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<div><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000">RPI PLAYERS
ANNOUNCE<br>
</font><font face="Arial" size="+3" color="#000000"><b>AUDITIONS FOR
"MAN OF LA MANCHA"<br>
</b></font><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000">DATE &
TIME: Jan. 23, 6-9pm; Jan. 24, 7-10pm at Mother's Wine Emporium, RPI
Union<br>
<i>Performance dates: April 8, 9, 14-16 at 8:00pm and April 10 at
2:00pm.</i></font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000"><i>Director: Laura
W. Andruski</i></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000"><i>Musical
Directror: Pat Douglass</i></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="+2"
color="#000000"><i><br></i></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000">RPI auditions are
open to all. No experience necessary.<br>
Prepare 16 bars of a Broadway show tune and bring sheet music.<br>
No monologues. We will read directly from the
script.</font></div>
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color="#000000"><i><br></i></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000"><u>Available
Roles<br>
<br>
</u><b>Don Quixote</b> (Cervantes) - Baritone (low B to E). A
tall and charming author and tax collector.<br>
<br>
<b>Sancho Panza</b> - Tenor (C to high G). Don Quixote's
pragmatic loyal servant.<br>
<br>
<b>Aldonza</b> (Dulcinea) - Soprano (low bA to high bA). A
wild, lusty woman whom Don Quixote takes a fancy to.<br>
<br>
<b>Innkeeper</b> - Bass (low G to C#). A strong but kind and
sympathetic man.<br>
<br>
<b>Dr. Carrasco</b> - Baritone. (low C to bD). Loves
money.<br>
<br>
<b>Padre</b> - Tenor (F to high G). Alonso Quijana's friend
and confessor.<br>
<br>
<b>Barber</b> - Tenor (D to high G). A comic part.<br>
<br>
<b>Antonia</b> - Mezzo (C to high F). Alonso Quijana's
self-centered niece who is about to be married to Dr. Carrasco.<br>
<br>
<b>Housekeeper</b> - Mezzo (F to high F). Alonso Quijana's
strong housekeeper who is full of hope.<br>
<br>
<b>Pedro</b> - Baritone (low D to D). A rough, sturdy
muleteer.<br>
<br>
<b>Anselmo</b> - Tenor (A to high F#). Another muleteer.<br>
<br>
<b>The Moor</b> - Tenor (C to high bB)<br>
<br>
<b>Moorish Girl</b> - Featured dancer. Non-singing role.<br>
<br>
<b>Maria</b> - Non-singing role. The innkeeper's shrewish
wife.<br>
<br>
<b>Fermina</b> - Non-singing role. A serving girl.<br>
<br>
<b>Captain of the Inquisition</b> - Non-singing. An imposing,
cruel man.<br>
<br>
<b>Guards and Men of the Inquisition, prisoners, muleteers, gypsies,
knights, etc.</b></font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000"><br>
<i>For more info contact Laura Andruski at 383-8277 or
LWAndruski@aol.com.</i></font></div>
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color="#000000"><i><br></i></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="+2" color="#000000"><i><br>
</i></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="+3"
color="#000000"><b> </b></font><font face="Arial" size="+3"
color="#000000"><b>About "MAN OF LAMANCHA"<br>
<br>
</b></font><font face="Arial" size="+1" color="#000000">"MAN OF
LAMANCHA" is not, strictly speaking, an adaptation of "DON
QUIXOTE" at all. It is an original work that deals with a crucial
few hours in the life of Cervantes. "MAN OF LAMANCHA" might
most conveniently be described as a musical within a play, but in
truth its originality of form defies classification.<br>
<br>
Miguel De Cervantes, aging and an utter failure in his varied careers
as playwright, poet, and tax collector for the government, has been
thrown into a dungeon in Seville to await trial by the Inquisition for
an offense against the Church. There he is hailed before a kangaroo
court of his fellow prisoners: thieves, cutthroats and trollops who
propose to confiscate his meager possessions. One of these possessions
is the uncompleted manuscript of a novel called "DON
QUIXOTE", and Cervantes, seeking to save it, proposes to offer a
defense in the form of an entertainment which will explain himself and
his attitude toward life. The "Court" accedes, and before
their eyes, donning makeup and costume, Cervantes and his faithful
manservant transform themselves into Don Quixote and Sancho Panza,
proceeding to play out the story with the involvement and
participation of the prisoners as other characters.<br>
<br>
Quixote and Sancho take to the road in a campaign to restore the Age
of Chivalry, to battle evil and right all wrongs. While Quixote and
his squire are en route to a distant roadside inn - which the Don
insists to Sancho is really a castle - Aldonza, the inn's serving girl
and part time trollop, is propositioned and taunted by a group of
rough muleteers. Upon arrival at the inn, Quixote, in his splendid if
lunatic vision, sees Aldonza as the dream-ideal whom he will worship
and serve evermore. Aldonza is confused amp; angered by Quixote's
refusal to recognize her for what she really is.<br>
<br>
In the country home which Quixote left behind, his niece Antonia and
his Housekeeper seek out the neighborhood padre to consider how this
madness may best be dealt with. The Padre and Dr. Sanson Carrasco,
Antonia's fiancé, are delegated to pursue the madman and bring him
back home. Meanwhile, Quixote dispatches Sancho to Aldonza with a
"Missive" declaring his everlasting devotion to Dulcinea and
while Quixote is standing vigil in the courtyard of the inn in
preparation for his official dubbing as a knight, Aldonza accosts him
directly, asking "What do you want of me?".</font></div>
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The Padre and Dr. Carrasco, having failed in their mission, grimly
plan a new attempt to bring Quixote to his senses. The Padre hopes
that "the cure will not prove worse than the disease". At
this point, replying to Aldonza's question about doing the things he
does, Quixote explains he must follow his Quest. Aldonza then
encounters the Muleteers loafing near the courtyard well, and they
tease and taunt her. Following the Padre's and Dr. Carrasco's
departure, Quixote defends Aldonza's honor in a successful battle with
the Muleteers, and as his reward is formally knighted by the
Innkeeper.<br>
<br>
Now, having caught the fever of Quixote's idealism, Aldonza attempts
to put into practice, but for her efforts she is cruelly beaten and
carried off by the muleteers. Disillusioned, Aldonza passionately
denounces Quixote and his dreams, which have brought her only anguish.
Now appears "The Enchanter", fantastically costumed as the
Knight of the Mirrors. He challenges Quixote to combat, forcing him to
look into the Mirror of Reality where Quixote sees reflected a fool
and a madman. Quixote is defeated. But Aldonza, a witness to his
destruction, feels a deep sense of loss.<br>
<br>
At home again, the old man who once called himself Don Quixote is
dying. His faithful manservant, who has been his Sancho, attempts to
cheer him up. Aldonza, having followed, forces her way into the room,
pleads with him to become Don Quixote once more and restore the vision
of glory she held so briefly. As she helps him recall the words,
Quixote, stirred to the old fire, rises from his bed so that he,
Sancho, and Aldonza may once more set out upon their mission. But in
the moment of reaffirmation, he collapses, dying. Aldonza, having seen
the vision once more, refuses to acknowledge Quixote's death. When
Sancho questions her, she replies, "My name is Dulcinea".
Quixote, having considered her throughout as individual of unique
worth and value, has literally transformed her.<br>
<br>
Back in Cervantes' dungeon, the prisoners, dregs of humanity though
they are, have been deeply affected by his story and restore to him
his precious manuscript, and as he leaves to face his real trial, they
unite to sing the words of Cervantes - Quixote's "The
Quest".</font><br>
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