<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;" style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;" mce_style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 24pt;" mce_style="font-size: 24pt;">BLANK CANVAS THEATRE</span></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;" style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;" mce_style="font-size: 18pt;">Auditions for</span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 48px;"><b>OUR TOWN</b></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" mce_style="font-size: 12pt;"><b> by Thornton Wilder</b></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><strong><br></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"><span mce_style="font-size: 150%;"><b>Directed by Patrick Ciamacco</b></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;"> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;"> </div><div><div><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;"><strong>Sign Up:</strong> Email <a href="mailto:Patrick@blankcanvastheatre.com" mce_onclick="if(window.location==top.location){Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=Patrick%40blankcanvastheatre.com');}else{top.Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=Patrick%40blankcanvastheatre.com');}; return false;" target="_blank">Patrick@blankcanvastheatre.com</a> to sign up for one of the below dates.</span></div><div><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;"><br></span></div><div><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;"><strong>Audition Date:</strong> Wednesday July 1 & Thursday July 2 </span></div><div><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;"><br></span></div><div><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;"><strong>Time:</strong> 7:00pm </span></div><div><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;">(All actors are asked to arrive at 7pm on the date they sign up for. If you can not make it at 7pm, please inform us in your email) </span></div><div><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;"><br></span></div><div><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;"><strong>What to prepare:</strong> Readings will be from the script. Prior preparation is not required. Audition Sides can be found <a href="http://www.blankcanvastheatre.com/audition-sides/our-town" title="HERE" target="_blank">HERE</a> . A headshot and resume is appreciated. </span></div><div><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;"><i>*Audition sides DO NOT need to be memorized. Copies will be provided at auditions. The link is just to help you be more comfortable in your audition. </i></span></div><div><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;"><br></span></div><div><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;"><strong>Performance Dates:</strong> August 14 - August 29. Shows will be Thursday, Friday & Saturday at 8pm. Sunday performances will be at 7pm. </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;" mce_style="font-size: 9pt;">(Show will open on a Friday night and close on a Saturday night.)</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 9pt;" mce_style="font-size: 9pt;"><br></span></div><div><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;"><strong>Rehearsals:</strong> Will begin July 19 and will be Sunday-Thursdays. Typically 7pm-10pm Monday- Thursday and Sundays 6pm-10pm. Though Sundays may be a longer day based on conflicts. This is<em> only</em> a 4 week rehearsal period. </span></div><div><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;"><br><strong>Pay:</strong> Blank Canvas Theatre dedicates 20% of the net profit to the cast of each show. The cast splits this evenly.</span></div><div><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;"><em>*At this time there are no AEA Contracts for this show.</em></span></div><div><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;"><br><strong>Audition Location:</strong> </span></div><div><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;">Blank Canvas Theatre </span></div><div><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;">1305 78<sup>th</sup> Street, Suite 211 (at 78th Street Studios) </span></div><div><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;">Cleveland, OH 44102 </span></div><div><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;">(Click <a href="http://blankcanvastheatre/directions" mce_href="http://blankcanvastheatre/directions" target="_blank">here</a> for directions or visit our website at <a href="http://www.blankcanvastheatre.com/" mce_href="http://www.blankcanvastheatre.com/" target="_blank">www.blankcanvastheatre.com</a>)</span></div><div><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;"> </span></div><h2><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;"><u>The Story</u></span></h2><div><span mce_style="font-size: 120%;">Thornton Wilder’s beloved, Pulitzer Prize-winning classic depicts life, love, and death in the small American town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. The community’s hopes and dreams expand into questions about meaning and purpose: How does one “realize life”? How do we take advantage of the time that we have? A poignant portrayal of how relationships and seemingly simple moments can provide the deepest echoes throughout our lives.</span></div><div><span mce_style="font-size: 120%;"><br></span></div><div><em>"While all of Wilder's work is intelligent, non-synthetic and often moving, as well as funny, it is Our Town that makes the difference. It is probably the finest play ever written by an American."</em> —Edward Albee</div><div><br></div><div><em>"Beautiful and remarkable, one of the sagest, warmest and most deeply human scripts to have come out of our theatre...A spiritual experience."</em> — New York Post</div><div> </div><h2><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;"><u>Character Breakdown </u> </span></h2><div><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;">* The age range for each character is flexible and all ethnicities will be considered.