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AUDITIONS 2011-2012

Audtion Dates & Times

• New Play Project - Rust to Dust (Staged Reading) August 15 & 16, 2011 @ 6:30pm LCCC Playhouse
• How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying   August 1-3, 2011 @ 6:30pm Mary Godfrey Playhouse
• The Mousetrap  September 26-28, 2011@ 6:30pm Atlas Theatre
• She Loves Me   October 24-26, 2011 @ 6:30pm Mary Godfrey Playhouse
• Messiah on the Frigidaire November 13, 2011: 7pm-9pm @ Atlas Theatre, November 14, 2011: 7pm-9pm @ Atlas Theatre
• Bad Seed  December 10, 2011 @ 1-4pm, December 12-14, 2011 @ 6:30pm Mary Godfrey Playhouse
• The 39 Steps  February 1-3, 2012 @ 6:30pm Atlas Theatre
• Casablanca/Maltese Falcon - Radio Show February 20 & 21, 2012 @ 6:30pm LCCC Playhouse
• Annie Get Your Gun  March 5-7, 2012 @ 7:00pm Mary Godfrey Playhouse
• Spoon River Anthology (Staged Reading) March 26 & 27, 2012 @ 6:30pm LCCC Playhouse

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Auditions for "Messiah on the Frigidaire"

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Auditions for "The Bad Seed"

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The 39 Steps
Directed by Steve Lien

Audition Dates: Feb 1,2 - 6:30 PM at the Historic Atlas Theatre

The director is seeking:

3 Men to play:
Richard Hanay - 25-50 debonair hero of our story, some physical comedy - British Accent
Clowns 1 & 2 - two men who preform several roles apiece, including female roles - lots of physical comedy, quick changes and accents - British, Scottish, others as needed

1 Woman to play:
Annabella/Margaret/Pamela - 3 women in Hanay's life - Annabella the Femme Fatale, German accent - Margaret, The highlands beauty - Scottish Accent - and Pamela the proper English woman - British Accent

2 Men, 2 Women:
Stage Crew - Crew members will be onstage a majority of the time and will be an integral part of the show, assisting with moving props, quick changes and participating in the action themselves - Physical comedy, able to move quickly and efficiently and lift some objects

This show involves quite a bit of physical comedy and actors should be prepared for such.

Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script.

“She Loves Me” Auditions
Music by Jerry Bock
Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
Book by Joe Masteroff

Production Team:

Director-----Dr. Randy Bernhard
Assistant Director/Stage Manager-----Joe Batson
Music Director-----David Kramer
Choreographer-----Russell Rose
Set Designer-----Virginia Jimenez
Technical Director-----Craig Schulz
Lighting Designer-------Steve Lien
Scenic Artist-----Paula Egan-Wright
Props Mistress-----Shawn Casey, Sharry Arneson 
Costumer Designer-----Chloe King
Accompanist-----Jill LaPing

Audition Dates: October 24 &25 @ 6:30 pm, Mary Godfrey Playhouse
Callbacks: October 26 @ 6:30 pm, Mary Godfrey Playhouse

Performances:  December 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18
                                Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:30 pm/Sundays at 2:00 pm
                                Mary Godfrey Playhouse

Rehearsals:  First Read-through will be held October 27 @ 6:30 pm, Mary Godfrey Playhouse
Regular Rehearsals will begin on Tuesday, November 1 @ 6:30 pm.  Normally rehearsals will run Monday-Friday, 6:30 pm – 9:00-9:30 pm.  Tech/Dress Rehearsals may start earlier and end later.

The cast & production crew will be expected to assist with work calls that will normally take place on Saturday mornings.

Audition Requirements:

• Please prepare 16-24 bars  of song appropriate to the style of the show and to the character you are auditioning for.  An accompanist will be provided, but you may also use an accompaniment CD (boom box will be provided).  Please avoid singing without accompaniment.
• Those auditioning will be asked to read select scenes from the script.  Check-out scripts will be available for reading two weeks in advance of auditions.
• The choreographer will also teach those auditioning a short movement sequence.  So please dress appropriately for movement.
• If you are selected to attend callbacks, you may be asked to learn and sing a portion of a song from the show.

