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• Sunday, January 11 (1:00-5:00 pm)
• Monday, January 12 (6:30-9:00 pm)

Call-backs, if needed will be Tuesday, January 13 (6:30-9:00 pm).

If you cannot attend in person but would still like to submit don’t hesitate to send in a virtual audition to Director Ellis Quinne (Ellisquinne27@gmail.com) or Producer Jane Culp (janie.culp13@gmail.com).

Performances will be held at Lockland High School – April 17, 18, 19 and 23, 24, 25.

To secure an audition time, please sign up here:

https://www.signupgenius.com/…/20F0E45A9AC2FA3FC1…

Walk-ins will also be accepted – However, preference will be given to auditionees that register in advance.

Auditions will consist of : A Prepared comedic monologue that is around one minute long. Show us your comedic chops! We also ask that you bring a song in the style of the show (16-32 bars). There will be an accompanist at the audition. Please provide your own sheet music for your song. There will also be a dance call with our choreographer. A video will be posted to our website if you’d like to learn the dance in advance.

Cast of Characters:

No roles have been pre-cast. We are seeking to assemble a very diverse cast of individuals. Since this show takes place in a land before time every role will be cast everything blind. Any gender identity/race/age/ability can audition for any role. This story takes place before any social constructs exist yet. We are willing to adjust vocal ranges to accommodate the actors cast.

Jamila – Vocal Range: Mezzo-Soprano (F3-D5) Jamila The Peacemaker is the calm level headed leader of the tribe. Charismatic, Confident, protective, and motherly, but a little arrogant and stuck in past ways.

Zazzalil – Vocal Range: Mezzo-Soprano (G3-D5) The tribe’s scapegoat. Blamed very everything bad that happens. A Creative and innovative, but lazy inventor. Revolutionary thinker, but doesn’t always consider the consequences of their actions.

Molag – Vocal Range: Non Singing Role. Molag The War Master. The tribe’s former leader who has passed on the role to Jemilla, and is now walking the Earth while serving as our comic narrator. We still want this character to be comedic but also a villain in this story. A comparison that I often make is Frank from Shameless if you’ve ever seen that show.

Emberly- Mezzo-Soprano (G3-D5) Emberly takes their role as tribe taste-tester VERY seriously. Becoming the world’s first sort of chef. Analytical, cautious but curious to learn or experience new things. Her love story with Grunt serves as the B plot to this story.

Grunt – Vocal Range: High Baritone (C3-F4) An Outsider to the tribe.

Timid and sensitive, wants to feel included and tries hard to do so despite failures. They invent painting and shares this passion with Emberly.

Chorn – Vocal Range: Alto or high baritone (G3-E5) Sings in an “Enya type voice” at the end of the show. The odd one of the tribe. Their vocabulary is seemingly limited. They do attempt to communicate to the tribe despite this to a varying degree of success. In the end it is revealed that they are an ethereal alien that was sent down to monitor and aid the progression on human life.

Keeri – Vocal Range: Mezzo-soprano (A3-C5) The tribe’s head gatherer and Zazzalil’s supportive Best Friend. Not too bright, but kind and empathetic. Very bubbly. She invents dancing.

Schwoopsie – Vocal Range: Mezzo-Soprano (A3-D5) The tribe entertainer who invents the first joke and keeps her tribe in stitches. Turning their own name into their own catchphrase.

Ducker – High Baritone (A2-F4) The official religous leader and mouth piece of the all mighty duck the tribe worships. Uses position in the tribe for his own gain. Self-serving, opportunistic and privileged.

Tiblyn – Vocal Range: Mezzo-Soprano (B3-D5) Loyal and dedicated to the tribe and their task. Holding up the sky. Absolutely crushed to find out the sky is holding itself up just fine. A hopeless romantic. Innocent, yet determined.

Smelly-Balls – Vocal Range: High baritone (A2-F4) Fancies himself the protector of the tribe. Not so bright. When it comes to bravery, all bark and no bite. The first to step up to the plate despite rarely ever hitting the ball.

CenterStage Players, Inc. announces auditions for the premiere  of TRANSORBITAL by Nathan Singer, adapted from his novel of the same name.

Directed by Tom Peters and Produced by Fred Hunt

TRANSORBITAL is historical fiction that follows the exploits of superstar lobotomist Dr. Walter Freeman. With his trusty ice pick in hand and his loyal—though erratic—sidekick, The Kid, riding shotgun, Freeman drives his Lobotomobile coast to coast across post-war America, determined to save the country from its own troubled mind. With messianic fervor, an evangelist’s sense of righteousness, and a jazzman’s gift for improvisation (and showmanship), Doc Freeman is quickly gaining converts, and notoriety. All is going just well, until a number of Freeman’s former protégés start turning up dead.
Creepy, grimy, and darkly humorous, Transorbital is an off-kilter twist on the old pulp whodunit.

Auditions will be held at the Arts Center at Dunham, 1945 Dunham Way, Cincinnati, OH 45238

• Saturday, August 23, 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. and
• Tuesday, August 26, 7:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m.

Call-backs, if needed are TBA

Performances will be held at 1425 Sycamore St, Cincinnati, OH 45202 – Feb 20, 21, 22, 26, 27 & 28

Please sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0A4EADA829A13-57877344-transorbital

Walk-ins will also be accepted – However, preference will be given to auditionees that sign up in advance.

Auditions will consist of readings from the script. Audition sides may be requested in advance by emailing the Director (Tom Peters – sloanpeters@hotmail.com) or Producer (Fred Hunt – nwlsdhunt@fuse.net).

Setting:

ACT I – 1948–1955
ACT II – 1968

Cast of Characters:

• Dr. Walter Freeman, a doctor specializing in lobotomies – mid 50’s, then early 70’s
• The Kid, Freeman’s assistant and later an orderly – early 20’s, then late 30’s
• Irina, a Russian sex worker and later a socialite – late teens, then late 30’s
• Eugene O’Dell, a patient of Freeman’s – 30’s, then 50’s
• Gertrude O’Dell, Eugene’s wife – 30’s, then 50’s
• Chris Williams, a doctor and follower of Freeman’s methods – 20’s, then 40’s
• Doc Hollow – 32
• Cops, Doctors and Transorbitals