AUDITIONS
Auditions for the Miracle Players Spring Production of the Lerner and Lowe musical "Camelot" will be held on Sunday, February 12th 2-5:00pm and Monday, February 13th 7-9 pm at St. Gabriel Church Hall in John Paul Regional School 6946 Dogwood Road, Woodlawn, MD 21244. Production dates are May 5, 6, 7, 12, 13and 14. All parts are open except for Sir Lancelot and Guinevere. For more information contact Heidi Toll 410-233-5178.
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LAUREL MILL PLAYHOUSE AUDITIONS
Last Night at Ballyhoo-Feb. 7, 8, and 9
The Laurel Mill Playhouse, 508 Main St. Laurel, Md. will hold auditions for three male and four female roles on Tues. and Wed., Feb. 7 & 8 at 7:30 p.m. with possible callbacks on Thurs., Feb. 9, for The Last Night at Ballyhoo by Alfred Uhry. Director Sherry Barber has requested that auditioning actors come prepared with a one-minute contemporary monologue and a joke, and that they have already read this comedy/drama.
The Last Night of Ballyhoo takes place in Atlanta, Georgia, in December of 1939. Gone
with the Wind is having its world premiere, and Hitler is invading Poland, but Atlanta's elitist German Jews are much more concerned with who is going to Ballyhoo, the social event of the season. Especially concerned is the Freitag family: bachelor Adolph, his widowed sister, Beulah (Boo) Levy, and their also widowed sister-in-law, Reba. Boo is determined to have her dreamy, unpopular daughter, Lala, attend Ballyhoo, believing it will be Lala's last chance to find a socially acceptable husband. Adolph brings his new assistant, Joe Farkas, home for dinner. Joe is Brooklyn born and bred, and furthermore is of Eastern European heritage-several social rungs below the Freitags, in Beulah's opinion. Lala, however, is charmed by Joe and she hints broadly about being taken to Ballyhoo, but he turns her down. This enrages Boo, and matters get worse when Joe falls for Lala's cousin, Reba's daughter, Sunny, home from Wellesley for Christmas vacation. Will Boo succeed in snaring Peachy Weil, a member of one of the finest Jewish families in the South? Will Sunny and Joe avoid the land mines of prejudice that stand in their way? Will Lala ever get to Ballyhoo? The family gets pulled apart and then mended together with plenty of comedy, romance and revelations along the way. Events take several unexpected turns as the characters face where they come from and are forced to deal with who they really are.
Winner of the 1997 Tony Award for Best Play and produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, The Last Night at Ballyhoo will run Mar. 31 thru Apr. 29 on Fri. and Sat. nights with Sun. matinees on Apr. 9 & 16. For more information, please call 301-617-9906, email lmp@laurelmillplayhouse.org , or visit www.laurelmillplayhouse.org ,
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***Auditions***
Oldfields School is holding auditions for Once Upon a Mattress February 7 th at 7:00 p.m.
**Call Backs will be held on February 9 th at 7:00 P.M. **
Production Dates: April 20-23
Rehearsals begin February 20 th
Seeking male actors (high school age) to fill the following roles:
Prince Dauntless : A handsome, young prince who desperately wants to get married, but is prevented by his mother's strict tests that she gives to all potential candidates.
Part Size: Lead Voice Part: Baritone Dancing: Light
Sir Harry : Desperately searching for a wife for Prince Dauntless. Harry cannot marry Lady Larken until Prince Dauntless has found a suitable bride. He is a powerful knight.
Part Size: Supporting Voice Part: Tenor Dancing: Light
Jester : Your standard court jester. He admires his father who was a performer .
Part Size: Supporting Voice Part: Tenor Dancing: Medium
Minstrel : The narrator of the story. He admires the Wizard very much.