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Character Descriptions:

Amalia Balash (Soprano to b, 25-45):  Attractive, personable, but a tad shy.  A little too sharp for her own good?  A dreamer with the ability to take charge.
Georg Nowack (Baritone, 25-45):  Soft-spoken, well-read, personable, and strong.  Why hasn’t he settled down yet?   A respected colleague and citizen.
Ilona Ritter (Mezzo-Soprano, 35-45):  A woman experienced in both life and men.  Is it time to find Mr. Right?  A bit weary, but enjoys the mentor role.
Steven Kodaly (High baritone/tenor to g, 35-50): A handsome ladies’ man.  A womanizer with the charm to stay out of trouble.  Is there an insecurity below the veneer? 
Ladislav Sipos (Baritone, 40+): Family man stuck in a dull existence.  Very agreeable, but is he hiding something?  A friend to all.
Mr. Maraczek (Baritone, 50+): Owner of the parfumerie.   A disciplined businessman.  A stubborn perfectionist who runs a tight shop.  What is his personal life lacking?
Arpad Laszlo (Tenor, 16-25): Bright young delivery boy.  Ambitious and studious.  Does he have a confidant?
Waiter (Tenor, 25+): Proud man with a singular goal.
Busboy/Ensemble (Dancer 18+):  A dancer at a romantic restaurant.
Mr. Keller/Ensemble (25+):  a private investigator with an important secret.
Ensemble: Five women and four men.   Customers and patrons of Maraczek’s Parfumerie and Café Imperiale.  This is a wonderful opportunity to be part of a small ensemble that demands strong character work, vocal ability, and movement.
Total Cast--17

About She Loves Me:

Maraczek's Parfumerie is the setting for this romantic musical about the many entanglements of love. Georg Nowack and his co-workers lead quiet, uneventful lives as sales assistants in a little boutique in Budapest.   Enter Amalia Balash to change all that.   Amalia is hired as a clerk and tensions begin to mount inside the store.   Georg and Amalia feud even as they carry on a secret correspondence via letters addressed to “Dear Friend.”   Will they discover the identity of “Dear Friend?”   Will they realize their feelings for each other before it is too late?  Why has Maraczek turned on the son he never had? (Georg).

The musical is the fifth adaptation of the play Parfumerie by Hungarian playwright Miklos Laszlo, following the 1940 James Stewart-Margaret Sullivan film The Shop around the Corner and the 1949 Judy Garland-Van Johnson musical version In the Good Old Summertime. It would surface yet again in 1998 as the Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan feature You've Got Mail.   

Contact the director at rbernhard@cheyennelittletheatre.org  if you have any questions about the show or the audition process. Please be sure to list all conflicts on audition forms. 

ANNOUNCING SHADOW CAST AUDITIONS

ZOMBIE AUDITIONS!!!

We will be holding auditions for 4-5 lead zombies and one “zombie defense trainer” and 6-8 victims for Zombiefest 2011. Men and women over the age of 18 can audition for lead zombies or trainers, 16 and over for victims. Auditions will be held on Tuesday, September 6th at the Historic Atlas Theatre. Auditioners for zombies will be asked to do a 60 second improve as their best zombie and interact with potential victims and trainers. Trainers will do a short read from the script. Victims will also interact and improv a zombie attack.

THE MOUSETRAP
By Agatha Christie

Directed by Keith Neville

Auditions to be held at the Historic Atlas Theatre

Monday 26, and Tuesday 27 September 2011 starting at 6.30 p.m.
with call backs on Wednesday 28 September starting at 6.30 p.m.

Welcome to the world of Agatha Christie, the Dame of Thriller writers.

