<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Marker Felt" size="7" color="#0011ff" style="font: 36.0px Marker Felt; color: #0011ff">THEATER VOICES</font><font face="Marker Felt" size="6" color="#0011ff" style="font: 27.0px Marker Felt; color: #0011ff"> will hold auditions for a staged reading of “LATER LIFE”, </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Marker Felt" size="6" color="#0011ff" style="font: 27.0px Marker Felt; color: #0011ff">by A. R. Gurney, directed by Ed. Lange</font><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande">.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande">Location</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande"> Steamer No. 10 Theatre, 500 Western Avenue, Albany - corner of West Lawrence Street.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande">Times</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande"> Sunday December 7, 5-7pm </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande"> Monday December 8, 7-9pm</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande"> </font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande">Needed: At least two men and two women.</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande">Auditionees are asked to bring a monologue to <u>read</u> of no longer than two minutes in length. In addition, scenes from the script of LATER LIFE will be read.</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande"><u>Please note</u>: all actors will need to appear at least forty years of age or older. The cast will require at least two men and two women. A Boston accent will not be used.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande">Synopsis: 1993. An upscale party on the terrace of a high-rise apartment building overlooking Boston Harbor.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande"><b>CHARACTERS</b>: (all characters are early middle-age or older)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande"><b>Austin</b>: handsome, banker, divorced, proper, polite, reserved, life-long Bostonian</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande"><b>Ruth</b>: lovely, arty, youthful, free-spirited, married four times</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande"><b>Sally</b>: well-to-do hostess, Ruth’s friend, a matchmaker</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande"><b>Jim:</b> an existentialist defrocked professor, trying to quit smoking, gay</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande"><b>Marion: </b>gray-haired, matronly but feisty Bostonian, married to Roy</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande"><b>Roy: </b>an ex-marathoner who wants to move to Florida for his arthritis and golf</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande"><b>Duane: </b>an early computer geek, trying to persuade his wife to upgrade</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande"><b>Nancy: </b>an insensitive, clench-jawed Long Islander who loves the party food</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande"><b>Ted: </b>a transplanted executive from Atlanta with more than a few biases</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande"><b>Esther: </b>Ted’s wife who shares many of Ted’s<b> </b>views</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande"><b>Walt: </b>Austin’s best friend, who thinks the world of him, and wants him to be happy</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande"><b>Judith: </b>a Boston Symphony musician, friend of Ruth’s and a gossip</font></div><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande">Production Dates</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande">February 13-15, 2009 (Fri.-Sun.) at Steamer No. 10 Theatre, Albany.</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande">Rehearsals will begin: on or about January 25.</font></p><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande">Announcements will also be listed in the local newspaper and media calendar listings. Contact <a href="mailto:info@theatervoices.org"><font color="#0010f3" style="color: #0010f3"><u>info@theatervoices.org</u></font></a> with questions.</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify"><font face="Lucida Grande" size="5" style="font: 17.0px Lucida Grande">www.theatervoices.org</font></p>
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