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The Community Theatre of Greensboro and McDonald’s are proud to present TRIAD IDOL.
TRIAD IDOL is the Community Theatre of Greensboro's annual fundraiser. All proceeds benefit CTG's Educational Scholarship Fund.
First-round auditions are now closed. You can audition for TRIAD IDOL 2007 next spring.
June 19, 2006
Wow! Last night, the TRIAD IDOL audience at War Memorial Auditorium witnessed 41 amazing performances by the finalists. Every finalist—in each of the three age groups—displayed exceptional talent and stage presence. The four judges and the audience (which counted as the fifth judge) had their work cut out for them.
10-year-old Karson Bankhead of Asheboro garnered the most audience support; she won two tickets to the American Idol Live! 2006 Tour at the Greensboro Coliseum on July 30.
And the winners are...
in the 8-12-year-old age group:
Trenton Durham of Concord
is the TRIAD IDOL 2006
Cameron Vaughn of Burlington is the first runner-up; and
Marques Haynesworth of Greensboro is the second runner-up
in the 13-18-year-old age group:
Josh Willard of Lexington
is the TRIAD IDOL 2006
Olivia Albertson of Thomasville is the first runner-up; and
Sasha Morfaw of Pfafftown is the second runner-up
in the 19 & older age group:
Rainee Perdue of Greensboro
is the TRIAD IDOL 2006
Barron Maness of Pinehurst is the first runner-up; and
Gayle Brooks of Greensboro is the second runner-up
The 2006 TRIAD IDOLS will represent the Community Theatre of Greensboro at different events over the next year.
Congratulations to the TRIAD IDOLS, the runners-up, and all our finalists! Thank you for sharing your talents with us.
June 16, 2006
Be sure to come out to War Memorial Auditorium tomorrow night (June 17) at 6 pm to be part of the 2006 TRIAD IDOL Final Event! With 41 outstanding contestants still in the running to be crowned the TRIAD IDOL in their age group, the audience will be in for a treat!
Twelve TRIAD IDOL finalists are between the ages of 8-12, 14 TRIAD IDOL finalists are between the ages of 13-18, and 15 TRIAD IDOL finalists are 19 and older. Click here to meet them.
Remember—the audience serves as the fifth judge for the Final Event. That means that the audience vote accounts for 20% of each finalist's score For $1/vote, you can show your support for your favorite finalists...and maybe push them to the top, so they can be crowned a 2006 TRIAD IDOL!
Tickets for the Final Event are $10 at the door, but if you download, print, and bring this discount coupon, you and four of your friends can get in for $5/each.
See you at War Memorial Auditorium!!
June 6, 2006
What an incredible Semi-Final weekend! Over 1000 people participated in the semi-finals—as contestants, audience members, or volunteers. And the talent onstage was staggering!
The judges selected 12 TRIAD IDOL finalists in the 8-12-year-old age group; 14 TRIAD IDOL finalists in the 13-18-year-old age group; and 15 TRIAD IDOL finalists in the 19 & older age group! Click here to meet all the 2006 TRIAD IDOL finalists!
Get your tickets now for the 2006 TRIAD IDOL Final Event on June 17 at War Memorial Auditorium! Be sure to download and print the discount coupon for half-price tickets to the Final Event. All seats are $10; with the discount coupon, seats are $5.
Remember—just like at the Semi-Finals, the audience will count as the fifth judge at the Final Event. For $1/vote, you can support your favorite contestants—your help may be what they need to be crowned the next TRIAD IDOL!
May 23, 2006
During the quarter-final weekend (May 19-21), the Odeon Theatre was filled with hundreds of amazing voices! The judges selected 186 TRIAD IDOL semi-finalists, who will compete at the Odeon Theatre over the weekend of June 3-4.
At 2 pm on June 3, 45 TRIAD IDOL semi-finalists ages 8-12 will compete. At 7 pm on June 3, 66 TRIAD IDOL semi-finalists ages 13-18 will compete. At 2 pm on June 4, 75 TRIAD IDOL semi-finalists ages 19 and older will compete. Click here to meet them all!
Come out and cheer them on! Your support can help propel your favorite TRIAD IDOL contestants to the final round. At the Semi-Finals, the audience will serve as the fifth judge. For $1/vote, you can show your support for your favorite contestants.
Tickets are $10 at the door, but if you bring a discount coupon, you and four of your friends can get in for $5/each.
May 19, 2006
How many of the 390 TRIAD IDOL quarter-finalists will make it to the semi-final round? Find out by joining us at the Odeon Theatre at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex this weekend to watch the TRIAD IDOL 2006 quarter-final performances. Contestants will be performing from 6 - 8 pm Friday, May 19; from 10 am - 3 pm on Saturday, May 20; and from noon - 4 pm on Sunday, May 21. Tickets are $5 at the door.
