Audition Notice: Iron Moon

Relativity Theatre Concern in Association with Aurora Theatre will be presenting Iron Moon, a world premiere by Gabriel Dean. This will be the inaugural production in the Aurora Theatre’s new blackbox, The Discovery Point Studio Theatre. The play will be directed by Jessie Dean. Rehearsals begin on or around July 11, 2007. Rehearsals will be during evening hours M-F and during the day on weekends, unless actor schedules accommodate daytime rehearsals during the week. Show runs August 16 – September 8 (TH-SAT) at 8pm, two Sunday Matinees, August 26 and September 2 at 2:30pm.

We will be holding auditions this coming Friday, July 6, 2007 beginning at 4pm at the new Aurora Theatre in Lawrenceville. All roles are paid. Some roles have already been cast. Roles available are listed below:

Jim Freeman (LEAD): (40’s-50’s) Caucasian male, looking for equity/non-equity actor. He longs for innocence and feeling which he has forgotten—his lost boyhood. Has fought an internal battle his entire life regarding his emotional ideals for himself. This struggle makes him appear inactive to others around him. Is trapped in the portrait of manhood society has taught him. Sensitive and sensible. Sometimes he possesses the articulation of a poet.

Blondie Shoemaker (SUPPORTING): African-American male, looking for non-equity actor. 30s-40s. Scrawny with graying hair. Leafy’s (Jim’s wife) lover. In touch with the ghost world. His actions are slow and deliberate. Highly aware of convention.

Eller Freeman: (SUPPORTING): Caucasian female, late teens, early twenties, looking for non-equity actor. Leafy and Jim’s oldest daughter. Like her father, she longs to maintain innocence until she realizes that it is merely a veil of ignorance.

Annie Freeman (SUPPORTING-CHILD ACTOR): Caucasian female 6-14, looking for non-equity actor. Middle daughter of Leafy and Jim. Talks to no one but Eller. Strangely fond of Leafy.

Linda: (SUPPORTING) African-American female, Mid 20s- mid 30s. An unmarried black mother working a dead-end job.

ABOUT THE PLAY:
Iron Moon tells the story of the unraveling of a Southern family on one extraordinary night in the 1930’s. Based on the true life story of the grandmother of playwright Gabriel Dean, Iron Moon weaves together a beautiful and poetic story of people’s complicated relationships with God and ultimately of how we justify our own twisted redemption.

To schedule an audition or request a copy of the script, please contact the Stage Manager, Daniel Green at danigree@hotmail.com or 404-583-4058. Please indicate which role you you are auditioning for.

Recent Auditions

I had planned on going to audition at Blackwell Theatre for To Kill a Mockingbird, but after looking at mapquest, it was over an hour drive from there to home with good traffic, so never mind.

Just got home from doing an audition for County Seat Players, The Philadelphia Story. I don’t think it went well. There were about 20 people at the audition, which apparently was very good for them, but at some point, the director and assistant director stopped asking me to read.

So driving home, I was thinking about what one director in the past said about me was that I had a “sing-song” voice. I wonder if I just read poorly and don’t realize it. I suppose I should ask around with the people I have acted with or auditioned for. Maybe find some information on voice modulation or something.

Audition Notice: The Philadelphia Story

County Seat Players will hold auditions for The Philadelphia Story by Philip Barry.

Directed by Bob Seelig

Audition Times:
Thursday June 21, 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Saturday June 23, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Lawrenceville Presbyterian Church
800 Lawrenceville Highway 29
Lawrenceville, GA

The Show:
This Broadway hit starred Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord of the Philadelphia Lords, an inhibited and spoiled daughter of the privileged. Divorced from C.J. Dexter Haven, she is engaged to a successful young snob. A gossip weekly sends a reporter and a camera woman to report the wedding arrangements and they are injected into the house by Tracy’s brother who hopes to divert their attention from father’s romance with a Broadway dancer. Tracy finds herself growing interested in Connor, the fascinating reporter. At the end of a pre wedding party, Tracy and Connor take a moonlight dip in the pool and meet her ex husband and finance on their way back to the house. The following morning her intended agrees to forgive her, but his smug attitude enrages Tracy and she breaks off the engagement. Connor offers to marry her, but she turns him down and remarries Dexter, to the satisfaction of everyone.

Performances will be September 20-23 & 27-30, 2007

Characters:
9 males, ages 20 – 50’a
6 females, ages 15 to 50’s

Audition Requirements:
Cold Readings

Contact:Bob Seelig at 678-546-6157 or raseelig@yahoo.com

Auditioned for God’s Man in Texas

Heidi opened the weekend of May 26th. On that Sunday, I went on vacation immediately after the 2 PM show. St. Augustine, Florida if you want to know. Friday I drove all the way back to Atlanta for this audition Friday night, June 1st. Long drive. I needed to be back anyway for Heidi on Saturday and Sunday.

Audition went well enough, five guys auditioned for 3 roles. I as called today by Tanya Carroll who indicated that, yes, indeed I had too many conflicts. Rehearsals at Lionheart Theatre Company were on Tuesdays and Thursdays only and would start while I am in rehearsals for Breaking Legs. Although the run dates do not overlap, I would miss too many rehearsals. Oh well.

Tanya did invite me back for the next 2 auditions at Lionheart