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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Cleveland Public Theatre announces Auditions for<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#C00000">BARBECUE<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Written by Robert O’Hara.
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Directed by Beth Wood.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A">About the play…<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#222222;background:white">In this hilarious and devastating dark comedy by Robert O’Hara (<i>Bootycandy</i>,
<i>Antebellum</i>), the O’Mallerys have gathered in their local park to share some barbecue and straight talk with their train wreck of a sister Barbara, whose spiral of drugs and recklessness has forced her siblings to stage an open-air intervention. But the
event becomes raucous and unpredictable as familial stereotypes collide with hard realities, and racial politics slam up against the stories we tell—and maybe even believe—about who we were and who we’ve become. “Fearless” – The New York Times –
</span><b><span style="color:#222222;background:white">Regional Premiere.</span></b><span style="color:#222222;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Looking to cast…<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1 Woman – African American– Movie Star Barbara, age 30-40 (a very successful pop star & movie star)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1 Man – Caucasian – James T, age 50-60 (an unsuccessful, pseudo-functioning alcoholic)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1 Woman – African American – Adlean, age 30-45 (a breast cancer patient, addicted to pain killers<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-style:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">All other roles have been cast.<o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Equity Agreements may be available for this production</span></em><br>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A">About the process…</span></strong><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Rehearsals for this production will begin in early January 2017. Tech will be the weekend of February 11<sup>th</sup>. Performances will be in the Gordon
Square Theatre on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Mondays at 7:30pm, February 16<sup>th</sup> – March 11<sup>th</sup>. This production will have one weekend of preview performances February 16<sup>th</sup> – 18<sup>th</sup> & 23<sup>rd</sup> (no show February
20<sup>th</sup>), and will then rehearse until the opening night on Friday, February 24<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:orange"><br>
</span><strong><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#C00000">Audition…</span></strong><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#C00000"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Monday, October 17<sup>th</sup> at 6:30pm<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Auditions are by appointment only</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">. Actors will be sent sides to prepare.
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#C00000">To schedule an audition appointment…<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Please email Associate Artistic Director, Beth Wood at
</span><a href="mailto:bwood@cptonline.org"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">bwood@cptonline.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">.
<b>Be sure to include your name, email address, and phone number in your email.</b> You will receive the sides upon confirmation. No phone calls please.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F3864">Beth Wood<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F3864">Associate Artistic Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F3864">Cleveland Public Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F3864">216-631-2727 ext. 206<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F3864"><a href="mailto:bwood@cptonline.org">bwood@cptonline.org</a>
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