NIGHTCAPS
August 2nd Event
Author-composer Richard L. Rose will bring some of the many characters from his books and operas to Amherst for a visit and a last casting call. For take-aways, he will also bring poetry, stories, librettos, and recordings of previous performances. See his blog at frameshifts.com and author site on Amazon - amazon.com/richardrose.
FREE Admission; please register as seating is limited.
This event is presented by Second Stage | Amherst and Amherst Glebe Arts Response, with support from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation.
FREE Admission; please register as seating is limited.
This event is presented by Second Stage | Amherst and Amherst Glebe Arts Response, with support from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation.
August 4th & 6th Events
"Nightcaps" is a new musical drama by lyricist C. Brooke Vandervelde and composer Richard L. Rose, presented by Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc. and Second Stage | Amherst.
This production is set at a fictional small college in the present, with flashbacks to 1910 and 1940. As five friends conduct research in the college archives, the incidents they encounter come to life on the stage, challenging the students' understanding of themselves. What's past is prologue, they find, in elemental issues of sexuality and race. But when power defines the narrative, truth about the past can be hard to find, and even harder to face. Richard Rose's vibrant score brings the script to life with soaring melodies, complex rhythms, and sweet jazz.
For more information on this production, please visit nightcaps.show.
By lyricist C. Brooke Vandervelde and composer Richard L. RoseStage Director Melora Kordos. Music Director, Heather Brand. Lighting Design: Kylee Jump. Scenic Design John Vandervelde. Stage Manager and Assistant Director, Gretchen Casler Cline. Singer/Actors: Calvin Bremer, Alan Chavez, Morgan Cook, Noah DeCarmo, Morgan Fletcher, Ella Grant, Wyatt Moore, Eugene Penick, DeVonté Saunders, Even Tyree, Kayden Washington. Musicians: David Hill, Piano. Mary O’Brien, Bass. Ken Brand, Drums and Percussion.
This show is presented by Second Stage | Amherst and Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc., with support from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation.
This production is set at a fictional small college in the present, with flashbacks to 1910 and 1940. As five friends conduct research in the college archives, the incidents they encounter come to life on the stage, challenging the students' understanding of themselves. What's past is prologue, they find, in elemental issues of sexuality and race. But when power defines the narrative, truth about the past can be hard to find, and even harder to face. Richard Rose's vibrant score brings the script to life with soaring melodies, complex rhythms, and sweet jazz.
For more information on this production, please visit nightcaps.show.
By lyricist C. Brooke Vandervelde and composer Richard L. RoseStage Director Melora Kordos. Music Director, Heather Brand. Lighting Design: Kylee Jump. Scenic Design John Vandervelde. Stage Manager and Assistant Director, Gretchen Casler Cline. Singer/Actors: Calvin Bremer, Alan Chavez, Morgan Cook, Noah DeCarmo, Morgan Fletcher, Ella Grant, Wyatt Moore, Eugene Penick, DeVonté Saunders, Even Tyree, Kayden Washington. Musicians: David Hill, Piano. Mary O’Brien, Bass. Ken Brand, Drums and Percussion.
This show is presented by Second Stage | Amherst and Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc., with support from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation.
AGAR, in collaboration with Second Stage | Amherst, presents Nightcaps, a new musical drama by lyricist Brooke Vandervelde and composer Richard Rose. Nightcaps is being developed in three workshops on November 12, 2022, February 18 and April 1, 2023. Workshop performances are free and open to the public.
For the schedule and more information:
https://www.nightcaps.show/
For the schedule and more information:
https://www.nightcaps.show/
Richard Rose’s recent opera Monte and Pinky was performed by Capitol Opera Richmond at the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia. A former teacher, Brooke Vandervelde is now the music director at Ascension Episcopal Church, Amherst, where she also leads a bi-weekly Gospel Jam. Her husband John, who will design the physical environment for Nightcaps, taught a shop program in Amherst County Public Schools for twenty years.
(Graphic: Graphics Fairy)
(Graphic: Graphics Fairy)
|
ANNOUNCING AUDITIONS for WORKSHOPS of NIGHTCAPS A new musical drama by
Brooke Vandervelde and Richard Rose presented by Amherst Glebe Arts Response |
Nightcaps is set at a small historically White college in the upper South; the action moves between 2018, 1910, and 1940. We are looking for classically trained student vocalist with some experience in opera who can devote one or more Saturdays in 2022-2023 to workshopping a scene. Workshops will be held 9 am-5 pm at Second Stage | Amherst (194 2nd Street, Amherst VA) on the following Saturdays:
- November 12
- January 14
- February 18
- April 1
Auditions will be held for the following parts:
To schedule an audition time, contact Brooke at 804-922-2446 or [email protected].
- Patrice: Black tenor; college student
- Coale: White baritone; college student
- June: Black soprano; recent college graduate
- Arthur: Black bass or baritone; recent college graduate
- Adam: White baritone; college student, football player
- Terence: White tenor; college student
- Tom: White baritone; college student
- Judah: Black alto or mezzo; college student
- Sasha: White soprano; college student
- Pete: White baritone; college student; international student
To schedule an audition time, contact Brooke at 804-922-2446 or [email protected].
Workshop performers will be paid and will receive travel reimbursement and lunch. We will develop just one scene at each workshop. Advance preparation for the workshops is not expected: come ready to work hard and enjoy the experience of developing a promising new work with friends and colleagues.
Listen to the score at tinyurl.com/nightcapsscore and check out the script at tinyurl.com/nightcapsscript.
Listen to the score at tinyurl.com/nightcapsscore and check out the script at tinyurl.com/nightcapsscript.
Richard Rose’s recent opera Monte and Pinky was performed by
Capitol Opera Richmond at the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia. Brooke Vandervelde has retired from a career teaching classics and is now music director at Ascension Episcopal Church, Amherst, where she also
leads a bi-weekly Gospel Jam.
AGAR is a 501(c)3 corporation dedicated to promoting the arts
primarily in Amherst and Greater Lynchburg.
