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  • Auditions for Front & Center are held in December, drawing close to 100 enthusiastic students to tryouts in the Performing Arts Center.
  • Final selections of cast members are made immediately.
  • The successful candidates must be accomplished singers, dancers and actors.
  • Once cast members are selected, they adhere to a rigorous rehearsal schedule.
  • But first, there’s a “talk down” session with Director Roger Castellano ’83, who discusses the rules of the road.
  • Conductor and musical director Mitchell Hanlon works to perfect the music.
  • The day of the show, there’s some down time until show time.
  • The Big Night begins with a few preparations, wherever the cast finds room to prepare.
  • Makeup means making up wherever one finds room.
  • Resting up for the Big Night is critical for those energetic Front & Center numbers.
  • Television and video games are big diversions in the coaches’ locker room.
  • Front & Center is all about making memories for student performers.
  • Capturing Front & Center memories takes some creativity and initiative.
  • The Big Night arrives.
  • Gary Hausdorfer of The Diamond Group, in the foreground, listens with fellow Blue Ribbon Committee members at a postmortem meeting.
  • University Advancement staff members, represented here by several committee members, work throughout the year in support of Front & Center.
  • Rodger Talbott, Blue Ribbon Committee Chair, is presented with a crystal bowl in thanks for his many efforts in support of Front & Center 2006.
  • Kate PeKate Peters of Narratus, Inc., in center, ponders a point during a Blue Ribbon committee meeting.
  • Cindy Stout of the Orange County Teachers Federal Credit Union, and Nannette McBeth of Merrill Lynch, animatedly engage fellow committee members at the Blue Ribbon meeting.
  • Peter Agarwel of Citizens Business Bank raises a question at the Blue Ribbon meeting.
  • Rodger Talbott of Social Service Inc./Drug and Alcohol Treatment presides over the Blue Ribbon Committee meeting.