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College Theater

Audition Information
Plays from the Provincetown Players      
Wednesday–Saturday, September 24–27, 8:00 p.m., $6
In makeshift theaters on a wharf at the tip of Cape Cod and in the heart of Greenwich Village, the Provincetown Players created exciting new plays that exploded old ideas and pushed American drama into the modern age. Short plays by original members of this ground-breaking group—Susan Glaspell, Floyd Dell, Eugene O'Neill, John Reed, and others—offer a kaleidoscopic look back at America's first real bohemians in the turbulent years when the hangover from the Great War turned into the Roaring Twenties.

AUDITIONS
Monday, August 25, and Tuesday, August 26 (choose one)
7:00 p.m.
Williams Center for the Arts
Black Box Theater

Casting 8+ men, 6+ women [Some roles will double.]
Lafayette College Theater is committed to color-blind casting. All students are encouraged to audition.
Please read the plays before auditioning. Scripts are available for 24-hour perusal at the Williams Center for the Arts main office, room 132.
Prepare ONE of the sides available with script sign-out
Brush up on any accents or dialects you may already know
Wear comfortable clothing to audition—NO flip-flops or baseball caps!
Come at 7:00 on Monday OR Tuesday and plan to stay for a couple of hours.

All cast and crew positions open; one-quarter academic credit available
We typically rehearse in early evening, Sunday through Thursday; we schedule around night classes until dress/technical rehearsals
Dress and technical rehearsals begin one week before opening and are typically longer rehearsals; we seldom work past 11:00 p.m.

For more information: Michael O'Neill, ext. 5326
Urinetown
by Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann
Wednesday–Saturday, October 29–November 1, 8:00 p.m., $6
Praised for reinvigorating the very notion of what a Broadway show could be, this grand and winking love letter to the conventions of musical theater depicts a world wracked by ecological disaster and corporate greed—and a hero who rises to lead the people to freedom! Entertainment Weekly called this hilarious and tuneful 2001 Tony Award winner “inspired, fresh, exuberant, even moving.” Directed and choreographed by Mary Jo Lodge, with vocal direction by Jennifer Kelly.

AUDITIONS
Tuesday–Wednesday, September 2–3*, 7:00 p.m.
Theater Lab, Pardee 120
*choose one

Casting 10+ men, 6+ women
Sign up for an audition time on the callboard outside the Theater Lab. 
Pick up an audition form also, fill it out completely and bring it with you to your initial audition. 
A callback sheet will be posted on the callboard on Thursday morning, September. 4th; callbacks will be held that evening at the Williams Center. 
Callbacks will include additional singing, which you will be taught; a brief dance combination; and readings from the script. 

All roles require some singing.  Prepare 16 to 32 bars of a musical theater song (approximately one minute), not from Urinetown. 
Bring sheet music in the appropriate key with you.  No a cappella singing is allowed. 
Check Skillman Library for sheet music, or contact Prof. Lodge prior to auditioning.
Please read the play before auditioning. 
Scripts are available for 24-hour perusal at the Williams Center for the Arts main office, room 132.
The original cast recording and the libretto are available for purchase in stores and on line. 

Typical rehearsal schedule is Sunday through Thursday evenings 7:00–10:00 p.m
Rehearsals will begin on Sunday, Sept. 7th. 
No rehearsal during Fall Break.
All cast and crew positions are open, except for stage manager.
Night classes can sometimes be accommodated until the week prior to the production. 


For more information: Mary Jo Lodge, ext. 5662
The Good Person of Setzuan 
by Bertolt Brecht, adapted by Tony Kushner
Wednesday–Saturday, March 4–7, 8:00 p.m., $6
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Angels in America has infused Brecht’s timeless fable of inept deities haplessly searching for a moral human being with his characteristic wit and passion. Internationally acclaimed theater maker Ping Chong joins forces with Lafayette designers to create a visually stunning Williams Center anniversary event, set against the inescapable emergence of China as a global power. Directed by Michael O’Neill.

AUDITIONS November 4–6
For more information: Michael O'Neill, ext. 5326
Volpone
by Ben Jonson
Wednesday–Saturday, April 22–25, 8:00 p.m., $6
The great satirist of the English theater concocts a get-rich-quick scheme to end all schemes as a greedy Venetian noble fakes his own death to rake in wealth from his gullible friends and idiotic enemies. First staged by William Shakespeare’s company in 1606, this uproarious look at human folly through such unforgettable characters as Volpone the Fox, Mosca the Fly, Corvino the Raven, and Corbaccio the Carrion Crow remains as fresh as tomorrow’s headlines. Directed by Robert Mundhenk.

AUDITIONS TBA
For more information: Bob Mundhenk

Michael O'Neill, Ph.D. • Director of Theater • (610) 330-5326 • Fax 610-330-5642 • oneillm@lafayette.edu

last updated August 14, 2008

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