May 9, 2006
Four Seasons Town Centre shoppers had an extra treat over the weekend, as they had the chance to listen to several hundred singers—ages 8 - 60+—as they auditioned for TRIAD IDOL 2006. The talent was amazing!
After two weekends of first-round auditions, 390 singers have advanced to the quarter-finals, which will be held on May 19-21 at the Odeon Theatre at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex. Click here to meet them.
May 2, 2006
Hundreds of aspiring singers came out to Oak Hollow, Randolph, Hanes, and Burlington Square malls on April 29-30 in the first weekend of auditions for TRIAD IDOL 2006. What incredible talent! Two hundred contestants from this first weekend made it through to the quarter-final round on May 19-21.
APRIL 27, 2006
TRIAD IDOL ads are running in publications throughout our community—from Burlington, Asheboro, and Greensboro to High Point and Winston-Salem! Come out to audition at Oak Hollow, Hanes, Randolph, and Burlington Square malls this weekend! And if you can't make it this weekend, you'll still be able to audition May 5-7 at Four Seasons Town Centre in Greensboro.
April 11, 2006
The Community Theatre of Greensboro and McDonald’s Launch the Second Edition of Triad Idol
MARCH 2006
The Community Theatre of Greensboro and McDonald's are thrilled to welcome Centex Homes, our new supporting sponsor, to the TRIAD IDOL family!
2006 TRIAD IDOL schedule announced (for details, go to schedule page)
FIRST ROUND AUDITIONS:
April 29: Oak Hollow Mall, Randolph Mall
April 30: Oak Hollow Mall, Hanes Mall, Burlington Square (Colonial) Mall
May 5 - 7: Four Seasons Town Centre
QUARTER-FINALS:
May 19-21: Odeon Theatre, Greensboro Coliseum Complex
SEMI-FINALS:
June 3-4: Odeon Theatre, Greensboro Coliseum Complex
FINAL EVENT:
June 17: War Memorial Auditorium, Greensboro Coliseum Complex
JANUARY 2006
GoTriad & The News and Record name TRIAD IDOL one of the top ten arts events in the Triad. Click here to read the article.
June 26, 2005:
The Community Theatre of Greensboro and McDonald's crowned the first TRIAD IDOLs at 12:35 am this morning at War Memorial Auditorium!
More than 1500 fans packed War Memorial Auditorium at the Greensboro Coliseum to cheer on and vote for the 40 finalists! And what a show they saw! Not only did each finalist perform individually—to cheers, tremendous clapping and even standing ovations—most also performed in group numbers, singing songs from famous Broadway musicals to underscore CTG's commitment to bringing top-rate musical theatre to the community.
In the 8-15-year-old category:
In the 16-and-older category:
Both CaRee and Freddy, our first TRIAD IDOLs, will be quite visible over the weeks and months to come, as they take on cameo roles in CTG's upcoming production of FOOTLOOSE, sign on with Marilyn's Talent Agency, and work (under contract) with The Barn Dinner Theatre...and that's just for starters!
Click here to see the list of prizes won by the TRIAD IDOLs.
June 22, 2005:
June 25 is an important date in the history of Triad
music! That's when the Community Theatre of Greensboro and McDonald's will
announce the first-ever TRIAD IDOLs! Be in your seat at War
Memorial Auditorium at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex by
7 pm on Saturday, June 25—you won't want to miss one note of the Final
Event.
For our 40 TRIAD IDOL finalists, every minute brings them closer to their
last performance in this competition. Each finalist (20 in the 8-15-year-old
category and 20 in the 16-and-older category) will sing one song individually,
and most will also participate in a group performance (singing a real Broadway
showtune). War Memorial Auditorium seats more than 2,000 people and has
a huge stage, so this will be quite a thrilling night for all the finalists
and their fans!
As they did in the semi-final events, audience members may participate as the "final
judge" for the Final Event—your votes ($1/vote) will help determine the
first TRIAD IDOLs! You may vote as often as you like—and for as
many contestants as you like—during both intermissions. At the end of the
second intermission, we will tabulate all the audience votes for each contestant
and assign those votes a numeric score (similar to how the onstage judges rate
the contestants). We will then add that audience score to the onstage judges'
scores to determine the TRIAD IDOL and runners-up in each category.
General admission tickets to the TRIAD IDOL Final
Event are $10/each, but if you bring the coupon from the TRIAD IDOL ad
that appeared in GO TRIAD on June 16 or June 23, you'll get in for only $5! (Gold
circle seats are $25.) Audience members will have
the opportunity to win some great door prizes—including a pair of tickets
to American Idols
Live! Tour 2005 on July 17 at the Greensboro Coliseum.
We'll see you there!
