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Seeking
Equity actors for a few available roles in the following 2 productions:
BEAUTIFUL STAR: AN APPALACHIAN NATIVITY
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL
see breakdown
Preparation
Sides from the play will be provided. For Beautiful Star actors should also prepare 32 bars of a folk song acapella. For A Christmas Carol actors should prepare 32 bars of a traditional Christmas song. Please bring a headshot and resume stapled together.
Other
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AEA members without appointments seen as time permits.
Personnel
Artistic Director: Preston Lane
Artistic Associate: Bryan Conger
· A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Appointments
AEA members call the Audition hotline 336/274-0067 x215, bryan@triadstage.org.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
Artistic Director: Preston Lane
BEAUTIFUL STAR: AN APPALACHIAN NATIVITY
By Preston Lane, Original Music by Laurelyn Dossett
Director: Preston Lane
Music Director: Laurelyn Dossett
First Rehearsal: October 30, 2015
First Preview: November 27, 2015
Opening:December 3, 2015
Closing: December 24, 2015
Seeking strong actors who have some singing ability and musicality. Experience with folk/mountain music is desired.
Tidence Ledbetter
Caucasian man, 30s. Son of Roy and Vestina, has recently returned to church after not attending for years. He has had rough past and is trying to escape those demons. He has two daughters and wants to find a better community of people for him and his girls. He is not the sharpest tool in the shed, but enjoys his job at the local garage. He plays Lucifer and Herod in the Christmas pageant. As Lucifer, he is manipulative, greedy, and powerful. As Herod, he is dishonest and cunning. He speaks with a North Carolina Appalachian dialect.
Vernon Sparks
African-American man, 50s. An older gentleman and a single father. His young son has just survived a battle with cancer and the two are very close. He loves his church and is very appreciative of the support that this community has given him. In the Church pageant he plays Abraham, An Angel of Lord, and a Shepherd. As Abraham, he is strong, loving, and resolved. Abraham is torn about sacrificing his son but knows he must follow God’s will. As the shepherd, he is very protective and untrusting. He speaks with a modern rural African American dialect.
Ethel Green
Female. Any Ethnicity, 20s. A young woman in a small town in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. She is a member of the National Guard recently returned from Iraq and has joined an evangelical church to find community. As part of their Christmas pageant, she performs the role of Eve and Mary. As Eve she is naïve and innocent. As Mary she has humility, beauty, as well as enormous courage while she sings about responsibility for the care of her child. She speaks with a North Carolina Appalachian dialect. The actress must be an excellent singer with an ability to adapt to a folk/mountain vernacular style.
Franklin Duncan
Male. Any Ethnicity, 30s. He works at the post office in town, a quiet, unassuming man, but a fixture in the community. Franklin plays Noah and Joseph in the Christmas Pageant. As Noah, he is honest, hardworking, trusting, and a bit dim at times. As Joseph, he is prideful, loving, nurturing and a real salt of the earth type guy. Joseph loves his wife deeply and stands by her. He speaks with a North Carolina Appalachian dialect.
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL
By Charles Dickens, Adapted by Preston Lane
Director: Bryan Conger
Music Director: Justin P. Cowan
First Rehearsal: November 3, 2015
First Preview: November 27, 2015
Opening: December 1, 2015
Closing: December 24, 2015
Seeking strong actors who have some singing ability and musicality.
Jacob Marley
(Also plays Businessman and Villager). Male, any Ethnicity, 40s-50s. Jacob Marley is the former business partner of Ebenezer Scrooge who has returned from the dead to warn him of his impending doom. Battling his own personal demons, he is tortured, cynical, commanding, and at times frightening. Marley has been punished for his past sins and desperately wants to save Scrooge from a similar fate. He speaks with a standard upper class British dialect.
Mr. Fezziwig
(Also plays Old Joe and Villager). Male, any ethnicity, 30-40s. Mr. Fezziwig is Scrooge’s former employer. He is the life of the party and values his family and employees above all else. He is jovial, boisterous, loving, and the personification of joy. He speaks with a standard British dialect. Old Joe is a scavenger and a criminal. He is evil, opportunistic, selfish, manipulative, but at times can be a bit dim. He will do anything to get ahead and does not care who he has to hurt to do it. He speaks with a cockney dialect.
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