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Casting is show by show, with callbacks held throughout the year:
FLY BY NIGHT, world premiere comic indie musical, conceived by Kim Rosenstock, by Will Connolly, Michael Mitnick, & Kim Rosenstock, July 13- August 13, 2011, Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto, CA.
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, American Premiere, by Rodger Parsley & Andy Graham, based on the novel by Jane Austen, August 24-September 18, 2011, Mountain View Center, Mountain View, CA
CLEMENTINE IN THE LOWER 9, world premiere by Dan Dietz, October 5-30, 2011, Mountain View Center, Mountain View, CA
THE SECRET GARDEN, music by Lucy Simon, lyrics & book by Marsha Norman, November 30-December 24, 2011, Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto, CA
THE PITMEN PAINTERS, west coast premiere, by Lee Hall, January 18- February12 2012, Mountain View Center, Mountain View, CA
NOW CIRCA THEN, west coast premiere, by Carly Mensch, March 7-April 1, 2012, Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto, CA
OF MICE AND MEN, by John Steinbeck, April 4-29, 2012, Mountain View Center, Mountain View, CA
FLY BY NIGHT New York City, 1965
Mr. McClam, early-mid 50s, an opera lover, high baritone
Crabble, early-mid 50s a sandwich maker supervisor, high baritone
Daphne, late 20s-early 30s, an actress, mezzo / high belter
Joey Storms, late 20s- mid 30s a playwright, baritone
SENSE and SENSIBILITY, England, 1811
Elinor Dashwood, a single lady
Marianne Dashwood, Elinor's younger sister
Aunt Jennings, a middle-aged woman
Lucy Steele, a young single lady from Devon
Edward Ferrars, a young gentleman
Willoughby, another young gentleman
Colonel Brandom, a middle-aged man
CLEMENTINE IN THE LOWER 9, New Orleans, the year after Hurricane Katrina
Clementine, black female, late 30s-early 40s. Strong, sturdy, with deep passions boiling underneath
Reginald, black male, 19. Intelligent and gifted, which he hides beneath a veneer of watchful toughness.
Jaffy, white male, mid-late 40s. Tall, lean, and strong, a joker at heart, with an easy grin and deep, pleasurable laugh, hence his nickname "Laughing" Jaffy
Cassy, white female, 15. Thin, pale, haunted, a runaway.
Chorus, male, 50s-60s, plays piano and sings the blues.
THE SECRET GARDEN, Yorkshire, England, 1900
Mary Lennox, Lily Craven, Captain Albert Lennox, Rose Lennox/Mrs. Winthrop, Ayah, Fakir, Major Holmes/Ben Weatherstaff, Mrs. Claire Holmes/Mrs. Medlock, Lieutenant Shaw/Dr. Neville Crave, Mrs. Alice Shaw/Martha, Lieutenant Wright/Dickon, Lieutenant Shelley/Archibald Craven, Colin Craven
THE PITMEN PAINTERS, Northumberland, England, 1930s
Oliver Kilbourn, 40s-50s, male / Harry Wilson, 40s-50s, male / Robert Lyon, 40s, male
Young Lad/Ben Nicholson, 20s , male / Susan Parks, 20s, female / George Brown, 40s-50s male
Jimmy Floyd, 40s-50s male / Helen Sutherland, 30s, female, an art collector
NOW CIRCA THEN, New York City, present day
Margie, 26, female, Filipino, recently got a job historical reenacting. At work she plays the role of Josephine, a 19th century Jewish immigrant
Gideon, 27, male, white, avid and passionate about historical reenacting. At work, he plays the role of Julian, Josephine's husband in the Lower East Side tenement museum.
OF MICE AND MEN, Salinas Valley, California, 1937
George, Lennie, Candy, The Boss, Curley, Curley's Wife, Slim, Carlson, Whit, Crooks
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