COMING SOON:

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Levels' 2012 Spring Musical is...

(Click the above image for show information!)

AUDITIONS
will be held
WED., FEB. 8 between 6-9 p.m.
THURS., FEB. 9 between 6-9 p.m.

Please prepare a Broadway-style song and be ready to sing a cappella (without music). Auditioners will also be asked to read from script excerpts (which we will provide) and participate in a simple dance/movement audition.

FOR MORE INFORMATION,
PLEASE CALL LEVELS AT
(516) 466-8055 ext. 216

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...to find out how you can be
part of our new
TV SKETCH COMEDY SHOW
and the
WEDNESDAY
SKETCH COMEDY
WORKSHOP BLOCK!

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LEVELS TEENS IN THE NEWS:


You might remember brothers DAVID LEVINSON (above, left) & DANIEL LEVINSON (above, right) from their acting and directing work on many Levels productions, including Company, Cabaret, Jekyll & Hyde, Jesus Christ Superstar and The Mystery of Irma Vep. They are now authors of the original musical, Bathory, which has had several staged readings and continues to develop toward a full production. The most recent reading's cast featured Caitlin Kinnunen (Spring Awakening) and Frederic Heringes (The Phantom of the Opera), as well as fellow Levels alumna SAMI SKOW (below, left) of Disney's High School Musical 2. To complete the Levels connection, the show was co-conceived by another alumna, DANIELLE GARCIA (below, right). More information can be found at http://www.bathorymusical.com.

UPDATE: David has since gone on to write music and lyrics for a second musical, Les Enfants de Paris, which was featured in the 2011 New York Musical Theater Festival! For more information, go to http://lesenfantsmusical.com.



LAURA LANCE (above) co-stars in the independent horror comedy Audie & The Wolf, which also features Rance Howard (Apollo 13) and Richard Riehle (Office Space). She can also be seen in Hong Kong horror master Fruit Chan's thriller Don't Look Up, alongside Henry Thomas (E.T.: The Extraterrestrial) and Eli Roth (Inglorious Basterds). She appeared on the Levels stage (as Laura Simon) in such roles as Dotty in Noises Off, Dr. Einstein in Arsenic & Old Lace, the TinWoman in The Wiz and Sabina in The Skin of Our Teeth.

PAUL RYDER (above) co-stars in the film Beware the Gonzo, alongside Zoë Kravitz, Jesse McCartney and Amy Sedaris. He also plays the role of Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman in the feature film Cadillac Records, starring Beyoncé Knowles and Adrien Brody.  He Paul is best known as an old-school punk rock frontman and has performed with bands that include Paul Ryder & the Riots and Bloodrunners.  You may have seen him in concert at CBGB, Maxwell’s and the Continental, just to name a few.  Levels folk will remember Paul as the host of our cable TV rock show Straight Ahead, as the male lead in Ava Szilagi’s film Forever, and as the ‘60s rebel Berger in our 2004 production of Hair.



NIKKI BLONSKY (above) was nominated for a Golden Globe Award (Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical) for her role as Tracy Turnblad in the motion picture musical Hairspray. She's since appeared in the films Queen Sized, Harold and Waiting for Forever, and had starring roles in the TV series Huge and Valemont. Levels theatre audiences will remember Nikki as Meredith Parker in Bat Boy: The Musical, Margaret Mead in Hair and as the Queen of Hearts and the Dodo Bird (below) in Alice in Wonderland.



ANDREW BLUM's short film Eros screened as an Official Selection in both the Bahamas International Film Festival and the New York United Film Festival. His documentary Colorblind (featuring music by jazz legend Wynton Marsalis) won its division at the Boston International Film Festival, and the Long Island Film Festival. Andrew (below) was a mainstay of Levels' video program for years, directed Mirror, the first Levels horror movie, and appeared onstage in Company and Prelude to a Kiss.



ERICA KAYA HILL (below, left) performed in Hope & Anchor, a dance/theatre piece sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and performed at New York City's South Street Seaport. The piece was choreographed by Keely Garfield and Levels' dance coordinator Zach Morris, and featured original music by Levels' music coordinator Kris Bauman (below, right) and a mermaid designed by Levels' resident puppeteer Barry Weil. Erica's career at Levels stretches back to Godspell in 2002. She directed our 2007 Spring Musical, Gypsy, and played the Acid Queen in our 2007 Summer Musical, The Who's Tommy. (Photo by Arthur Donowski).




DID YOU KNOW THAT
THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE
ARE LEVELS ALUMNI?

R.J. CUTLER

Emmy- and Peabody-Award-winning documentary filmmaker and TV producer known for The War Room (Oscar nominee for Best Documentary), American High, Black/White and The September Issue.


JACKIE HOFFMAN

Comic actress acclaimed for her roles in Broadway's Xanadu, Hairspray and The Addams Family, the films Garden State and Kissing Jessica Stein, and TV's Dilbert.


MICHAEL STAROBIN

Tony-Award-winning Broadway orchestrator for Next to Normal, Assassins, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.


STEVE BRILL

Emmy-Award-winning lighting designer who has worked on top situation comedies and talk shows (including The Late Show with David Letterman), key political events, the funerals of presidents and 16 years worth of Olympics coverage.


NICKI RICHARDS

Singer, songwriter, producer and actor who has performed and recorded with Madonna, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Mary J. Blige, Missy Elliot, Al Green and many, many more.


BETH FERTIG

WNYC education and city affairs reporter, and frequent contributor to National Public Radio. Winner of an Edward R. Murrow Award, an Alfred I. duPont Columbia University Award, and awards from the Deadline Club, the Society of Professional Journalists and the New York Press Club.