Live show
(Friday, April 9, 2010 at 8pm. Tickets are $25 and available online beginning 6AM on Friday, March 19, 2010. Venue: Parliament House, 410 N. Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando Florida, 32819).
For his return engagement at the Footlight Theatre, Seth will be focusing on the short-lived but mind-boggling series: The Brady Bunch Variety Hour. The show debuted in 1977 and was (not surprisingly) cancelled the same year, but there are nine delicious episodes that merit severe analysis. Seth and his audience will explore the bedazzled outfits, the horribly executed dance steps, the swimming pool (ripped off from Donny and Marie's Ice Skating Rink), the disco song medleys including "Shake Your Booty" and the hot budding romance between Alice the maid and a real estate agent played by... Rip Taylor. Plus, a special section focusing on the moving sub-plot of Greg moving out of the house (in his mid-twenties) and Carol Brady's ensuing depression...all enacted in song. Finally, most shockingly, Seth will treat the audience to the singing and dancing fake Jan!
Seth Rudetsky, who delighted Footlight Theatre audiences during his Orlando debut last year, is the Broadway host on Sirius/XM Radio every afternoon as well as a weekly columnist for Playbill. He's been on Broadway as a pianist, conductor and actor and has is best known to television audiences, as the real-life vocal coach on MTV's LEGALLY BLONDE: THE SEARCH FOR THE NEXT ELLE WOODS.
As a comic, Seth won the title “Funniest Gay Male in NY” at Stand-Up NY, had a long-running show at Caroline’s Comedy Club and spent two years as a comedy writer on THE ROSIE O’DONNELL SHOW (three Emmy nominations). As an actor, he played Arnold in the Gallery Players production of TORCH SONG TRILOGY, had roles on ALL MY CHILDREN and LAW AND ORDER: C.I. and in 2007 made his acting debut on Broadway in THE RITZ directed by Joe Mantello for The Roundabout Theater playing Sheldon Farenthold and singing “Magic To Do” in a (devastating) unitard.
Audition Master Class
(Saturday, April 10, 2010, 11AM - 2PM. Registration is $100.00 Venue: Parliament House, 410 N. Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando Florida, 32819.)
Singers are invited to come learn to love auditioning for musical theater and learn how to get hired on Broadway. Seth will help singers get the right audition song and stop singing the wrong song (or the wrong 16 bars) at auditions. These questions are all answered by Seth for each individual participant:
Where do I look when I audition?Seth helps even seasoned professionals to improve their singing and audition technique and/or to stop hating the songs they use at auditions. “So many singers have a signature song but no longer enjoy singing it”, explains Seth. He then proceeds to solve that problem. Every participant gets to sing. Every participant receives individual coaching. Seth's master class helps singers learn to
How do I end this song?
What do I think about when I’m singing?
What should I do with my body/hands?
Can I sing this song at an audition for (fill in the blank)?
love their song and book the job!
Seth has played piano for more than a dozen Broadway shows including RAGTIME, LES MIZ and PHANTOM and was the vocal coach for the LEGALLY BLONDE reality show on MTV. He was the Artistic Producer/Music Director for the first five annual Actors Fund Fall Concerts including DREAMGIRLS with Audra MacDonald (recorded on Nonesuch Records) and HAIR with Jennifer Hudson (recorded on Ghostlight Records, Grammy Nomination). He currently provides vocal coaching for numerous working Broadway stars, and remains one of the most in demand audition pianists by the most important producers on Broadway. Seth is a top choice as accompanist and vocal coach for countless Broadway stars when they perform solo musical acts in New York City’s most prestigious super clubs and exclusive Cabaret venues.