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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold";color:windowtext">French Creek Theatre</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold";color:windowtext">
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold";color:windowtext">is pleased to announce auditions for…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold";color:windowtext">BLOOM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold";color:windowtext">by Andrew Morton<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold";color:windowtext">Directed by Skip Corris<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold";color:black">Following the death of his father, 15-year-old Daniel and his mother, Lisa, are forced to move to an unfamiliar new city. After a violent outburst at his new school, Daniel's social worker, Michelle,
suggests he spend a week working with her father, Bobby, an urban gardener of several abandoned lots in the middle of the city. A week soon turns into a few months, and, as the two men spend the summer tending the gardens, they begin to plant some much-needed
hope in a neighborhood plagued by blight and help each other heal some old wounds.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold";color:windowtext">PERFORMANCES<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold";color:windowtext">March 31 – April 9<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold";color:windowtext">Fridays & Saturdays at 7PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold";color:windowtext">Sundays at 3PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold";color:windowtext">AUDITIONS<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold";color:windowtext">January 23 & 24<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold";color:windowtext">7PM – 9PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold";color:windowtext">Open call. Actors may prepare a monologue, but is not required. Auditions will consist of reading from the script. Actors can contact the
<a href="mailto:ccorris@gmail.com">director</a> for advanced copies of sides. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold";color:windowtext">REHEARSALS<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">Beginning the first week of February. Rehearsals will be from 6:30PM to 9:30PM, Monday through Thursday. Not everyone will be called for every rehearsal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold";color:black">CAST BREAKDOWN</span></u><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold""><br>
</span></u><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold";color:black">MICHELLE – Social Worker, 30s; Dedicated to the children on her caseload, perhaps too busy to pay attention to herself and her Dad’s needs.</span><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold""><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold";color:black">BOBBY – Michelle’s father, 60s. Retired blue collar worker. Curmudgeon. Dedicated to the urban community garden which was the pride of his deceased wife.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold";color:black">DANIEL – At risk teenager, 15; Sullen, uncommunicative; grows and matures as a result of working on the garden with BOBBY.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold";color:black">LISA – DANIEL’s mother, 40s; Newly widowed, attending community college and working while trying to rebuild a life for herself and DANIEL.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold";color:black">ASHLEY – BOBBY’s neighbor, 16. Also on MICHELLE’s caseload; has made some bad choices. Grows through DANIEL's friendship.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold"">Actors 18+ receive a small stipend.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold";color:black">French Creek Theatre is located within the French Creek Nature & Arts Center / 4530 Colorado Ave / Sheffield Village / 44054 / 440-949-5200</span><span style="font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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