ANYTHING GOES - Lakewood Theatre Company
LAKEWOOD THEATRE COMPANY TO HOLD AUDITIONS
FOR THE MUSICAL
ANYTHING GOES
JANUARY 31 & FEBRUARY 1, 2015
Lakewood Theatre Company will be having open auditions for the musical
Anything Goes on
SATURDAY, JANUARY 31 and SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2015. Call
503-635-3901 to reserve an audition slot.
Anything Goes is directed by Joe Theissen. The musical director is Alan D. Lytle and the choreographer is Sara Mishler Martins.
The director is casting 25 parts (ages 20s-70s). These include 7 principal roles (4 female, 3 male), 6 featured characters (2 male, 4 female) plus an ensemble of 12 (6 men and 6 women) who play various roles. All ethnicities are encouraged to audition. All roles are open for audition and all receive remuneration. For a breakdown of roles, please
click here.
Audition Location: Lakewood Theatre Company at Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S. State Street in Lake Oswego.
Materials Needed: Please bring a current headshot and a resume. Prepare a Broadway song in the correct key for your voice. An accompanist will be provided. Please, no recorded music or a cappella singing. No prepared monologue is required. Please note: Anything Goes has a strong dance component. Auditioners are requested to attend a general dance/movement audition on Saturday, January 31 from 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM. Callbacks, if needed, will be at the director's discretion. Auditioners are strongly encouraged to prepare a song that is in the style/period of the show.
Performance Schedule: Anything Goes opens September 11, 2015 and continues through October 18, 2015. Performances are Thurs-Sat at 7:30 PM, Sundays at 2:00 and 7:00 PM, and two Wednesday evening performances at7:30 PM. Lakewood Theatre Company features an intimate 220-seat theatre located at Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S. State Street in Lake Oswego.
About the play: Anything Goes is the age-old tale of Boy-Meets-Girl and the complications which ensue. No musical puts it on stage better than Anything Goes. This show is an amusing story wrapped around one of Cole Porter's magical scores. Lakewood will be presenting the 1962 revival version. Terrific Cole Porter songs include It's De-Lovely, Friendship, I Get a Kick Out Of You, All Through The Night, Anything Goes, You're The Top and Blow, Gabriel, Blow. In addition, the 1962 version includes Take Me Back To Manhattan and Let's Misbehave.
The story: _Billy Crocker, a young love-sick Wall Street broker, stows away on the S.S. American, in hopes of winning the heart of his beloved Hope Harcourt. His boss, Yale graduate Elisha J. Whitney, is also on board. He plans to relax before making an important business deal in England. Hope is on her way to England to be married to Sir Evelyn Oakleigh, a stuffy, hapless British nobleman. Also on the boat are Moonface Martin, a second-rate gangster on the lam labeled Public Enemy #13, and his friend Bonnie; the two have disguised themselves as a minister and a missionary, respectively, after stranding the ship's real chaplain back at the port. They also, mistakenly, left behind their leader, Snake Eyes Johnson, Public Enemy #1.
On board, Crocker runs into his friend, Reno Sweeney, an evangelizing nightclub singer, who resolves to help Billy win over Hope, to the dismay of Hope's mother, Mrs. Harcourt (though she doesn't know about the original plan), who insists she marry Evelyn. Billy simultaneously learns the true identities of Moonface and Bonnie, and in exchange for his silence, they join the plot to break up Hope and Evelyn. However, as Billy doesn't have a ticket or passport, Bonnie and Moonface let him have Snake Eyes Johnson's, without telling him to whom it belongs. But the ships crew figure out that Public Enemy number 1 is on board, and Billy has to take on a number of hilarious disguises to hide from them.
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About Lakewood Theatre Company
63 Years of Live Theatre: Founded as a not-for-profit organization in 1952, Lakewood Theatre Company is a theatre dedicated to the study and presentation of drama in all its forms; the training and development of actors; and the creation, maintenance and operation of a theatre in which to present plays and other forms of entertainment. Lakewood Theatre Company is the oldest continually operated, not-for-profit theatre company in the Portland Metropolitan area. It annually provides more than 400 theatre artists the opportunity to learn and display their craft and attracts more than 40,000 people to its shows.
- 63rd Season -
Productions in the 2015-16 season are underwritten, in part, by
The Regional Arts & Culture Council and the Work for Art Program
The Oregon Arts Commission
The National Endowment for the Arts
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