PORGY AND BESS - The Aurora Fox Arts Center Non Equity Auditions

PORGY AND BESS - The Aurora Fox Arts Center

The Aurora Fox Arts Center Announces AuditionS for The Gershwins‘ Porgy and Bess

Auditions for The Aurora Fox Arts Center’s production of the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess will be held Thursday, June 9, 6:00-10:00pm and Saturday, June 11, 1:00-5:00pm. The Aurora Fox is located at 9900 E. Colfax, Aurora, Colo.

For auditions, actors should prepare a one-minute dramatic monologue and 16-32 bars of a song in the style of the show, with total time not to exceed four minutes. An accompanist will be provided. Callbacks are by invitation only. All roles require singing and movement or dance. Actors of all ethnicities and physical abilities are welcome to audition for all roles. Members of Actors Equity Association are welcome to audition for all roles; three contracts are available.

For information including roles and performance dates and times visit aurorafoxartscenter.org and click on “auditions.”

The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess is the second production of The Aurora Fox Arts Center’s 2016-17 season, running November 25, 2016 through January 1, 2017. Set in the 1930s in an African-American Charleston neighborhood known as Catfish Row, Porgy and Bess centers on the tragic love story of the crippled beggar Porgy and beautiful Bess, who longs to turn away from her former life as a prostitute and drug addict. After a murder, Bess’s abusive partner Crown flees, leaving her at the mercy of a disapproving community and tempted by the seductive drug dealer Sporting Life. Bess strikes up an unlikely relationship with Porgy and gradually finds acceptance on Catfish Row—until a hurricane and the return of Crown change everyone’s lives forever.

Porgy and Bess has evolved from its arguably racist stereotypes of 1930s Broadway. This version is adapted by Suzan-Lori Parks. Summertime, It Ain’t Necessarily So, and Porgy’s celebration of love and life I Got Plenty of Nuttin’ will stir the soul. Characters from the distant past will take you on a walk around a block that might exist today.

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ABOUT THE AURORA FOX ARTS CENTER

The Aurora Fox Arts Center is a public service of the city of Aurora under the Library and Cultural

Services Department. Built in 1945 as a movie theater, the Aurora Fox was purchased by the city of Aurora in 1983, and completely renovated and reopened in 1985. 2016 marks its 32nd season.

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