Part Size: Supporting Voice Part: Tenor Dancing: Medium
Oldfields School
1 500 Glencoe Road
Glencoe , MD 21152
For more information, please contact Christina Enoch, Drama Director, by phone at 443-662-1109 or by e-mail at EnochC@OldfieldsSchool.org
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OPPORTUNITIES
LIGHT AND SOUND BOARD OPERATOR
PAID POSITION at Performance Workshop Theatre.
We are interviewing now for our production of
THE WELL OF THE SAINTS by John Millington Synge,
which will open on April 21st
Tech week begins Saturday, April 15th through April 20th.
The production will run from April 21st through May 21st,
Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday matinees. There
are Thursday evening bridge rehearsals each performance week.
All rehearsals and performances at our Theatre in Baltimore,
at 28 East Ostend Street (the corner of Ostend and Patapsco Streets),
located near the Cross Street Market in Federal Hill.
Please contact the theatre by telephone: 410-659-7830 or
e-mail by visiting our website: http://performanceworkshoptheatre.org
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Men Needed for RotM Production of Icarus
The Run of the Mill Theater Co. is looking for 2 men for their upcoming production of Icarus by Edwin Sanchez, directed by RotM Artistic Director James Knipple. The show runs March 24-April 9.
Rehearsals start immediately. Needed are one male, age range 20-30, preferably thin and African American (though any ethnicity is fine), as well as one male, age range late 20s-30s, any ethnicity, but must be good looking. Please email runofthemilltheater@gmail.com if you are interested. If possible, please attach a headshot and/or resume to the email.
Icarus looks at the relationship between a disfigured woman, her sickly brother, and a mysterious masked man. Like the Greek myth from which the play takes its name, Sanchez' play is about super-charged dreamers whose wax wings melt when they fly too close to the sun.
Actors and actresses of all ages, ethnicities, and types are encouraged to audition. A small stipend will be provided to those cast. For more information about RotM, please visit www.runofthemilltheater.org , or email runofthemilltheater@gmail.com.
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MARKETING and DEVELOPMENT INTERN POSITION
MARKETING and DEVELOPMENT INTERN will work with Executive Director and Marketing and Development Team from the Board of Directors to develop and implement at MARKETING PLAN for the theatre as an entity and for other programs and each production throughout the season. INTERN will also work to develop a Fund Raising Campaign that utilizes private giving, public and private foundations, and corporate donations. INTERN will work identify local business for partnerships with the theatre, as well as secure corporate sponsorships for various programs and productions.
INTERN may also work with a local PR firm to develop campaign.
INTERN will work closely with GRANT WRITER to secure grant funding for programs.
Possibility of position evolving into a paid(stipend) position dependent upon success of development campaign.
THIS IS A NON-PAID INTERNSHIP.
Send a cover letter and resume to
FUZZ Roark, Executive Director
Audrey Herman SPOTLIGHTERS Theatre
817 Saint Paul Street
Baltimore , MD 21202-2472
FAX: 410-366-5434 or email to FUZZ@spotlighters.org
GRANT WRITER INTERNSHIP POSITION
The GRANT WRITER INTERN will be responsible for researching and identifying possible Funding Sources for the theatre and it's various programs. INTERN will make contact with Funding Source and follow up with Letter of Intent, and FULL Grant Proposal.
Expectation of six to eight grants for a total of $25,000. The INTERN Position could evolve into a paid position dependent upon theatre expansion and Grant Incomes.
INTERN would work with Executive Director to determine grant sources.
INTERN will work with Marketing and Development Intern of funding projects.
THIS IS A NON-PAID INTERNSHIP.
Send a cover letter and resume to
FUZZ Roark, Executive Director
Audrey Herman SPOTLIGHTERS Theatre
817 Saint Paul Street
Baltimore , MD 21202-2472
FAX: 410-366-5434
or email to FUZZ@spotlighters.org
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SPECIAL
Towson University Presents
Transgendered author, playwright and performance artist
Kate Bornstein
WHAT: Towson University Department of Theatre Arts presents Kate Bornstein in residence and two original theatre performances.
