[NEohioPAL] Open Auditions: Seasons To Win Against All Odds - The Ted Ginn Sr., Story

[Pierre Betts via NEohioPAL]

Let It Ride - Game Ready 4 Life Program
is holding Auditions for the production of

Seasons To Win
Against All Odds:  The Ted Ginn, Sr.
Story

Director:  Prester Pickett, M.F.A.

 Saturday              October 11, 2014           10:00am – 2:00pm



 

LOCATION                           Cleveland Treatment Center 
                                   1127 Carnegie Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio
44115                              (parking spaces located behind CTC and on the street)


 

CTC
is seeking Adult and Youth Actors, Singers, Dancers - Both paid and unpaid positions  

PRESENTATION DATES:  Friday/Saturday,  Dec. 19 & 20, 2014

Looking
for talent with a knowledge of team sports (football and/or track and field); and can sing
pop, R&B, Blues and hip-hop. 


ABOUT
THE PLAY:  Similar to "Remember the Titans", "Touchback" and "Friday Night Lights"


On the surface, Theodore “Ted” Ginn, Sr. is a highly
successful high school football coach in a state that is considered a hotbed
for high school football.  He’s gained
national attention for his football knowledge and ability to develop players
who have excelled at the collegiate and professional level.

But to truly appreciate Ted Ginn, you need to know the
man and the neighborhood he has spent a lifetime in.




The Glenville neighborhood was founded as a small
village.  At the turn of the 20th
century, it was mainly a resort community for Cleveland’s middle and upper
class who prospered as the city became an industrial giant.  Glenville was bordered to the north by Lake
Erie and the west by a tract of cultural gardens donated by John D Rockefeller
when the village was annexed by the City of Cleveland in 1905.


Through the years, Glenville had its’ share of notable
residents including the family of President James A. Garfield, Olympic Champion
Jesse Owens, and Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the creators of Superman.

But the neighborhood mirrored the decline for many
northern cities in the 1960s.  Poverty
led to crime and its companion offshoots of urban decay and substandard
education.  In short, the neighborhood
which was once a source of pride for Northeast Ohio became a national example
of violence and civil unrest.
Much like the neighborhood, the team was in a state
of disrepair, forced to compete against schools that were better funded and
better equipped.  Despite the conditions
and the challenges Ted Ginn had found his calling.  He went from player to volunteer coach,
earning a living as a factory worker and then security guard at Glenville.  

Finally, he earned his lifelong dream---head coach of
the Glenville Tarblooders.  The first
years were rough.  Wins were few.  But the man and the message preserved.  Discipline, building character, respect for
self and others became the X’s and O’s of life.   By teaching his team that football was just
a beginning, Ted Ginn and his Glenville Tarblooders became a point of pride for
an entire city.





CAST
OF CHARACTERS 


Ted Ginn, Sr.      Little
Ted Ginn      Mrs. Ginn (Wife)      Offensive
Coordinator/Guidance Counselor
Defensive
Coordinator/Teacher      Assistant Director - Ginn Academy      Grandmother      Grandfather
Pastor         Football/Track Coaches      CMSD Athletic Director      Sportscasters      Nurse     Doctor
Football
Players/Track Team      Cheerleaders


 

Questions?  Please contact Pierre Betts @ (216) 861-4246.




 		 	   		   		 	   		   		 	   		   		 	   		   		 	   		  
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