[NEohioPAL] Auditions for All in the Timing by David Ives

[Tim Anderson, Education Director]

Broadview Heights Spotlights' Audition Notice 

All in the Timing 
by David Ives 

Sunday, January 9 or Monday, January 10, 2011
6:00PM 

Broadview Heights Cultural Arts Building 
(located next to the Police Department)
9543 Broadview Road
Broadview Heights, OH  44147  

Auditioners should attend one of the evenings and prepare a one-minute, contemporary, comedic monologue.  The audition will also consist of readings from the scripts and improvisation activities.  

Callbacks, if needed, will be Wednesday, January 12 at 6:00PM.  

Show dates are Fridays and Saturdays, February 25 - March 12, with a Sunday matinee on March 6.  

Each of the six one-act plays will utilize a different director, each of whom will be present at the auditions.  17 roles need to be cast.  Actors and actresses of all ages are encouraged to attend.  It is possible for an actor/actress to be cast in more than one of the pieces.  Each of the one-acts will rehearse in January and February at the availabilities of the director and cast members.
  "Sure Thing," directed by Christopher Bizub, is a classic of contemporary comedy: Two people meet in a cafe and find their way through a conversational minefield as a bell interrupts their false starts, gaffes, and faux pas on the way to falling in love.
    Characters:
    Bill: Male; unassuming, average nice-guy
    Betty: Female; pleasant, confident
  "Words, Words, Words" directed by Dane Leasure, recalls the philosophical adage that three monkeys typing into infinity will sooner or later produce Hamlet and asks: What would monkeys talk about at their typewriters?
    Characters:
    Milton: Male monkey; not age specific; the intellectual
    Swift: Male monkey; not age specific; the rabble rousing proletarian
    Kafka: Female monkey; not age specific; the sensible one
  "The Universal Language," directed by Daniel Takacs, brings together Dawn, a young woman with a stutter, and Don, the creator and teacher of Unamunda, a wild comic language. Their lesson sends them off into a dazzling display of hysterical verbal pyrotechnics-and, of course, true love.
    Characters:
    Don: Male; The tutor; very eccentric; actor must be able to memorize nonsense language and employ physical gestures to communicate
    Dawn: Female; self-conscious woman with a stutter who enrolls in class in Unamunda. Actor must be good listener. Breaks out of her shell by the end
  "Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread," directed by Tim Anderson, is a musical parody vignette in trademark Glassian style, with the celebrated composer having a moment of existential crisis in a bakery.
    Characters:
    Two Males & Two Females; rhythmic timing and nuisance are necessities
  "The Philadelphia," directed by Andre Yudushkin, presents a young man in a restaurant who has fallen into "a Philadelphia," a Twilight Zone-like state in which he cannot get anything he asks for. His only way out of the dilemma? He asks for the opposite of what he wants.
    Characters:
    Al: Male; slick, very "Hollywood"
    Waitress: Female; frank; straightforward.
    Mark: Male; high strung.
  "Variations on the Death of Trotsky," directed by Scott Gorbach, shows us the Russian revolutionary on the day of his demise, desperately trying to cope with the mountain-climber's axe he's discovered in his head.
    Characters:
    Trotsky: Male; must play 55-60; energetic revolutionary
    Mrs. Trotsky: Female; must play 55-60; matronly
    Ramon: Male: 30's-40's; pleasant; Mexican accent
For more information, contact Tim Anderson at education at broadview-heights-spotlights.org.
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