WHEN: Thursday, February 16 - Gender Outlaw
Friday, February 17 - Queer and Pleasant Danger
WHERE: Towson University Center for the Arts New Studio Theatre
Corner of Osler and Cross Campus drives
TIME: 8 p.m.
TICKETS: $10 and $5 for students with ID
INFORMATION: 410-704-2787
DESCRIPTION:
Kate Bornstein is a transgendered author, playwright and performance artist. Her books Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of us and My Gender Workbook are currently being used in over 120 colleges. Bornstein wants people to think of gender as more than simply "male and female". She believes that gender is a rainbow spectrum and everybody is free the explore it at will. Her performance piece Gender Outlaw is a mix of dramatic monologues, slam poetry and gently interactive lecture that can be tailored designed to take any audience on an explorative journey of gender roles, sexuality and societal perspectives that shape the individual and challenge one to have the courage to freely be themselves. Bornstein will be in residence through the MFA in Theatre?s Guest Artist Program at Towson University. She will be working in rehearsals with the cast of Cloud 9 and teaching Graduate Performance Theory on Thursday, February 16 from 3:30 to 6:15 p.m.
SHOWS
Johnny Guitar" Baltimore-Washington area Premiere set for February
Shadowblock productions is pleased to offer our next musical - Johnny Guitar opening February 16, 2006.
Based on a classic cult 1954 film starring Joan Crawford and honored as Off-Broadway?s Best Musical in 2004 by the Outer Critics Circle, Johnny Guitar The Musical uses a mix of 50?s rock, doo-wop and steamy Southwestern ballads to tell the story of a feud between Vienna, a sultry saloonkeeper and Emma, a jealous tycoon, over a small western town. When Johnny Guitar, a handsome stranger with a secret past, rides into town and faces off with Vienna?s lover, the hot-headed Dancin' Kid, the stage is set for a hilarious showdown unlike anything the Old West ? or the Baltimore-Washington area- has ever seen.
Show dates are Feb. 16, 17, 18, 24, 25, March 3, 4 at 7:30pm, and Sunday 2/26 at 2:00pm. There will be a special benefit performance February 23 starring Steve Blanchard, who originated the role of Johnny in New York, and is currently starring on Broadway as Beast in Disney's Beauty and the Beast.
The show will be presented at The Drama Learning Center, 9130 Red Branch Road, Columbia, MD 21045. Tickets are priced at $15 for adults and $12 for senior citizens, children, and students (Feb. 26 benefit performance $25) and can be reserved by calling the theater box office at 410-997-9352.
PRESS NIGHT IS FEB. 16th ONLY-Please call the theatre to reserve your seats.
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MYSTERY PLAY OPENS AT LAUREL MILL PLAYHOUSE
Corpses and Comedy on Main Street
LAUREL , MD , 02 February 2006 -The Laurel Mill Playhouse at 508 Main St. will open Mystery Play , written by Jean-Claude Van Italie and produced in cooperation with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., on Fri., Feb. 17 at 8 p.m. Mystery Play is a biting satire set in the living room of a sophisticated U.S. Senator. Directed by Ellyn Kestnbaum, the play presents a series of bizarre sequences. As the plot thickens, corpses and comedy abound in a delightful metaphysical spoof on social and political hypocrisy.
Mystery Play will run weekends Feb. 17 through Mar. 18 on Fri. and Sat. nights at 8 p.m., with Sun. matinees on Feb. 26 and Mar. 5 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $12.50 for general admission, $10 for seniors 65+, and $10 for students (18 and under). Please Call 301-617-9906 or email LMP@laurelmillplayhouse.org for reservations. For more information, please visit www.laurelmillplayhouse.org
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The St. Paul's Schools are proud to present Moisés Kaufman's The Laramie Project at The Ward Center for the Arts on February 3 and February 4 at 7:30 p.m. Under the direction of St. Paul's Fine Arts and Theater Chair Chris Briante, over 40 students and 13 faculty and staff members from both schools are joining together to perform in this powerful production.
