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October 20, 2015 · 6:32 am

Auditions Announced for BRIGADOON at the Covedale Center

CCPACincinnati Landmark Productions to hold auditions for BRIGADOON

Audition Dates: Sunday, October 25 and Monday, October 26, 2015
Time:  6:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Auditions will be held at the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts, 4990 Glenway Avenue in West Price Hill.

Requirements:   Adult Male/Female performers are needed (20 – 65 years of age range). Auditionees should be prepared to sing a song that best showcases his/her voice – a musical theater selection. (bring sheet music for the accompanist in your key). Will read from the script and may be tested for dance ability (dress appropriately).

MUST HAVE A RESUME listing theatrical experience in order to audition. A headshot/picture is appreciated but not required.  Please prepare 16 bars of a song that best showcases vocal ability.

Please note:  No more than two conflicts will be accepted during the rehearsal process for this production.

All roles are paid positions.  No roles have been precast.

Roles Include:

  • Tommy Albright – Lead (30 – 40) Baritone.  A well-to-do New Yorker, on a hunting trip in Scotland
  • Fiona MacLaren – Lead (18 – 30).  Soprano.  Andrew’s older daughter, about 25 years old.
  • Jeff Douglas – Supporting (35 – 55) Spoken.  Tommy’s friend and hunting companion.
  • Charle Dalrymple – Supporting (21 – 32). Tenor. Engaged to Jean
  • Jean MacLauren – Supporting (18 – 30).  Spoken.  Andrew’s younger daughter, engaged to Charlie and beloved of Harry.
  • Meg Brockie – Supporting (18 – 30).  Alto.  An interesting character.
  • Andrew MacLaren – Supporting (47 – 65).  Baritone.  Father to Fiona and Jean.
  • Harry Beaton – Supporting (18 – 30).  Spoken.  Son of Archie, in love with Jean.
  • Archie Beaton – Cameo (47 – 65).  Bass.  Father to Harry.
  • Mr. Lundie – Cameo (50 – 75).  Spoken.  The dominie (schoolmaster) of Brigadoon
  • Maggie Anderson – Cameo (16 – 26).  Spoken.  Fond of Harry.
  • Jane Ashton – Cameo (24 – 33).  Spoken.  Tommy’s fiancée, in New York
  • Angus MacGuffie – Cameo, Head of his clan
  • Ian MacGregor – Cameo, Head of his clan
  • Frank – A Bartender, in New York.

BRIGADOON
Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner; Music by Frederick Loewe; Original dances created by Agnes de Mille

One of the most intriguing and delightful aspects of a musical show is its ability to open up a whole new world to both its audience and cast. The show that does this better than any other is BRIGADOON. This is a Scottish fantasy about a town that disappears into the Highland mist and returns for only one day every one hundred years. Songs include:  Waitin’ for My Dearie, I’ll Go Home with Bonnie Jean, Come to Me, Bend to Me, Almost Like Being in Love, There But for You Go I, The Heather on the Hill and My Mother’s Weddin’ Day. This is a tribute to simplicity, goodness and the power of true love.

Tim Perrino, Director; Steve Goers, Music Director; Christine Steele and Kelcey Steele; Co-Choreographers; Holly Davis, Production Stage Manager

Rehearsals begin:  Sunday, March 13, 2016
Performance dates:   April 28 – May 22, 2016

Performances run Thursday 7:30 pm.; Friday and Saturday 8:00 pm and Sunday at 2:00 pm.

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October 15, 2015 · 7:43 am

Auditions Announced for THE AMISH PROJECT at CenterStage Players

CSPOH_logoCenterStage Players announces auditions for THE AMISH PROJECT by Jessica Dickey.

Sunday, October 25, 2015 5pm – 7pm and Monday October 26, 2015 7pm-9pm at the North College Hill City Center, 1500 Galbraith Rd., Cincinnati 45231 (Marvin Ave. Intersection)

Looking for men, women and children ages 6-80.

This ensemble version of the one woman show, THE AMISH PROJECT is a fictional exploration of the Nickel Mines schoolhouse shooting in an Amish community on October 2, 2006.  All actors remain onstage throughout the entire show.

