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</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 20pt;"><font face="Calibri">Our Own ProductionS</font></span></b><b><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt;"><br><font face="Calibri">
will be holding auditions for:<br><br>
<var id="yui-ie-cursor"></var></font></span></b><font face="Calibri"><b><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 20pt;">Inspecting Carol<br>
</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt;">by Daniel J.
Sullivan and the Seattle Repertory Theatre Company</span></font><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt;"><br><font face="Calibri">
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</font></span><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 22pt;"><font face="Calibri">Audition dates:<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 20pt;"><font face="Calibri">September 4 and 5, 2012 from 6-9 p.m.<br>Call backs will be September 7, 2012 from 6-9 p.m.</font></span></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 20pt;"><font face="Calibri">Rotterdam Senior Center<br>
2639 Hamburg St.<br>
Rotterdam, NY 12303<o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 18pt;"><font face="Calibri">Directed by:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Edmund Metzold<o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt;"><font face="Calibri">Performance Dates:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>11/30-12/2 and 12/7-12/10,2012<br>
Emmanuel Friedens Church<br>
218 Nott Terrace<br>
Schenectady, NY 2307<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;">
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</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 20pt;"><font face="Calibri">Please
prepare a one minute comedic monologue.<br>
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CHARACTERS:<br>
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Please note:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ages stated are not set
in stone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br>
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</font></span><span style="color: rgb(50, 50, 50); line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><font face="Calibri">Zorah Bloch – Founding
director of The Soapbox Playhouse. Extremely self-involved. 40s <o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div><font size="3">
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founding member of The Soapbox Playhouse. Kind but somewhat addled. 50s-60s. <o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div><font size="3">
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Sidney’s wife. English and unable to lose her accent. Also a founding member.
50s-60s. <o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(50, 50, 50); line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><font face="Calibri">Larry Vauxhall – Tough,
intellectually vain. Constantly agitating to alter the Soapbox’s Carol so it is
more socially relevent. A founding member. 40s-50s. <o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(50, 50, 50); line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><font face="Calibri">Phil Hewlitt – Obsessive,
usually plays the intellectual character in any Soapbox production. Also a
founding member. 30s-40s. <o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(50, 50, 50); line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><font face="Calibri">Walter E. Parsons –
African-American. Has recently taken up acting again after a stint in the armed
forces. Good-natured, excitable. Mid-20s-30s. <o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div><font size="3">
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12-year-old. Really too big to be playing Tiny Tim, a role he has been
performing two years too long. Youthful actor under 18 could pull it off. <o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div><font size="3">
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the impossible position of managing director. Afraid of Zorah. 30s <o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(50, 50, 50); line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><font face="Calibri">M.J. (Mary Jane) McMann –
Stage manager. A realist who long ago realized the Playhouse had hit bottom.
She looks on now as a bemused observer. Sharp, ironic sense of humor; cracks
herself up. Also a founding member. 30s <o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div><font size="3">
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inpector fot the National Endowment for the Arts. A forbidding appearance.
30s-40s <o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div><font size="3">
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youth. Dresses in motorcycle jacket and torn jeans. 20s <o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><span style="color: rgb(50, 50, 50); line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Wayne Wallace – In search
of a new career in acting but has no training and less talent. Affable, eager
to please. Mid20s-30s.</span><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div><font size="3">
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