Broadway performer Charlotte d’Amboise puts participants through their paces in a musical theatre workshop last summer at Western Carolina University. A Tony Award-nominated actress and dancer, d’Amboise will return to WCU for the Triple Arts Broadway Series, to be held Sunday, July 20, through Sunday, Aug. 3. The two-week camp is led by Terrence Mann, a two-time Tony Award nominee who holds the Carolyn Plemmons Phillips and Ben R. Phillips Distinguished Professorship in Musical Theatre at Western.

Western Carolina University will welcome more than 50 budding theatre performers from across the Southeast during the Triple Arts Broadway Series, to be held Sunday, July 20, through Sunday, Aug. 3.

The camp will offer the young artists the chance to experience the art and craft of musical theatre performance with Broadway stars Terrence Mann and Charlotte d’Amboise.

The two-week workshop will include all aspects of musical theatre performance – audition techniques, song interpretation, scene study, dance techniques and master classes. The public is invited to attend the participants’ final performance free of charge at 3 p.m. Aug. 3 in the Fine and Performing Arts Center on the WCU campus.

A limited number of spaces in the workshop are still available for applicants ages 16-22. Those wishing to audition should visit www.wcu.edu/4779.asp to obtain application information.

“The intensity of the workshop will give a young performer the sense of what it’s like in the business of musical theatre,” said Mann, a WCU faculty member. “Participants will eat, sleep and dream musical theatre for two intense weeks.”

A two-time Tony Award nominee, Mann is the Carolyn Plemmons Phillips and Ben R. Phillips Distinguished Professor of Musical Theatre at Western. Mann originated the role of the Beast in the Broadway production of “Beauty and the Beast,” earning Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for best actor for his performance.

Highlighting Mann’s stage credits are several roles he originated on Broadway: Rum Tum Tugger in “Cats,” his Tony Award-nominated performance as Inspector Javert in “Les Miserables” and his portrayal of Chauvelin in “The Scarlet Pimpernel.”

Actor, singer and dancer d’Amboise, also twice nominated for Tony Awards, made her Broadway debut in “Cats” in 1983. She starred as Cassie last year in the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of Kander and Ebb’s “A Chorus Line,” and she also played the role of Roxie Hart in “Chicago,” first heading the 1997 national tour and then joining the Broadway revival cast in 1999.

The cost of the Triple Arts Broadway Series workshop, including tuition, room and board, is $1,999. To learn more, visit www.wcu.edu/4779.asp or contact Western’s Division of Educational Outreach at (828) 227-7397 or (866) 928-4723.

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