Schoolhouse Rock Live! JR.
A pop culture phenomenon comes to the musical stage! The Emmy Award-winning 1970′s Saturday morning cartoon series that taught history, grammar, math, science and politics through clever, tuneful songs is not only making a small-screen comeback, instructing a whole new generation to “Unpack Your Adjectives” and “Do The Circulations,” it’s lighting up stages everywhere, from school multi-purpose rooms to university and regional theatres all around the country.
Tom, a nerve-wracked school teacher nervous about his first day of teaching, tries to relax by watching TV when various characters representing facets of his personality emerge from the set and show him how to win his students over with imagination and music, through such songs as “Just A Bill,” “Lolly, Lolly, Lolly” and “Conjunction Junction.”
Schoolhouse Rock Live! JR.
Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-541-4684 Fax: 212-397-4684
www.MTIShows.com
This 2-week session will run from 9am – 3:00 pm, with morning and after-care available. Students will audition on the first day of the session, and receive a schedule of training workshops and rehearsal sessions based on their particular skill level and part in the show. A public performance will be performed.
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Tracy Friswell-Jacobs co-owner and artistic director of the Delaware Arts Conservatory and co-director of “Not Your Ordinary Theatre Company,” started dancing and performing at the age of 2 1/2. Performing professionally since the age of 15, favorite roles include: Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, Rizzo and Sandy in multiple productions of Grease, Lola in Damn Yankees, and Kathy in Singing in the Rain. Tracy has performed on luxury cruise ships and on tour (opening for Charo and the Drifters) in a specialty act called ON TAP, along with her husband, Scott. She directed and choreographed numerous shows including the world premiere of Anything Cole, Annie, The King and I, Sound of Music, Oklahoma! and many others for theatre companies in the Mid- Atlantic states. Her choreography has been performed at the Lincoln Center and at the Kennedy Center. Tracy can be seen in numerous print ads, commercials, and industrial films for companies like QVC, Hershey Foods, Unisys, and CBS3, and was in the feature films Dead Poet’s Society and Flying Blind. Tracy was a title-holder in the Miss America pageant system, and in the Mrs. America system. Prior to owning her own studio, Tracy taught a variety of subjects at the Cab Calloway School of the Arts in Wilmington, Delaware, including drama and dance. Son Benjamin (5) and daughter Ella (2) also keep her hopping! She occasionally sleeps.
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Born in Newark, NJ, Martin ‘Marty’ Lassman has been a pianist since he was four years old. A University of Delaware graduate in music education with trumpet emphasis, he wrote marching band arrangements for the UD band, played in the brass choir, the percussion ensemble, the jazz band, and the symphonic and concert bands. He taught band and orchestra at HB DuPont Middle School and taught band and general music at Talley Jr. High. He wrote marching band arrangements for several local colleges. Following that, Mr. Lassman earned an MS in Music Education with a piano emphasis from the University of Iowa. He was the band director at Wilmington Friends School for eighteen years with over half the students in the Middle School playing in the band. In 1992, Mr. Lassman was employed by the Red Clay Consolidated School District to develop a choral music program at the newly created Cab Calloway School of the Arts. He continues to teach Vocal Music to 6-7-8 grade students who declare themselves as vocal majors or minors. His choirs have performed in such diverse places as the Hotel DuPont’s Gold Ballroom, the DuPont (formerly the Playhouse) Theatre, the Grand Opera House, the Bob Carpenter Center at the University of Delaware, Delaware State College, local private homes and country clubs, the Hard Rock Café in NYC, the Chase Center at the Riverfront, the Philadelphia Convention Center, Ray’s Starlight Café in Disneyworld, with Donald Byrd and on the Norwegian Dawn Cruise Ship. Marty Lassman is the past-president of Delaware’s chapter of the American Chorus Directors Association and is also the treasurer. He was the treasurer for the Delaware unit of the International Association for Jazz Education and continues to serve on the All State Jr. Chorus Committee. He was the chair for the ACDA Eastern Division’s 2010 Jazz Honors Choir in Philadelphia. In February 2008, Mr. Lassman was the guest conductor for 150 students in the Virginia District IX Middle School Honors Choir and in March 2008, he was asked to work with Osburn High School’s jazz choir in Manassas, VA as they prepared for a vocal jazz festival in New York City. As a performer, Mr. Lassman plays solo piano for cocktail parties and receptions. He also performs with the band ‘Lassman & Holmes’ for corporate parties and receptions. He uses music software on a regular basis to record and write music for his students and other musicians.
