[NEohioPAL] Auditions - Twelve Angry Jurors

[Annette Phelps]

The Broadview Heights Spotlights Community Theater is seeking 15 adults (men and women) for its Spring production, “Twelve Angry Jurors”. Auditions will be held on Sunday, March 2nd (2-5PM) and Monday, March 3rd (7-10PM) at the Cultural Arts Building on the Broadview Center property, 9543 Broadview (1/2 mile south of Rt. 82).  The Cultural Arts Building is next to the Police Department.   The audition will consist of readings from the script.  No advance preparation is required.  Show dates are May 9-24, 2008.  Bob Kmiecik is directing the show.  For more information, call 440/526-4404.
   
Show synopsis:  Twelve Angry Jurors is a drama by R. Rose and S. Sergel.  It is about a 19-year-old man who has just stood trial for the fatal stabbing of his father. "He doesn't stand a chance," mutters the guard as the 12 jurors are taken into the bleak jury room. It looks like an open-and-shut case—until one of the jurors begins opening the others' eyes to the facts. "This is a remarkable thing about democracy," says the foreign-born juror, "that we are notified by mail to come down to this place—and decide on the guilt or innocence of a man; of a man we have not known before. We have nothing to gain or lose by our verdict. We should not make it a personal thing." But personal it does become, with each juror revealing his or her own character as the various testimonies are re-examined, the murder is re-enacted and a new murder threat is born before their eyes! Tempers get short, arguments grow heated, and the jurors become angry.