Main Street Theatre Works Announces Auditions for their
2016 Summer Season
Main Street Theatre Works announces auditions for their 2016 Summer Season at the Kennedy Mine Amphitheatre in Jackson.
Auditions will be held Sunday, January 24th and Monday, January 25th, 6:30 – 9:30pm, at the Wilkerson Theatre inside the
California Stage complex, 1723 25th Street, Sacramento.
MSTW’s Summer season starts off with Nell Benjamin’s The Explorers Club, directed by Allen Pontes. The show runs Friday and Saturday nights, June 24th – July 23rd. Rehearsals begin mid-May and will be in Sacramento until tech week. There is a $150 gas stipend for each actor. Below is the breakdown for the audition. Sides available upon request.
Breakdown for The Explorers Club:
Lucius Fretway: a botanist & man of science, late 20s/early 30s
Phyllida Spotte-Hume/Countess Glamorgan: an anthropologist/Countess (played by same actress), late 20s/early 30s (petite)
Harry Percy: intrepid explorer, 30s - 40s
Luigi, a NaKong tribesman: open age but must be physically fit, agile and willing to wear body paint
Professor Cope: an herpetologist, 30s – 60s
Professor Sloane: an archeo-theologist, 30s – 60s
Professor Walling: a zoologist, 30s – 60s
Bebbe: an explorer/Irish assassin, 30s – 60s
Sir Bernard Humphries: private secretary to Queen Victoria, age open
The second show is The Last Lifeboat, written by Luke Yankee and directed by Julie Anchor. The show runs Friday and Saturday nights, August 12th – September 10th. Rehearsal begin the beginning of July and will be in in Sacramento until tech week. Each actor is paid a $150 gas stipend. Below is the breakdown of character ages, and sides will be available upon request.
Breakdown for The Last Lifeboat:
Looking for six actors with ages ranging from 20s to 60s
Looking for five actresses with ages ranging from 20s to 60s
With the exception of 3 characters (J. Bruce Ismay, Vivian and Florence), actors will play multiple characters.
If you have any questions, please contact Julie Anchor at
julieanchor@yahoo.com. All parts are open and you may be asked to effect an English accent.
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