RoundTown Players announces auditions for Bell, Book and Candle….A Bewitching Comedy By John van Druten on Sunday, August 1 at 7:00p and Monday, August 2 at 7:30pm at 165 1/2 East Main St. in Circleville.
Call 740-474-5856 or head to http://roundtownplayers.com/ Questions of Director Call Susan Perkins 740-477-3300
Phil Garrett through OSU/ACCAD announces auditions for “Talk To Me Like The Rain And Let Me Listen” by Tennessee Williams on Wednesday, July 21 & Thursday, July 22 at 7:00pm.
Auditions will be held at the Drake Performance and Event Center at OSU; 1849 Cannon Dr., Columbus ROOM 101 **Due to construction, enter Cannon Dr. from the NORTH, off Woody Hayes Dr.
Phil Garrett will be producing and directing the one-act play “Talk To Me Like The Rain And Let Me Listen” by Tennesee Williams. In a dingy room, somewhere in New York, a man awakens from a drunken slumber and tells a woman what he remembers of the night before. A desperate, dramatic poem, the play explores despair, connection, lost characters and the dream of “splendid isolation, away from all the troubles of life.”
Two roles available: A man, a woman, youthful but ravaged by experience.
Sides from the show will be provided at the auditions.
Performances are set for Thursday, September 16 at 7:00pm, and Friday, September 17 at 7:00pm & 9:30pm
CONTACT: Phil Garrett, garrett.106@osu.edu, 614-315-4036
Little Theatre Off Broadway (LTOB) will NOT be holding auditions for Forever Plaid. Rights have been pulled due to an upcoming national tour.
Little Theatre Off Broadway (LTOB) will instead hold auditions for Schoolhouse Rock Live!on Sunday and Monday, July 25 & 26 at 7:00pm at 3981 Broadway in Grove City.
The script calls for 3 male and 3 female singers.
Please bring 16 prepared bars of vocal music, acting resume and photograph if available. For more information, visit www.ltob.org or call 875-3919 for ticket information or to learn about volunteer opportunities.
Center Stage Players announces auditions for its upcoming production of The Rocky Horror Show
on Saturday August 28, 10:00am-1:00pm with callbacks at 2:00pm-5:00pm that day at AXIS Nightclub & Theatre (775 N High Street Cols OH 43215)
Script Preview - Wednesday August 25 @ 6:30p. at AXIS Nightclub & Theatre (775 N High Street Cols OH 43215). A script preview is an open house to all who are interested in being a part of the show. The director and production staff will be in attendance to talk about their concept for the production, what type of people they are looking for and to answer any questions. If you don’t know anything about the show, this is your chance to get a sneak peek at the script and listen to the score. The Script Preview is optional, but many have found it to be helpful in preparing for the audition. If you are unable to attend but would like to know more about the show, go to wikipedia.org and search the show title. Wikipedia is very helpful in learning about shows. Though walk-in auditioners are welcome, we strongly request that you reserve a specific time for your audition. Do so by emailing eeblin@centerstageplayers.com
All auditioners require an audition song of 16 bars of a song title from the show. A CD player will be provided but please do not plan on singing a capella. Center Stage will have a piano available, but please bring your own accompanist. No pianist available.
More info at http://www.centerstageplayers.com/
CATCO-Phoenix in Columbus, Ohio will hold General Auditions for Non-Equity actors on Sunday August 15, 2010 from 3:00-6:00 PM and for Equity actors on Monday August 16, 2010 from 3:00-6:00 PM for its upcoming 2010-2011 season. The auditions will be held by appointment in the Shedd Theatre at the Columbus Performing Arts Center (549 Franklin Avenue, Columbus Ohio).
The CATCO-Phoenix 2010-2011 season runs from October through June. It will be performed in the 227-seat proscenium Studio One Theatre and the 175 seat thrust Studio Two Theatre in the Vern Riffe Center.
The 2010-2011 Season is as follows (* denotes Non-Equity Phoenix Theatre for Children Production; ** denotes CATCO SPT level 4 production):
The Last Smoker in America**
Book & Lyrics by Bill Russell
Music by Peter Melnick
September 29-October 24, 2010
Studio One, Riffe Center
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow*
By Washington Irving
Adapted by Steven C. Anderson
October 22-31, 2010
Studio Two, Riffe Center
It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play**
Adapted by Joe Landry
November 23-December 12, 2010
Studio One, Riffe Center
Encyclopedia Brown*
By Donald J. Sobol
Adapted by Steven C. Anderson
January 7-16, 2011
Studio One, Riffe Center
I Am My Own Wife**
By Doug Wright
February 2-20, 2011
Studio Two, Riffe Center
Charlotte’s Web*
By E.B. White
Adapted by Joseph Robinette
February 25-March 6, 2011
Studio One, Riffe Center
What The Butler Saw**
By Joe Orton
March 30-April 17, 2011
Studio One, Riffe Center
Souvenir**
By Stephen Temperley
June 1-19, 2011
Studio Two, Riffe Center
In order to be considered, all actors must submit a headshot and resume to:
CATCO-Phoenix
ATTN: General Auditions
77 South High Street, 2nd floor
Columbus, OH 43215
Submissions must be received by 5:00 PM on Friday, August 13th.
