[NEOhioPAL]Advance Notice - Auditions for Sondheim's "Saturday Night" at Beck Center - directed by Fred Sternfeld

[Performing Arts News]

Written in 1954, "Saturday Night" began as a play by Julius J. and Philip G.
Epstein, the authors of the screenplay for Casablanca. Producer, Lemuel
Ayers, wanted to make a musical of the script, and the young Stephen
Sondheim was engaged to write the score. Money was secured to back a
production, but Ayers died suddenly, and the project ceased. "Saturday
Night" became part of the Sondheim lore, with individual songs from the show
occasionally turning up in various retrospectives and albums. A new life for
the musical began with The Bridewell Theatre Company in London, where it was
given its world premiere production in 1997, with the blessing of the
composer.

The story follows an ambitious young man from Brooklyn's Flatbush Avenue who
dreams of wealth and glamour across the bridge in the Manhattan of 1929

Beck Center will present the area premiere, auditions in late October of
2001; Opening in March of 2002.

For more specific information about audition dates, audition preparation,
production dates, characters, etc -- you can visit my website at
www.fredsternfeld.com

Warm Regards,
Fred Sternfeld