What is The Laramie Project? In the words of the author, "On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, Wyoming, savagely beaten and left to die in an act of brutality and hate that shocked the nation...The Laramie Project chronicles the life of the town of Laramie in the year after the murder." The play was developed through interviews Kaufman and other members of the Tectonic Theater Project conducted with Laramie residents and portrays, in the residents' own words, their wide-ranging reactions to Matthew Shepard's murder and its impact on their hometown.
Call 410-821-3047 for tickets
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And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians)
by Agatha Christie
Directed by Randy Dalmas, with Assistant Director, Stephanie McLaughlin
February 10 to March 11, 2006 - Friday and Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2pm
On an isolated island, 10 guests arrive for a weekend holiday - and murder.
Ten guests arrive for a brief holiday on an isolated island,
only to find a missing host, an intriguing nursery rhyme, - and murder.
Baltimore (February 2006) - Audrey Herman SPOTLIGHTERS Theatre presents Agatha Christie`s AND THEN THERE WERE NONE, a deliciously spun murder mystery by the acclaimed master. Harken back to the 1930s when the world moved at a slower pace, and European charm and elegance was still in full effect. This play is based on Christie?s novel of the same name, and is now being revived on the London stage, and in a new video game. Tickets are $15 for adults with discounts for Seniors, Students, and Baltimore Theatre Alliance members. Opening Friday, February 10 at 8pm and running through Saturday, March 11, with shows Friday and Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 2pm.
SPECIAL EVENTS
OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION - Friday, February 10, 2006
Reception with Cast and Creative Team immediately following the performance
No additional cost
MYSTERY LOVES COMPANY - TALK BACK SESSION - Sunday, February 12, 2006
Question and Answer session with cast and director immediately following performance.
Costume contest - come dressed as your favorite Agatha Christie character!
No additional cost
SPOTLIGHTERS GALA - Fund Raiser Performance - Saturday, February 18, 2006
Fund Raiser to benefit the theatre! Reception following the performance!
Tickets $45.00 - reservations are required.
AUDIO DESCRIBED - Performance for the Visually Impaired - Sunday February 19, 2006
Audio enhancement and description for individuals with impaired vision or blindness.
No additional cost.
The attachment is the pdf of the And Then There Were None Media Kit. Photos are available on the web site - www.spotlighters.org
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WINTERS LANE PRODUCTIONS
CELEBRATES BLACK HISTORY MONTH
WITH AIN`T MISBEHAVIN`
WHO: Winters Lane Productions , a new theatre company established to provide
performing arts resources to the community through quality theatre while
exposing youth through scholarship programs.
WHAT: The Joint is Jumpin` with Ain`t Misbehavin` , the greatest musical revue of them all. This jubilant yet touching celebration pays joyous tribute to the legendary musical talents of Thomas ?Fats? Waller. Enjoy an evening in a 1930`s Harlem night club where a quintet of multitalented performers bring to life such songs as Honeysuckle Rose, Your Feet`s Too Big, Fat and Greasy, I`m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter, It`s a Sin to Tell a Lie and the ever popular title song. Sit back and watch the cast raise the roof in a night of unforgettable music.
Celebrate Black History Month with Winters Lane Productions and enjoy some of the music that has shaped some of today`s popular culture.
Ain`t Misbehavin` is directed by our very own President and Founder
Anya Randall Nebel and stars Lanor Long, Ellana Barksdale, Michelle Harmon, Troy Hooper, Cervantes Pagina, Sterling A. Johnson Jr., and Kelli Blackwell.
Music of Fats Waller; concept by Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby, Jr.
Tickets: $18.00 ($16.00 for Winters Lane Members)
WHEN: February 10 ? February 26 (Fridays though Sundays)
Fridays, Saturdays at 8:00PM; Sundays at 3:00PM
WHERE: Chesapeake Center for the Arts
1 94 Hammonds Lane , Brooklyn Park MD 21225
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Performance Workshop Theatre presents the Baltimore Premiere of Sam McCready¹s
critically acclaimed production of COOLE LADY , directed by Mr. McCready and starring
Joan McCready as Irish Playwright, poet and political firebrand, Lady Augusta Gregory.