</span></div><div><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;"><br></span></div><div><strong>Stage Manager</strong>: (Male or Female, 40-65) appealing, steady, even-handed, benevolent host of the play and the dramatic equivalent of an omniscient narrator. Exercises control over the action of the play, cueing the other characters, interrupting their scenes with their own interjections, and informing the audience of events and objects that we cannot see. Although referred to as Stage Manager, and not by a person’s name, he occasionally assumes other roles, such as an old woman, a druggist, and a minister. Interacting with both the world of the audience and the world of the play’s characters, he/she occupies a god-like position of authority.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>George Gibbs</strong>: (Male, 16-28) Dr. and Mrs. Gibbs’s son. All-American boy, sincere, agreeable, polite, respectful, decent, and upstanding young man, but not very good at book and school learning. A loving person - but not very good at expressing those emotions - and perfectly happy to stay on the farm.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Emily Webb</strong>: (Female, 16-28) Mr. and Mrs. Webb’s daughter, George’s neighbor, love interest, fiancée and then wife. Bright, articulate, conscientious and vivacious person who shares some of her mother’s anxious nature.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Dr. Gibbs</strong>: (Male, 45-60) George’s father and the town doctor. Loving father, kind husband, content, server, well liked, knowledgeable, mindful. Civil War expert, knows just about everything about everybody in town.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Mrs. Gibbs</strong>: (Female, 40-55) enduring, justly and appropriate, calm, appreciative and caring mother to her children and wife to Dr. Gibbs. Although content in Grover’s Corner she still desires to see Paris. Suggests the importance of seizing the opportunities life presents, rather than waiting for things to happen.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Mr. Webb</strong>: (Male, 45-55) Emily’s loving father and a caring husband, the publisher and editor of the local paper, the Grover’s Corners Sentinel. Good sense of humor. Kindly, demonstrative and sympathetic. Reports to the audience in Act I which is both informative and interactive. Has a well-informed interest in Napoleon.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Mrs. Webb</strong>: (Female, 35-50) Emily’s mother and Mr. Webb’s wife. No nonsense kind of person - innocent, caring, a little coarse-around-the-edges, somewhat anxious, hardworking and tolerant.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Mrs. Soames</strong>: (Female, 30-50) one of the few townspeople we meet outside of the Webb and Gibbs families. Offers a sense of the interrelated nature of the lives of the citizens of Grover’s Corners. Gossipy, a chatterbox, a bit small-minded but a curious woman who sings in the choir, along with Mrs. Webb and Mrs. Gibbs.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Simon Stimson</strong>: (Male, 40-65) choirmaster/organist of the church whose alcoholism and undisclosed “troubles” have been the subject of gossip in Grover’s Corners for quite some time. Unhappy, down trodden, embittered and oftentimes disparaging.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Rebecca Gibbs</strong>: (Female, 11-21) George’s younger sister. Contrary, competitive, daring, immature and a motivated dreamer.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Wally Webb</strong>: (Male, 10-18) Emily’s younger brother. Turns up in Act III among the group of dead souls, his untimely death underscores the brief and fleeting nature of life. Stubborn, self-interested, and a lovable young boy.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Howie Newsome</strong>: (Male, 30-50) local milkman, good-natured, chatty, friendly and divulges the local gossip. Reappearance during every morning scene highlights the continuity of life in Grover’s Corners and in the general human experience.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Joe Crowell, Jr.</strong>: (Male, 12-21) the paperboy, sharp-witted, opinionated, and upbeat.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Si Crowell</strong>: (Male, 12-21) Joe’s younger brother, also a paperboy.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Professor Willard</strong>: (Male, 35-65) professor at the State University who gives the audience a statistical report on Grover’s Corners. Animated, enthusiastic, jovial and gregarious.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Constable Warren</strong>: (Male, 35-65) policeman with little crime to fight or right, parental, protective, watchful, and favored.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Sam Craig</strong>: (Male or Female, 20-30) Emily Webb’s cousin, left Grover’s Corners to travel west, but returns for her funeral in Act III. An outsider, experienced and worldly.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Joe Stoddard</strong>: (Male, 30-80) town undertaker, reclusive watcher and town chronicler.</div><div><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;"><span mce_style="font-size: 150%;"><a href="http://www.blankcanvastheatre.com/audition-sides/extremities/" mce_href="http://www.blankcanvastheatre.com/audition-sides/extremities/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 18pt;" mce_style="font-size: 18pt;">For audition sides click here.</span></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;"><span mce_style="font-size: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;" mce_style="font-size: 18pt;"><br></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span mce_style="font-size: 130%;" style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;" mce_style="font-size: 14pt;"> If you have any questions feel free to contact us at <a href="mailto:patrick@blankcanvastheatre.com" mce_onclick="if(window.location==top.location){Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=patrick%40blankcanvastheatre.com');}else{top.Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=patrick%40blankcanvastheatre.com');}; return false;" target="_blank">patrick@blankcanvastheatre.com</a>. We look forward to seeing you at auditions!</span></span></div></div></div></div> </span></body></html>