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mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia"> </span></p>

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font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia">Curtain Call Theatre </span></p>

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mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:Georgia;
mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia">will hold auditions for John C. Picardi’s </span><span style="font-size:20.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:17.0pt;font-family:Georgia;
mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia">“The Sweepers”</span><span style="font-size:17.0pt;
font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia"> directed by Phil Rice at </span></p>

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mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:Georgia;
mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia">6:30 on Monday, October 25 and Tuesday, October
26 </span></p>

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mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:Georgia;
mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia">at the theater, 210 Old Loudon Road, Latham, NY.</span></p>

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mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:Georgia;
mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia">Production dates are January 14 through February
12. Rehearsals will start in early December.</span></p>

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mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:Georgia;
mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia">Looking for three women in their forties, one
woman in her twenties and one man in his twenties.</span></p>

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mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:Georgia;
mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia">The play is set in Boston’s Italian neighborhood,
the North End, in 1945, where three women, friends since girlhood, struggle
with various fears and crises brought on by the war. Bright, bustling Mary
DeGrazia has a husband and son fighting in the Pacific. Appropriately named
Dotty Larnino has a shellshocked husband in the nearby VA hospital and a son
overseas. Sultry, willful Bella Cichinelli doesn't bear the same burden of
uncertainty, at least on the surface.</span></p>

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mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:Georgia;
mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia">“ . . . plenty of laughs along with a
gut-wrenching emotional wallop.”</span></p>

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mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:Georgia;
mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia">Character breakdown:</span></p>

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mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:Georgia;
mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia">Bella Cichinelli (F) – 40s – sexy, stylish
Italian –American</span></p>

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mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:Georgia;
mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia">Mary DeGrazia (F) – 40’s – stoic, matronly but
stylish Italian –American, always in control</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:Georgia;
mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:Georgia;
mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia">Dotty Larnino (F) – 40’s – jolly Italian
–American with a positive manner and a curious naivety</span></p>

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mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:Georgia;
mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia">Karen Foletti (F) – mid-20s – Sonny’s
bride-to-be, from an upper middle class Italian –American family, very much the
lady</span></p>

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mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:Georgia;
mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia">Sonny McCarthy-Cichinelli (M) –<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>mid-20s - Bella’s son, handsome,
well-educated attorney</span></p>

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mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:Georgia;
mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia">Readings will be from the script. Questions?
Call: </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:Georgia;mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>518-366-6180 </span></p>

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mso-bidi-font-family:Georgia"> </span></p>




<br>-- <br>Phil<br>