[NEohioPAL]Lakeland Auditions for PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME!

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Lakeland Theatre 

announces auditions for

Philadelphia,Here I Come!

by 

Brian Friel

Directed by Sarah May  

Sets and Lights Designed by Keith Nagy

Costumes Designed by Craig Tucker     

Sound Design by Bill Amato

 Dialect Coach Chuck Richie

Produced by Martin Friedman

THE STORY:

On the night before he is to depart for Philadelphia, an Irishman looks over the humdrum life he is leaving and wonders. As the housekeeper putters about, his father again engages the canon in a daring game of checkers. Later the lads toddle in to have a word of farewell. It is a moribund place. It will be good to leave his father and the gulf of their misunderstanding, as well as the bragging of the boys about their girls. It means leaving the girl who was is fond of him, but Philadelphia beckons more strongly. Toward the climax, the aunt and uncle with whom he will be staying in the U.S. appear and they are shockingly unstylish. This tale is told with a humorous doppelganger technique: opposite the youth is his devilish and ever Irish alter ego who keeps popping irreverent thoughts into his head and keeps the proceedings hilariously restive. "A funny ... [and] affecting play." N.Y. Herald Tribune. 

Auditions:

Auditions will be held at Lakeland on Wednesday, June 1 and Thursday, June 2 at 7:00PM.  Auditions are held in the Performing Arts Center at Lakeland Community College. Actors should be prepared to read from the script. Appointments are not necessary. 

Directions: To get to Lakeland Community College: take I 90 East and get off at Route #306.  Turn right on #306 and head south (away from the lake) till you hit your first traffic light. Turn left (into Lakeland Community College) and get into the right hand lane. Turn right at the stop sign and right at the next stop sign. Turn right at that stop sign and then head down the lane and turn left into the faculty/staff parking lot. The theatre is in Building D, just left of the clocktower. If there is construction work park in the student lots to your left (after you turn left into the College).

Rehearsals: Will begin August 29.

Production Dates: 

Friday, September 30 through Sunday, October 16, 2005 (3 weeks). There will be a minimum of 11 performances with a student matinee to scheduled. All roles are compensated.

NOTE: Actors do not have to audition in an Irish dialect, although they are encouraged to “give it a try!”   Chuck Richie, well known area actor and teacher, will be the dialect coach on the production.

There are roles for 3 women (20-70) and 10 men (20-70.)

The roles are:

Madge: 50-70, devoted housekeeper and the only mother Gar has known.

Kate Doogan: 20’s, the love of Gar’s life; sweet, vibrant, upper class background.

Lizzy Sweeney: 45-55, Gar’s Aunt visiting from America, garrulous and tipsy.

Gareth (in Public) 20’s, full of hope and regret, with an awkward, boyish charm.

Gareth (in Private) 20-35, wiser, cynical, full of mischief, Gar’s alter-ego.

S. B. O’Donnell: 60’s, Gar’s father, a withdrawn, silent, bitter shop-owner.

Senator Doogan: 50’s, Kate’s straight-laced father, a self-important politician.

Master Boyle: 50-60, Gar’s former schoolmaster, a failed and alcoholic poet.

Con Sweeney: 50’s, Lizzy’s husband, a patient and hen-pecked man.

Ben Burton: 40-55:  The Sweeney’s friend visiting from America.

Ned, Tom, and Joe: 20’s, three young Irish fellas trapped in a life with no hope

Canon Mick O’Byrne:60’s, the village priest, well-meaning, but out of touch.

 Sorry, there are no Equity contracts at this time. All roles are compensated.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

Brian Friel is considered by most to be the greatest living Irish playwright. He carries on the tradition of J. M. Synge and Sean O’Casey in capturing the heart and history of his people with plays that are at once poetic, humorous, and tragic. 

Born in Northern Ireland in 1929 Friel was trained in the seminary and worked as a teacher before turning to a career as a journalist and a writer of short stories. In 1963 he accepted a residency at the new Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis where he began work on his first major play PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME.  The play won him instant recognition and was a huge success in Dublin, London, and on Broadway. 

 In 1980 Friel,  along with poet laureate Seamus Heaney and the young actor Stephen Rea, established the Field Day Theatre in Derry, with the idea of promoting “cross border” collaborations among Protestant and Catholic theatre artists from both Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic and to address issues of cultural hatred and misunderstanding. 

 In the past 40 years he has had numerous plays produced on Broadway and around the world, including LOVERS, FREEDOM OF THE CITY, FAITH HEALER, ARISTOCRATS, DANCING AT LUGHNASA (Tony Award Winner), WONDERFUL TENNESSEE, and MOLLY SWEENEY.  Most recently he wrote the screenplay for the film of LUGHNASA, and has translated many of Chekhov’s plays.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Sarah May is thrilled to be working at Lakeland for the first time.  Sarah is a well-known Cleveland area theatre director who began her career as a company member of The Cleveland Play House. Sarah spent 10 years in New York City performing, directing, and developing educational programs for Playwrights Horizons, Henry Street Settlement, and Roundabout Theatre.  

