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Auditions Announced for I LOVE YOU BECAUSE at Middletown Lyric Theatre

MLT_logoTue, July 9th from 7-8:30pm

Middletown Lyric Theatre
1530 Central Ave, Middletown, Ohio 45044

Based on Jane Austen’s novel of love and heartache, Pride and Prejudice, this tune filled, modern day musical follows the path of four lovelorn and love-lost young professionals, friends and siblings in New York City. Along with a couple other eccentric characters find out what it is to fall in love with someone not in spite of their faults but because of them.

AUDITION REQUESTS:

  • Please prepare an up-tempo and a ballad – (please keep your songs under 5 minutes.)
  • Please have your music cut for our accompanist
  • Please choose music that shows a wide range of your vocal abilities
  • You will be ask to do cold-readings from the script

REHEARSAL INFORMATION:

  • First Rehearsal: SUNDAY August 4th. We will rehearse 3 – 4 times a week. Days may include Saturday and Sundays. Full rehearsal schedule determined when show is cast.
  • IMPORTANT DATES – Outside of the rehearsal schedule you MUST be conflict free the following dates. If you are not please do not audition.
    September 3 – 14 & September 19 – 21 – evenings
    September 7 – All day tech rehearsal
  • Actual Performances: September 13, 14, 20 & 21 – (There will be a matinee on one of the Saturday’s)

CHARACTERS – If you look under 40 please feel free to audition. ALL ethnicities

  • Austin (Lead): Male, 25-35
    straight-laced, romantic, conservative, methodical, greeting card writer who is very devoted to his ex-girlfriend and desperately wants her back (tenor to A).
  • Marcy (Lead): Female, 25-35
    free-spirited, evolving, fun-loving, and eccentric photographer who is more than willing to help Austin get his ex-girlfriend back as he is her perfect Mr. Wrong (soprano, strong mix to F, belt to D).
  • Jeff (Lead): Male, 25-35
    quirky, not always the best with words, no-strings-attached, older brother to Austin; wants to help him rebound quickly from the breakup and in the meantime, he is perfectly content to have a friendship with benefits (baritone to G).
  • Diana (Lead): Female, 25-35
    intelligent, no-nonsense, by-the-numbers, best friend and roommate to Marcy, she encourages Marcy to find her Mr. Wrong so that she can then be with her Mr. Right; she will happily have a friendship with benefits with Jeff (alto to D).
  • NYC Woman (Supporting): 25-40
    plays multiple characters and must be comfortable with improvisation, movement, and have excellent comedic timing (mezzo soprano).
  • NYC Man: Male, 25-40
    plays multiple characters and must be comfortable with improvisation, movement, and have excellent comedic timing (bari-tenor).

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2019-2020 Season Announced by Middletown Lyric Theatre

MLT_logoMiddletown Lyric Theatre announces its 41st Season: The Season of Love.

September
I LOVE YOU BECAUSE – A New Musical

November
ANDRE’S MOTHER & MOTHERS & SONS

December
THE GIFT’S OF THE MAGI

March
TWELFTH NIGHT

May
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

June
IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN YOU

For more information visit www.middletownlyric.org.

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THE LOMAN FAMILY PICNIC Runs June 7-15

MLT_Loman Family Picnic logoTHE LOMAN FAMILY PICNIC
Middletown Lyric Theatre
June 7-15
[Middletown]

Directed by Charley Shafor

Cast: Claire LaNicca, Sally Fint, Avi Gilbert, Michael Schlotterbeck & Jack Sweeten

The setting is a new “luxury” high-rise apartment with Spanish décor in Coney Island, the home of a middle-class Jewish family struggling to put up a good front even though continually short of cash. The father, Herbie, who sells lighting fixtures, is chronically overworked and underpaid; his wife, Doris, tells herself (and whomever may be listening) that she loves her life—even though, as the play begins, she is shredding her wedding dress to make a Halloween costume; their older son, Stewie, eagerly awaits his bar mitzvah with an eye less on its religious aspects than on the potential loot to be gained in gifts; and the youngest son, Mitchell, is absorbed in writing a musical version of Death of a Salesman (entitled Willy!)

  • Fri-Sat, June 7-8 at 8pm
  • Fri, June 14 at 8pm
  • Sat, June 15 at 3pm & 8pm

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Actor Needed for THE LOMAN FAMILY PICNIC at Middletown Lyric Theatre

MLT_logoMiddletown Lyric Theatre is in need of two male actors for THE LOMAN FAMILY PICNIC by Donald Margulies.

Herbie Loman (mid to upper 30s or at least look like you can pull that age off) – a lighting fixtures salesman who is chronically overworked and underpaid.

Rehearsals begin May 6th.  Production is June 7, 8, 14 & 15

Contact Charley at cshafor@middletownlyric.org  or 513-425-7140 to schedule an audition

Synopsis: The home of a middle-class Jewish family struggling to put up a good front even though continually short of cash. The father, Herbie, who sells lighting fixtures, is chronically overworked and underpaid; his wife, Doris, tells herself (and whomever may be listening) that she loves her life—even though, as the play begins, she is shredding her wedding dress to make a Halloween costume; their older son, Stewie, eagerly awaits his bar mitzvah with an eye less on its religious aspects than on the potential loot to be gained in gifts; and the youngest son, Mitchell, is absorbed in writing a musical version of Death of a Salesman (entitled Willy!) for his class at school. While they all strive to present an appearance of contentment and closeness, the family is beset by underlying tensions which burst forth when Herbie seizes his son’s bar mitzvah money and, after an unseemly confrontation with everyone about how the bills for the celebration should be paid.

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FIX ME, JESUS Runs April 5-13

MLT_Fix Me Jesus logoFIX ME, JESUS
Middletown Lyric Theatre
April 5-13
[Middletown]

Directed by Charley Shafor

Cast: Betty Coulter as Grandmother, Melodie LaNicca as Mrs. Craig, Megan Rehberg as Annabell, Jef Smith as Dr. Maxwell Feld, Emma Sweeten as Young Annabell & Amanda West as Mother

In a Dallas Texas, Neiman Marcus changing room, on the most important day of her life, Annabelle Armstrong frantically searches for the perfect dress. A rising star in the Texas Democratic Party, Annabelle is trapped in the Reagan eighties. Her political career, love affair, finances, and family relations are in crisis; and strong-minded characters from her past begin to appear from behind the changing room mirror. FIX ME, JESUS is a dark comedy—the hilarious, timely, and poignant story of a woman who finds herself at the epicenter of history and politics, struggling for personal independence and social justice against the lifelong theft of her own power. This production contains adult language.

  • Fri-Sat, April 5-6 at 8pm
  • Fri, April 12 at 8pm
  • Sat, April 13 at 3pm & 8pm

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