Equity and Non-Equity actors may email Associate Artistic Director Joe Bishara at jbishara@catco.org to schedule an audition time.
Actors will have three minutes to audition and may choose to present two contrasting monologues or one piece with considerable range. Singing actors may additionally present 16-32 bars of a Musical Theatre piece. An accompanist will be provided.
The producer will run all aspects of the audition. No monitor will be provided. Actors of all ethnic and racial backgrounds are encouraged to audition. Professional references are encouraged.
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Audition Date/Time/Location:
Sunday, July 25, 2010
6:30 Registration
7:00 Auditions Begin
Location: Curtain Players Theatre, 5691 Harlem Rd, Galena, 43021
Synopsis
Communicating Doors, a time-traveling comedy thriller, is the story of Ms. Poopay Dayseer, a twenty-first century prostitute. While peddling her ’services’ to an elderly hotel room client, she unexpectedly finds herself running for her life. She escapes through a commun…icating door and is brought face to face with her own past and with Ruella who apparently died under suspicious circumstances twenty years earlier. Poopay’s gradual friendship with that remarkable woman changes the future for both of them…
Character List
Julian - Calm and psychotic - Must be able to convincingly play mid 40’s AND mid 60’s
Poopay - Sassy and energetic Prostitute - Late 20’s to Mid 30’s; will be scantily clad
Reece - Well spoken, educated business executive - Must be able to convincingly play mid 30’s AND mid 70’s; there is a possibility of double casting
Ruella - Upper middle-class, intelligent and engaging - Early to mid 40’s
Harold - By the book house detective - Must be able to convincingly play mid 30’s AND mid 50’s
Jessica - Wealthy, confident and charming - Must be able to convincingly play mid 20’s AND mid 40’s; will be scantily clad
Method:
Cold readings from the script.
Rehersals start end of August/Beginning of September.
Performances are October 22, 23, 29, 30 & 31 and Nov 5, 6 & 7.
Registration is now open for Jill Taylor’s summertime acting workshop for Curtain Players.
Where do you begin when given a script? How do you develop a character? How do you begin to “live” a character’s life on stage? How do you listen and react truthfully within the world of the play? If you’re someone who has always wanted to try acting, this is your open door. If you’re an experienced actor, this class will give you new ideas and approaches to add to your current knowledge base.
The workshop will run six Sundays – August 1, 8, 15, 22, September 12 and 19 – from 6 PM to 9 PM at the Harlem Road playhouse.
Cost for the six sessions is $20 for 2009-2010 Curtain Players donors (defined as those who made membership and general gifts and/or annual fund campaign contributions), and $40 for others (which includes a $20 minimum gift to the theatre for the 2010-2011 season). Class size will be limited to no more than 20 people. This is a complete course; participants are expected to attend all six sessions.
TO REGISTER, send name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address, along with payment, to Summer Acting Workshop, Curtain Players, PO Box 1143, Westerville Oh, 43086.
Jill Taylor holds an MFA in Acting from Indiana University. She has acted since she was 12 years old in community theatre, university theatre and professional theatre. She has taught acting, coached and vocal coached. A recent transplant to Ohio from New York City, Jill has been seen on stage at Curtain Players in THE GUYS, at CATCO in MURDERERS, and for Theatre Daedalus in THREE TALL WOMEN. She is always learning and challenging herself in her craft and is looking forward to making discoveries and learning in this workshop setting.
Rosaline (Dale Towarnicky) in Columbus Civic Theater's Love's Labor's Lost
by Danielle Filas
Since its March launch, Columbus Civic Theater’s new space on Indianola Avenue has housed everything from percussive performance art to Sartre’s vision of hell. Add to Columbus Civic’s list of accomplishments the luscious Spanish gardens in the post-WWII rendition of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor’s Lost, which opened this past weekend. One of his earliest plays and one of his most intellectual comedies, Love’s Labor’s Lost smacks more of Moliere than of the Bard, featuring a light-hearted battle of the sexes where the women clearly emerge with the upper hand. It opens with Ferdinand, the King of Navarre (Sean Arata) and his attending lords (Edwyn Williams, Michael Lea, Mark Sypek) swearing off women so as to be able to focus on three years of intense academic study. Predictably, no sooner have they signed the contract when the beautiful Princess of France (Megan Pierce) and her ladies-in-waiting (Dayle Towarnicky, Megan McSweeney, Sonia Bowen) arrive to test the men’s honor. Witty exchanges ensue, sprinkled liberally with subplots involving a Spanish swordsman (Mark Reeves), a snooty school mistress (Melinda Anderson), a saucy wench (Bowen), and the requisite country idiot (Rudy Frias). It’s also one of Shakespeare’s most interesting plays, dodging the usual pat solution of his comedies for a more thought-provoking ending tinged with death and ambiguity.
