SOUTH PACIFIC - Sands Theater Company Non Equity Auditions

Sands Theater Company will hold open auditions for South Pacific on July 16, 17 (Monday and Tuesday) at the Athens Theatre at 7pm. An additional Call Back Date is yet to be announced.

The Athens Theatre is located at 124 N. Florida Avenue in Downtown DeLand.

Performances will be held on September 21, 22, 23*, 27, 28, 29, 30*, October 5, 6, 7* at the Athens. All shows start at 7:30p except for Sunday *Matinees at 2:30p.

All roles are unpaid. No roles are pre-cast.

NOTES/WHAT TO BRING: Actors may attend either evening and will be asked to do the following:

• Either present a prepared monologue of their choosing or read an excerpt from the script chosen by the director.
• Please prepare 16-32 bars of classic/standard musical theatre song that showcases both range and acting ability. Please, no pop/rock. Bring sheet music in the appropriate key. No a capella auditions. If you need sheet music, go to
  www.musicnotes.com for inexpensive downloads. An accompanist and CD Player will be provided.

THE STORY: Set in an island paradise during World War II, two parallel love stories are threatened by the dangers of prejudice and war. Nellie, a spunky nurse from Arkansas, falls in love with a mature French planter, Emile. Nellie learns that the mother of his children was an island native and, unable to turn her back on the prejudices with which she was raised, refuses Emile's proposal of marriage. Meanwhile, the strapping Lt. Joe Cable denies himself the fulfillment of a future with an innocent Tonkinese girl with whom he's fallen in love out of the same fears that haunt Nellie. When Emile is recruited to accompany Joe on a dangerous mission that claims Joe's life, Nellie realizes that life is too short not to seize her own chance for happiness, thus confronting and conquering her prejudices.

PRINCIPALS

FEATURED

1 Boy

1 Girl

CHARACTERS

Ngana - his daughter

Jerome - his son

Henry - his native servant

Bloody Mary

Liat - her daughter

Bloody Mary's Assistant

Luther Billis

Abner

Stewpot (Carpenter's Mate Second Class, George Watts)

Professor

Lt. Joseph Cable, United States Marine Corps

Capt. George Brackett, United States Navy

Cmdr. William Harbison, United States Navy

Lt. Buzz Adams

Yeoman Herbert Quale - sailor

Radio Operator Bob McCaffrey - sailor

2 Seabees (originally named Morton Wise and Richard West)

2 Sailors (originally named Tom O'Brien and James Hayes)

3 Marines (Originally named Sgt. Kenneth Johnson, Cpl. Hamilton Steeves and Staff Sgt. Thomas Hassinger)

A Shore Patrolman

Lead Nurse (originally named Lt. Genevieve Marshall)

Ensign Dinah Murphy

Ensign Janet MacGregor

7 Ensigns (originally named Connie Walewska, Bessie Noonan, Rita Adams, Lisa Minelli, Pamela Whitmore, Sue Yaeger and Cora MacRae)

Islanders, Nuns, Officers, Sailors, Marines, and Soldiers

No appointments. Sign-ins are accepted starting at 700p. Actors will be seen in the order in which they arrive. Callbacks will be announced.

For questions please contact:
clark@athensdeland.com