AUDITION NOTICE
Sunday, February 2
Auditions starting at 6:00 pm
Arts United Center
In Noises Off the lights go up on the cast and crew of the fictional bedroom farce Nothing On the night before their opening. During the rehearsal the actors face the usual struggles with entrances, exits and getting props in the right place at the right time. However, as Noises Off unfolds, the challenges onstage are nothing compared to the drama off stage. Lines, props and pants are dropped as the company struggles with missed cues, flubbed lines, slamming doors, and romantic intrigue. In this hilarious three-act farce within a farce we get great insight to nearly everything that can go wrong in live theatre!
Audition Sign Up:
You must attend auditions & sign up at:
AUDITIONS: Sunday, February 2nd, starting at 6:00 p.m. (Please arrive no later than 5:45) - Arts United Center, West Rehearsal Hall
CALL BACKS: Monday, February 3rd, 7:00-10:00 pm
(Only if needed) East Rehearsal Hall
REHEARSALS
March 23-April 17, Monday-Friday, 7:00-10:00 pm
in West Rehearsal Hall
AND
April 20 & 21, Monday & Tuesday, 7:00-10:00 pm On Stage
April 22-24, Wednesday-Friday, 6:00-10:00 pm
on Stage Tech Rehearsals
April 26, Sunday, 12 noon – 4:00 pm On Stage
1st Dress Rehearsal
April 27-29, Monday-Wednesday, 6:00-11:00 pm On Stage
Dress Rehearsals
PERFORMANCES
April 30, Thursday, IN THE WINGS Performance
6:30 Call/7:30 pm Curtain w/ post show talk
May 1, Friday, Opening Night Performance,
6:30 Call/7:30 pm Curtain w/ post show party
May 2, Saturday, T.B.A. HOLD 2:00 pm Performance
May 2, Saturday, Performance, 6:30 Call/7:30 pm Curtain
May 3, Sunday, Matinee Performance,
1:00 Call/2:00 pm Curtain
w/ post show talk
May 7, Thursday, Brush Up Rehearsal, 6:30-9:30 pm
in West Rehearsal Hall
May 8, Friday, Performance, 6:30 Call/7:30 pm Curtain
May 9, Saturday, T.B.A. HOLD 2:00 pm Performance
May 9, Saturday, Performance, 6:30 Call/7:30 Curtain
May 10, Sunday, Matinee Performance
1:00 Call/2:00 pm Curtain
with post show pizza & post show strike
AUDITION REQUIREMENTS
Come prepared to do selected cold reading scenes from the script. Please try your best British accent during auditions. Scripts are available, with a $10 refundable deposit, at our main business office in the back of the building Monday-Friday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. by calling first 422-8641 ext. 222 and speaking with Mahlon. We encourage actors of all ethnicities to audition. Auditions will be held at the Arts United Center at 303 East Main Street. Enter from the rear of the building, using the glass doors to the Green Room. Please arrive early to check in and fill out an audition form or complete on-line and email back to:
ewadewitz@fwcivic.org
CAST OF CHARACTERS:
Some actors play two characters. One onstage character and one offstage character.
Dotty Otley/Mrs. Clacket: (Off stage Dotty) A late-middle-aged British actress. Forgetful. Dating Garry, though she attempts to make him jealous by meeting with Freddy. (On Stage Character: Mrs. Clackett): A Cockney Housekeeper for the Brent's home in England. Hospitable, though slow.
Brooke Ashton/ Vicki: (Off Stage: Brooke) A young inexperienced British actress. Pays no attention to other performers, either in performance or backstage. She seems as though she is not really present –like she is somewhere else inside her head. Is always losing her contact lenses. One-third of a Lloyd–Poppy–Brooke love triangle. (On Stage Character: Vicki): An English woman who works for Inland Revenue and is trying to woo Roger. Brooke is in her undergarments the entire show.
Belinda Blair/ Flavia Brent:(Off stage Belinda) Cheerful and sensible, a reliable British actress. She may have feelings for Freddy. (On Stage Character: Flavia Brent): Phillip Brent's English wife. She is dependable, though not one for household duties.
Poppy Norton-Taylor: British Stage Manager. Emotional and over-sensitive, and envious of Brooke, whom she understudies. Carrying Lloyd's child. One-third of a Lloyd-Poppy-Brooke love triangle.
Lloyd Dallas: The director of the play, Nothing On. Temperamental. One third of a Lloyd–Poppy–Brooke love triangle.
Garry Lejeune/Roger: (Off stage: Garry) A British actor who never finishes a sentence. Always is completing sentences with, you know... Easily fired up, repeatedly tries to attack Freddy after believing that Dotty was cheating on him with Freddy. Speech affectations disappear onstage but are ever-present offstage. Dating Dotty. (On Stage Character: Roger): An English Real estate agent who is attempting to rent Flavia's and Phillip's home, but uses it for his own personal benefit.
Frederick Fellows/Phillip Brent/Sheikh: (Off stage: Freddy) An British actor with a serious fear of violence and blood. Gets nosebleeds easily. Often questions the meaning of his lines and moves. Blames himself often for things going wrong. (On Stage Character: Phillip Brent): An Englishman who lives out of the country with his wife Flavia to avoid paying taxes. He enters the country knowing that if he is caught by Inland Revenue, he will lose most of the year's income. (On Stage Character: Sheikh): A Middle Eastern, Interested in renting Flavia's and Phillip's home and is the spitting image of Phillip.
Selsdon Mowbray/ Burglar: (Off Stage: Selsdon Mowbray):An elderly alcoholic Englishman who hides his bottles onstage. If he is not in sight while rehearsing, the stage crew must find him before he passes out. Is hard of hearing when he wants to be. (On Stage Character: Burglar): Old Cockney man in his seventies, breaking into the Brent's home.
Timothy Allgood: An over-worked British Assistant Stage Manager. Understudies Selsdon and Freddy.
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