<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><B>ALBANY CIVIC THEATER AUDITIONS</B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: auto;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;"><B> </B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;"> </SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;"><B>Albany Civic Theater</B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;"> will hold auditions for a </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text16"><SPAN style=""><A name="Text16"></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;">May</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text16"></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;"> production of <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><B>“</B></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text1"><SPAN style=""><A name="Text1"></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;"><B>Of Mice and Men</B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text1"></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text1"></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;">”, by </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text2"><SPAN style=""><A name="Text2"></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;">John Steinbeck</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text2"></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;">, directed by </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text3"><SPAN style=""><A name="Text3"></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;">Carol King</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text3"></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;">.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;"> </SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;"><B>Description: </B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text12"><SPAN style=""><A name="Text12"></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;">Two drifters, George and his friend Lennie, with delusions of living off the "fat of the land" have just arrived at a ranch to work for enough money to buy their own place. Lennie is a man-child, a little boy in the body of a dangerously powerful man. It's Lennie's obsessions with things soft and cuddly that have made George cautious about who the gentle giant, with his brute strength, associates with. His promise to allow Lennie to "tend to the rabbits" on their future land keeps Lennie calm, amidst distractions, as the overgrown child needs constant reassurance. But when a ranch boss' promiscuous wife is found dead in the barn with a broken neck, George is faced with a moral question of how to deal with the situation. <B> </B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text12"></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;"> </SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;"><B>Location</B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;">Albany Civic Theater 235 Second Avenue, Albany. (Corner of Sand)</SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;"> </SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;"><B>Times</B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;">Monday, </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text4"><SPAN style=""><A name="Text4"></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;">February 26</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text4"></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;">– </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text5"><SPAN style=""><A name="Text5"></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;">7:00</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text5"></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;">pm</SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;">Tuesday, </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text6"><SPAN style=""><A name="Text6"></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;">February 27</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text6"></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;">– </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text7"><SPAN style=""><A name="Text7"></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;">7:00</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text7"></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;">pm</SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;"> </SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;"><B>Needed:</B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;"> – </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text8"><SPAN style=""><A name="Text8"></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;">9</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text8"></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;"> men ages </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text9"><SPAN style=""><A name="Text9"></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;">20-60</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text9"></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text10"><SPAN style=""><A name="Text10"></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;">1</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text10"></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;"> women ages </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text11"><SPAN style=""><A name="Text11"></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;">20s</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text11"></SPAN><SPAN style=""><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;"> </SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;"><B>Contact</B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;">: (518) 462-1297</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;"><B>Production Dates</B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text13"><SPAN style=""><A name="Text13"></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;">May 4, </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text13"></SPAN><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;">200</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text14"><SPAN style=""><A name="Text14"></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;">7 through May 20, 2007</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bookmark:Text14"></SPAN><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;"> </SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17.3333px;">www.albanycivictheater.org</SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>