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<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Albany</B></st1:City></st1:place> ? <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Confetti Stage</B>, Inc. announces <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">AUDITIONS</B> for the play, <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Deathtrap</I></B>, by Ira Levine.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A Broadway playwright, Sidney Bruhl, puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student?s script.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To make Sidney?s slumping career all the more painful, Clifford Anderson, a student of one of Sidney?s writing seminars, has recently sent his mentor a copy of his FIRST attempt at being a playwright for Sidney?s review and advice.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><st1:City w:st="on">Anderson</st1:City>?s play, ?Deathtrap,? is a five character, two-act thriller so perfect in its construction that, as <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sidney</st1:place></st1:City> says, ?A gifted director couldn?t even hurt it.?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Using his penchant for plot, and out of his desperate desire to once again be the toast of Broadway, Sidney, along with <st1:City w:st="on">Myra</st1:City>, cook up an almost unthinkable scheme:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They?ll lure the would-be playwright to the Bruhl home, kill him, and market the sure-fire script as <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sidney</st1:place></st1:City>?s own.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But shortly after Clifford arrives, it?s clear that things are not what they seem!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Indeed, even Helga Ten Dorp, a nosey psychic from next door, and Porter Milgram, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sidney</st1:place
></st1:City>?s observant attorney, can only speculate where the line between truth and deception lies.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">AUDITIONS</B> will be <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">WED.</B> and <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">FRI., AUGUST 24 AND 26</B> at <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">7pm</B> at the <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">CONFETTI STAGE STUDIO</B> in the <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">HILTON CENTER</B> for the Performing Arts, 40 Russell Road, Albany, next to Westgate Shopping Plaza.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Roles available are:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Sidney Bruhl ? looks 50s male -Broadway playwright</FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><st1:City w:st="on">Myra</st1:City> Bruhl ? looks 40s female -<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sidney</st1:place></st1:City>?s wife</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Clifford Anderson ? looks mid 20s to early 30s male ?aspiring young playwright</FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Helga Ten Dorp ? looks mid 40s to 50s female ?CSI psychic neighbor</FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Porter Milgram ? looks 50s male ?<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sidney</st1:place></st1:City>?s attorney and friend</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>AUDITIONS will consist of a prepared contemporary monologue and cold readings from the script.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">PERFORMANCES</B> will be Thurs ? Sun, Oct 27 ? 30, 2005 @ The Arts Center of the Capital Region in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Troy</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">NY</st1:State></st1:place>.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">For more information, call Neil Jones at <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">(518) 253-1253</B></FONT></FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>