Auditions Announced for OKLAHOMA! at Greater Hamilton Civic Theatre

Greater Hamilton Civic Theatre announced auditions for Rodgers & Hammerstein’s musical, OKLAHOMA!(musical)

Audition times:

• 1-3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 7: Kids (age 15 and younger)
• 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 8: Adults
• 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9: Adults

Location:
Creative Center at the Palace (home of the Greater Hamilton Civic Theatre), 215 S. Third St., Hamilton

Needs:

• Please prepare one minute of a Broadway style song. An accompanist and CD player will be provided.
• Be prepared for light dancing.

Rehearsals:
Rehearsals will be at 7 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays and 6:30 p.m. Sundays at the Creative Center at the Palace. The first will be Feb. 15.

Characters:

• AUNT ELLER – (40-60) A sturdy down-to-earth mother to everyone. She is Laurey’s aunt and confidante, and has warm yet no nonsense way about her.
• CURLY – (20’s) He’s a cowboy and the romantic lead. Has a confident swagger and deserves it, he is the most handsome man in the territory. He is in love with Laurey, but refuses to admit it.
• LAUREY – (20’s) A girl with a defiant streak. Though Laurey is very in love with Curly, she tries to resist his charms.
• ADO ANNIE – (Late teens early 20’s) A flirtatious girl, enjoys being desired but is ultimately a young woman of good morals, always finding herself exposed to temptation. A comic, romantic lead, she is wooed by Ali Hakim and Will Parker.
• WILL PARKER – (20’s) A hapless young cowboy who is very much in love with Ado Annie. He has a pleasant happy-go-lucky disposition, but isn’t the brightest bulb. Will is a dancing role, tap experience a plus.
• ALI HAKIM – A Persian peddler and a shrewd salesman. He, like Jud, is an outsider to this community but not feared by most. He likes pretty things and women. He pursues Ado Annie and Gertie Cummings.
• JUD FRY – The hired hand on Laurey’s farm. Described as dark and growly by others, Jud takes care of the ranch Laurey and Aunt Eller live on. He lives a lonely depressive existence in the smokehouse. He has feelings for Laurey.
• ANDREW CARNES – He is very protective of his daughter, Ado Annie. He doesn’t want Will Parker to marry her because he believes the cowboy’s life to be risky and unreliable.
• IKE SKIDMORE – Owns the ranch where the box Social takes place
• SLIM, FRED – Cowboy friends of Ike and Curly.
• GERTIE – (20’s) Another flirt from the next town over whose presence is always announced by her ear-piercing laugh. She has eyes on Curly and isn’t waiting around for Laurey to say no to him.
• Adult ensemble of various ages to play several supporting and cameo roles. (CORD ELAM, JESS, CHALMERS, MIKE, JOE, SAM, ELLEN, KATE, SYLVIE, ARMINA, AGGIE)
• Kids Ensemble: Dancing and special talents (tumbling, tap dancing, rope tricks) are a plus.

Performance dates: April 27- May 1, 2016

Show description:
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s first collaboration remains, in many ways, their most innovative, having set the standards and established the rules of musical theatre still being followed today. Set in a Western Indian territory just after the turn of the century, the high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys provides the colorful background against which Curly, a handsome cowboy, and Laurey, a winsome farm girl, play out their love story. Although the road to true love never runs smooth, with these two headstrong romantics holding the reins, love’s journey is as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country road. That they will succeed in making a new life together we have no doubt, and that this new life will begin in a brand-new state provides the ultimate climax to the triumphant OKLAHOMA!

For questions or more information please contct director Rodney Neal at rodneyn2@hotmail.com.