As a guest director for the CLTP, just a few words about myself as way of an introduction. I am a British director originally from Dulwich South London but now residing in Sevenoaks Kent. I trained in Stage Management at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama and I have directed over 70 plays, musicals and operas in London, Kent and Surrey. I approach each play or show as an adventure and although I have a duty to the audience to present the best show possible, I also have a duty to the cast and company to create a happy and enjoyable working atmosphere. I work very hard on the text of a play and I am a great believer in helping to create chemistry between actors. A happy and united team is a successful team. It is a great privilege to come to Cheyenne and I am looking forward to seeing you at the audition.

Regarding The Mousetrap - this thrilling classic play opened at the Ambassadors Theatre London on 25 November 1952 and is still entertaining audiences in London’s West End after nearly 59 years, therefore making it the longest running play in theatrical history.

This skilfully written murder mystery takes place in an English Manor, now converted into a guest house in rural Berkshire, not too far from London. The period is the early 1950’s and a snow storm has cut off the guests from the outside world. The proprietors, who have just opened the guest house, have assembled a wonderful assortment of strange and bizarre guests who are brought together into “a mousetrap” with no means of escape.  A Police Sergeant manages to ski to the guest house in time to warn them that a murderer, who has committed a ghastly crime in London, has arrived at the Guest House where another murder is imminent.

One of the guests is brutally strangled. One of the assembled persons at the house is the murderer. Who is it and why have they committed their crime? Who will be the next intended victim?

The secret is revealed at the end of the play and the cast request the audience  not to reveal the culprit to other theatre goers. This is a tradition that takes place nightly at the London production and it will be the case in Cheyenne.

The play has great suspense and humour and depicts that style of British theatre which is no longer to be seen in the West End or even in  the Provinces except at the St Martin’s Theatre London where The Mousetrap transferred without breaking it’s run in 1974.

The wonderful cast of characters are all splendid Agatha Christie creations:

Mollie Ralston – newly married and determined to make her guest house enterprise work. Middle to late 20’s. A pleasant young woman but not very confident.

Giles Ralston – slightly priggish and arrogant husband of Mollie. Slightly older than his newly married wife. There is an air of mystery about him.

Christopher Wren – a young man who is eccentric and very foppish. Spirited and highly strung he brings a lot of humour to the play.

Mrs Boyle – what in England is often called “an old battle axe”. Sharp, humourless and bad tempered. Never satisfied. Middle aged 50+

Major Metcalf -  a British retired army man probably  from the British Raj in India. Impeccable manners. Mature 60+ could be younger.

Miss Casewell – an outspoken young woman with  “ a slightly masculine appearance”. Probably has short hair and wears trousers and sweater. Mid 20’s.

Mr Paravicini – A continental gentlemen, probably Italian. Roguish, charming and very mysterious. The Unexpected Guest. Mature 40+

Detective Sergeant Trotter -  the policeman who arrives on skis. He has a working class London accent. Mid 20’s

Apart from Mr Paravicini all the characters are English and speak with middle class accents with the exception being the Police Sergeant, who has a slight  cockney London accent.

Please don’t worry about the accents as we will work on these and I am not expecting a polished accent at the auditions, just a willingness to work at it during rehearsals. (You haven’t heard my rendition of an American accent!)

The auditions will be relaxed and informal, where we will have groups of people reading together and perhaps improvising some moves and actions as time permits. I only have one requirement – we must have a tea break!

Keith Neville.

Please note: I am travelling to the United States on 4 September and I will arrive in Cheyenne on Sunday 25 September. If you have any questions or need any further guidance please write to me keith.neville@tiscali.co.uk  before 3 September or please contact the Assistant Director John Lyttle after that date.

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Directed by Nick Panopoulos

Audition Information

Aug 1st & 2nd @ 6:30 PM
At the Mary Godfrey Playhouse

Auditions will consist of
          A singing audition

• Be prepared to sing a maximum of 32 bars of any song from a musical, either this show or a similar style or period show. (No rock or contemporary songs) Be prepared to sing with accompaniment. 
• Bring sheet music to give the piano player or have an accompaniment CD ready.
• Please, instrumental CDs only with no vocals.
• No Accapella. If you are not prepared you will be asked to sing a simple song with the piano.

