AUTHOR: by Joe Calarco
DIRECTOR: Sean F. Gray
RUN: July. 25, 2015 - August 22, 2015
Fridays & Saturdays 8pm, Sundays at 2pm. Thursday and Sunday night shows available for private parties and special events.
AUDITION DATES:
Open Call:
Dates: Monday, June. 1, 2015 and Tuesday, June. 2, 2015
Times: 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Location: Long Beach Playhouse
CALLBACKS:
Date and Time: Wednesday, June 3. 7 at 7:00 p.m. (by invitation only).
REHEARSALS:
Date and Time: First Read-Through: June. 6th. 2015, Noon to 3:30pm. Rehearsals starting Jan. 7th: Mondays through Thursdays, 7:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.; Sundays, 6pm - 9:30pm.
Location: Long Beach Playhouse
AUDITION REQUIREMENTS:
Bring a headshot and resume. Audition sides with character monologues from the script with be provided. Please be very familiar with the script and the roles you are auditioning for.
Community Theater. Non-Equity. There is no pay.
SYNOPSIS:
Four young prep school students, tired of going through the usual drill of conjugating Latin and other tedious school routines, decide to vary their very governed lives. After school, one breaks out a copy of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juiliet and they all take turns reading the play aloud. The Bard's words and the story itself are thrilling to the boys and they become swept away, enmeshed in the emotion so much so that they break school rules in order to continue their readings. The rigidity of their lives begins to parallel the lives of the characters in the play: roles in the family, roles in society and the roles played by men and women soon seem to make all the sense in the world, and then, suddenly, they seem to make no sense at all. Perceptions and understanding are turned upside down as the fun of play acting turns serious and the words and meanings begin to hit home and universal truths emerge.
CASTING THE FOLLOWING ROLES:
STUDENT 1 (Male, 18 - 20s to play teen): A student at an all-boys Calthoic school. Plays Romeo and others in the play. (Must have a good knowledge of Shakespeare and be comfortable with same-sex intimacy. Will be shirtless in one scene.)
STUDENT 2 (Male, 18 - 20s to play teen): A student at an all-boys Calthoic School. Plays Juliet, Benvolio, Friar John, and others in the play. (Must have a good knowledge of Shakespeare and be comfortable with same-sex intimacy. Will be shirtless in one scene.)
STUDENT 3 (Male, 18 - 20s to play teen): A student at an all-boys Calthoic school. Plays Mercutio, Lady Capulet, Friar Laurence, and others in the play. (Must have a good knowledge of Shakespeare and be comfortable with same-sex intimacy.)
STUDENT 4 (Male, 18 - 20s to play teen): A student at an all-boys Calthoic school. Plays Tybalt, Nurse, Balthasar, and others in the play. (Must have a good knowledge of Shakespeare and be comfortable with same-sex intimacy.)
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