[NEohioPAL]AUDITIONS - boy's choir in "The Man Who Came to Dinner" at Berea Summer Theatre
FSternfeld at aol.com
FSternfeld at aol.com
Mon Apr 29 21:07:02 PDT 2002
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The adult cast is complete for The Man Who Came to Dinner.
To see who is in the cast you can visit:
<A HREF="http://www.fredsternfeld.com">http://www.fredsternfeld.com</A>
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Seeking 6 boys for a choir.
The boys should be ages 7-13.
Their voices should not have changed yet.
The boys are in one scene and sing "Silent Night."
AUDITION INFORMATION
FOR THE BOY'S CHOIR
for
The Man Who Came to Dinner
by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman
Directed by <A HREF="http://www.fredsternfeld.com/">Fred Sternfeld</A>
AUDITIONS WILL BE HELD
Wednesday, May 8 at 7:00pm
in the Kleist Art & Drama Center
on the campus of Baldwin-Wallace College
at the corner of Beech St. and Bagley Rd. in Berea, Ohio.
No appointment is needed
No preparation necessary.
For the audition, you will be taught "Silent Night" in parts
and participate in some theatre games.
Rehearsals will begin in early July.
The rehearsal commitment will be minimal until the last 8-10 days.
Production Dates: Previewing Tuesday, July 30, Opening Wednesday, July 31 and
running through Saturday, August 17, 2002. Wednesdays-Saturdays at 8:00pm;
Sunday, August 4 at 2:00pm; Sunday, August 11 at 2:00pm and 8:00pm.
As the play opens, Mr Sheridan Whiteside - world-renowned journalist,
lecturer and radio broadcaster - has been laid up with a fractured hip while
a guest in a small-town Ohio home. Still threatening lawsuits over the injury
he received by slipping on the front porch, Whiteside antagonizes the
household with his many demands, and commandeers the library, kitchen, and
living and dining rooms for his own private use.
Soon Whiteside's gang of glitterati descend upon the house, bringing all
kinds of eccentric gifts along with their Hollywood personalities. Whiteside,
meanwhile, is pestered by a local doctor (turned author) and a local
newspaperman who has written a play. When Whiteside learns that his treasured
secretary has fallen in love with the newspaperman, he hatches a devious
scheme to break up the budding romance.
The Man Who Came to Dinner is both a satire of and a love-letter to the
literary and pop-culture celebrities of its day. Whiteside is modeled on
Alexander Woollcott, a friend of the authors and one-time drama critic at the
New York Times, who parlayed his success as a reviewer into a career as a
lecturer, writer and broadcaster. The play's first audiences would have
recognized many other allusions to celebrities in the play, including
thinly-disguised portrayals of Noel Coward and Harpo Marx.
The Man Who Came to Dinner premiered at New York's Music Box Theatre in
October 1939, and ran for an amazing 739 performances. It was made into a
successful film in 1942, with Monty Woolley again playing Whiteside and Bette
Davis as his secretary. (Woolley played him again in a television version in
1952.) Far from being resentful over the somewhat unflattering portrait,
Woollcott himself acted the part of Whiteside in one of the play's many
touring productions. An unsuccessful musical version appeared on Broadway in
1967.
Between 1930 and 1940, George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart collaborated on eight
successful plays and musicals, and won a Pulitzer Prize for You Can't Take It
With You (1936). In their long careers they wrote dozens of plays, libretti
and screenplays, both separately and together. Both also won Tony awards as
directors, Kaufman with Guys and Dolls (1950) and Hart with My Fair Lady
(1956).
Moss Hart's rags-to-riches story is recounted in his wonderful autobiography
Act One (1959). Biographies of Kaufman include Howard Teichmann's George S.
Kaufman: An Intimate Portrait (1972) and Malcolm Goldstein's George S.
Kaufman: His Life, His Theater (1979). Howard Teichmann also published an
homage to Alexander Woollcott, Smart Aleck: The Wit, World and Life of
Alexander Woollcott (1976). Often books like these are out of print, but can
be found in libraries or antiquarian bookstores.
