The Woodland Opera House is auditioning applicants for the advanced musical theater performance group, Broadway Bound, at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 23, at the Woodland Opera House Dance Studio, 415 Fourth St. in downtown Woodland.

Auditions are open to children and youths ages 10-18 with at least two years experience in Show Biz Kidz or with main stage performance experience. They should come with a prepared song (14 to 36 bars), the sheet music in their key and be dressed to dance.

Broadway Bound is designed for advanced musical theater students and will combine command of body, mind and voice so that they will become an expressive instrument for the actor. The program will develop the abilities of experienced performers who are serious and eager to work hard.

Broadway Bound classes will meet from 5:15 to 6:45 p.m. Wednesdays, from Sept. 5 through June 26. Tuition is $45 per month. Broadway Bound members will perform at local venues and will prepare an audition for a June performance at Disneyland.

Students will receive advanced vocal training from James C. Glica-Hernandez and choreography and staging experience from Angela Baltezore.

Glica-Hernandez has been the musical director for shows at the Woodland Opera House since 1998. He has been nominated for seven Elly Awards and has won two. He taught vocal music and was music director of  theater productions at Natomas Charter School Performing and Fine Arts Academy from 2001 to 2008.

Glica-Hernandez’s vocal music teaching experience dates to the late 1970s. He studied music and theater arts at Sacramento State University and was mentored in conducting by Monroe Kanouse of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He sang and music-directed the small vocal ensembles for the Sacramento Opera Association, an organization for which he was also managing director.

Baltezore served as drama instructor at Woodland High School and has an extensive background in education and theater. She graduated with a degree in theater arts from Santa Clara University with an emphasis in dance. She owned and directed the Yuba City and Chico franchises of The Sunshine Generation Children’s Performance group for 12 years.

Baltezore is the Woodland Opera House’s education director and has directed and choreographed such WOH productions as “Seussical, the Musical,” (nominated for best choreography and best youth musical Elly Awards), “Beauty and the Beast,” (nominated for best set design and best musical), “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” (a Chesley Award winner for best production), “The Sound of Music” and “South Pacific.”

More information is available at www.woodlandoperahouse.org or (530) 666-9617.

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