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<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="5" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">
CORRECTED from previous post!</span><br>
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</span></span>Auditions!! <font color="red"><span style="color: red;">THURSDAY 10/18 at 6:30pm
</span></font>– Curtain Call Theater, Latham</span></font></b></p><span class="q">
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://www.curtaincalltheatre.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.curtaincalltheatre.com/</a>
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<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">For more
information, contact Cindy Brizzell-Bates (Director) at 221-2235 or <a href="mailto:cbates@siena.edu" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><font color="black"><span style="color: windowtext;">
cbates@siena.edu</span></font></a>.</span></font></b></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Looking for Normal</span></font></b></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">By Jane Anderson</span></font></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Time</span></font></b>: The
present <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Place</span></b>:
Somewhere in Ohio</p>
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<p><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Characters</span></font></b>:</p>
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<p><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Roy</span></font></b>
– middle-American and middle-aged</p>
<p><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Irma</span></font></b> – Roy's wife. The same.</p>
<p><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Wayne</span></font></b> – their son, early 20's, a
roadie</p>
<p><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Patty Ann</span></font></b> – their daughter, 13, a
tomboy</p>
<p><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Roy Senior</span></font></b> – Roy's father, a farmer</p>
<p><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Em</span></font></b> – Roy's mother, a farmer's wife</p>
<p><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Rev. Muncie</span></font></b> – their pastor</p>
<p><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Frank</span></font></b> – Roy's boss at the John Deere plant </p>
<p><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Grandmother Ruth</span></font></b> – Roy's grandmother from another time</p>
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<p><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">The Story:</span></font></b></p>
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<p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Roy and
Irma have been married for twenty-five years. They have two children. They live
in the heartland. They're respected members of their church and their
community. When Roy and Irma go to their pastor for marriage counseling, Roy confesses that he's a
woman trapped in a man's body and would like to have a sex change. As would be
expected, Irma throws Roy
out of the house. But their bond as a couple is stronger than either of them
imagined, and eventually Irma finds a way to make peace with this unfathomable
situation and accept her transformed husband as her lifelong mate. They not
only have to wrestle with the meaning of their marriage, they must deal with
the delicate dynamics of their family as well. Roy is burdened by his father's stubborn
assessment of his manhood and his mother's sad acceptance of life's cruelties.
Irma, in the midst of menopause, is struggling with her adolescent tomboy
daughter, Patty Ann, who is raging against the injustices of her own budding
hormones. And the grown and absent son, Wayne, who has always bemoaned his
father's emotional limitations, is now outraged by his father's desire to be a
woman. Overseeing it all is Roy's
legendary grandmother, who left her husband and son to pursue her own sexual
and emotional needs. The play explores the complexities of marriage, family and
deconstructs the very notion of love. (from Dramatists Play Service, Inc.)</span></font></p>
<p><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Rehearsal Schedule:</span></font></b> Rehearsals begin around
January 7<sup>th </sup>and rehearsals will generally be held Sunday afternoons
or early evenings, and Mon-Wed approx. 6:30-9:30pm. This schedule can be
altered based on the actor's schedules.</p>
<p><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Performance Schedule:</span></font></b> February 22<sup>nd</sup>
– March 22<sup>nd</sup> – Wed & Thurs at 7:30pm; Fri & Sat at 8pm; Sun at 2pm.</p>
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