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Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
Friday, September 26, 2014
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Saturday, September 27, 2014
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Contract
LORT Non-Rep
LORT B Minimum $812/wk
Location
Pioneer Theatre Company
University of Utah
300 South 1400 EAst
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Large Rehearsal Hall.
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Seeking
Actors for Alabama Story.
Preparation
Provided sides at the theatre.
Other Dates
First Rehearsal: December 15, 2014
First 10/12: January 2, 2015
Opens: January 9, 2015
Closes: January 24, 2015
Other
There are no stage management positions currently available.
www.pioneertheatre.org
Personnel
Karen Azenberg, director of show and Artistic Director
Kenneth Jones, playright
Local reader
· EPA Rules are in effect.
· A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Appointments
Sign up sheet available at theater one week prior to auditions. Walk-ins taken as time permits. Equity will be given preference to appointments.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
CHARACTER BREAKDOWN
GARTH WILLIAMS, 40s to early 60s, white omnipresent narrator. Educated abroad, a famous American illustrator of children's books. Humane storyteller at ease with sincerity and sentiment, yet capable of a waspish comic remark. He also assumes the roles of OTHERS, including a wizened and infirm 80-year-old Old School Southern politician, a liberal Montgomery reporter, a Florida newspaper columnist and a menacing local citizen. A nimble chameleon with gravitas. Think the Stage Manager in Our Town.
SENATOR E.W. HIGGINS, late 40s to early 60s, a white Alabama State Senator, bawn 'n' bred in Alabama. Implacable in his belief in the traditions of the South. A charismatic bully given to speechifying and posturing but can be a cool and calculating game player when on the attack. 98 percent unflappable. Passionate and desperate, but rarely showing the latter. A bear of a man. Welcomes the spotlight. Think of him as a cousin to Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
EMILY WHEELOCK REED, 50s, white State Librarian of Alabama. Raised in Indiana; more Midwestern than Southern. Pert, businesslike, completely unsentimental, quick on her feet, excellent at her job, rare to show her weakness in public. 98 percent unflappable. Limited sense of humor, but not a librarian cliché — not a drudge or a spinster or a prude. Has worked in the system enough to know how to be politic and moderate while still pushing for what she wants. Avoids the spotlight.
THOMAS FRANKLIN, 27, white reference librarian, assistant to Emily Reed, head of the State Library's reference department. An Alabama native. Educated, exacting, fiercely loyal, a Type-A personality at work, hiding a secret or two, which might give him the slight quality of seeming shifty, sensitive, shy or slightly peculiar at times. Charming. Dryly funny.
LILY WHITFIELD, 32, a white woman from small-town Alabama privilege. A Southern belle, with some wear around the edges. Sheltered, still living in her ancestral home. Delicate, hiding a secret, sentimental and quick to conjure the past. Mercurial, garrulous, charming, vivacious, with streaks of sadness. Impulsive. Her chemistry with Joshua is palpable.
JOSHUA MOORE, 32, a middle-class African-American man who left Alabama when he was 20 following a childhood trauma that involved Lily's family. Upwardly mobile and confident, but aware of the limits of the Jim Crow South. Has shed his Southern accent, though it surfaces in passion. Focused, content with life, emotionally measured but not afraid to express himself. Burdened by the past without knowing it. His chemistry with Lily is palpable.
If you are unable to attend this audition, Actors and Stage Managers may send photo and/or resume to:
John Geertsen
Company Manager
Pioneer Theatre Company
University of Utah
300 S, 1400 E., Rm 325
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0660
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