The Toronto Youth Music Theatre Company 

Our Program

Why TYMTC?

Are you the most passionate person you know about musical theatre? Do you dream of working with recognized professional artists in the industry? Do you want to see personal improvement? If so, we’d like to meet you!”

For more information on “Our Program,” please click any of the following links.
• Course Outline
1. Training/Skill Development
2. Production Rehearsals and Spring Production
• Extra Public Performance Opportunities
• Dates and Times
• Location
• Fees

The nine-month program (excluding long weekends, Christmas, Easter and March breaks) will be divided into two semesters: 1. Training/skill development sessions, and 2. Production rehearsal sessions. Students will be placed into classes by age during their training sessions. This will ensure smaller class sizes to work on the three disciplines – acting, singing and dance/movement.

Sessions are designed to develop musical theatre skills. Each three-hour Sunday will provide the students with coaching in acting, singing and/or movement, on a rotational basis. Every week the student will work on different aspects of these disciplines. Sample classes are as follows:

Acting: Scene study, stage technique and improvisation.
Singing: Voice technique, part-singing and song interpretation.
Dance: Dance technique, partnering and musical theatre movement.

Potential students and their parents must realize the serious commitment involved in this program. Homework will be assigned (i.e., monologue and/or song preparation), with the understanding that the student will practice on a regular basis. Musical theatre skills will not develop sufficiently without this necessary effort.

TYMTC will endeavor to include the occasional Master Class, encompassing different aspects of the music theatre industry, from well known local casting directors discussing audition techniques, to professional performers specializing in a particular discipline relevant to our spring production.

Parents will be invited to attend an open house in December, which will give them an opportunity to see the student’s work in progress.

Sessions will be focused on rehearsing for a popular, standard ‘Broadway’ musical production that will be mounted toward the beginning of May. Students will spend their rehearsal with various members of our faculty and occasional guest artists, as a full cast or in smaller groups for specific scene work.

Spring Production

Students will be required to attend extra rehearsals in the spring prior to the performance weekend. We will keep the parents updated with the rehearsal schedule. Please be advised as to the importance of keeping the last week of April and the first week of May available for extra rehearsals and performances.

At TYMTC we pride ourselves on the strong training and opportunities for growth that we are able to provide to our members. There may also be extra performance opportunities during the 9-month season that students may be invited to partake in. We have been invited to perform at a variety of venues for some very worthwhile events. Past examples of these performances: a select group of TYMTC students had the unique opportunity to work and perform with the Tony award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown at CBC’s Glenn Gould Studio; participation in a fundraiser alongside major Canadian musical theatre performers for The Harold Green Theatre Company, entitled, “One Night Only”, at the Jane Mallett Theatre; performing for Procter and Gamble’s United Way Campaign kick-off at the Toronto Centre for the Arts; performing for the Rotary Club of Toronto’s Youth Day at the Royal York Hotel.

TYMTC performers participating in these types of events may be required to attend extra rehearsals.

The 2011-2012 program year will be held on Sundays, from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm.

There will be no classes October 9, December 18, 25, 2011, January 1, February 19, March 11, and April 8, 2012.

Audition Dates

Auditions for our 2011-2012 season will be as follows: Saturday, May 28th; Thursday evening June 2nd; and Sunday, June 5th, 2011. Register early to get the time and date of your choice!

Dates Subject to change.

Location

Classes will be held at Interplay School of Dance located at 250 Davisville Avenue, 5th Floor
(at Mt. Pleasant) Toronto, ON M4S 1H2. Click here for directions.

The performance venue for the year-end musical production will be held in a professional theatre.

The cost of the nine-month program is $1,770.00 plus HST. Please note: there is no increase in our
fees from 2010-2011 season to 2011-2012.

There is a supplementary production fee, due in March 2012, of $250.00.

For more information, please contact us.

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