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<div align="center"><b>AUDITION NOTICE<br>
Cleveland State University Summer Stages 2009<br>
</b>Michael L. Mauldin, Ph.D., Artistic Director<br>
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Rehearsals begin June 1, 2009<br>
Performance Dates: July 9 – August 9, 2009 (Thursday – Sunday)<br>
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EQUITY AND NON-EQUITY AUDITIONS: <br>
Friday, March 27 – 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.<br>
Saturday, March 28 – 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.<br>
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Call-backs: Sunday, March 29 - 1:00 p.m – 7:00 p.m.<br>
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Auditions will be held in the CSU Factory Theatre, 1833 East 23rd
Street, Cleveland, OH 44115<br>
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PREPARE: <br>
2 monologues—1 Shakespeare and 1 contemporary (total of 4 minutes) <br>
16 bars of a late 50’s or early 60’s pop song<br>
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APPOINTMENTS: <br>
Call 216-687-2113 or e-mail <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:g.williams@csuohio.edu">g.williams@csuohio.edu</a><br>
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<b><i>Chekhov In Yalta </i>by John Driver and Jeffrey Haddow, comedy,
7m, 4f.</b><br>
Confined in his villa at Yalta by illness in April of 1900, Chekhov
receives a delightful visit by the Moscow Art Theatre. They have
embarked on a provincial tour with the express purpose of persuading
Chekhov to give them his latest play. Noteworthy characters include
Stanislavski, Valdmir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Gorky, Ivan Buin and
actress Olga Knipper who Chekhov, a confirmed bachelor, contemplates
marrying even as he acknowledges his advancing consumption. The play
is criss-crossed with amorous triangles, battles of ego, high spirits
and melancholic languor reminiscent of Chekhov’s work.<br>
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<b><i>The Shadowbox</i> by Michael Cristofer, drama, 5 m, 4 f.</b><br>
In this Pulitzer Prize winning play, three terminal cancer patients
dwell in separate cottages on a hospital’s grounds. The play
dramatizes their anxieties and their coming to grips with the finality
of their condition –a preordained future whose only imponderable is its
exact length. The three are attended and visited by family and close
friends. <br>
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<b><i>Return to the Forbidden Planet </i>by Bob Carlton, musical, 7 m,
4 f.</b><br>
Blast off on a routine flight and crash into the planet D’Illyria
where a sci-fi version of The Tempest, set to rock and roll golden
oldies unfolds with glee. The planet is inhabited by a sinister
scientist, Dr. Prospero; his delightful daughter Miranda; Ariel, a
faithful robot on roller-skates; and an uncontrollable monster, the
product of Prospero’s Id, whose tentacles penetrate the space craft. <br>
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