Nicholls to host celebrity dinner and acting workshop
Tylor Willoughby
Issue date: 11/12/09 Section: Lagniappe
Christian Leblanc, New Orleans native and three-time Emmy award winner for his role as Michael Baldwin in "The Young and the Restless," will be Master of Ceremonies for "Celebrities, Comedy, and Cocktails."
The Louisiana Center for Women and Government will bring local and Hollywood celebrities to Nicholls for a convention, slated to take place Friday and Saturday.
The event will begin Friday with silent and live auctions. The items to be auctioned include a $9,000 dinner in the dining room of Oak Alley Plantation and a murder mystery dinner for eight.
For comedic entertainment, Bear Badeaux, Kaleena Massaker, Ed Schoen and Alex Sanborn from Los Angeles Connection Improv Troupe will perform Friday night in the Cotillion Ballroom.
"This will be an unscripted comedy show that is interactive with the audience," Laura Badeaux, director of the Louisiana Center for Women and Government, said. "Scenarios will be picked out of a bowl, and the improv troupe will have to act the scenario out."
Local celebrities that will be in attendance include Martin Folse, owner of HTV-10 in Houma; Eric Paulsen, morning show host and anchor for WWL-TV in New Orleans; and Laura Buchtel, WWL-TV meteorologist. Everyone in attendance Friday will have the opportunity to meet these and other local and Hollywood celebrities.
On Saturday, there will be an On-Camera Audition Workshop and an Improv Workshop. The On-Camera Audition Workshop will be from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., and the Improv Workshop will be from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Each class costs $30, and applicants must be at least 16 years old to register. Classes will be divided by age due to the content of the scripts.
"This is an amazing opportunity for the local talent that we have in Louisiana," Jean Sail, chair of the On-Camera Audition and Improv workshops, said.
Two of the acting coaches will be Bear Badeaux and Crystal Rivers. Badeaux, a Thibodaux native who performs in Los Angeles at The Comedy Store, iO West and LA Connection, has recently appeared in the films "Pretty Boy" and "Drama Kings." He has studied with Jim Jarret, Paul Messinger, Roy Jenkins and Lou Diamond Phillips.
The Louisiana Center for Women and Government will bring local and Hollywood celebrities to Nicholls for a convention, slated to take place Friday and Saturday.
The event will begin Friday with silent and live auctions. The items to be auctioned include a $9,000 dinner in the dining room of Oak Alley Plantation and a murder mystery dinner for eight.
For comedic entertainment, Bear Badeaux, Kaleena Massaker, Ed Schoen and Alex Sanborn from Los Angeles Connection Improv Troupe will perform Friday night in the Cotillion Ballroom.
"This will be an unscripted comedy show that is interactive with the audience," Laura Badeaux, director of the Louisiana Center for Women and Government, said. "Scenarios will be picked out of a bowl, and the improv troupe will have to act the scenario out."
Local celebrities that will be in attendance include Martin Folse, owner of HTV-10 in Houma; Eric Paulsen, morning show host and anchor for WWL-TV in New Orleans; and Laura Buchtel, WWL-TV meteorologist. Everyone in attendance Friday will have the opportunity to meet these and other local and Hollywood celebrities.
On Saturday, there will be an On-Camera Audition Workshop and an Improv Workshop. The On-Camera Audition Workshop will be from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., and the Improv Workshop will be from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Each class costs $30, and applicants must be at least 16 years old to register. Classes will be divided by age due to the content of the scripts.
"This is an amazing opportunity for the local talent that we have in Louisiana," Jean Sail, chair of the On-Camera Audition and Improv workshops, said.
Two of the acting coaches will be Bear Badeaux and Crystal Rivers. Badeaux, a Thibodaux native who performs in Los Angeles at The Comedy Store, iO West and LA Connection, has recently appeared in the films "Pretty Boy" and "Drama Kings." He has studied with Jim Jarret, Paul Messinger, Roy Jenkins and Lou Diamond Phillips.
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