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Auditions Announced for CELEBRATING 65 YEARS CABARET at Dayton Playhouse

DPH_logoThe Dayton Playhouse Associate Board invites you to audition for our third annual Cabaret FUNraiser, this time celebrating 65 years of musicals at the Playhouse!

Auditions will be held Saturday, March 2, 2024 from 11am – 1pm.

Auditioners should prepare selections from the below list of shows from Dayton Playhouse’s past. While only one is required, two are encouraged – an uptempo and a ballad – of 32 bars each that you would like to perform in the Cabaret that best showcase your comfortable range and abilities. Duets are also allowed, so bring a friend if you’d like! An accompanist will be provided. Have clear markings in your sheet music, but also be prepared to sing the entire song, if asked. Also, since we want to represent as many shows as possible from the history of the Playhouse, we will not be allowing multiple songs from a single show.
Production date for “Celebrating 65 Years – A Dayton Playhouse Cabaret” will be Saturday, March 23rd, 2024; 8pm at the Dayton Playhouse

There will be 2 set rehearsals you must attend, tentatively scheduled for March 19th and March 22nd at 7:00pm. Extra rehearsals may be scheduled at the discretion of the directors.

If chosen to perform in the Cabaret, the cost to participate is $20 and will include 2 drink tickets. The $20 participation fee will be due at the first rehearsal.

If you have any questions, please reach out to either of the directors, Adee McFarland and Brandon Shockney via email at:
adee.peters@gmail.com
beeshock@gmail.com

Shows available:
1776, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, 42nd Street, Ain’t Misbehavin, Always….Patsy Cline, Annie, Annie Get Your Gun, Anything Goes, Applause, The Apple Tree, Babes in Toyland, Beehive, Bells Are Ringing, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Brigadoon, Bye Bye Birdie, Cabaret, Calamity Jane, Camelot, Carousel, Chicago, A Chorus Line, Cinderella, Company, Crazy For You, Damn Yankees, Evil Dead The Musical, Evita, The Fantastiks, Fiddler on the Roof, Finian’s Rainbow, Fiorello!, Follies, Footloose, Forever Plaid, Funny Girl, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Girl Crazy, Godspell, A Grand Night for Singing, Grease, Guys and Dolls, Gypsy, Hair, Hairspray, Hello, Dolly!, How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, I Do! I Do!, Into The Woods, Is There Life After High School?, Jesus Christ Superstar, The King and I, Kiss Me Kate, La Cage Aux Folles, Lady in the Dark, Lend Me A Tenor, Les Miserables, Little Mary Sunshine, Little Me, The Little Mermaid, A Little Night Music, Little Shop of Horrors, Mame, Mamma Mia, Man of La Mancha, Meet Me in St. Louis, Merrily We Roll Along, The Music Man, The Musical of Musicals, The Musical, My Fair Lady, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Nunsense, Oklahoma!, Oliver!, Once Upon A Mattress, Once On This Island, The Pajama Game, Phantom, Pippin, Plain and Fancy, The Producers, The Prom, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Quilters, Ragtime, Roar of the Greasepaint, Smell of the Crowd, The Secret Garden, She Loves Me, Show Boat, Side By Side By Sondheim, Side Show, Sister Act, The Sound of Music, South Pacific, Spamalot, Steel Pier, Stop The World – I Want To Get Off, Sweet Charity, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Urinetown, Victor/Victoria, West Side Story, Will Rogers Follies, The Wizard of Oz, Wonderful Town, Working, Xanadu, You’re A Good A Good Man Charlie Brown

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Auditions Announced for CRAB CAKES AND MURDER at Loveland Stage Company

LSC_logoLSC is partnering with NEST’s Murder Mystery Fundraiser on April 12th, 2024. The play we are casting is called CRAB CAKES AND MURDER by Micheal Druce. [Produced by special arrangement with Pioneer Drama Service, Denver, Colorado.]

Auditions will be held Sunday, Feb 18th from 6 – 9 pm, and will consist of cold readings from the script. No preparation necessary.

Location: Loveland Stage Company – 111 S 2nd St. (Rt 48), Loveland, Ohio 45140

Summary:
During a surprise storm, Captain Savage Raines goes missing at sea.  The wreckage of the Half Shell is found, but with no sign of the commercial fisherman, Sheriff Sandy Shoals assumes Captain Raines is dead.  That wouldn’t be a surprise considering what a hateful codger he was.  After all, who else would name his twin daughters Misery and Calamity?!

The sheriff finds the incident especially curious since the shipwreck was just a day after Savage announced his retirement and revealed plans to divvy up Peg Legg Seafoods.  And since those business plans minimized his wife Peggy’s role in the company and largely cut out the rest of the family with the exception of his bootlicking twin daughters, everyone had a motive for sabotage.

Reeling in audience members to help sift through the evidence, Sheriff Shoals casts a wide net to try to catch the guilty party.

