{"id":1614,"date":"2012-05-16T22:01:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T05:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2012-05-16T22:05:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T05:05:25","slug":"wicked-musical-cast-members-visited-durham-school-of-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wicked-musical-cast-members-visited-durham-school-of-the-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicked Musical Cast Members Visited Durham School of the Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wicked Musical is currently playing at the Durham Performing Arts Center<\/a> and continue through May 27. The cast of Wicked visited Durham School of the Arts to teach a class on acting and movement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Catherine Charlebois, who plays Nessarose, and fellow cast member Dan Pacheco, who plays Boq, on Tuesday visited Durham School of the Arts to teach a class on acting and movement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Catherine<\/a>

Catherine Charlebois Plays Nessarose in Wicked<\/p><\/div>
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\"Dan<\/a>

Dan Pacheco Plays Boq in Wicked<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n

Charlebois and Pacheco spent the last several minutes of the hour-long class answering students\u2019 questions, ranging from their educational backgrounds and paths to \u201cWicked\u201d to whether actresses do their own makeup (the answer is, for the most part, yes).<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re acting, specificity is key,\u201d Pacheco advised the group of about 60 high school theater and dance students.<\/p>\n

The professionals led the combined class through a series of exercises aimed at fostering specificity, including one in which students were randomly assigned playing cards denoting social class. Kings were the richest of the rich, turning their noses up at most anyone who approached them, while the lowly aces begged for spare change. Participants couldn\u2019t come right out and tell one another the face on their cards \u2013 rather, they had to indicate their social class by their behavior.<\/p>\n

Waltzing around the room with an air of egotism, junior Anna Acha was clearly a king. A rock musician who aspires to one day work in musical theater, she said after the class that she enjoyed the lesson, particularly since several of the exercises allowed all students to interact with one another.<\/p>\n

Most of all, their visit offered students \u201cone-on-one time with someone who is doing what it is that so many of them love to do,\u201d explained DSA theater instructor Tom Nevels. \u201cOur students are here at an arts high school, but I think a lot of times they still have messages coming to them about performance not being a career or needing to always have a backup plan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Charlebois and Pacheco said they often visit schools \u2013 from the elementary level up to performing arts universities \u2013 on tour stops.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know when I was their age, it would have been huge for me to see people \u2013 not too much older than they are \u2013 making it happen and loving their work,\u201d Charlebois said.<\/p>\n

And arts programs have become an endangered commodity, Pacheco said.<\/p>\n

\u201cArts are really being cut back in so many communities right now,\u201d he said. \u201cI really like to try to bring some of that into the schools and show the students that you can do things with the arts in your life, and that the arts are important and that being creative is important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the complete news {Via HeraldSun.com<\/a>}<\/p>\n

Wicked 2nd US National Tour Cast Update:
\nLisa Livesay (Glinda), Anne Brummell (Elphaba), Catherine Charlebois (Nessarose), Dan Pacheco (Boq), Marilyn Caskey (Madame Morrible), David Nathan Perlow (Fiyero), Don Amendolla (Wizard).<\/p>\n

Wicked Tour will close at Durham Performing Arts Center<\/a> on May 27, 2012.<\/strong> From here it will move to Dayton, OH<\/a> for the performances at Schuster Performing Arts Center<\/a> start on May 30 and continue through June 24, 2012. Get $10 OFF on Wicked Durham NC Tickets<\/a> Orders of $350 or more by using code #SpringSavings at Checkout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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