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</font></div><div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style='color: black; font-size: 20pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;'><font face="Calibri">Our Own ProductionS</font></span></b><b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><br>
</span></b><b><span style='color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;'><font face="Calibri">will be holding auditions for:<br>
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</font></span></b><font face="Calibri"><b><span style='color: black; font-size: 20pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;'>Inspecting Carol<br>
</span></b><span style='color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;'>by Daniel J. Sullivan and the Seattle
Repertory Theatre Company</span></font><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><br>
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</font></span><font face="Calibri"><span style='color: black; font-size: 22pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;'>Audition dates:</span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font face="Calibri"><span style='color: black; font-size: 20pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;'>September 4 and 5, 2012 from 6-9 p.m.<br>
Call backs will be September 7, 2012 from 6-9 p.m.</span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font face="Calibri"><span style='color: black; font-size: 20pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;'>Rotterdam Senior Center<br>
2639 Hamburg St.<br>
Rotterdam, NY 12303</span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font face="Calibri"><span style='color: black; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;'>Directed by: Edmund Metzold</span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 14pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font face="Calibri"><span style='color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;'>Performance Dates: 11/30-12/2 and
12/7-12/10,2012<br>
Emmanuel Friedens Church<br>
218 Nott Terrace<br>
Schenectady, NY 2307</span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='color: black; line-height: 115%; font-size: 20pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;'><font face="Calibri">Please prepare a one minute comedic
monologue.<br>
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For those not familiar with the show, we thought it best to clarify a couple of
things.<br>
<br>
The character of Zorah Bloch is a female.<br>
The character of Sidney Carlton is a male.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 14pt; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><br>
Also, here is a brief description:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Almost broke, the
pathetic Soapbox Theatre Company is having a dickens of a time mounting their
annual cash cow, the holiday classic <i>A Christmas Carol</i>. Tiny Tim is a
bit too old and big, the Ghost of Jacob Marley keeps getting his chains tangled
in the scenery, and there’s an inspector from the National Endowment for the
Arts expected any minute.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>When an inept new actor
is mistaken for the inspector, cast and crew cater to his every whim to try to
win government funding. The result? The most hilarious and disastrous
production of <i>A Christmas Carol</i> ever. Part <i>Noises Off</i>, part <i>Waiting
for Guffman</i>, this show has been a sidesplitting holiday hit ever since it
premiered at the Seattle Rep.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;'><br><font face="Calibri">
CHARACTERS:<br>
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Please note: The ages stated are not set in stone. <o:p></o:p></font></span></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><span style='color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;'>Zorah Bloch – Founding director of The Soapbox Playhouse.
Extremely self-involved. 40s </span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><span style='color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;'>Sidney Carlton – A founding member of The Soapbox Playhouse.
Kind but somewhat addled. 50s-60s. </span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><span style='color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;'>Dorothy Tree Hapgood –Sidney’s wife. English and unable to lose
her accent. Also a founding member. 50s-60s. </span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><span style='color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: 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. </span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><span style='color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;'>Phil Hewlitt – Obsessive, usually plays the intellectual
character in any Soapbox production. Also a founding member. 30s-40s. </span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><span style='color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: 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. </span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><span style='color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;'>Luther Beatty –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. </span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><span style='color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;'>Kevin Emory – Nervous, in the impossible position of managing
director. Afraid of Zorah. 30s </span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><span style='color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: 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 </span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><span style='color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;'>Betty Andrews – An inpector fot the National Endowment for the
Arts. A forbidding appearance. 30s-40s </span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><span style='color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;'>Bart Frances – A pleasant youth. Dresses in motorcycle jacket
and torn jeans. 20s </span><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div><font size="3">
</font></div><div style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><span style='color: rgb(50, 50, 50); font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;'>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='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div><font size="3">
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