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<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>The adult cast is complete for <I>The Man Who Came to Dinner.</I><BR>
To see who is in the cast you can visit: <BR>
<A HREF="http://www.fredsternfeld.com">http://www.fredsternfeld.com</A></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff0000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=5 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><I>Seeking 6 boys for a choir. </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></I><BR>
The boys should be ages 7-13. <BR>
Their voices should not have changed yet. <BR>
The boys are in one scene and sing "Silent Night."<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=5 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">AUDITION INFORMATION<BR>
FOR THE BOY'S CHOIR</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=5 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
for<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#008000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=6 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><I>The Man Who Came to Dinner</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></I><BR>
</B> by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman<BR>
Directed by <A HREF="http://www.fredsternfeld.com/">Fred Sternfeld</A><BR>
<B><BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=5 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">AUDITIONS WILL BE HELD</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
Wednesday, May 8 at 7:00pm<BR>
in the Kleist Art & Drama Center <BR>
on the campus of Baldwin-Wallace College <BR>
at the corner of Beech St. and Bagley Rd. in Berea, Ohio. <BR>
No appointment is needed<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff0000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">No preparation necessary. <BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">For the audition, you will be taught "Silent Night" in parts <BR>
and participate in some theatre games. <BR>
<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff0000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Rehearsals</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"> will begin in early July. <BR>
The rehearsal commitment will be minimal until the last 8-10 days.</B><BR>
<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#ff0000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><B>Production Dates:</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"> Previewing Tuesday, July 30, Opening Wednesday, July 31 and running through Saturday, August 17, 2002. Wednesdays-Saturdays at 8:00pm; Sunday, August 4 at 2:00pm; Sunday, August 11 at 2:00pm and 8:00pm.</B><BR>
<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">As the play opens, Mr Sheridan Whiteside - world-renowned journalist, lecturer and radio broadcaster - has been laid up with a fractured hip while a guest in a small-town Ohio home. Still threatening lawsuits over the injury he received by slipping on the front porch, Whiteside antagonizes the household with his many demands, and commandeers the library, kitchen, and living and dining rooms for his own private use. </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Soon Whiteside's gang of glitterati descend upon the house, bringing all kinds of eccentric gifts along with their Hollywood personalities. Whiteside, meanwhile, is pestered by a local doctor (turned author) and a local newspaperman who has written a play. When Whiteside learns that his treasured secretary has fallen in love with the newspaperman, he hatches a devious scheme to break up the budding romance. <BR>
<BR>
The Man Who Came to Dinner is both a satire of and a love-letter to the literary and pop-culture celebrities of its day. Whiteside is modeled on Alexander Woollcott, a friend of the authors and one-time drama critic at the New York Times, who parlayed his success as a reviewer into a career as a lecturer, writer and broadcaster. The play's first audiences would have recognized many other allusions to celebrities in the play, including thinly-disguised portrayals of Noel Coward and Harpo Marx.<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">The Man Who Came to Dinner premiered at New York's Music Box Theatre in October 1939, and ran for an amazing 739 performances. It was made into a successful film in 1942, with Monty Woolley again playing Whiteside and Bette Davis as his secretary. (Woolley played him again in a television version in 1952.) Far from being resentful over the somewhat unflattering portrait, Woollcott himself acted the part of Whiteside in one of the play's many touring productions. An unsuccessful musical version appeared on Broadway in 1967.<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Between 1930 and 1940, George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart collaborated on eight successful plays and musicals, and won a Pulitzer Prize for You Can't Take It With You (1936). In their long careers they wrote dozens of plays, libretti and screenplays, both separately and together. Both also won Tony awards as directors, Kaufman with Guys and Dolls (1950) and Hart with My Fair Lady (1956).<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Moss Hart's rags-to-riches story is recounted in his wonderful autobiography Act One (1959). Biographies of Kaufman include Howard Teichmann's George S. Kaufman: An Intimate Portrait (1972) and Malcolm Goldstein's George S. Kaufman: His Life, His Theater (1979). Howard Teichmann also published an homage to Alexander Woollcott, Smart Aleck: The Wit, World and Life of Alexander Woollcott (1976). Often books like these are out of print, but can be found in libraries or antiquarian bookstores. </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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