AUDITIONS FOR THE 39 STEPS
Geauga Lyric Theater, 101 Water St. Chardon, OH
Adapted by Patrick Barlow
From the Novel by John Buchan
From the Movie of Alfred Hitchcock and an Original Script by Nobby Dimon and Simon Corble
Auditions at: Geauga Lyric Art Center , 106 Water St. Chardon, OH
Sunday June 7, 1-4pm
Monday June 8, 7-9:30
Callbacks:Wednesday June 10, 7-9:30 (Invitation only)
Director: Art Suskin
Needed: 3m, 1f or 2m, 2f
RICHARD HANNAY
ANNABELLA SCHMIDT/PAMELA/MARGARET
CLOWN #1
CLOWN #2
Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. If you have a short monologue, the director would like to hear it. Come prepared to move.
Rehearsal dates:Read through in July, rehearsals beginningAugust 3
Show dates:September 11-27, Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm
While the show is the actual film on stage, it has more in common with Monty Python, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and The Marx Brothers than it does with either Hitchcock’s classic film or John Buchan’s original novel (published in September 1915). The play is written for four actors: one plays the role of Richard Hannay; one woman plays the three ladies with whom Hannay is romantically involved during this two-hour chase through Scotland and southern England; and two actors, male or female, play Clown 1 and Clown 2 who appear as approximately 125 characters between them. Think “The Ministry of Silly Walks” meets “The Bourne Identity”.
The play actually follows the movie story scene by scene and will involve a suggested set (there are 33 scenes), a ton of sound, a ton of costume accessories, a chase on the outside of a moving train that goes through tunnels, all the double-triple-and-quadruple takes we can cram into it, murder, mayhem, a trillion laughs and all kinds of entertaining this-and-that. The four actors are all on stage for nearly the entire two-act extravaganza. And the dialogue is terrific!
It is an exercise that tests the limits of pure theatre and pure imagination.