Harare’s Got Talent set for Saturday

Thursday, 19 January 2012 15:14

Tinashe Sibanda HARARE’S budding performers will have an opportunity to showcase their talents when Reps Theatre hosts yet another edition in the Harare’s Got Talent (HGT) series on January 28. This year’s is the fourth edition and will feature singers, dancers and other upcoming entertainers keen on taking the spotlight and perhaps make a start on careers in the entertainment business. Previous winners of HGT include Ketan Nagar’s dance group, singer Kirby Chipembere as well as Seventh Day Adventist church choir, Firm Faith respectively. “We are calling on newcomers to the world of entertainment to come along for our auditions and see if they can get a place in the line-up for Harare’s Got Talent 4,” Sue Bolt, Reps Production Committee chairperson said. Bolt said the try-outs would be held at Reps theatre tomorrow and would be followed by the show a week later. She said they were looking for people with all kinds of talent including singers, dancers, comedians, jugglers, illusionists among others. There would be no limit to the type of performance or skill, she said. “We hope that the show will give audiences in Harare a chance to see some great performance talent and we also encourage people who are scouting for entertainers to come along and watch  and thereafter make contact with the performers they would have enjoyed or who would have impressed them,” said Bolt. She said the talent show would provide a platform for publicity but did not provide remuneration as Reps theatre was an amateur theatrical society. Bolt said fun prizes were however usually offered to the top three winners and a year’s free membership of the Repertory Players was awarded to the overall winner. “Those who wish to audition are expected at the theatre by 10am this Saturday. The singers should prepare a few verses of a favoured song, which will be performed without accompaniment in the try-out, so that the organisers can hear the vocals without musical embellishment,” she said. Bolt said the dancers were expected to bring along their music and a music player, while other performers would need to bring along props if they needed them. She said previous HGT shows had unveiled a range of performing skills and it was a way in which Reps could contribute to the community through providing performers with a platform to showcase what they had to offer. “We are pleased a number of participants have become involved in Reps productions, most notably Kirby Chipembere, who went on from his win of HGT to star in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and, later, the musical Rent,” said Bolt.