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The Athens in DeLand will hold open auditions for Guys & Dolls on January 29 & 30 (starting at 6-8pm) at the Athens Theatre.
The Athens Theatre is located at 124 N. Florida Avenue in Downtown DeLand.
Auditions are by appointment only. Email
craig@athensdeland.com for an appointment.
Performances will be held on April 21,22,23*,27,28,29,30*, May 4,5,6,7*,11,12,13,14* at the Athens. All shows start at 7:30p, for Sunday *Matinees at 2:30p.
NOTES/WHAT TO BRING:
Actors may attend either evening and will be asked to do the following:
* Prepare 16-32 bars of a standard musical theatre singing selection which showcases Range and Acting Ability. (No a cappella auditions. Bring Sheet Music in the appropriate key for the Accompanist. Music from the show is permissible.)
* Typed Resume and Headshot (preferable).
OVERVIEW:
Book by: Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows
Music and Lyrics by: Frank Loesser
Dance Music by: Mark Hummel
Winner of Multiple Tony Awards including Best Musical
Only in Guys and Dolls can a small time mobster fall in love with a Salvation Army officer and in a crap game win a hundred gamblers' souls.
Only in Guys and Dolls can the minor crook who organizes The Longest Running crap game in New York end up running a news stand and making an honest woman of the show girl he has jilted countless times (So Sue Me).
Only in Guys and Dolls do women who decide to Marry the Man Today and shape him up later truly reform the minor miscreants they love.
Come to celebrate the end of the Athens Theatre Season with memorable tunes of A Bushel and a Peck, Adelaide's Lament, If I Were a Bell, I've Never Been in Love Before, Luck be a Lady, and Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat.
This production will be directed and Choreographed by Steven Flaa.
Characters:
Nicely-nicely Johnson
Just like his name suggests, he is the nicest and cheeriest of the gambling crooks. High-spirited and a bit naïve, but sincere and genuine. Nathan's loyal friend and lackey.
Gender: Male
Age: 30 to 45
Vocal range top: B5
Vocal range bottom: D4
Benny Southstreet
Nathan's right-hand man and a gambler himself. Smart, slick, always moving and shaking, but with what he thinks are Nathan's best interest at heart.
Gender: Male
Age: 30 to 45
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: D4
Sarah Brown
A pretty, bright-eyed woman who serves as Sergeant of the local Mission. She fully believes in her worthy cause and wishes to convert the gambling sinners to saints. Falls unexpectedly in love with Sky along the way. She is prudish and uptight, but eventually lets go.
Gender: Female
Age: 20 to 30
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: B3
Arvide Abernathy
The bass drum and cymbal player in the Mission band, he is Sarah's loving grandfather. Wise and sweet, he wants nothing but the best for her.
Gender: Male
Age: 50 to 65
Vocal range top: F5
Vocal range bottom: D4
Harry The Horse
A crook and gambler. He is a tough guy with dollar signs as his bottom line. Brings Big Jule into Nathan's craps game and backs his cheating, but is also a man of his word in the gambling community.
Gender: Male
Age: 35 to 55
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: F3
Lt. Brannigan
A New York police officer who is on to Nathan's illegal craps games and is dead-set on catching him. A tough, no-nonsense character.
Gender: Male
Age: 40 to 55
Nathan Detroit
A good-hearted gambler and craps game organizer who could never hit the bigtime. He loves Adelaide, but cannot quit his gambling ways. A broke schemer with unwitting ways.
Gender: Male
Age: 35 to 45
Vocal range top: F5
Vocal range bottom: D4
Miss Adelaide
Nathan's fiancé and a lead performer at the Hot Box nightclub. She loves Nathan more than anything in the world and desperately wants to get married. Pretty, outspoken, stubborn.
Gender: Female
Age: 25 to 35
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: A3
Sky Masterson
A high-stakes gambler whose luck never seems to run out, and a wild card who surprises himself when he falls in love with the unlikeliest of women. Suave, smart, handsome.
Gender: Male
Age: 35 to 45
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: B3
Big Jule
A big time craps player from Chicago who uses a gun and his own pair of rigged dice to bully his way into never losing. Tough looking. A bit of an oaf.
Gender: Male
Age: 30 to 50
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: F3
Ensemble
Sightseers, Mission Band (Agatha, Calvin, Martha), Crap Shooters (Liver Lips Louie, Angie The Ox, Rusty Charlie), Hot Box Girls, Waiters, Cuban Dancers
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