[NEohioPAL]Final Casting: show to give audience 'experience' of The Underground Railroad

[toomey at alumni.nd.edu]

Garfield Park Nature Center is preparing an experience that will immerse
audience members into some of the sights, sounds, and feelings that =
escaping
slaves faced on their journeys to freedom along The Underground =
Railroad.

Six performances run 9/23/04 - mid-October.
At the Garfield Park Nature Center.

Attendees start the evening by being sold at auction.
Then the group hears a whisper, offering to lead them in a frantic dash =
to
freedom.
"Escaping" audience members follow hushed instructions.
Meet kind, supportive, average people who offer food and shelter.
Get betrayed into the hands of runaway-catchers.
And eventually follow the drinking gourd to safety in Canada.

Roles available:

Especially need:
Two African-American males to play escaped slaves who are helped by
tonight's audience.

One white male guitar player and vocalist
Several white male plantation owners, slavers, slave catchers, etc. =
(some
speaking roles)
Several females:  white and black:  slave leaders, trek sweeps (ensuring
nobody got lost), women encountered along the way (all speaking roles).
Several women to help prepare and serve refreshments at the final stop: =
"The
Inn in Canada".

Production:
Organizational meeting 8/3 6:30-8, light dinner provided.

Call Carl,
Garfield Park Nature Center
216-341-3152