Carner and Gregor's BARELY LEGAL Set for 8/5 at Le Poisson Rouge; Students Sought to Perform

After four sold-out editions, Carner & Gregor's BARELY LEGAL SHOWTUNE EXTRAVAGANZA is back for its biggest concert event yet. Join Sam Carner and Derek Gregor, two of New York's hottest up-and-coming musical theatre writing teams, as they take you on a tour of their diverse work sung by the most promising young musical theatre performers in the country. Submissions will be accepted for the chance for eight lucky college students to make their New York concert debut in BARELY LEGAL on August 5 at 8pm at (le) Poisson Rouge.

In addition to having the incredible opportunity to win the chance to make their New York concert debut in BARELY LEGAL, college students will also get the chance to work directly with Carner & Gregor on the material and have a New York musical theatre experience like none other. Contestants will be judged by a panel of Broadway professionals. "We have seen so many fantastic young singers perform our songs across the country that we wanted to give them the opportunity to show what they can do here in New York," says Sam Carner. Derek Gregor continued, "We are so excited to give these college students a springboard like this to dive head first into New York's musical theatre scene. We are proud of what our alumni have done and can't wait to expand the BARELY LEGAL family."

Danielle Wade, who performed in last year's BARELY LEGAL recently won the Canadian reality TV show "Over the Rainbow" and is now playing Dorothy in the Toronto Wizard of Oz production. Other concert alums have performed on Broadway in Follies, Off-Broadway in Carrie and Myths & Hymns, and at major regional theatres and national tours.

The concert will be hosted by Broadway's Andrew Kober (HAIR) and directed by Marlo Hunter.
Sam Carner and Derek Gregor's musical Unlock'd will be playing Off-Broadway this summer at the Duke on 42nd St., in a Prospect Theatre Company production. Unlock'd previously won a Richard Rodgers Award and went on to workshops at TheatreWorks Palo Alto and a NYMF production, where it won the "Best of the Fest" audience award and received Talkin' Broadway Citations for "Outstanding
New Musical" and "Outstanding Original Theatrical Score." Carner & Gregor's musical Island Song was presented in concert at (le) Poisson Rouge in the fall of 2012 and went on to a concert run in Tokyo. Island Song will have workshops this summer at the Balagan Theatre in Seattle and the Bloomington Playwrights Project. Sing, But Don't Tell, a concert of their songs was recently presented in a sold-out performance at the Matcham Room in London's Hippodrome featuring a cast of West End performers. Carner & Gregor's songs have been performed around the world and on at least five continents (including Antarctica). Three of their songs have been nominated for MAC Awards ("Sing, But Don't Tell" for Best Special Musical Material and "After Hours" and "Make It Here" for Best Song). For more information on Sam and Derek:http://www.carnerandgregor.com.

HOW TO ENTER
Interested performers should videotape a performance of any Carner & Gregor song including one of four FREE Carner & Gregor songs (sheet music and piano tracks available at candgbarelylegal.com/contest) and send the video file tocandgmusic@gmail.com. All videos will be posted on BARELY LEGAL's YouTube page. A panel of judges will score the videos and the top eight performers will be invited to join Carner & Gregor in concert! Full details are available athttp://www.candgbarelylegal.com/contest

RULES
All videos must be emailed by 12:00pm on June 11 and must include singer's name college/high school and age. Winners will be chosen by June 25. Winners will be responsible for their own travel and accommodations to and from New York. Winners must be available for rehearsals in New York from July 31 through August 5.

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