Performance dates: May 13-15 and 20-21, 2015
Characters: (Please Note! ALL actors stay onstage throughout the whole show and participate in portions of the dialogue much like a Greek chorus)
  • Carol Stuckey – Widow of the gunman, age 31, Non-Amish
  • Eddie Stuckey-The gunman of the schoolhouse shooting, age 33. Non-Amish. Killed himself at the end of the attack
  • Anna-Amish girl age 14. Victim of shooting
  • Velda-Amish girl age 6. Victim of shooting
  • Bill North-Non-Amish age 50+. Scholar and professor on Amish culture, as well as friend and spokesman to several Amish families affected by the shooting
  • Sherry Local – Non-Amish, age 50+. Resident of Nickels Mine, PA.
  • America-age 16. Hispanic, pregnant. Works in the local grocery store.
  • Ensemble and the Community of Nickels Mines, PA.
  • Fireman
  • Aaron-Amish, age 35-45, Father of Anna and Velda
  • Amish Mother, age 30-40-Wife of Aaron, mother of Anna and Velda
  • Jacob, Amish boy, age -8-12, son of Aaron
  • Reporters-male or female
  • Ray Local age 50+ Sherry’s Husband
  • America’s mother
  • Marian, Elizabeth, Catherine, Margaret, Mary, Dottie, Esther-Amish-Victims of shooting
  • Emma-Amish-Velda’s bff-victim of shooting

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October 6, 2015 · 7:58 am

Auditions Announced for LOVE, SEX AND THE I.R.S. at La Comedia

LAC_logoLa Comedia Dinner Theatre in Springboro, Ohio, will hold an open call audition at 10:00 A.M. for its production of LOVE, SEX AND THE I.R.S. on Saturday, October 17, 2015, at 765 W. Central Ave. Springboro.

All auditioning must arrive at 10:00 A.M. as they will be reading sides together.

SEEKING:

  • Leslie Arthur A Gawky young man in his early twenties
  • Kate Dennis A pretty little brunette
  • Mr. Jansen A beer–bellied drunk of a landlord.
  • Jon Trachtman Good looking, very likeable, early twenties
  • Floyd Spinner I.R.S. agent, proper middle-aged man
  • Vivian Trachtman A middle aged, stoic woman
  • Connie Attractive, blond and a talker
  • Arnold Grunion A shady character in his late forties

Director Chris Beiser

Rehearsals begin January 2, 2016.
Performances January 14 – February 28, 2016.
Questions call Joe (937) 746-4537.
Non-equity

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October 5, 2015 · 5:26 pm

Auditions Announced for HAY FEVER at Mariemont Players

MPI_logoMariemont Players will be holding auditions for Noel Coward’s classic, HAY FEVER.

Unconventional, risqué, and often downright rude, the Blisses are everything an upper-crust English family should not be. This is made abundantly clear when each family member invites a guest for the weekend. Alliances form, affairs begin, and formality is thrown to the wind. Noel Coward’s perfect comedy will send you home laughing.
Audition Dates: Monday & Tuesday, November 9 & 10

Audition Time: 7 PM

Location: Mariemont Players – 4101 Walton Creek Road, Cincinnati, OH 45227

Callbacks: Wednesday, November 11 (if necessary)

Performance Dates: March 4 – 20, 2016

Rehearsals: Determined by the availability of those who are cast.

Character Descriptions

  • Judith Bliss – David Bliss’s wife and Sorel and Simon’s mother, Judith Bliss is a retired actress, although she still loves to act and keeps insisting she will return to her craft. She invites Sandy Tyrell as a weekend guest.
  • David Bliss – Judith Bliss’s husband and Sorel and Simon’s father, David Bliss is a novelist of some acclaim, who is looking for his next muse. He invites Jackie Coryton as a weekend guest.
  • Sorel Bliss – Judith and David’s daughter, Sorel Bliss is nineteen years old and bored with most of life. She invites Richard Greatham as a weekend guest.
  • Simon Bliss – Judith and David’s son, Simon Bliss is a would-be artist. He invites Myra Arundel as a weekend guest.
  • Myra Arundel – Simon’s invited houseguest, a socialite
  • Jackie Coryton – David’s invited houseguest, “a perfectly sweet flapper”
  • Sandy Tyrell – Judith’s invited houseguest, a young boxer
  • Clara – The housekeeper. She’s a bit rough around the edges.

