[NEohioPAL] Audition notice: CYRANO DE BERGERAC

[Braelin Andrzejewski]

WESTERN RESERVE PLAYHOUSE IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE AUDITIONS FOR…

 CYRANO DE BERGERAC

 By: Edmond Rostand

Adapted and Directed by: August Scarpelli

Audition Dates:

Thursday December 8th from 630pm -10pm

Saturday December 10th from 2pm -6pm

Callbacks: By appointment, Sunday December 11th from approx. 11am -4pm

Performances: 02/03/23- 02/18/23

Rehearsals will begin ASAP based upon cast availability

What to prepare:

Please prepare a short speech in verse. Not exceeding 2 minutes. Whether it
be Shakespearean, another classical dramatis, or a Bukowski poem, all verse
is welcome. You may be asked to read sides from the script. Please bring
all known conflicts to auditions.

We recognize that auditions are rapidly approaching this publication. If
you do not feel like you have adequate time to prepare a verse speech on
your own please contact the director by email at august at thewrp.org. with a
headshot and resume to receive a side to prepare.



You may sign up here
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F4FACAA28A7F8C61-cyrano

for a 15-minute audition slot. Please bring a headshot and resume.

No equity contracts available at this time.

These roles are opened to all ethnicities and all gender identification.


Roles available:

Cyrano (Mid 20s+)- A poet, swordsman, scientist, playwright, musician, and
member of the Cadets of Gascoyne, a company of guards from Southern France.
For all his prodigious talents, Cyrano is “unattractive”, cursed with a
ridiculously long nose that makes him insecure and keeps him from revealing
his love for Roxane.

Roxane (20s+) - A beautiful and intellectual heiress. She has a soft spot
for romance and a love for poetry and wit.

Christian (20s+) - A handsome but simple young nobleman who lacks wit and
intelligence. New to Paris and to the cadets, he falls in love with Roxane
and joins Cyrano’s company of cadets early in the play. His good looks are
matched only by Roxane’s.

Ragueneau (30s+) - Cyrano’s friend, a pastry chef with a deep love for
poetry. Ragueneau gives away pastries in return for poems, and, therefore,
innumerable poets visit him frequently. He reflects the theme that poetry
is food for the soul, and underlines the division between the physical and
spiritual aspects of the world. After his business fails, he becomes
Roxane’s porter.

De Guiche (40s+) - A powerful, married nobleman in love with Roxane and not
fond of Cyrano. Deceitful and always angry, he attempts several times to
have Cyrano killed, once by a hundred men.

Le Bret (20s+) - Cyrano’s friend and closest confidant. He is a fellow
soldier and guardsman. Le Bret worries that Cyrano’s principles will ruin
his career, but Cyrano ignores Le Bret’s concerns.

Carbon (30s+) - Cyrano’s friend and the captain of his company. He is a
strong-willed and successful leader.

Ligniere (20s+) - Christian’s friend, a satirist and drunkard with many
powerful enemies. Cyrano protects him from the hundred men hired by de
Guiche to ambush him.

Valvert (20s+) - An insolent young nobleman lauded by de Guiche as a
possible husband for Roxane, a scheme that would give de Guiche access to
Roxane. After he insults Cyrano’s nose, he is defeated in an ensuing duel.

Lise (30s+)- Rageneau’s Wife

Duenna (30s+) - Roxane’s companion and chaperone,who tries to keep Roxane
out of trouble. She is a character reminiscent of Juliet’s nurse in Romeo
and Juliet.

Montfleury (30s+) - A fat, untalented actor whom Cyrano bans from the stage.

Other :Bellerose, Joudelet, Cuigy, Mother Marguerie, Sister Marthe, Sister
Claire,  Cadets, Marquis’, a meddler, a Musketeer, a Spanish Officer, a
Cavalier, a Porter, a Citizen, his son, a Cut-Purse, a spectator,
Pastry-cooks, Pages, Poets, Musicians, a Sentry, The flower girl, The
orange girl, ETC…

 Most actors (other than those cast as Cyrano, Roxane, Christain, and De
Guiche) may be asked to play many roles.

** If you have any questions, or would like to audition but are unavailable
at the prescribed times, please do not hesitate to contact the director at
august at thewrp.org.


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   Video submissions are also accepted, they are due by Sunday 12/11@ 4pm.
   Contact the Director, August Scarpelli @ august at thewrp.org ahead of time
   for instructions.


-- 
Braelin Andrzejewski
Content/Marketing Coordinator
Western Reserve Playhouse
3326 Everett Road, Bath, Ohio 44286
330-203-1007
www.thewrp.org

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