Performances of COOLE LADY run February 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26
Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday matinees at 3:00 p.m.
Tickets are $18 general admission, $15 for seniors, and $12 for students
and may be purchased by either phoning the Theatre at 410-659-7830
or online through missiontix at http://www.missiontix.com
Performance Workshop Theatre is located at 28 E. Ostend Street
in Federal Hill, Baltimore, just south of the Cross Street Market.
For more information and to place a reservation,
call Performance Workshop Theatre at 410.659.7830 or
visit http://performanceworkshoptheatre.org
FROM OUR FRIEND, BRIAN DRAGONUK
** AUDITIONS **
CASTING CALL FOR OLDER ACTORS
Non-union elderly actors in VA, MD & DC needed ASAP!
Hispanic elderly woman v 60+
Hispanic elderly man v 55+
Four elderly women, any race v 60+
Stage and theatre experience is a real plus!
Please submit headshot and resume only to
kapakdirecttalent@comcast.net .
No calls please! All roles are PAID!
From Lorraine - 'elderly' is not the word we would use to describe those of us in this age group and just hitting our prime. This notice for a film audition was posted in Brian's film newsletter. If you want to receive film auditions, send a blank email to bdragonuk-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
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ALICE IN WONDERLAND (adult version)
Sun & Mon, 1 Feb 5 & 6
Manassas , VA
Theatre for the Community will be having auditions for Alice in
Wonderland on Sunday, February 5th from 6-9 pm, and on Monday, February 6th from
7-9 pm.
The auditions will be at The Cramer Center 9008 Center Street Manassas,
VA 20110.
No preparation is necessary. Just stop on by and we will have some cold readings from the script.
The show itself is based on the Manhattan Project's Alice in Wonderland, which merges both of the Lewis Carroll works into a rather 'dark', rather improvisation- feeling production. This is NOT your mother's Alice, but instead will be marketed to older teens and adults who are more interested in the nightmare of Looking Glass Wars instead of peaceful leaves falling across a sleeping child with fantasy dreams.
The production will run for six performances, opening March 31st and ending April 9th (a week before Easter) on Friday and Saturday nights at 8pm and Sunday Matinees at 2pm. All actors receive a professional credit and a monetary stipend.
For more information, please contact TFC at (703) 365-8350 or
cramercenter@comcast.net or visit www.cramercenter.com
AUDITIONS ONE DAY ONLY!!!
FOR MUSICAL STAGE PLAY
By Cherri Cunningham Cragway
Actors, Singers, Dancers, (Tap & Modern) Comedians and Musicians
Actors & Comedians: Please be prepared with a 3-5 minute monologue.
Singers: Auditions will be acappella.
Dancers: Please prepare a 3-5 minute dance (CD player will be available)
Musicians: Please prepare a 3-5 minute piece
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2006
Carl J. Murphy Fine Arts Center
Morgan State University
2201 Argonne Drive
ROOM 222
Baltimore , MD
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
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CREATING A MUSICAL ROLE / FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Washington , DC
Theatre Lab announces Auditions for Fiddler on the Roof
Join us for a unique performance/learning opportunityō and the first production in our beautiful new theatre!
The Theatre Lab's creating a Musical Role class will perform a full-scale production of the Broadway classic Fiddler on the Roof.
Directed by Buzz Mauro and Deb Gottesman with choreography by Carl Menninger. Meets Tuesdays, March 7 v June 3 plus other rehearsal times.
Performances: June 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, and 10
Course tuition: $550 (non-members)/ $495 (members)
Seeking all types, age 14 to adult. Principal roles by audition; ensemble by interview
Auditions: Sunday, February 12, 3:30 -5:30
Email for appointment/audition time slot and more details
www.theatrelab.org |