Cast of Characters:

  • DUNGENESS CRABBE ……….Captain Savage Raines’s sister; married to Stone Crabbe; well-meaning but whiny
  • PEGGY LEGG-RAINES ………..Captain Raines’s wife; sardonic and straightforward; all business
  • STONE CRABBE……………….the captain’s brother-in-law; clueless owner of Crabbe’s Crab Cakes
  • DECADENCE RAINES ………..youngest daughter of Peggy and Savage Raines; independent, matter-of-fact, and honest to a fault
  • C.D. LAWYER ………………….shady attorney and chairman of the board of directors for Peg Legg Seafoods
  • SHERIFF SANDY SHOALS …..new to the job; nobody’s fool
  • CALAMITY RAINES ……………another Raines daughter; selfish and shallow; Misery’s fraternal twin
  • MISERY RAINES ………………another daughter; superficial and self-centered; Calamity’s fraternal twin
  • CAPTAIN SAVAGE RAINES …..family patriarch; owner of Peg Legg Seafoods
  • HUMP DAY ……………………..mysterious harbormaster

You can sign up for an audition slot at www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E4BA9AD2DABFBC34-47919268-lscnest#/.

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Auditions Announced for STRING OF PEARLS at Middletown Lyric Theatre

MLT_logoAUDITION DATES:

  • Sunday, February 25th: 4pm – 5:30pm
  • Monday, February 26th: 6:30PM – 8PM
  • Tuesday, February 27th: 6:30pm – 8pm – This day will also be used for callbacks if necessary

AUDITION REQUIREMENTS:
You must fill out an online audition form HERE and sign up for an audition time slot HERE.

We will be auditioning from cold readings from the script.

ROLES AVAILABLE:
All Female Cast – 27 characters – all ethnicity/races/ages range from 20’s – 80’s We will be casting a minimum of 9 actresses. We borrowed the quote below because we felt it best helped explain the show as well as the casting process.
“…expanding the cast to accommodate the 22 women who wanted to do the show, the acting challenge did not diminish in any way whatsoever. STRING OF PEARLS requires…Great connected storytelling with unique characterizations in unexpected circumstances making it a challenging and welcome process.” by Professor Ralph Small, Thorneloe at Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

PRODUCTION INFORMATION:
Production: May 3, 4 & 10 @8pm – May 11@3pm
All Day Rehearsal:  Saturday, April 27 10am
Rehearsal Schedule: we typically rehearse on a Sunday, Tuesday & Thursday rotation.
Dress Rehearsals: April 29, 30 & May 1 & 2.

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2024 Unified Auditions Announced for Cincinnati Fringe Festival

CFF_logoAnnouncing locations and times for the Cincy Fringe Unified Auditions!

Saturday, February 24th from 1-4pm
Innovation Center at First Financial Bank
601 Madison Ave, Covington, KY 41011

Sunday, February 25th from 2-6pm
West Side Brewing
3044 Harrison Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45211

Auditioning Artists will sit down with individual Fringe Producers for 5-minute Speed Pitch Sessions in which Producers pitch their project and Artists pitch themselves. Artists are invited to have a monologue or a song at the ready, but the most important thing to bring is YOUR VIBE.

A scheduling sign-up form as well as available roles and their breakdowns will be available by February 12th. Mark your calendar, update your resume and headshot, and get ready to dive into Cincinnati’s Summer Theatre Party: May 31-June 15!

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Auditions Announced for EM’S STORY at Lebanon Theatre Company

LTC_logoLTC is holding auditions for EM’S STORY at our theatre at 10 S. Mechanic St. on:

  • Saturday, Feb 10 from 2pm – 5:30pm
  • Sunday, Feb 11 from 6pm-8:30pm

The audition will consist of cold reads. There is no need to prepare audition material.

Please bring in a photo of yourself to submit with the Audition Form that is filled out at auditions. This does not need to be a professional headshot or even printed on photo paper, this is simply to help the director to pair names with faces.

Questions? Reach out to the director at beccashelley11@gmail.com.

Play Information:

EM’S STORY follows a girl who is smart, active and engaged in her community as she develops a disability and her life changes both slowly and all at once. This piece abstracts both time and space, compelling the audience to experience the story as Em does while grappling with chronic pain, brain fog, fatigue, and other symptoms while finding her own identity.

The themes of the play include: disability, chronic illness, coming of age, family, spiritual abuse, medical neglect.

Interested in digging deeper? Read the script here or at New Play Exchange.

Please note that there is wiggle room with the explicit language in the play. If you are uncomfortable with the explicit language spoken by a character you are auditioning for, please still consider auditioning and speak with the director before or during auditions.

Character Breakdown:

Em / 18 / Female
Em does not leave the stage for the duration of the play, illustrating her endurance and strength while managing college admissions, friendship tensions, overbearing parents, spiritual manipulation, onset of chronic illness, and medical neglect.

Mom / 40’s-50’s / Female
Mom struggles to recognize that Em is no longer a child, and her support of Em can often be in the form of smothering. Her love and support is there, but without recognition of Em’s strength and independence, it creates tension.

Dad / 40’s-50’s / Male
Dad wants what’s best for Em and has decided what he believes is the best path for her and believes that straying from that path will put her into harm’s way. Due to this, he struggles to recognize the shift’s in Em’s journey and to accept that pushing his plan for her is creating a rift.

Music Teacher Guy & Karate Guy / 20’s-40’s / “Guy”
This role is intentionally double cast. These are adults in Em’s life who are fully in her corner. Music Teacher Guy is collected and focused; Karate Guy chaotic and full of life. Both support Em regardless of her current path in life.

Ensemble / All ages 18+ / Any Gender
A 3-4 person ensemble plays 17 characters such as nurses, doctors, Em’s friends, Young-but-Balding Youth Pastor and his Wife, Youth Group Kids, Karate Students, and are in the movement scenes. This role requires actors that are quickly able to establish and switch between distinct characters in order to bring Em’s world alive and propel the story forward. Specific ensemble tracks will be assigned upon casting

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