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2ND ANNUAL ST. LOUIS CABARET CONFERENCE SET FOR AUGUST

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RNI Productions announces the 2ND ANNUAL ST. LOUIS CABARET CONFERENCE, a 4-day Professional Development Workshop focusing on the Art of Cabaret Performance led by multiple award-winning performers and teachers Lina Koutrakos, Rick Jensen, Amanda McBroom And Alex Rybeck. Tim Schall is producer for this event which takes place at UNITY CHRIST CHURCH (33 North Skinker Street, St. Louis, MO - http://www.unitychristchurchstl.org/ ) from Thursday through Sunday, August 23rd through 26th.

Koutrakos and Jensen are returning to St. Louis after receiving rave reviews for facilitating the first St. Louis Cabaret Conference in August 2006. They are multiple award winning performers, teachers and directors who, for over 10 years, have taught on-going Advanced Performance workshops in New York. They have served on the faculty of The O'Neill Cabaret Symposium at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut and are currently on the faculty of The Cabaret Conference at Yale University and Summer in the City in New York. Koutrakos is a MAC Award (Manhattan Assoc. of Cabarets & Clubs) winning director who has guided countless performers through their one person shows and is a current 2007 MAC nominee for Best Major Female Artist for her show TORCH, which is playing in an open ended run at New York's Metropolitan Room. Jensen is a multiple MAC award wining music director, composer and arranger who has worked with, among others, Barbara Fasano, Tovah Feldshuh and cabaret legend Nancy LaMott.

This August they will be joined in St. Louis by cabaret legend Amanda McBroom and one of the finest music directors in the business, Alex Rybeck. McBroom has been called one of the greatest cabaret performers of her generation. She is an accomplished singer, actress and songwriter. Amanda shot to prominence when she composed the Bette Midler standard "The Rose". Rybeck is one of the top music directors in Manhattan's cabaret scene, having collaborated with Broadway and Cabaret stars Ann Hampton Callaway, Liz Callaway, Faith Prince, Marni Nixon, Jason Graae, Kitty Carlisle Hart and many others. Both Rybeck and McBroom serve on the faculty of the Cabaret Conference at Yale University and teach workshops in New York and around the country.

The core of the 4 days will focus on performance coaching, facilitated by Koutrakos, Jensen, McBroom and Rybeck. Singers will prepare at least 5 songs that are memorized and ready to work. Participants receive individualized feedback on their performance in the following areas: connection to material, physical choices, song selection, interpretation, arrangements, audience connection and internal/external focus of song. Other topics included in the event are: constructing a show, working with your musical director, the importance of "the arrangement" and Patter: What to say/What not to say.

The 4 day event will include an ALUMNI SHOWCASE performance on Thursday evening August 23rd, featuring returning singers from the 2006 St. Louis Cabaret Conference. McBroom and Koutrakos will also perform on separate evenings and the St. Louis Cabaret Conference will close Sunday evening August 26th with a PARTICPANT SHOWCASE featuring all of the 2007 participant's work.

Tuition is $625, and includes tickets to Alumni Showcase, An Evening with Amanda McBroom and Lina Koutrakos with Rick Jensen. Payment plan is available. Space is limited to 30 performers. Interested participants should contact Tim Schall, RNI Productions at 314-721-4634 or by email at stlouiscabaretconf@sbcglobal.net

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