<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">For Immediate Release - </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Cassidy Theatre in Parma Heights is proud to announce auditions for:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><h2 style="font-family: "TeX Gyre Termes", sans-serif; line-height: 1.15em; font-weight: 400; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.51em; color: rgb(21, 20, 20); text-align: center;">SCROOGE IN ROUGE</h2><h5 style="font-family: "TeX Gyre Termes", sans-serif; line-height: 1.23em; font-weight: 400; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin-top: 1.59em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: rgb(21, 20, 20); text-align: center;">An English Music Hall Christmas Carol<br>Book and Lyrics by Ricky Graham<br>Additional Material by Jeffery Roberson<br>Other Interesting Bits by Yvette Hargis<br>Original Music Composed by Jefferson Turner<br>Directed by Keli Schimelpfenig • Music Direction by Heidi Herczeg</h5><p class="ydpab73345dgmail-has-medium-font-size" style="font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 1.88em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 1.15em; color: rgb(96, 96, 96);">When the “Royal Music Hall Variety Players” come to perform, “A Christmas Carol”, a bad case of food poisoning leaves only three surviving members to soldier on through a performance originally intended for a cast of twenty!<br></p><p class="ydpab73345dgmail-has-medium-font-size" style="font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 1.88em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 1.15em; color: rgb(96, 96, 96);">If you loved <em style="line-height: inherit; font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; outline: 0px; color: rgb(21, 20, 20);">Every Christmas Story Ever Told</em>, get ready for <em style="line-height: inherit; font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; outline: 0px; color: rgb(21, 20, 20);">Scrooge in Rouge</em>!<br></p><p class="ydpab73345dgmail-has-medium-font-size" style="font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 1.88em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 1.15em; color: rgb(96, 96, 96);">This quick-witted, cross-dressing version of the Charles Dickens classic, done in the style of the British Music Hall, abounds in bad puns, bawdy humor, and witty songs.</p><p class="ydpab73345dgmail-has-medium-font-size" style="font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 1.88em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 1.15em; color: rgb(96, 96, 96);">“<em style="line-height: inherit; font-weight: inherit; border: 0px; outline: 0px; color: rgb(21, 20, 20);">Scrooge in Rouge</em> proves to be a delightful shared experience… encouraging waves of laughter with its well-timed one-liners and treasure trove of double-entendres.” – Richmond Times-Dispatch.</p><p class="ydpab73345dgmail-has-medium-font-size" style="font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 1.88em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 1.15em; color: rgb(96, 96, 96);">Read more about the casting and musical here: <a href="https://www.dramatists.com/previews/5619.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.dramatists.com/previews/5619.pdf</a></p><p class="ydpab73345dgmail-has-medium-font-size" style="font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; line-height: 1.88em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 1.15em; color: rgb(96, 96, 96);"><span style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, sans-serif;">Send your one-minute comic song audition video to<span class="ydpab73345dApple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:keli@shinypennystudios.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">keli@shinypennystudios.com</a><span class="ydpab73345dApple-converted-space"> </span>. No a<span class="ydpab73345dApple-converted-space"> </span></span>capella<span style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, sans-serif;">submissions if possible, please. 18 and over. Creativity is highly encouraged. </span><span style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, sans-serif;">Reliable internet connection, and familiarity with Zoom is highly recommended. Audition Submissions due by Sunday,November 15 at 9 p.m. </span></p><div><span style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, sans-serif;"><br></span></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>