Auditions for Talking With... presented by Central Park Players
Schedule
Mon Dec 09 2024 at 06:30 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
421 Columbus Ave. , Grand Haven, MI, United States, Michigan 49417 | Grand Haven, MI
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Jane Martin won the 1982 American Theatre Critics Association Award for Best Regional Play with the dramatic comedy, Talking With… This collection of extraordinary monologues will be our first production of 2025. Prepared to be amused, moved and frightened by its characters who always speak from the depths of their souls.OPEN AUDTIONS
Central Park Players does not discriminate based upon gender identity and considers equally casting when it is within our control. The characters will present as they are written.
The minimum age is 16 to audition. Adults are considered for all monologues. Minors will only be considered for the monologues "Audition" and "Handler."
• Fifteen Minutes: a struggling actress in a road company gets ready to go onstage
• Scraps: dressed as the The Patchwork Girl of Oz, a very bored housewife lives more and more in her imaginary world
• Clear Glass Marbles: she tells the story of how her mother prepared for her coming death
• Audition: a very nervous actress, with her cat in tow, has a disastrous audition for a role
• Rodeo: a cowgirl talks about how rodeos have become commercial ventures, like everything else in the country
• Twirler: a baton twirler speaks ecstatically about how twirling brings her close to God
• Lamps: a woman finds amazement and comfort in light as she grows older
• Handler: a woman from an evangelical sect handles deadly snakes to test her faith
• Dragons: she is in labor, and is about to give birth to a dragon
• French Fries: she is a homeless woman, what used to be called a Bag Lady, who wants to live in a McDonald’s
• Marks: a woman in a bar talks about why she began to cover her body with tattoos
AUDITION SCHEDULE & ONLINE REGISTRATION
• Adults: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfjasB8x2y5adVr5Ug1DsCA38hSyjQyNo6C9Ma-8mFVhfFe6Q/viewform
• Minors (AGES 16 & 17 for monologues "Audition" and "Handler" only: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScPBVP0rZI3ZEGjwodj_J83gc54ywy80UJVwtDC9L8TPmLsFA/viewform
• December 9 & 10, registration at 6:30PM, auditions at 7PM.
• Registration required for all auditions (in person at open auditions, video submissions, and alternate in-person).
• Video submissions may be sent until 12/9 to [email protected].
• Alternate in-person auditions may be scheduled prior to 12/9 for auditionees that cannot make open auditions on 12/9 or 12/10 – contact Trudi for availability ([email protected]).
REHEARSALS
• Early January read-through, headshots, costume measurements, forms (TBA)
• Rehearsals start January 13. Performers will typically be called for 1 hour each week until the week of February 24, when Act 1 is called on Mon/Wed and Act 2 is called Tues/Thur evening for full show run-throughs.
• Full dress rehearsal mandatory March 3-5. No rehearsal March 6.
PERFORMANCES
March 7, 8, 14 & 15 @ 7:30 PM
March 15 @ 1:30 PM
STAFF
• Director: Trudi Kitchka
• Assistant Director & Stage Manager: Andrew Kitchka
• Producer: Heidi Strasser
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Where is it happening?
421 Columbus Ave. , Grand Haven, MI, United States, Michigan 49417Event Location & Nearby Stays:
