Auditions

2022 AUDITIONS — August 20-21

Every year, California Revels puts together a chorus totaling up to 50 or more singers. For many chorus members, participating in Revels is the highlight of their holiday season, bringing them together in community, transporting them to another time, and giving them comfort in the darkest days of the year. And, it’s a lot of fun!

This year, a Chinese opera star and her grandmother's ghost, medicine show mountebanks, and revelers from every community in post-Gold Rush California are scrambling up the Santa Cruz mountains to watch the sun set between the famous Solstice Stones. Forbidden love, suspicious remedies, and a multiplicity of music, dance, and circus ensue.

For audition questions, please contact: Production Manager, Michele Sullivan Michele.Sullivan@californiarevels.org

Adult Chorus and Young Performers (YPs)

Who: Performers age 13 +
When:

Saturday, August 20: Noon - 5:00 PM
Sunday, August 21: Noon - 2:30 PM

Where: First Congregational Church of Oakland — Choir Room (2501 Harrison St, Oakland 94612)

RESERVE YOUR AUDITION SLOT HERE

Adult & Teen (Young Performer) Chorus vocal auditions for California Revels are done by reservation in small groups.

Prepare a short folk or classical song, 1-2 minutes in length, one you know well. A cappella is fine. We do not recommend singing to a recording.
Your 15-minute vocal audition will include a few vocal scales and exercises and reading a short piece with your audition group.
Bring possible conflicts to add to your audition form.
If you intend to dance in the performance, there will be a short required dance audition done in a small group. We will teach you the dance. Wear comfortable clothes and shoes. Groups will be approximately at 2:00pm and 4:00pm on Saturday, and once on Sunday around 1:30pm.
Photos are not required but, if you have a small one that we can staple to the audition form, so much the better!

You may audition without an appointment but you may need to wait.

Adult and YP General Commitment

Rehearsals:

Mondays: 7pm beginning 9/26
Company Retreat: Saturday, 10/1
Most November weekends beginning 11/12

Tech & Dress Rehearsals:

Days or eves beginning approximately 12/3

Performances:

Friday eves, Saturday and Sunday days & eves 12/9 - 12/18

A more detailed schedule will be available at auditions. All dates are subject to change.

For questions, please contact: Production Manager, Michele Sullivan Michele.Sullivan@californiarevels.org

RESERVE YOUR AUDITION SLOT HERE

Children's Chorus

Who: Children ages 7-12
When: Sunday, August 21: 3:30 - 5:00 PM PLEASE BE PROMPT.
Where: First Congregational Church of Oakland — Choir Room (2501 Harrison St, Oakland 94612)

We are pleased to invite children ages 7-12 years to vocal auditions for this year’s Midwinter Revels. Children do not need to schedule an audition and are asked to email Production Manager Michele Sullivan so we will know to expect you.

LET US KNOW YOUR CHILD WANTS TO AUDITION

Image from our 2019 Christmas Revels

Children will sing with a small group of other potential cast members in the order they arrive and sign in.
Prepare two unaccompanied songs, one being “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” and another of your choice.
Please bring any advance notification of possible rehearsal or performance conflicts.
There will be a short dance audition. We will teach the dance to the group. Wear comfortable clothes and shoes.

Although your child(ren) will be free to go after completing the singing and dance portions, we recommend you be prepared to stay the full 90 minutes, as we may wish to hear groups of children together or to have them read lines.

Children General Commitment

Rehearsals:

Mondays: 7pm beginning 9/26
Company Retreat: Saturday, 10/1
Most November weekends beginning 11/12