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<div style="text-align:center;">Near West Theatre announces <b>AUDITIONS</b> for</div>
<div style="text-align:center;"><font face="Engravers MT" size="7" color="#7030A0"><span style="font-size:72pt;"><b>Anyo</b><b>ne Can Whistle</b></span></font></div>
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<div style="text-align:center;"><font face="Franklin Gothic Medium" size="5"><span style="font-size:18pt;"><b>Youth Cast (Ages 9 to 15)</b><font color="#1F497D"><b> </b></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="Franklin Gothic Medium" size="6"><span style="font-size:26pt;"><b>November </b></span></font><font face="Franklin Gothic Medium" size="6"><span style="font-size:26pt;"><b>19, </b></span></font><font face="Franklin Gothic Medium" size="6"><span style="font-size:26pt;"><b>20</b></span></font><font face="Franklin Gothic Medium" size="6"><span style="font-size:26pt;"><b>
& </b></span></font><font face="Franklin Gothic Medium" size="6"><span style="font-size:26pt;"><b>21, 201</b></span></font><font face="Franklin Gothic Medium" size="6"><span style="font-size:26pt;"><b>8</b></span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center;"><font face="Franklin Gothic Medium" size="6" color="#2E75B6"><span style="font-size:26pt;"><b>Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday</b></span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center;"><font face="Franklin Gothic Medium" size="6" color="#00B050"><span style="font-size:26pt;"><b>6</b><b>:</b><b>3</b><b>0 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.</b><font color="#0070C0"><b> </b></font></span></font></div>
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<div style="text-align:center;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> <font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt;"> Come </span></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><b><u>one</u></b></span></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt;">
of these evenings. Plan to stay for the entire time specified. </span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center;"><font face="Times New Roman">See list of roles below!</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:center;"><font color="#7030A0"><b><i>Anyone Can Whistle</i></b><b><i> </i></b><b>runs</b></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center;"><font color="#7030A0">February 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23 & 24, 2019</font></div>
<div style="text-align:center;"><font color="#7030A0"><b>Rehearsals begin</b> Monday, December 10, 2018 (We will break for holidays!)</font></div>
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<div style="text-align:center;"><font color="#0070C0"><b>AUDITION SITE: </b></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center;"><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><b>Near West Theatre</b></span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center;"><font face="Franklin Gothic Book" size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><b>(6702 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44102)</b></span></font></div>
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<div style="text-align:center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-size:18pt;">If you are unable to audition on the dates listed above, or you have questions, </span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-size:18pt;">call our office at 216-961-9750, Mon.-Fri. 11am-4pm</span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-size:18pt;">or EMAIL <a href="mailto:info@nearwesttheatre.org"><font color="#0563C1"><u>info@nearwesttheatre.org</u></font></a></span></font></div>
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<div style="text-align:center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-size:18pt;"><b>ABOUT THE AUDITION:<br>
</b><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">This is a group audition in a relaxed, friendly atmosphere. No experience or preparation required. Dress for movement. Please plan to stay for the entire time specified, and arrive 15 minutes before audition
time to register. Anyone arriving after the starting time will not audition that day.<br>
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</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">At Near West Theatre we encourage everyone to audition. </span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u>People of all experience levels, races, ethnicities, neighborhoods, sizes, gender
identities and backgrounds are needed.</u></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> We use theater to build community and relationships. We’re a great place to express yourself and make friends. </span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Come try us! Bring a friend!</span></font></div>
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<div style="text-align:center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-size:18pt;"><b>ABOUT THE SHOW</b></span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Written by Stephen Sondheim, <i>Anyone Can Whistle</i> is an absurdist social satire about insanity and conformity (among a dozen other things!). This legendary cult show is a wacky,
intelligent, highly unconventional musical which tells the story of a corrupt mayoress who fakes a miracle to revitalize her bankrupt town and the ill-fated romance between the rational nurse and the easy-going doctor who is determined to enjoy the chaos that
it brings. <i>Anyone Can Whistle</i> delivers a poignant message about the importance of the individual in a conformist society – but not before aiming its still-relevant barbs at government, religion, science and anything else that stands in its way!</span></font></div>
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<div style="text-align:center;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Book by Arthur Laurents | Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | Orchestration by Don Walker</span></font></div>
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<div style="text-align:center;"><font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Directed by <b>Kelcie Nicole Dugger</b>, Choreographed by <b>Josh Landis</b> & </span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center;"><font face="Calibri" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Musically Directed by <b>Scott Pyle</b></span></font></div>
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<div style="text-align:center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-size:20pt;"><b><u>CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS</u></b></span></font></div>
<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b><u>Fay Apple</u></b></span></font></div>
<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">The resilient, young nurse at The Cookie Jar. She falls in love with Hapgood. She is meticulous and practical, but provides a lot of fun throughout the show.</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b><u>Cora Hoover Hooper</u></b></span></font></div>
<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">The rich and greedy Mayor who is hated by her people. Controlling and desperate.</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b><u>J. Bowden Hapgood</u></b></span></font></div>
<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">The new doctor in town who falls for Fay. Hapgood is wild, whimsical, and charming. He is more than meets the eye.</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b><u>Comptroller Schub</u></b></span></font></div>
<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">The town's Comptroller and Cora's right-hand man. He is hotheaded and mean.</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b><u>Treasurer Cooley</u></b></span></font></div>
<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">A former Preacher and the town Treasurer who was tossed out to pasture. Schub's right hand man. Scuzzy, slimy.</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b><u>Chief Of Police Magruder</u></b></span></font></div>
<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Serves as the Chief of Police and rounds out the trio of Cora's lackeys. He aims to please and gets excited when he does, but he is mostly a day late and a dollar short.</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b><u>Mrs. Schroeder</u></b></span></font></div>
<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Baby Joan's tough mother.</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b><u>Dr. Detmold</u></b></span></font></div>
<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">The fussy doctor of The Cookie Jar. A very busy man and a bit of a snob.</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b><u>Ensemble</u></b></span></font></div>
<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Cookies, Deputies, Townspeople, Pilgrims, and more!</span></font></div>
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