June 6, 2005:
What a whirlwind weekend! TRIAD IDOL's semi-final events were thrilling, with 49 contestants performing in the 16-and-older age category on Saturday evening, June 4, and 53 performing in the 8-15-year-old age category on Sunday afternoon, June 5. All the judges—including the audience, who counted as the "fifth judge" for both events—had an incredibly difficult task. They were charged with moving 20 contestants forward to the Final Event in each category!
With the amount of talent on the stage at the UNCG School of Music concert hall, that was nearly impossible. But we were able to announce the finalists in each category at the end of the respective events. Click here to see the list of finalists in each category and the songs they sang. And stay tuned for more information on each finalist over the next few days!
See the younger finalists' pictures here. See the older finalists' pictures here.
June 2, 2005:
With TRIAD IDOL's semi-final round coming up this weekend at the UNCG
School of Music, CTG Executive Director Mitchel Sommers is featured in the
June 2 edition of GO TRIAD. In an "Off the Cuff" column, Mitchel
describes how TRIAD IDOL has opened up new opportunities for so many
talented performers—many
of whom have never performed outside their schools or churches before.
Click here to read the entire article.
May 24, 2005:
What a weekend! The Odeon Theatre at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex was rocking on May 22-23 with the TRIAD IDOL quarter-finals! To learn more about all the excitement, click here. To view photos from the quarter-finals, click here.
On Saturday, May 22
Three hundred and ten quarter-finalists ages 16 and older performed for judges and a packed theatre of well-wishers...find out which 50 contestants are moving ahead to the semi-final round on June 4 at UNCG School of Music.
On Sunday, May 23
Two hundred and twenty five quarter-finalists ages 8-15 performed for judges and an even fuller house...find out which 57 contestants are moving ahead to the semi-final round on June 5 at UNCG School of Music.
If you have been selected as a semi-finalist, click here for important information!
Be sure to come out to the semi-final events on June 4 and 5. We
are inviting audience members to participate as the "final judge" in
the semi-finals—your votes will help determine the 20 people (in each
category) who will move forward to TRIAD IDOL’s Final Event on June
25 at War Memorial Auditorium. During both intermissions of each semi-final
event, you will have the opportunity to vote ($1/vote) for your favorite
semi-finalists. You may vote as often as you like! At the end of the second
intermission, we will tabulate all the audience votes for each contestant
and assign those votes a numeric score (similar to how the onstage judges
will rate the contestants). We will then add that audience score to the rest
of the judges’ scores to determine the 20 finalists who will be moving
forward in each category. (We will have 40 finalists in total performing
at the Final Event.)
May 16, 2005: Nearly 1000 people in two age categories—8 through 15 & 16 and older—performed in the TRIAD IDOL first-round auditions over the weekend of May 14-15, 2005! Several hundred are moving ahead to the quarter-final round at the Odeon Theatre at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex on May 21 (16 and older) and May 22 (8-15 years old). To read about some of the contestants, click here.
New contestants may not enter the competition at this time.
The Grand Prize in each age group includes $1,000 cash, a contract with a local talent agency, and other exciting items.
TRIAD IDOL contestants will perform in three more rounds of auditions leading up to the selection of the winners. In both the semi-final and final events, the audience will serve as the "5th judge" and will be instrumental in choosing those who move ahead. The competition will culminate in the crowning of the first-ever Triad Idols in each age category on the stage of War Memorial Auditorium on Saturday, June 25, 2005. Check the events calendar for a complete listing of all TRIAD IDOL dates and times.
Our sponsors have made all of this possible. Please click their logos below
to learn more about them.
Please contact the Community Theatre of Greensboro at 336-333-7470 with
any questions about TRIAD IDOL.
Some of our TRIAD IDOL contestants performed songs that they had written themselves at the first-round auditions and the quarter-finals. One quarter-finalist, Tracy Brumbeloe, a substitute teacher for Forsyth County Schools, wrote a song called "I Have a Dream" after her son was given an assignment on South African apartheid. She connected the oppression of South Africans to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's 1963 speech with its famous theme of "I Have a Dream," and the song—both lyrics and melody—just came to her. Click here to read the lyrics of Tracy's song.
In a special column for the May 12th edition of GO TRIAD, Allison King, a local award-winning singer, explores the wacky world of TRIAD IDOL as the competition gets underway with auditions at three area malls. Click here to get Allison's perspective!
To promote TRIAD IDOL, the Community Theatre of Greensboro hosted Diana
DeGarmo on Saturday, May 7, at The
Art Shop in Greensboro. Diana, who was
runner-up to Fantasia in the third season of American
Idol, chatted with
guests, signed autographs, and sang a few selections from Blue Skies,
her debut album.
Click here to view pictures from the Diana DeGarmo reception
View the Triad Idol Launch Event Photos
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