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Middletown Lyric Theatre
1530 Central Avenue
Middletown, Ohio 45042
513-425-7140

AUDITION DATES & TIMES:

• Tuesday August 7th – 7pm – 8:15pm
• Wednesday August 8th – 7pm – 8:15pm

AUDITION REQUIREMENTS:

• Cold Reading form the script

PRODUCTION DATES:

• NOVEMBER 8, 9, 16 at 8:00 pm
• November 17 at 3:00 pm & 8:00 pm

REHEARSAL AND PRODUCTION WEEK COMMITMENT:

• Rehearsals Begin: Early to mid-October
• Production Week: November 4 – 8

CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS:

Ages are reference points if you think you can pull of the recommended age than please auditions.

• Lyman Wyeth (Lead): Male, 50’s – 60’s
  patriarch of the family, a real patrician of Californian royalty. Hollywood “B” actor with some celebrity and political influence, seemingly conservative but with a sense of humor and a deep love and care for his adult children.
• Polly Wyeth (Lead): Female, 50’s – 60’s
  Lyman’s wife. Graceful, funny, and doesn’t suffer fools gladly. Deeply devoted to the preservation of family and all it stands for, and even more, the health of her husband.
• Brooke Wyeth (Lead): Female, late 20’s  – upper 30’s
  Lyman and Polly’s adult daughter. Writer, lives in New York although born in California. Thrives on solitude, coffee shops, intelligent conversation, and being understood. Loves family but also independence.
• Trip Wyeth (Lead): Male, 20’s – lower 30’s
  Brooke’s brother. TV producer. Easy going, takes life as it comes. Loves being around family and, oddly, all its traditions. Devoted to older sister and her health.
• Silda Grauman (Supporting): Female, 50’s – 60’s
  Polly’s sister. Indeterminate age, a former TV writer, definitely from the more Bohemian gene in the family. Impulsive, creative, reckless, fragile, and funny. Rather be living alone but is dependent upon Polly and Lyman for support entirely.

ABOUT THE SHOW:

OTHER DESERT CITIES
by John Robin Baitz

Brooke Wyeth after a six year absence returns home to Palm Springs to celebrate Christmas with her parents, brother, and her aunt. Brooke announces that she is about to publish a memoir dredging up a pivotal and tragic event in the family’s history—a wound they don’t want reopened. In effect, she draws a line in the sand and dares them all to cross it.

Directed by Charley Shafor

Sunday, June 10: 6pm – 8pm
Monday, June 11: 7pm – 8:15pm
Tuesday, June 12: 7pm – 8:15pm
Call Backs as needed

We will be auditioning for all 3 of our musicals. You may audition for one or any combination you like.

Visit http://www.middletownlyric.org/P_Auditions.html for more information on each show and its characters

Audition Requirements:
– 32 Measures of a ballad and up-tempo. Accompanist will be provided
– No acapella auditions or singing from a CD please
– Headshot (if you have one otherwise we will snap a picture at the audition)

Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook
Rehearsals begin August 5
Production week: September 8th – 13th
Production: September 14, 15, 21 & 22, 2018

A Miracle on 34th Street: A Musical Radio Play
Rehearsals begin: October 28
Production week: December 8 – 13
Production: December 14, 15, 21 & 22, 2018

BABY
Rehearsals begin: January 13
Production week: February 23 – 28
Production: March 1, 2, 8 & 9, 2019