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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><STRONG>Broadview Heights Spotlights' Audition
Notice </STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=5>All in the Timing</FONT> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>by David Ives </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Sunday, January 9 <EM><STRONG>or</STRONG></EM>
Monday, January 10, 2011</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>6:00PM </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Broadview Heights Cultural Arts Building
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>(located next to the Police
Department)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>9543 Broadview Road</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Broadview Heights, OH 44147
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><STRONG>Auditioners should attend one of the
evenings and prepare a one-minute, contemporary, comedic monologue. The
audition will also consist of readings from the scripts and improvisation
activities. </STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Callbacks, if needed, will be Wednesday, January 12
at 6:00PM. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Show dates are Fridays and Saturdays, February 25 –
March 12, with a Sunday matinee on March 6. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Each of the six one-act plays will utilize a
different director, each of whom will be present at the auditions. 17
roles need to be cast. Actors and actresses of all ages are encouraged to
attend. It is possible for an actor/actress to be cast in more than
one of the pieces. Each of the one-acts will rehearse in January and
February at the availabilities of the director and cast
members.</FONT></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" dir=ltr>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2 face=Arial>"Sure Thing," directed by Christopher
Bizub, is a </FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial>classic of contemporary
comedy: Two people meet in a cafe and find their way through a conversational
minefield as a bell interrupts their false starts, gaffes, and faux pas on the
way to falling in love.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Characters:<BR>Bill: Male; unassuming,
average nice-guy<BR>Betty: Female; pleasant,
confident</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2 face=Arial>"Words, Words, Words" directed by Dane
Leasure, r</FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial>ecalls the philosophical adage that
three monkeys typing into infinity will sooner or later produce
<EM>Hamlet</EM> and asks: What would monkeys talk about at their
typewriters?</FONT></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" dir=ltr>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Characters:<BR>Milton: Male monkey; not age
specific; the intellectual<BR>Swift: Male monkey; not age specific; the
rabble rousing proletarian<BR>Kafka: Female monkey; not age specific; the
sensible one</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>"The Universal Language," directed by Daniel
Takacs, brings together Dawn, a young woman with a stutter, and Don, the
creator and teacher of Unamunda, a wild comic language. Their lesson sends
them off into a dazzling display of hysterical verbal pyrotechnics—and, of
course, true love.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Characters:<BR>Don: Male; The tutor; very
eccentric; actor must be able to memorize nonsense language and employ
physical gestures to communicate<BR>Dawn: Female; self-conscious woman
with a stutter who enrolls in class in Unamunda. Actor must be good
listener. Breaks out of her shell by the end</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>"Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread," directed by
Tim Anderson, is a musical parody vignette in trademark
Glassian style, with the celebrated composer having a moment of existential
crisis in a bakery.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Characters:<BR>Two Males & Two Females;
rhythmic timing and nuisance are necessities</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>"The Philadelphia," directed by Andre Yudushkin,
presents a young man in a restaurant who has fallen into "a Philadelphia," a
Twilight Zone-like state in which he cannot get anything he asks for. His only
way out of the dilemma? He asks for the opposite of what he
wants.</FONT></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" dir=ltr>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Characters:<BR>Al: Male; slick, very
“Hollywood”<BR>Waitress: Female; frank; straightforward.<BR>Mark:
Male; high strung.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>"Variations on the Death of Trotsky," directed by
Scott Gorbach, shows us the Russian revolutionary on the day of his demise,
desperately trying to cope with the mountain-climber's axe he's discovered in
his head.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Characters:<BR>Trotsky: Male; must play 55-60;
energetic revolutionary<BR>Mrs. Trotsky: Female; must play 55-60;
matronly<BR>Ramon: Male: 30’s-40’s; pleasant; Mexican
accent</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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