On a perfect summer afternoon, 15 excited young actors stepped off two elevators and quietly entered Big Yellow Duck, a sun-drenched, state of the art recording studio on the penthouse floor of a building on W. 45th Street in Manhattan. It’s a gorgeous day but these kids aren’t outside at the pool. Instead they were here at BYD to attend a voice over intensive with Jen Rudin Casting and getting ready to hone their voiceover and animation skills in the recording studio.
Big Yellow Duck, co-owned by Matt Pedone and Stuart Kollmorgen, is a place I’m very familiar with. “Peter Rabbit” (scored by Kollmorgen) does all their production recording here, and just last week, Luke Wilson, Matt Dillon, and Lewis Black recorded their voices for “Rock Dog,” an upcoming animated feature I’ve just finished casting, directed by Ash Brannon and produced by Matthew Parker and David Miller. But today’s recording session was different. These young actors were here to learn and soak it all in. I set a few ground rules: No water near the microphone and no nibbling chocolate from the yellow ducks strategically placed around the lobby!
We’d spent the morning in a midtown rehearsal studio
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