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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Beck Center for the Arts Youth Theater is scheduling auditions for the final production of our 2012-2013 Season:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><u><span style="font-size:36.0pt">Our Town<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></h6>
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<b>Written by </b>Thornton Wilder<b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<b>Directed by </b>Jonathan Kronenberger<span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Narrated by a stage manager and performed with minimal props and sets, audiences follow the Webb and Gibbs families as their children fall in love, marry, and eventually—in one of the most famous scenes in American theatre—die.
<i>Our Town</i> reminds us to recognize that life is both precious and ordinary, and that these two fundamental truths are intimately connected.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Audition dates:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">(open to all registered Beck Students ages 6 to 19)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Saturday, September 15: 2:30 to 6:30 pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">& Sunday, September 16: 1:00 to 5:00 pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Callbacks: Monday, Sept. 17 from 5:00 - 7:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoBlockText" style="margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Please sign up for a one hour time slot at Beck Center’s Customer Service Desk (216.521.2540 x10).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt">What to Prepare:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoBlockText" style="margin-left:0in"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Students are asked to prepare a short speech. Older actors should present their audition monologue. Younger and/or newer actors can use a
simple nursery rhyme or poem to recite. Memorization is encouraged.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Rehearsals: September 24 – October 27, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></u></h5>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Mon, Tue, Weds, Thurs, Fri: 5:00 pm – 8:00pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Saturdays: 2:30pm – 6:30pm; Sundays: 1:00-5:00pm</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Please be advised that we will not use all the weekday or weekend times, we are just seeing what days work best for schedules. Also, not all cast members will be required to attend every rehearsal or the full time.
An initial rehearsal schedule will be distributed at the first rehearsal and parent orientation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Tech Week:</span></u></b><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt">
<b>October 28 – October 31, 2012<o:p></o:p></b></span></u></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Sunday from 1:00 – 9:00pm and Weekdays 5:00-9:00pm</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">All cast members are required to attend ALL rehearsals during
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Tech Week. Again, the full time may not be needed. We most likely will not rehearse on Halloween.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Performance dates: November 1-4, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Mackey Main Stage Theater<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">All cast members are required to attend ALL Performances!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Student Matinee: Thursday, November 1 at 10:00am
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> <i>(NOTE: This will require missing school that morning.)<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Friday, November 2 at 7:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Saturday, November 3 at 3:00pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Sunday, November 4 at 3:00pm</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Auditions are open to all Beck Center of the Arts students registered for 2012 Fall classes ... in any of our areas: dance, music, theater, visual arts and creative arts therapies. Classes started September 8 but there are
some openings remaining - so there isn’t a moment to lose!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Stop by the Beck Center for the Arts at 17801 Detroit in Lakewood, enroll online at
<a href="http://www.beckcenter.org">www.beckcenter.org</a> or call 216-521-2540 x10 and sign up for classes and auditions today!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">We'll see you at the auditions!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Beck Center is located at 17801 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood, Ohio. Beck Center for the Arts is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization that offers professional theater productions on two stages, arts education programming in dance, music, theater, visual arts,
early childhood, and creative arts therapies for special needs students, and gallery exhibits featuring local and regional artists. For more information about the Beck Center, visit our website at
<a href="http://www.beckcenter.org">www.beckcenter.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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