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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:24pt;color:rgb(84,70,111)">Lakeland Theatre</span></b><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white" align="center"><span style="color:black">Announces </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white" align="center"><span style="font-size:36pt;color:black">AUDTIONS </span><span style="color:black">for the</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white" align="center"><span style="font-size:24pt;color:black">Pulitzer Prize-winning drama</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white" align="center">
<span style="font-size:24pt;color:black">Northeast Ohio professional premiere<br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:36pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:rgb(191,0,95)">August:
Osage County</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:22pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:rgb(96,0,191)">by </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:22pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:rgb(96,0,191)">Tracy Letts</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:22pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:red">AUDITIONS</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue">Sunday, June
22 @ 1-2:30 pm </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue">Monday, June
23 @ 7- 8:30 pm</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue">(No specific
auditions times needed)</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white" align="center"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Directed by</span><span style="font-size:18pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:18pt;color:rgb(130,56,87)">Martin
Friedman</span><span style="font-size:18pt;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white" align="center"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Sets and Lights Designed by</span><span style="font-size:18pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:18pt;color:rgb(130,56,87)">Keith Nagy</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white" align="center"><span style="font-size:18pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Sound Design by</span><span style="font-size:18pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:18pt;color:rgb(130,56,87)">Eric Simna</span></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white" align="center"><span style="font-size:18pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Production Stage Manager </span><span style="font-size:18pt;color:rgb(130,56,87)">Nichole Venci</span><span style="font-size:18pt;color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white" align="center"><span style="font-size:18pt">Featuring<span style="color:rgb(130,56,87)"> Anne McEvoy </span></span>as
Violet</p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:rgb(127,0,127)">THE
STORY:</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:rgb(0,0,191)"> </span><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:rgb(127,0,127)"> </span>Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and several Tony Awards
including Best Play.<span style="font-size:14pt;color:black"> </span> <i>August:
Osage County</i> is set on the plains of modern day, middle-class Oklahoma. The
Weston family members are all intelligent, sensitive creatures who have the
uncanny ability of making each other absolutely miserable. When the patriarch
of the household mysteriously vanishes, the Weston clans gathers together to
simultaneously support and attack one another.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:purple">Auditions:</span></b><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(191,0,95)"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(191,0,95)">Sunday</span><span style="color:rgb(191,0,95)">, June 22,
2014 1:00pm till 2:30pm</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><b><span style="color:rgb(191,0,95)">Monday,
June 23, 2014 7:00pm till 8:30pm</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="color:black">All
auditions will be held at </span><span><span style="color:rgb(54,99,136)">Lakeland Community College</span></span><span style="color:rgb(54,99,136)">’s</span><span style="color:black"> Performing Arts
Center (PAC). <b>Sorry, no Equity contracts for this production</b>. No
need to prepare a monologue. I will have you read directly from
the script. Additional auditions and callbacks only as necessary; </span><b><span style="color:rgb(128,0,255)">ALL ROLES ARE COMPENSATED</span></b><span style="color:rgb(128,0,255)">.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:purple">Production and Rehearsal dates:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="font-size:18pt;color:rgb(96,0,191)">August: Osage County </span><b><span style="font-size:18pt;color:rgb(0,127,127)">will open on Friday, September 19 and run through October 5,
2014--Friday through Sunday.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,127,127)"> Of course
you will be compensated for all performances. </span></b><b><span style="font-size:18pt;color:rgb(0,127,127)">Rehearsals will begin in early
August.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,127,127)"> Don't worry, we will work around
vacation schedules. In regards to rehearsals, you will not be called for
rehearsal unless needed. </span></b><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,191,96)">EACH
CHARACTER IS WONDERFUL AND COMPELLINGLY DRAWN. SURELY EACH OF THESE ROLES WILL
BE CHALLENGING AND FUN TO PLAY. A VERY THEATRICAL PIECE. </span><span style="color:rgb(64,0,127)"> </span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:purple">The Roles:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;color:red" lang="EN">Beverly Weston:</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black" lang="EN"> </span>The father of the Weston
family, between the ages of 65 and 70, an alcoholic and washed-up poet. His
mysterious disappearance one evening and eventually discovered death is the
reasons for the family's reunion. The reasons for his implied suicide are a
major plot point that brings some of the family's dark past painfully back into
the light. Short scene at the opening. Toying with the idea of doing it on
film.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;color:red" lang="EN">Violet Weston:</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black" lang="EN"> Anne McEvoy</span><b><span style="font-size:18pt;color:red" lang="EN"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;color:red" lang="EN">Barbara Fordham:</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black" lang="EN"> </span>The oldest
daughter of the Weston Family, between the ages of 38 and 46. Mother of Jean
and wife of Bill, though they are currently separated. She is a college
professor in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder,_Colorado" title="Boulder, Colorado" target="_blank">Boulder, Colorado</a>. She wants to save her
marriage, but has the intense need to control everything around her as it falls
