[NEohioPAL] Auditions for The Music Man - Akron

[Janis Harcar]

Weathervane Playhouse

1301 Weathervane Lane

Akron, OH  44313-5186

330-836-2626

 

The Music Man – by Meredith Wilson

Auditions by Appointment

April 7 from 4 – 9 p.m.

April 8 from 7 – 9 p.m.

Call 330-836-2626  for appointments

Preparation:

Prepare 32 bars of music, dress to dance, there may be readings from the script

Plan on auditions taking approximately 30 minutes.

Open to anyone ages 6 and up.

Families are encouraged to audition together.

Those interested in the barbershop quartet should audition together.

All roles are open.

Synopsis: There’s trouble in River City, my friends and Professor Harold Hill has the antidote – an all-boys marching band!

SETTING:   River City, Iowa

Rehearsals will begin Sunday, April 14 at 6 p.m. They will generally be M-Th 7 p.m. -9 p.m. and Sundays 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Cast Requirements: 

CHARACTERS

Professor Harold Hill – a dynamic con man / Baritone (A flat – High F)

Marian Paroo – a by-the-book librarian / Soprano (Low G – High A)

Winthrop – Marian’s little brother / Alton (C – E flat)

Mrs. Paroo – Marian’s Irish mother / Mezzo (A flat – E flat)

Mayor Shinn – Chorus

Eulalie Shinn – the Mayor’s peacock wife / Alto (D – D)

The Barbershop Quarter – bickering school board members / 4 Men (Tenor, Lead, Baritone, Bass)

Pickalittle Ladies – Eulalie’s 4 gossipy friends in the chorus

Marcellus – Harold’s chummy friend / Tenor (G – High A)

Amaryllis – Marian’s young piano student / Alto (C – E)

Tommy – the town bad boy, teen or young adult, dancer / Chorus

Zaneeta – the Mayor’s daffy daughter, teen or young adult, dancer / Chorus

Eight Traveling Salesmen – perform “Rock Island”

Constable Locke –Character role / Chorus            `

Townspeople – Chorus

Children -- Chorus

Director: Sarah Elaine Bailey has directed ten consecutive seasons of Weathervane’s annual Young Actor Series production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. This past summer, she directed Weathervane’s Young Actor Series production of Annie. Her other Weathervane directorial credits include 2011’s Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella 2010’s Seussical, 2009’s Madeline and the Gypsies, 2008’s Go, Dog. Go! and 2006’s Madeline’s Rescue. As a performer on the Weathervane stage, this past June and July she played Trix (the aviatrix) in The Drowsy Chaperone. Other Weathervane performance credits include Sister Margaretta in 2006’s The Sound of Music and Sister Amnesia in 2004’s Nunsense (for which she won a Chanticleer Award, the Playhouse’s version of the Tony Award!). She has taught Weathervane youth-theater classes for nearly a decade. Since September 2010, as Weathervane’s Education Outreach Coordinator, she has also assisted the Playhouse’s education department in coordinating the hiring and training of the many teachers who staff the Playhouse’s participation in Akron After School (on-site, after-school theater-education classes at dozens of Akron Public Schools facilities). She received her bachelor’s in music from Ohio Northern University and her master’s in music and pedagogy from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. She has sung at Carnegie Hall with the New York Philharmonic and was a grand finalist in Guangdong, China, International Vocal Competition and has also performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland. Her favorite roles include Adele in Die Fledermaus, Juliette in Romeo and Juliette and a Cherubino in Le Nozze de Figaro.

 

SHARON DOBBINS ALBERSON (Musical Director) is a graduate of Kent State University School of Music and was a Blossom Music Scholar with the Cleveland Orchestra. A graduate of The University of Akron School of Law, Harvard Divinity School and Oxford University, Sharon is a minister, lawyer and musician. She is the founder and director of Faith Musicals, a faith-based musical company that produces eight original musicals for the benefit of local and national charities. For Weathervane Playhouse, she served as the musical director for the 2009, 2011 and 2012 productions of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella in 2011, Seussical in 2010 – and most recently she served in the same capacity for this past summer’s production of Annie.

Run Dates: June 6 - 30, 2013

Thursdays at 7:30 p.m, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2:30 p.m. 

Weathervane Playhouse is a community theater. All actors and designers are volunteers.

Janis Harcar
Director of Advancement
Weathervane Playhouse
330-836-2626 X16
jharcar at weathervaneplayhouse.com



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