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Auditions Information
Please check the call boards in the basement of Rarig Center for auditions information. Opportunities are available to perform in spring Mainstage and Xperimental Theatre productions and general auditions will be held for the U of M Showboat Players summer company. Auditions are open to students from across the University who are registered for four or more credits.
AUDITIONS FOR THE UNIVERSITY THEATRE SUBSCRIBER SERIES
FALL & SPRING SEMESTERS
Please read the following carefully:
SPRING SEMESTER PRODUCTIONS:
The University Theatre will be auditioning both NIGHT TRAIN TO BOLINA and A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY on Wednesday through Friday evenings, November 5-7. Individual production callbacks for A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY will be held Saturday, November November 8; individual production callbacks for NIGHT TRAIN will be held Saturday, November November 15. Casting for both productions will be posted November 17.
NIGHT TRAIN TO BOLINA by Nilo Cruz will be directed by Dominic Taylor, Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts and Dance, in the Arena. Rehearsals will start January 20 though there may be some read-through rehearsals in late fall semester. Performance dates are Feb 27-March 7. Clara and Mateo, young, poor and powerless in an adult world, confront life with intelligence, passion and eloquence in a lyrical portrayal by Nilo Cruz in Night Train to Bolina -- a haunting tale of the dispossessed of the earth in which two poor Latin American children's spirits soar like kites as they run away to an invented place called Bolina. Roles for 5 actors (typically 3 women and 2 men, which could change depending on talent pool).
A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY
A Bright Room Called Day by Tony Kushner will be directed by Lisa Channer, Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts and Dance, in the Thrust Theatre, Rarig.
Scripts for A Bright Room Called Day (and incidentally, Night Train to Bolina) are available to sign out from the office of Christine Swartwout. Rarig 580C (swart073@umn.edu)
I HIGHLY SUGGEST YOU READ THE PLAY BEFORE AUDITIONING
Rehearsals will start February 23. Performance dates are April 17-25.
ABOUT THE PLAY: Set in both early 1930s Germany and America in the 1980s, Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright Tony Kushner examines the rise of two political parties to power in two different eras. Kushner relates the concerns of Agnes Eggling, an actress in pre-Nazi Berlin, to those of Zillah, a young woman frustrated with the governing Republican Party led by Ronald Regan. As Agnes and her group of left leaning artist friends feel the noose tighten in Germany, they struggle to find a way to act against the coming evil and the play becomes a study in responses to organized fear mongering. A Bright Room Called Day is produced as a part of the 2009 Kushner Celebration presented by the Guthrie Theater. Roles for between 5 and 6 women and between 5 and 6 men
AUDITION INFORMATION: This play will audition jointly with Dominic Taylor’s production of Night Train to Bolina.
General Auditions will be help on November 5, 6 and 7 from 7 – 10 pm. See below for audition procedures.
Callbacks for A Bright Room Called Day will be on Sat. November 8 from 7-10
Sign-up sheets for the general auditions will be posted on the Production Notices Bulletin Boards in the basement of Rarig. For these auditions, please prepare two contrasting monologues: one dramatic and one comic, one of which should be non-realistic (meaning from the canon of plays that fall outside REALISM as a style). Monologues prepared from Bright Room itself are fine but not required. Time limit of 3 minutes or less per audition will be strictly enforced. Procedures for callbacks will be announced later. All roles open for all ethnicities, physical appearances and genders, excluding only Herr Swetts, who must be played by an Aryan male.
Questions? Contact Lisa Channer at chann006@umn.edu or 6-6617
NOTE the following spring conflicts:
- NIGHT Train conflicts with UDT, the X production of SHADOWS/WILL TALKING in spring semester and possibly THE ODYESSY.
- BRIGHT ROOM conflicts with the X production of THE ODYESSY in spring, and possibly SHADOWS/WILL TALKING.
- Neither production conflicts with the Minnesota Centennial Showboat.