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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Hudson Players
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Auditions for</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:36.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">War of the Worlds:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:36.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The 1938 Radio Script
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">By Howard E. Koch<br>
Produced by special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Directed by Theresa Benyo-Marzullo</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Audition Dates:
</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sept. 16 & 17, 2018 – 7:00 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Barlow Community Center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">41 S. Oviatt St. Hudson, Ohio 44236</span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Performance Dates:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Oct 19 & 20, 2018 – One Weekend Only<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">(8:00 p.m. curtain)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><u><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2129">The auditions will involve reading from the script.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">ALL ROLES AVAILABLE. Hudson Players does not pre-cast.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the original broadcast in Oct of 1938, this special one weekend only staged reading, retells Orson Wells’ famous Halloween radio fright night to the nation detailing a realistic-sounding
Martian attack. Experience the broadcast that shook the country. This is sure to be a crowd-pleaser!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">All actors (except for Sound Effects Artist and family) must be able to speak with different voices for each character.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Rehearsals will be minimal; only once per week for 4 weeks except for Tech week.
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Characters are as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Orson Welles/Professor Pierson</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">: Male (20s to 30s) – Leader & director of the radio play and also plays a professor of astronomy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Announcer/Commander Voght/Stranger</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">: Male (any age) – Typical radio announcer. Also plays a military communications operator,
military lieutenant, and a stranger highly effected by the invasion and is interviewed by Pierson at the end of the play.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Announcer One & Two/Operator One</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">: Male or Female (any age) – Introduces other characters and acts as a sort of narrator.
Also plays a military communications operator.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Announcer Three/Mr. Wilmuth/VP Harry McDonald/Gunner/Operator 2</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">: Male (40s to 60s) – Radio announcer, farmer, executive,
military gunner and military communications operator.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Reporter Carl Phillips/Observer/Operator Four</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">: Male (20’s to 40’s) – Radio reporter who interviews Professor Pierson and
also plays a military observer & communications operator.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Policeman/Captain Lansing/Secretary of the Interior/General Smith/Officer/Operators Three & Five:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Male (50’s to 70’s) –
Policeman, military captain, politician, military general, artillery office, and military communications operator.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sound Effects Artist</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> (Male or Female, any age): able to create sound effects throughout the play. Non-speaking role.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Family of 3-4</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">: Need a small group to play a Mom, Dad and their children (1-2 teens or preteens) as a family around a radio
listening to the original 1938 broadcast of the show and being drawn in thinking that aliens are invading the earth. Think of a family like the “The Waltons.” Non-speaking roles but need to be very expressive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please visit us at
<i><a href="http://www.hudsonplayers.com"><span style="font-style:normal">www.hudsonplayers.com</span></a></i>. Or, call our box office at (330) 655-8522 for more information or write to Hudson Players at PO Box 2159, Hudson, OH 44236. For email inquiries send
to <a href="mailto:info@hudsonplayers.com">info@hudsonplayers.com</a>.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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