apart.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;color:red" lang="EN">Bill Fordham:</span></b><span lang="EN"> </span>Barbara's
estranged husband and Jean's father, between the ages of 42 and 50. A college
professor, he has left his wife for a younger woman named Cindy, one of his
students, but wants to be there for his family. His marriage is disintegrating
and his patience is slowly running thin.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;color:red" lang="EN">Jean Fordham:</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black" lang="EN"> </span>Bill and Barbara's
smart-tongued 14-year-old daughter. She smokes pot and cigarettes, is a
vegetarian, loves old movies, and is bitter about her parents' split. More
naive than she would like to believe.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;color:red" lang="EN">Ivy Weston: </span></b>The middle daughter of the Weston
family, between the ages of 38 and 44. The only daughter to stay in Oklahoma,
she teaches at the local college and her calm and patient exterior hides a
passionate woman who is gradually growing cynical. She is secretly having an
affair with her "cousin", Little Charles, and plans to move to New
York with him.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;color:red" lang="EN">Karen Weston:</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black" lang="EN"> </span>The youngest daughter in the
Weston family, between the ages of 35 and 40. She is newly engaged to Steve,
whom she considers the "perfect man", and lives with him in Florida,
planning to marry him soon. Karen can talk of little else but her own happiness
even at her father's funeral, and she clearly chooses to lie to herself about
her sleazy fiancé rather than face the reality of not getting a happy ending.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;color:red" lang="EN">Mattie Fay Aiken: </span></b>Violet's sister, Charlie's
wife and Little Charles' mother, between the ages of 52 and 57. Just as jaded
as her sister, Mattie Fae constantly belittles her son and antagonizes her
husband. Eventually she reveals the major plot point that Beverly, not Charlie,
is the real father of Little Charles.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;color:red" lang="EN">Charlie Aiken: </span></b>Husband of Mattie Fae and the
presumed father of Little Charles, age 60. Charlie, a genial man, was a
lifelong friend of Beverly. He struggles to get Mattie Fae to respect Little
Charles.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;color:red" lang="EN">Little Charles Aiken: </span></b>Son of Mattie Fae and
Beverly, 37 years old—but, like everyone else, he believes Charlie is his
father. Unemployed and clumsy, his mother calls him a "screw-up",
which may be a self-fulfilling prophecy. He is secretly having an affair with
Ivy, who is revealed to actually be his half-sister.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;color:red" lang="EN">Johnna Monevata:<span> </span></span></b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne" title="Cheyenne" target="_blank">Cheyenne</a> Indian
woman, between ages of 22 and 26, whom Beverly hires as a live-in housekeeper
shortly before he disappears. Violet is prejudiced against her, but she wins
over the other family members with her cooking skills, hard work, and empathy.
Johnna is the silent witness to much of the mayhem in the house.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;color:red" lang="EN">Steve Heiderbrecht:</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black" lang="EN"> </span>Karen's
fiancé, between the ages of 42 and 50. A businessman in Florida, (whose
business, it is hinted, centers around the Middle East and may be less than
legitimate) and not the "perfect man" that Karen considers him. He
flirts with Jean throughout the play.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;color:red" lang="EN">Sheriff Deon Gilbeau:</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black" lang="EN"> </span>A high-school
classmate and former boyfriend of Barbara's, between the ages of 38 and 47, who
brings the news of Beverly's suicide to the family.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="font-size:18pt;color:black">The aforementioned roles are great and demand great actors!</span><span style="font-size:18pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><b><span style="color:rgb(67,128,89)">For
more information please feel free to either email me, Martin Friedman, at </span></b><span style="color:rgb(96,0,191)"><a href="http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/ym/Compose?To=martinfriedman98@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:rgb(67,128,89)">martinfriedman98@gmail.com</span></b></a>
or call <a href="tel:216%2F233-5441" value="+12162335441" target="_blank">216/233-5441</a></span><b><span style="color:rgb(67,128,89)">. </span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="color:blue">"I'd
bet the farm that no family has ever been as unhappy in as many ways—and to
such sensationally entertaining effect—as the Westons of AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY,
a fraught, densely plotted saga of an Oklahoma clan in a state of
near-apocalyptic meltdown. Fiercely funny and bitingly sad…[a] turbo-charged
tragicomedy…"</span> <b>—NY Times</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="color:rgb(0,51,0)">"In
Tracy Letts' ferociously entertaining play, the American dysfunctional family
drama comes roaring into the twenty-first century with eyes blazing, nostrils
flaring and fangs bared, laced with corrosive humor so darkly delicious and
ghastly that you're squirming in your seat even as you're doubled-over
laughing. A massive meditation on the cruel realities that often belie standard
expectations of conjugal and family accord—not to mention on the decline of
American integrity itself."</span> <b>—Variety</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="color:navy">"Tracy
Letts, in his Broadway debut, creates a hugely ambitious, highly combustible
saga that will leave you reeling. AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY may make you think twice
about going home for the holidays…it's a great big exhilarating gift."</span>
<b>—NY Daily News</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="color:rgb(51,153,102)">"Packed
with unforgettable characters and dozens of quotable lines, AUGUST: OSAGE
COUNTY is a tensely satisfying comedy, interspersed with remarkable evocations
on the cruelties and (occasional) kindnesses of family life."</span> <b>—NY
Sun</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="color:red">"This
is a play that will leave us laughing and wondering, shuddering and smiling,
long after the house lights come back on."</span> <b>—NY Newsday</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white"><span style="color:purple">"This
original and corrosive black comedy deserves a seat at the dinner table with
the great American family plays."</span> <b>—Time Magazine</b> </p>
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