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Beginnings
America's Most Complete
Arts Experience
for Young People.
Established 1984
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America's Most Complete Arts Experience
for Young People
NEW YORK HOLLYWOOD
LONDON
An approach to
professionalism as caring as
it is practical
Established 1984
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Beginnings is proud to include Tony Award-winning
star Sutton Foster, (title role of “Millie
Dillmount”) BROADWAY’S THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE,
BROADWAY'S LITTLE WOMEN, (formerly starring as
"Jo"), recently starring in BROADWAY'S THE
DROWSY CHAPERONE, and currently starring
as "Princess Fiona" in Broadway's Shrek, among our recent guest
instructors. Watch
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Beginnings is proud to include Courtney Young,
(currently Dance Captain for
BROADWAY’S THE PRODUCERS)
among our guest instructors.
Professional Resume
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Ben Cameron, (recently
appearing in
BROADWAY'S WICKED,
formerly BROADWAY'S AIDA and
BROADWAY'S FOOTLOOSE) guest lecturer and master
class instructor.
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Click her to see Broadway Playbill credit
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Beginnings: a
seven-day professional resident workshop for children, teenagers and
young adults seeking interviews and auditions for commercials,
print, television, film and Broadway. A thoroughly holistic
environment fostering organic nutritional practices, personal
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Congratulations to Beginnings' protégé
Tracy Edwards, (formerly starring as "Amber Von Tussle"
in BROADWAY'S HAIRSPRAY; recently
featured in BROADWAY'S LEGALLY BLONDE ).
Tracy often returns to Beginnings as a guest instructor.
Professional Resume
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Congratulations
to Beginnings' protégé Laura Osnes, winner, NBC
TV's GREASE: You're The One That I Want national
competition, recently in the starring role of "Sandy",
revival of BROADWAY'S GREASE, Brook Atkinson Theater.
We're pleased to announce that Laura will be visiting us
once again this summer, (2009),
as a guest instructor.
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Congratulations to recent Beginnings protégé
Tessa Netting (August, '06) for debuting in the featured role
of "Susan Parks" in the upcoming premier of BROADWAY'S BILLY
ELLIOT THE MUSICAL. |

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Congratulations to Beginnings discovery
Mischa Barton, recently appearing as
"Marissa Cooper" on FOX TV's The O.C.
See the moment of discovery!
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Boris Leskin, Professor
of Film and Television, New York University,
long-time colleague of Mikhail Baryshnikov, currently co-starring with
Elijah Wood
(Lord of the Rings) in Warners Independent film release, EVERYTHING IS
ILLUMINATED
Professional Resume
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Beginnings is proud to
include Arnold Mungioli,
Mungioli Theatricals, Inc. Former Executive
Director of Theatrical Casting,
The Disney Company: BROADWAY'S LION KING,
BEAUTY & THE BEAST, AIDA, etc., among our annual
guest lecturers and coaches.
Professional Resume
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Congratulations to Beginnings protege
Heather Dawn for joining the First
National
Tour of BROADWAY'S 42nd STREET. |
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Program is
held in carefully chosen licensed facilities located in
Pennsylvania, New Jersey or upstate New York 100-200 miles from
New York City.
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Congratulations to Beginnings' instructor Christina Pawl on
her recent completion
of the featured role of "Rosie" in BROADWAY'S CABARET.
Beginnings is proud to include Ms. Pawl as an annual full-time
instructor in authentic
Fosse Jazz choreography.
Professional Resume
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Noteworthy
statistic:
We are pleased to report that beginnings' twenty-five
year history, (founded in 1984), encompassing a student
population of more than ten thousand children, teens and
young adults, has never produced a single major injury or
illness, nor a single medical insurance claim, nor a single
significant complaint of ANY nature whatsoever related to this
workshop, its staff, or its director, Peter
Sklar. For authentication, please consult
the New York State Department of Consumer Affairs, the New York
State Attorney General's Office, the New York State Office of
Children and Family Protective Services, New York State Social
Services/ Family and Children's Services Division, and the New
York State Department of Health, as well as thousands of
available references from all parts of the United States. Thank
you.
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Beginnings is proud to include
Lawrence E. Street, who recently completed the
featured role of "Billy Boy Bill" in BROADWAY'S
URINETOWN, among our guest instructors.
Professional Resume
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Congratulations to Beginnings protégé Marni Raab for
her successful completion of the role of "Christine" in the Third
National Tour of BROADWAY'S PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.

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Beginnings' Off-Broadway showcase performance in New York City is
attended by a cross-section of major New York and national talent
agents, managers, and casting directors. Specific, direct results of
this workshop have included multiple bookings on Broadway, in
feature films, starring or guest roles on dozens of national
prime-time television series, mini-series and daytime serials, and
several hundred national commercials, print modeling jobs,
voice-overs and jingles. |
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Congratulations to Beginnings' discovery Zachary Cope
(June '98), co-star with Kevin Bacon in the feature film
"Stir Of Echoes".
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