AM I BLUE Auditions
Basement Arts
Auditions will take place Sunday, March 15th in the Small Classroom of the Walgreen Drama Center
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REQUIREMENTS:
1) Sign up for a time slot below.
2) Print/fill out an audition form.
3) Prepare a 1-2 minute contemporary monologue.
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Sign up here:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70a054eaead2eaafd0-amiblue
CALLBACKS:
Callbacks will take place on Sunday, March 15th from 5pm-7pm in the Small Classroom. If you are called back, please be prepared to read some of the sides at the bottom of this page.
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REHEARSAL:
Rehearsals will take place from March 23rd to April 9th.
Performances will be April 10th (7pm & 11pm) and 11th (7pm)
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Conflicts with: Beautiful Country, Macbeth, Quake, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, My One and Only.
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SYNOPSIS
The story begins in a seedy New Orleans bar where John Polk Richards, a college freshman whose fraternity brothers have paid his way into a bordello as an eighteenth birthday present, is bolstering his courage with liquor. He is approached by Ashbee, a fey young creature who invites him to the littered apartment that she shares with her absent father. As high strung and flaky as John Polk is nervous and tentative, Ashbee initiates him into her secret fantasy life as she tries to bridge the loneliness that infuses them both. She strings Cheerios to make a necklace and then nibbles at them; puts blue food coloring in John Polk’s rum and Coke; lets him hear the sea in her favorite conch shell; and finally, invites him to make love to her—an offer that he politely declines. Sometimes wildly funny, sometimes gently affecting, the play is a wonderfully resourceful study of two young people, both unsure and apprehensive, whose unexpected encounter becomes, for both of them, a valuable lesson in coping with life—now and in the future.
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CHARACTER BREAKDOWN:
Ashbee Williams: A 16 year old, eclectic girl. Acts as a robin-hood type, forced to grow up too soon due to her family circumstances.
John Polk Richards: A 17-year-old college student. A fraternity boy who craves a nonjudgmental friend.
Hilda: A 35-year-old waitress. Fiery.
The Barker: One of the street dwellers.
The Bum: One of the street dwellers.
The Hippie: One of the street dwellers. Lives in Ashbee's apartment complex.
The Whore: One of the street dwellers.
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