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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#540000">NEWS RELEASE</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">Melanie YC Pepe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">Artistic Director</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<a href="tel:330.826.2626" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#1155CC">330.826.2626</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#1F4E79">Auditions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">Weathervane Playhouse</span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:black">1301 Weathervane Lane * Akron, Oh 44313</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#222222">For details, visit
</span><a href="http://www.weathervaneplayhouse.com/audition"><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">www.weathervaneplayhouse.com/audition</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:72.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#C00000">DRACULA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">October 1 - 18, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Auditions by appointment.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><a href="http://www.weathervaneplayhouse.com/audition"><span style="color:windowtext">www.weathervaneplayhouse.com/audition</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Sunday, August 2, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Tuesday, August 3, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Audition Requirements<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Most roles 18 and up<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">One monologue, either classical or modern, 1-2 minutes in length<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Synopsis<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Professor Van Helsing and his brave comrades must hunt down and destroy the profoundly evil Count Dracula. But the Count is exceedingly
resourceful, employing superhuman strength, psychic powers, and shape-changing to confound and frustrate his antagonists. Culminating in a wild and shocking confrontation between the King of Vampires and those who would rid the world of him, this adaptation
is an action-packed, blood-soaked retelling of Bram Stoker's classic tale of horror.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Characters (by Appearance)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">ROBERT RENFIELD, a lunatic of unique appetites and an unfortunate sense of humor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">A MONSTER, a vicious supernatural demon; the shape assumed by Dracula when he isn't concerned by appearances. Part zombie, part werewolf,
he loves a good chase and is always thirsty.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">MINA GRANT, a beautiful undead woman in her late twenties. We will se her in various stages of vampirism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">MARGARET SULLIVAN, Dr. Seward's loyal assistant. Irish. Tries to conceal her working class roots with an air of propriety.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">ABRAM VAN HELSING, an older man, still in good physical condition, with a razor mind and an intense interest in the supernatural.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">DR. THOMAS SEWARD, an intelligent, fine young Englishman in his early thirties. The former fiance of the late Mina Grant. A deeply caring,
vulnerable human being.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">COUNT DRACULA, a brute who revels in the pain and suffering he brings to others. Capable of enormous charm and courtly manners when such
affections are called for.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">THE BRIDES, three Vampiresses with seductive ways and dire purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">THE CHILD, female, between 7 & 10. Wears a communion dress.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">NORBERT BRIGGS, an attendant at the asylum. A rough customer; not entirely a brute, but capable of violent behaviorwhen pushed to it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">LUCY WESTPHAL, a lovely young Englishwoman. Extremely intelligent, and when not being drained of blood on a regular basis, quite vivacious.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">JONATHAN HARKER, a young solicitor. Handsome, impetuous, madly in love with Lucy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Rehearsals</span></b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Rehearsals begin on August 16 and take place five days a week, Sundays through Thursdays, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Technical rehearsals run on Sunday, September 27 from noon to 9:00 p.m. and Monday, September 28 through Wednesday, September 30 from 6:00
p.m. to 10:00 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Performances<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Performances will run from October 1 to October 18, 2015, for a total of 12 performances.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Director<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">John Davis has performed more than 3000 live stage combat shows in 16 countries with his Comedy sword-fighting show Hack and Slash. As
Oberlin College professor of Stage Combat and resident fight choreographer, John has choreographed hundreds of productions in the Cleveland, Ohio market and nationally. John currently directs productions for the Cleveland Shakespeare Festival and has taught
and choreographed for Kent State University Stark, Malone College, Baldwin Wallace College, The Beck Center for the Arts and theaters across Ohio. After the events of Sept 11th, John has traveled to 16 countries, including the most remote regions of Iraq and
Afghanistan, on six USO tours. At Weathervane, John has fight directed Romeo & Juliet, and both directed and fight directed Holmes: The Art of Deduction, The Taming of the Shrew, Our Town and Hamlet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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