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<!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Weathervane Playhouse</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">1301 Weathervane Lane<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Akron, OH<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>44313-5186<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">330-836-2626<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"> </font></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span style="font-family: Times; ">The Music Man – </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family: Times; ">by
Meredith Wilson<o:p></o:p></span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family: Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Auditions
by Appointment<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family: Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">April 7
from 4 – 9 p.m.<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family: Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">April 8
from 7 – 9 p.m.<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family: Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Call
330-836-2626<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>for appointments<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Preparation:</font></span></p><p class="Body1"><span style="font-family:Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Prepare 32 bars of music, dress
to dance, there may be readings from the script<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="Body1"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family:
Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Plan on auditions taking approximately 30
minutes.</font></span></i></p><p class="Body1"><span style="font-family:Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Open to anyone ages 6 and up.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="Body1"><span style="font-family:Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Families are encouraged to
audition together.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="Body1"><span style="font-family:Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Those interested in the
barbershop quartet should audition together.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="Body1"><span style="font-family:Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">All roles are open.</font></span></p><p class="Body1"><span style="font-family:Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Synopsis: There’s trouble in
River City, my friends and Professor Harold Hill has the antidote – an all-boys
marching band!</font></span></p><p class="Body1"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span style="font-family:Times">SETTING</span></u></b><span style="font-family:Times">:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>River City, Iowa<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Rehearsals will begin Sunday, April
14 at 6 p.m. They will generally be M-Th 7 p.m. -9 p.m. and Sundays 6 p.m. - 9
p.m.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; ">Cast Requirements:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "> </span></font></p><p class="Body1"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span style="font-family:Times">CHARACTERS</span></u></b><span style="font-family:
Times"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Professor Harold Hill – a
dynamic con man / Baritone (A flat – High F)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Marian Paroo – a by-the-book
librarian / Soprano (Low G – High A)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Winthrop – Marian’s little
brother / Alton (C – E flat)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Mrs. Paroo – Marian’s Irish
mother / Mezzo (A flat – E flat)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Mayor Shinn – Chorus<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Eulalie Shinn – the Mayor’s
peacock wife / Alto (D – D)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">The Barbershop Quarter –
bickering school board members / 4 Men (Tenor, Lead, Baritone, Bass)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Pickalittle Ladies –
Eulalie’s 4 gossipy friends in the chorus<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Marcellus – Harold’s chummy
friend / Tenor (G – High A)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Amaryllis – Marian’s young
piano student / Alto (C – E)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Tommy – the town bad boy,
teen or young adult, dancer / Chorus<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Zaneeta – the Mayor’s daffy
daughter, teen or young adult, dancer / Chorus<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Eight Traveling Salesmen –
perform “Rock Island”<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Constable Locke –Character
role / Chorus<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>`<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Townspeople – Chorus<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Children -- Chorus</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4">Director: <b>Sarah Elaine Bailey </b>has
directed ten consecutive seasons of Weathervane’s annual Young Actor Series
production of <em>Joseph and the
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat</em>. This past summer, she directed
Weathervane’s Young Actor Series production of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Annie</i>. Her other Weathervane directorial credits include 2011’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella</i>
2010’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Seussical</i>, 2009’s <em>Madeline and the Gypsies</em>,
2008’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Go, Dog. Go!</i> and 2006’s <em>Madeline’s Rescue</em>. As a
performer on the Weathervane stage, this past June and July she played Trix
(the aviatrix) in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Drowsy Chaperone</i>.
Other Weathervane performance credits include Sister Margaretta in 2006’s <em>The Sound of Music</em> and Sister
Amnesia in 2004’s <em>Nunsense</em>
(for which she won a Chanticleer Award, the Playhouse’s version of the Tony
Award!). She has taught Weathervane youth-theater classes for nearly a decade.
Since September 2010, as Weathervane’s Education Outreach Coordinator, she has
also assisted the Playhouse’s education department in coordinating the hiring
and training of the many teachers who staff the Playhouse’s participation in
Akron After School (on-site, after-school theater-education classes at dozens
of Akron Public Schools facilities). She received her bachelor’s in music from
Ohio Northern University and her master’s in music and pedagogy from
Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. She has sung at Carnegie
Hall with the New York Philharmonic and was a grand finalist in Guangdong,
China, International Vocal Competition and has also performed at the Edinburgh
Festival Fringe in Scotland. Her favorite roles include Adele in <em>Die Fledermaus</em>, Juliette in <em>Romeo and Juliette</em> and a
Cherubino in <em>Le Nozze de Figaro</em>.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">SHARON
DOBBINS ALBERSON </b>(Musical Director) is a graduate of Kent
State University School of Music and was a Blossom Music Scholar with the
Cleveland Orchestra. A graduate of The University of Akron School of Law,
Harvard Divinity School and Oxford University, Sharon is a minister, lawyer and
musician. She is the founder and director of Faith Musicals, a faith-based
musical company that produces eight original musicals for the benefit of local
and national charities. For Weathervane Playhouse, she served as the musical
director for the 2009, 2011 and 2012 productions of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella</i> in 2011, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Seussical </i>in 2010 – and most recently she served in the same
capacity for this past summer’s production of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Annie</i>.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Times;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Run Dates: June 6 - 30,
2013<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Times;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Thursdays at 7:30 p.m,
Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2:30 p.m.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family:Times"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Weathervane Playhouse is a community theater. All
actors and designers are volunteers.<o:p></o:p></font></span></i></p>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Janis Harcar</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Director of Advancement</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Weathervane Playhouse</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">330-836-2626 X16</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><a href="mailto:jharcar@weathervaneplayhouse.com">jharcar@weathervaneplayhouse.com</a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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