Ben Gorman directs his cast of fifteen through some of the most poetic and intense wordplay Shakespeare has to offer, guiding each performer to tackle the difficult dialogue with crisp diction and energized articulation. Gorman further compliments the script with dynamic blocking that helps the modern audience to catch the meaning behind the 400 year old jokes and uses every inch of Columbus Civic’s intimate space. Within the solid ensemble (which also includes Azure Stephens as Moth, Richard Neal in multiple roles, Chip Redden as Boyet, and Ken Scott as Sir Nathaniel), Gorman has polished a few standout gems in his production. As one of the France’s ladies, Rosaline, Towarnicky shifts easily from feigned wide-eyed innocence to smirking coolness reminiscent of Claire Trevor, the queen of film noir. Presenting feminine strength of a different sort, Pierce brings warmth and charm to the Princess of France, tempering her character with a surprising (and touching) complexity in the final scene of the play. Edwyn Williams as the King’s right hand man, Berowne, exhibits his formidable acting chops, turning in a high octane and acrobatic performance that sometimes verges on manic. The real scene stealer, however, is Mark Reeves as the lisping, lurching, melancholy Don Adriano de Armando. Part Inigo Montoya, part Jim Carey, Reeves’s lanky form, impossibly white face, and intense brand of comedy bring the biggest belly laughs of the evening- even with a simple, “O!” moaned from off-stage.
Adding to the overall performance, Gorman’s technical crew provides nearly professional production values, starting with the set. The set (designed by Gorman), simply outfitted with a couple of benches and a smartly appointed trellis allows the scenes to flow sensibly from one locale to another without confusing the audience. Jeremiah Caudill’s magnificent mural dominates the set without distracting, adding romance and depth. Anderson’s costumes, some of which could have used fresh pressing, creatively indicate the intended era and fit nicely with the overall vibe of Gorman’s vision.
Unfortunately, clocking in at three hours and fifteen minutes with intermission, the play feels uncomfortably long, even when witnessed from Columbus Civic’s comfy IMAX-style seating… And this is probably a great time for full disclosure: I serve as the artistic director of a Shakespeare company, so I admittedly have my own peculiar ideas about the do’s and do-not’s of navigating Willy’s works. I know firsthand that snipping Shakespeare feels… well… just plain wrong. His absolutely delicious words seem sacred and untouchable. And I also know that bowing to the famously short American attention span feels an awful lot like pandering… and just plain wrong. That being said, Gorman may still have done well to perform more surgery on the play’s 2758 lines so that when King Navarre says, “Come, sir, it wants a twelvemonth and a day,/And then ’twill end,” the audience won’t laugh for the wrong reason at Berowne’s reply, “That’s too long for a play.”
If you have the time, though, Columbus Civic Theater’s Love’s Labor’s Lost is worth the commitment with top-notch acting in a beautiful, pastoral setting. Love’s Labor’s Lost runs through July 24, Thursdays-Saturdays at 8pm at Columbus Civic Theater, 3837 Indianola Dr., Columbus. Tickets are $17.50-$20.00 and can be purchased online or by calling (614) 447-7529.
Danielle Filas serves as a contributing editor to Theatre Vault. She recently moved from Chicago and holds Theatre degrees from Northwestern University and Knox College. You can visit her personal blog by clicking here.
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The all new Rosebriar Shakespeare Theatre (this ain’t your mama’s Shakespeare) will be holding a final audition and call-backs on SUNDAY JULY 11, for their fall production of…
Richard 3D
A Comic Version of Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (with Music!)
Directed by Steve Emerson, Resident Director
Auditions are Sunday July 11th from 1:30 to 4:30
Columbus Metropolitan Library- Main Branch, Children’s Activity Room (first floor)
96 S Grant, Columbus OH
Looking for mostly men. Two minutes of Shakespeare or other monologue plus sing a song or play and instrument. If you reply to this ad you may have an opportunity to be seen before Sunday July 11th so that you can have a chance to look over sides for the final audition. “If you don’t know Rosebriar lately, then you don’t know Rosebriar.”
Rehearsals begin Aug. 28 for mid-Oct 3 weekend run.
Emerald City Players will be holding auditions for:
A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
Director: Tom Skinner
Auditions: Sunday, August 8, 2010 - 7:00 PM
Monday, August 9, 2010 - 7:00 PM
Performances: September 24th - October 9th, 2010
Auditions will be readings from the script.
Bring head shot and Resume.
Auditions will take place at the
Emerald City Theater, 6799 Dublin Center Dr,
in the Dublin Village Shopping Center.
For more information, please visit www.emeraldcityplayers.com or call
614-210-1111.
This production is being sponsored by Dublin Arts Council.