In Cleveland she has served as Director of Education for Great Lakes Theatre Festival and as Artistic Director of Karamu Theatre. She has taught acting at The Cleveland Play House, and Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, and for The Lincoln Center Institute and Lehman College in New York. 

She has been nominated for the Northern Ohio Live  Award of Achievement in Theatre on six occasions, and was the winner of the 2001 Award for her production of A PIECE OF MY HEART at Beck Center.  She was honored by The Scene Magazine, which named her Charenton Theatre production of SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION the “Best Theatre Production” of 2003; her BOY GETS GIRL at Beck Center was among the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s “10 Best Plays of 2003.”  

Most recently Sarah directed a revival of Lillian Hellman’s THE CHILDREN”S HOUR for The Beck Center for the Arts in Lakewood, Ohio and was a Guest Artist at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio where she directed Brian Friel’s TRANSLATIONS.

LAKELAND THEATRE SEASON:

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams  February 3-19, 2006

Sunday in the Park with George by Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by James Lapine  

July 14-30, 2006. 

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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=5><FONT size=4>Directed by</FONT> <FONT color=#0000bf>Sarah May</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P><STRONG>On the night before he is to depart for Philadelphia, an Irishman looks over the humdrum life he is leaving and wonders. As the housekeeper putters about, his father again engages the canon in a daring game of checkers. Later the lads toddle in to have a word of farewell. It is a moribund place. It will be good to leave his father and the gulf of their misunderstanding, as well as the bragging of the boys about their girls. It means leaving the girl who was is fond of him, but Philadelphia beckons more strongly. Toward the climax, the aunt and uncle with whom he will be staying in the U.S. appear and they are shockingly unstylish. This tale is told with a humorous doppelganger technique: opposite the youth is his devilish and ever Irish alter ego who keeps popping irreverent thoughts into his head and keeps the proceedings hilariously restive. "A funny ... [and] affecting play." N.Y. Herald Tribune. </STRONG></P></FONT></SPAN>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="comic sans ms" color=#000000 size=3>Auditions will be held at <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City><st1:place>Lakeland</st1:place></st1:City> on <FONT color=#bf005f><STRONG>Wednesday, June 1 and Thursday, June 2</STRONG></FONT> at <FONT color=#00007f size=4><STRONG>7:00PM</STRONG></FONT>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  Auditions are held in the Performing Arts Center at Lakeland Community College. </SPAN>Actors should be prepared to read from the script. Appointments are not necessary. </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="comic sans ms" color=#000000><FONT size=3><FONT color=#bf005f><STRONG>Directions:</STRONG></FONT> </FONT><FONT size=2>To get to Lakeland Community College: take I 90 East and get off at Route #306.  Turn right on #306 and head south (away from the lake) till you hit your first traffic light. Turn left (into Lakeland Community College) and get into the right hand lane. Turn right at the stop sign and right at the next stop sign. Turn right at that stop sign and then head down the lane and turn left into the faculty/staff parking lot. The theatre is in Building D, just left of the clocktower. If there is construction work park in the student lots to your left (after you turn left into the College).</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="comic sans ms" color=#000000 size=3>Friday, September 30 through Sunday, October 16, 2005 (3 weeks). There will be a minimum of 11 performances with a student matinee to scheduled. </FONT><FONT face="comic sans ms" color=#000000 size=3>All roles are compensated.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman"><U><FONT color=#0000bf><STRONG>NOTE:</STRONG></FONT></U> Actors do not have to audition in an Irish dialect, although they are encouraged to “give it a try!” <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>Chuck Richie, well known area actor and teacher, will be the dialect coach on the production.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#40007f size=3><STRONG>There are roles for 3 women (20-70) and 10 men (20-70.)</STRONG></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="comic sans ms"><FONT color=#7f003f><STRONG>The roles are:<o:p></o:p></STRONG></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3><FONT color=#00007f><STRONG>Madge</STRONG></FONT>: 50-70, devoted housekeeper and the only mother Gar has known.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3><STRONG><FONT color=#00007f>Kate Doogan</FONT></STRONG>: 20’s, the love of Gar’s life; sweet, vibrant, upper class background.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3><FONT color=#40007f><STRONG>Lizzy Sweeney</STRONG></FONT>: 45-55, Gar’s Aunt visiting from <st1:country-region><st1:place>America</st1:place></st1:country-region>, garrulous and tipsy.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3><FONT color=#00007f><STRONG>Gareth (in Public)</STRONG></FONT> 20’s, full of hope and regret, with an awkward, boyish charm.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3><FONT color=#00007f><STRONG>Gareth (in Private)</STRONG></FONT> 20-35, wiser, cynical, full of mischief, Gar’s alter-ego.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3><FONT color=#00007f><STRONG>S. B. O’Donnell</STRONG></FONT>: 60’s, Gar’s father, a withdrawn, silent, bitter shop-owner.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3><FONT color=#00007f><STRONG>Senator Doogan</STRONG></FONT>: 50’s, Kate’s straight-laced father, a self-important politician.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3><FONT color=#00007f><STRONG>Master Boyle</STRONG></FONT>: 50-60, Gar’s former schoolmaster, a failed and alcoholic poet.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3><FONT color=#40007f><STRONG>Con Sweeney</STRONG></FONT>: 50’s, Lizzy’s husband, a patient and hen-pecked man.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3><FONT color=#00007f><STRONG>Ben Burton</STRONG></FONT>: 40-55:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>The Sweeney’s friend visiting from <st1:place><st1:country-region>America</st1:country-region></st1:place>.