[NEohioPAL] Stagecrafters Announces Auditions for the NEW musical "CHEER WARS"

[Gordon Leary]

Stagecrafters announces auditions
for it's Summer Stock production of

*CHEER WARS*
Book & Lyrics by Gordon Leary
Music by Karlan Judd

Produced by Wendy Lee Scott-Koeth
Directed by Gordon Leary
Music Direction by Amy Linden
Choreography by Zachary Frank

Stagecrafters will present a workshop production of *Cheer Wars*.  This will
allow students the unique opportunity to look inside the development process
of a new musical.  Over the short rehearsal process, students will work with
the writers to put a stamp on this developing musical before it returns to
New York.

Auditions will take place on Saturday, May 23 from 1:00 to 6:00pm at the
Pepper Pike Learning Center, located at 32000 Chagrin Blvd. in Pepper Pike.
Callbacks will be held on Sunday, May 24.

Rehearsals will take place from Monday, August 3 to Friday, August 7 in the
evening, with full-day rehearsals Saturday, August 8 through Friday, August
14.  Performances will take place at the Chagrin Falls Performing Arts
Center on Friday, August 14 and Saturday, August 15.

*Please email cheerwars at gmail.com to schedule an audition appointment.*
Walk-ins are welcome.  Auditioners should come prepared with a country or
contemporary musical theater selection (accompanist will be provided.)

Stagecrafters Summer Stock is open to students entering high school in the
fall of 2009 through spring 2009 college graduates.  All participants are
responsible for a registration fee and ad sales, to be detailed at
auditions.

*Cheer Wars* tells the story of Doretha Bolingbroke, the former captain and
current coach of the New London Lady Leopard Varsity Cheer Squad.  She hopes
to keep the royal bloodline in tact now that her daughter Halle is a senior,
but Halle is reluctant to inherit her mother’s cheer throne.  When former
rival Nuella Percy arrives back in New London with her cheerleading-machine
of a daughter Charmain to reclaim her place in cheerdom, familial bonds are
tested against the lust for power and the right to rule.  Inspired by
Shakespeare’s *Henry IV, part 1* and the true story of Wanda Holloway.

*Cheer Wars* is the recipient of the 2009 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical
Theatre.  The intent of the Richard Rodgers Award is to nurture the careers
of talented composers and playwrights, and to have their musicals produced
in New York City. Former award recipients include Maury Yeston (*Nine*),
Jonathan Larson (*Rent*), Julie Taymor and Elliot Goldenthal (*Juan Darien*),
Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (*Lucky Stiff)*, and Jeanine Tesori and
Brian Crawley (*Violet*).  This year's jury included Stephen Sondheim
(chair), Lynn Ahrens, John Guare, Sheldon Harnick, David Ives, Richard
Maltby, Jr., and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

For more information, please email cheerwars at gmail.com.
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