Synopsis – In HAY FEVER we spend a weekend with the eccentric Bliss family — Judith, a recently retired stage actress, David, a self-absorbed novelist, and their two equally unconventional children — live in a world where reality slides easily into fiction. Upon entering this world, the unfortunate weekend guests—a proper diplomat, a shy flapper, an athletic boxer, and a fashionable sophisticate— are repeatedly thrown into melodramatic scenes wherein their hosts profess emotions and react to situations that do not really exist. The resulting comedic chaos ends only when the tortured visitors tip-toe out the door.

Accents – British accents will be used for this production. We have an excellent dialect coach as part of the production team. You do not need to use an accent for auditions, although you are certainly welcome to try one on.

Those auditioning should bring a resume and conflicts between the period January 11th and March 20th. Headshots not necessary but welcome.

Questions? Please contact jef Brown at jefwi1f@gmail.com.

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October 5, 2015 · 4:53 pm

Season Auditions for SHEatre-Cincinnati Women’s Theatre on Oct. 26, 2015

SHE_logoCincinnati’s new Women’s Theatre is holding open season auditions on Monday October 26, 2015 at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company from 5-9 pm. SHEatre has three staged readings on the books, as well as a 10-minute play festival of new local work. SHEatre is looking for new talent (both men and women) with the hopes that some of these readings can become fully mounted productions in the near future.

The rehearsal processes for each reading will be brief, but please tell us of other work that you might have!

Actors/Actresses will be considered for:

IPHIGENIA AND OTHER DAUGHTERS by Ellen McLaughlin

Iphigenia and Other Daughters is a modern retelling of the fall of the House of Atreus. It follows the children of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, siblings who are both players in the family tragedy and victims of it. The cycle of blood and vengeance seems inescapable until the final reunion of a lost sister and brother brings the bloody family saga to its mystical and unlikely end.

The reading of IPHIGENIA AND OTHER DAUGHTERS is scheduled for November 23, 2015 at 7:30 on the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company mainstage.

BHUTAN by Daisy Foote from “The Kilroy’s List”

Frances Conroy’s mother is driving her crazy. Her aunt is stalking a married man. Her brother is in prison. She dreams of Bhutan, a far off place in the Himalayan Mountains, but can barely find the kitchen door. ‘Bhutan’ is a play about many things…family, love, change, and most importantly, it’s about having the courage to let-go and take a leap into the unknown.

The reading of BHUTAN will take place on January 25, 2016 at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company at 7:30 pm.

Quickies! The 10 Minute Play Festival

Six 10 minute plays by local playwrights will be performed on March 21 at 7:30 pm at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company.

IN THE BLOOD by Suzan Lori Parks

In this modern adaptation of The Scarlet Letter, Hester La Negrita, a homeless mother of five, lives with her kids on the tough streets of the inner city. Her eldest child is teaching her how to read and write, but the letter “A” is the only letter she knows. Her five kids— Jabber, Bully, Trouble, Beauty and Baby, double as the adults in Hester’s life: her ex-boyfriend, her social worker, her doctor, her best friend and her minister. While Hester’s kids fill her life with joy, the adults with whom she comes into contact only hold her back. Nothing can stop the play’s tragic end.

The reading of IN THE BLOOD will take place on April 11, 2016 at 7:30 pm at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company.

For the audition, please prepare either two one minute monologues that showcase your work or one two minute piece. We may ask you to do a cold read from one of the scripts.

We are looking for diversity on our stage as well as new faces! Everyone is invited to attend. The audition will be very informal and fun! Please sign up for a time on the sign up genius. We look forward to seeing your work!

Sign up for a slot here!

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