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3><FONT color=#00007f><STRONG>Ned, Tom, and Joe</STRONG></FONT>: 20’s, three young Irish fellas trapped in a life with no hope</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3><FONT color=#00007f><STRONG>Canon Mick O’Byrne</STRONG></FONT>:60’s, the village priest, well-meaning, but out of touch.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3> <FONT color=#00007f><STRONG>Sorry, there are no Equity contracts at this time. All roles are compensated.</STRONG></FONT></FONT></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><U><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#bf005f>ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></U></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Brian Friel</B> is considered by most to be the greatest living Irish playwright. He carries on the tradition of J. M. Synge and Sean O’Casey in capturing the heart and history of his people with plays that are at once poetic, humorous, and tragic. </FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>Born in <st1:place><st1:country-region>Northern Ireland</st1:country-region></st1:place> in 1929 Friel was trained in the seminary and worked as a teacher before turning to a career as a journalist and a writer of short stories. In 1963 he accepted a residency at the new Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in <st1:City>Minneapolis</st1:City> where he began work on his first major play <st1:place><st1:City><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">PHILADELPHIA</B></st1:City></st1:place><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">, HERE I COME</B>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>The play won him instant recognition and was a huge success in <st1:City>Dublin</st1:City>, <st1:City><st1:place>London</st1:place></st1:City>, and on Broadway. </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000> </FONT></o:p><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">In 1980 Friel,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>along with poet laureate Seamus Heaney and the young actor Stephen Rea, established the Field Day Theatre in Derry, with the idea of promoting “cross border” collaborations among Protestant and Catholic theatre artists from both Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic and to address issues of cultural hatred and misunderstanding. <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><U><o:p></o:p></U></B></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><U><o:p><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: none"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000> </FONT></SPAN></o:p></U></B><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>In the past 40 years he has had numerous plays produced on Broadway and around the world, including <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">LOVERS, FREEDOM OF THE CITY, FAITH HEALER, ARISTOCRATS, DANCING AT LUGHNASA </B>(Tony Award Winner)<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">, WONDERFUL </B><st1:State><st1:place><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TENNESSEE</B></st1:place></st1:State><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">, </B>and <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">MOLLY SWEENEY</B>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>Most recently he wrote the screenplay for the film of <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">LUGHNASA</B>, and has translated many of Chekhov’s plays.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT face="Times New Roman"><STRONG><FONT color=#bf005f>ABOUT THE DIRECTOR<o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></FONT></U></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Sarah May</SPAN></B> is thrilled to be working at <st1:place><st1:City>Lakeland</st1:City></st1:place> for the first time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>Sarah is a well-known <st1:place><st1:City>Cleveland</st1:City></st1:place> area theatre director who began her career as a company member of The Cleveland Play House. Sarah spent 10 years in <st1:place><st1:City>New York City</st1:City></st1:place> performing, directing, and developing educational programs for Playwrights Horizons, Henry Street Settlement, and Roundabout Theatre.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>In <st1:City><st1:place>Cleveland</st1:place></st1:City> she has served as Director of Education for Great Lakes Theatre Festival and as Artistic Director of Karamu Theatre. She has taught acting at The Cleveland Play House, and <st1:PlaceName>Cuyahoga</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Community College</st1:PlaceType> in <st1:City>Cleveland</st1:City>, and for The Lincoln Center Institute and <st1:PlaceName>Lehman</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>College</st1:PlaceType> in <st1:place><st1:State>New York</st1:State></st1:place>. </FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">She has been nominated for the <U>Northern Ohio Live</U><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN>Award of Achievement in Theatre on six occasions, and was the winner of the 2001 Award for her production of A PIECE OF MY HEART at <st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Beck</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She was honored by <U>The Scene Magazine</U>, which named her Charenton Theatre production of SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION the “Best Theatre Production” of 2003; her BOY GETS GIRL at <st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Beck</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> was among the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s “10 Best Plays of 2003.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">Most recently Sarah directed a revival of Lillian Hellman’s <B>THE CHILDREN”S HOUR </B>for The Beck Center for the Arts in Lakewood, Ohio and was a Guest Artist at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio where she directed Brian Friel’s <B>TRANSLATIONS.<o:p></o:p></B></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><STRONG><FONT color=#438059>LAKELAND THEATRE SEASON:</FONT></STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG><FONT color=#438059><FONT size=5><FONT color=#6000bf>Cat on a Hot Tin Roof</FONT> <FONT size=3>by</FONT> </FONT><FONT size=4>Tennessee Williams</FONT>  February 3-19, 2006</FONT></STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG><FONT color=#438059><FONT color=#0000bf size=5>Sunday in the Park with George</FONT> by <FONT size=4>Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by James Lapine</FONT>  </FONT></STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG><FONT color=#438059>July 14-30, 2006. </FONT></STRONG></P>
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