          Cold Readings

• Be prepared to read scenes from the script.

            A Dance Audition

• Either wear or bring clothes you feel comfortable moving in. The Choreographer will teach a short dance routine.
• Do not wear flip-flops. Do not dance bare-foot. Flats or character shoes are recommended for this portion of the audition.

The script calls for 18M, 8F plus Chorus. The director will consider casting people in multiple roles. Actors will be considered for any and all characters within their age range, unless they specify otherwise.

Main Roles Include:

Cheyenne Little Theatre announces auditions for "Rust to Dust" by John Remington, Winner of the 3rd Annual New Play Project

Directed by Jason Pasqua
This show will be presented at the LCCC Playhouse, as part of this year's Staged Reading Series.

Auditions: Aug 15, 16 @ 6:30 PM
Location: LCCC Playhouse
Seeking: 2 M, 1 F, Various Apparitions of Any Gender
Be prepared for cold readings from the script

ANNOUNCING AUDITIONS FOR THE 2011 OLD-FASHIONED MELODRAMA
“DIRTY DEEDS AT THE DEPOT or PROFESSOR MACK’S MIRACLE ELIXIR OF LIFE or
“JUSTIN TYME TO SAVE THE DAY”

Directed By Barbara Jalonen

Note: Open auditions for the 2011 Old Fashioned Melodrama have been extended to May 25th and 26th at 6:30pm at the Atlas Theater. Those who have not yet auditioned are invited to join us. Thanks to those many talented individuals who have already auditioned. We are looking forward to a fabulous season! We appreciate your patience while we continue to audition for those roles that are still open. Final Cast lists will be posted by Friday at Noon.

Olio and dance auditions will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, May 25th and 26th at the Atlas at 6:30 pm. Please join us!

Auditions will take place Monday, May 23rd - Thursday, May 26th, 2011; 6:30 pm each evening, Historic Atlas Theatre. May 23-24 auditions are for the melodrama characters and will consist of cold readings from the script. May 25-26 auditions are for the olio acts. Those interested in auditioning for can-can girls and can-can cuties will audition on May 25-26. Those interested in auditioning for the Master of Ceremonies, Card Girl and Sheriff parts for the first time need to attend the auditions on May 25-26. If you have performed as an M.C., Card Girl or Sheriff before, please drop by any of the four nights of auditions and fill out an audition form so we have your contact information.

CAST OF CHARACTERS (Age ranges are open)

Justin Tyme - our noble hero, who is the new stationmaster for Cheyenne’s Union Pacific Depot and the childhood sweetheart of Lacie Camisole

Lacie Camisole - sweet as the scent of sage and lovely as a Wyoming breeze, this innocent beauty is betrothed to marry Dusty Rhodes, but in love with Justin Tyme

Professor Thaddeus Mack - the dastardly deviant who thwarts the desires of all good upstanding people in the new state of Wyoming

Claire Voyant - an old friend of the lovely Lacie Camisole and a traveling soothsayer from Madam Zorinda’s Circus

Duncan Disorderly - sidekick to Professor Mack and half-brother to Helen Highwater

Helen Highwater - the local school marm and best friend of Lacie Camisole

Dusty Rhodes - selected by Lacie’s father to be her new husband

Gerry Mander - Wyoming state judge, mayor of Cheyenne, law enforcement officer, telegraph operator, and a leading proponent of equality in the new state of Wyoming. This character needs to be a mature age and can be either male or female.

Are there some plays or musicals you'd like to see the Cheyenne Little Theatre Players produce in an upcoming season? Let us know by emailing your suggestions to cltpinfo@cheyennelittletheatre.org. We'll certainly put them on our "list to consider". If you have experience directing and are interested in directing one or more of the shows you suggest, please indicate that.

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