and two monologues and two musical theatre songs for Musical theatre programs. Students audition in the Fall and Winter and wait for their letters to arrive in the Spring.

Stage Right! is proud to announce:
Zakk Mannella has been accepted to Manhattan Marymount, Kent State and Shenandoah University as a Musical Theatre Major.
Brittany Basenback has been accepted to Kent State University.
Kati Falk has been accepted into the Acting programs of Emerson College, Manhattan Marymount and NYU/Tisch.
We are proud to salute these talented and diligent young performers, who have taken another step towards their dreams.

Shakespeare Monologue & Scene Contest

Producer: Andrew Rush
Videographer: Andrew Rush
FOR THE POST-GAZETTE
March 20, 2009

[video link] The Pittsburgh Public Theater held the preliminary round of its annual Shakespeare Monologue & Scene Contest for students in grades 4-12 this week.

Les Mis

Young thespians bring 'Les Miserables' to the stage for second All County Musical

By Candy Williams
FOR THE TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Thursday, April 24, 2008

For 96 talented students from 15 school districts and home schools, "Les Miserables" is the Super Bowl, the World Series and the Stanley Cup all rolled into one....

Stage Right students take a musical trip to Narnia

By Marjorie Wertz
FOR THE TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Wednesday, December 7, 2005

Stage Right's artistic director, Anthony Marino, first read C.S. Lewis' "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe," one of the Narnia series, as a youngster.

"When I was 15, I was working at a playhouse, and I was in the costume room nebbing around....

Stage Right is featured on the "Great Places in Westmoreland County" site. Click on the text below to read the entire article.

Stage Right began in 1998 as a school for the performing arts. Located across from the Westmoreland County Courthouse in downtown Greensburg, PA, Stage Right teaches young performers...

Teen TV star

By Maryann Gogniat Eidemiller
FOR THE TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, August 14, 2005

Cassie Corsaro, of Greensburg, is about to make her second appearance on television, and she had a doggone good time filming the latest show.....

Festival supporters party it up at Cabaret

By Dawn Law
FOR THE TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Monday, July 4, 2005

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Stage Right performs 'The Popcorn Dragon'

For an actor, audience appreciation is everything. Six days a week all summer, Stage Right, a performing arts school and professional theater company in Greensburg, travels throughout Westmoreland County, putting on shows for children....

Stage Right to bring 'Cabaret' to life

By Maryann Gogniat Eidemiller
FOR THE TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Monday, January 17, 2005

When American writer Christopher Isherwood lived in Germany from 1929 to 1933, he witnessed social and political changes that would soon explode into a world war. He turned his observations into a book called "Berlin Stories," which later hit the stage as "I Am A Camera."

Stage Review: Stage Right combines versions in 'Cabaret's' Kit Kat Club

By John Hayes,Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Friday, January 21, 2005

Greensburg is a great little bedroom community without a lot to do whenever you leave the house. It's completely ripe for the Kit Kat Klub, a fictional little dive with call-me phones on the tables, trollops on the stage and Nazis in their audience...

Musical is hats-off to Dr. Seuss

By Maryann Gogniat Eidemiller
FOR THE TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Tuesday, November 9, 2004

....only one of the loving gestures from a cast of characters based on the endearing and enduring tales of Dr. Seuss, the late Theodor Seuss Geisel.....

Stage Right presents 'The Rocky Horror Show' just in time for Halloween

By Maryann Gogniat Eidemiller
FOR THE TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Monday, October 25, 2004

Don't be alarmed if the audience yells at the actors when Stage Right performs "The Rocky Horror Show" Oct. 29 and 30 at the Greensburg Garden and Civic Center. Don't take offense, either, if some of their calls are even insulting...

Eryn Berquist--Our Community Idol!

By Jeannie Rings
FOR THE HEMPFIELD PAPER
October 5-18, 2004

The Community Idol contest held at Hempfield Community Days (September 20) was an overwhelming success. Many talented local singers braved the main stage and audience to take their chance to win the $100 cash prize. The winner was brilliant 13-year-old singer Eryn Berquist from Hempfiled who sang a beautiful rendition of the song “Colors of the Wind.” Other contestants sang beautifully, earning them all fabulous prizes that were all donated by businesses and event sponsors. The contest winner was able to do an encore performance on Sunday and open up for the Poverty Neck hillbillies; this was definitely a moment to remember for Eryn.

Source: The Hempfield Paper, By Jeannie Rings