Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 8:31PM Carolina Hidalgo did an awesome job on a feature story about our production of Ragtime and our company. This five minute radio piece features interviews with Director Jennifer Boesing, young artist Luna Lewis and segments of the dress rehearsal with orchestra! Listen to the entire story here:
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 2:46PM On Wednesday, February 15th, at 5:00 pm, KALW (97.1 FM) will air their program, Crosscurrents, featuring a story by Carolina Andrea Hidalgo Espinoza about YMTC's latest production of Ragtime. The story will feature interviews with Jennifer Boesing, Luna Lewis and recorded excerpts from a dress rehearsal.
If you happen to miss the live broadcast, stay tuned for a link to their website where you can hear the story anytime!
http://www.kalw.org/post/youth-production-old-time-play-channels-present-day-movements
Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 9:49PM 
Today is a day like any other at the Julia Morgan Theatre in Berkeley. Actors hurry through the aisles to the stage, where voices ring out like a chorus of bells as Dave Moschler, the musical director, warms them up. There is an aura of excitement in the air that is palpable, as the young actors start singing the epilogue of Ragtime, our latest show, which opens on February 10th. The voices of the young actors fill up the entire theatre with sound, filling every pore of the theatre with music.
There is even more anticipation in the room than usual, because today is the sitzprobe for Ragtime—the chance for the cast to sit and sing through the show, accompanied for the first time by the orchestra. Forty chairs for the actors, and twenty six chairs for the instrumentalists, the biggest orchestra to ever perform in the Julia Morgan, is set up, and soon the light sound of a flute plays, and the actors and musicians take their seats, as all talking ceases instantly, and the orchestra begins to play.
As the evening progresses, it becomes clear that all the work the actors have put into the show has paid off. Totally unafraid to sing in front of twenty-six professional musicians, the actors relish the experience to sing with such a large orchestra supporting them. A very rare experience indeed.
Song fills the theatre with renewed vigor, as all the actors lend their voices to this spellbinding tale. As the last chords fade of the final act, the actors break out in cheers, applauding the orchestra as well as each other, congratulating everyone on a job well done.
Without any staging, set, costumes or lights, this music alone is a powerfully moving thing. We can hardly wait until opening night!
Here's a sneak peak of what I'm talking about.
Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 2:46PM ON Thursday, Feb 2nd at 5:00 pm PERFORMERS FROM OUR UPCOMING PRODUCTION OF Ragtime WILL BE PERFORMING A FREE SNEAK PREVIEW OF THE SHOW (one week before opening!)....
at this live music and art event at The Public Market in Emeryville!
Come visit us at our table there, and you can get a ton of information about Ragtime, about our upcoming auditions for West Side Story and about our programs in general.
Also, as if getting a sneak preview of Ragtime wasn't enough, you'll be showered with cool, live music and art for the rest of the evnening, including everything from the Oakland School of the Arts guitar ensemble to a showing from the Firehouse Art Collective.
AND... you'll have over 20 unique food stalls --offering food from around the globe-- to choose your dinner from.
The event starts at 4:30pm and will go until Midnight! FUN FUN FUN at the PUBLIC MARKET at 5959 Shellmound Street in Emeryville.
Here's a Flyer for the event! [PDF] »
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 8:31PM Top notch professional theater artists from around the Bay Area are coming together to design and implement what's going to be a fabulous, rarely done production of Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along at The Julia Morgan theater in Berkeley. The show opens Oct 14th and runs for six performances over two weekends.
For audiences who saw our Jesus Christ Superstar at The Ashby Stage this past summer, you know that YMTC is not your average youth company. We always give our audiences the experience of a full, live orchestra, and we attract the Bay Area's most talented and dedicated young singer/actors to our programs. Merrily is no exception.
Rehearsals have begun, and it is already clear that what we've got here is an exceptionally sophisticated group of young artists in this cast.
Don't miss what's sure to be a truly refreshing and entertaining piece of theater!
Buy tickets one line now at Brown Paper Tickets.