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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>DOBAMA Theatre – <i>Audition
Notice<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>A STEADY RAIN by Keith Huff<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Audition
Dates/Times: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sun,
11/7, 6:00 – 9:00<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Mon,
11/8, 7:00 – 10:00<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Place:
</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dobama
Theatre, 2340 Lee Road, Cleveland Hts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Director:
</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Joel
Hammer<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p style='margin-top:.1pt'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Synopsis:
</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>One
night on a routine call, two Chicago cops begin a journey over three harrowing
days that will change their lives forever. Joey and Denny are longtime partners
and best friends. They are also men with flaws. Joey is single, a recovering
alcoholic and lonely. Denny is married with children, but there are clearly
secrets. What begins as a domestic disturbance call snowballs into an avalanche
and the friends are eventually forced to offer their differing accounts of what
happened.<i> A Steady Rain </i>is the investigation where the audience becomes
the jury and Joey and Denny’s lives become changed forever. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin-top:.1pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"Enough
fiery, superbly rendered, often deeply poetic speeches, enough mood shifts,
enough emotional cataclysms and action-packed storytelling to keep this hallucinatory
roller-coaster ride in exciting motion.”<br>
-<i>Variety</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Characters:
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Joey:
Age 30-40, Chicago cop, southside Chicago accent<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Denny:
Age 30-40, Joey’s partner, southside Chicago accent<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Production
dates: </span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>February
25 – March 20, 2011<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Audition:
</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Auditions
will be readings from the script. Sides available via email.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>AEA
contracts: </span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>There
are 1-2 AEA Contracts available for this production. (AEA contracts are based
on the Special Appearance Agreement).<br>
Non-AEA Contracts will pay $450 each.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>*Please
contact Dobama @ (216) 932-6838 or email jfriedman@dobama.org to arrange a date
& time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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