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<p class=""><span style="font-size:22pt;font-weight:normal">Schenectady Civic Players</span><span style="font-size:24pt;font-weight:normal"><span style> </span><span style> <br></span></span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style> </span>12 South Church Street,
Schenectady, NY 12305</span><span style></span></p>
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<p class=""><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:red">Open
auditions for . . .</span></p>
<p class=""><b style><i><span style="font-size:18pt"><span style> </span><span style> </span>Paul
Osborn’s<span style> </span></span></i></b></p>
<p class=""><i><span style="font-size:28pt;color:red"><span style> </span><span style> </span></span></i><i><span style="font-size:28pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:red">MORNING’S
AT SEVEN</span></i><i><span style="font-size:28pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:red"></span></i></p>
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</span></i></b><b style><i><span style="font-size:18pt">Directed by Joseph Fava</span></i></b><b style><span style="font-size:18pt"></span></b></p>
<p class="" style="margin-left:0.25in"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:red">-- Tuesday, July 23, and Thursday, July 25 –</span><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:black"><span style> </span></span></p>
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<p class="" style="margin-left:0.25in"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:black"><span style> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:black">-- Roles for
5 women and 4 men – ages 40s – 70s --</span></p>
<p class="" style><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:black"><span style> </span>(Performance dates --- October 18
through 27, 2013.)</span></p>
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<p class=""><span style="font-size:11pt">The Schenectady Civic Players
announces open auditions for the first production of its 86th season, Paul
Osborn's <b style>MORNING'S AT SEVEN</b>, Tuesday
and Thursday, July 23 and 25, at The Playhouse, 12 S. Church St., in
Schenectady's Stockade District. Sign-ups begin at 7:15 each evening, with
readings starting at 7:30 PM.</span></p>
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<p class=""><span style="font-size:11pt">At the play’s center are the
long-standing sibling rivalries of four aging sisters. Three of them-- Cora,
Ida and Arry-- have been living next door to each other for fifty years. Eldest
sister Esther lives only a few blocks away, and we quickly learn that living so
close to one another has taken its toll. The mostly quiet life these women
share with their husbands becomes unhinged when they begin to question what to
do with their remaining years. Family secrets, dizzy spells, and a 40-year-old
son still living at home are just a few of the reasons that add up to an
evening of humorously dysfunctional family life. </span></p>
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<p class="" style>This
perennially charming portrait of small town America fifty plus years ago was revived
on Broadway in 1980 and in 2002 to critical acclaim.<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p>
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<p class=""><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">Roles for 4 men and 5 women include:</span></p>
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<p class=""><b style><span style="font-size:11pt">Theodore (Thor) Swanson-60s</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt">-The gruff-spoken but tender-hearted husband of Cora.
He is frequently caught in the middle of conflicts between her and her sister
Arry, who has shared their home since she was a teenager. Thor is the most
rational, perhaps the only rational person in the play</span></p>
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<p class=""><b style><span style="font-size:11pt">Cora Swanson-60s</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt">- Cora is resentful of never having had a life alone with her husband
Thor. She wants to spend her remaining years without her sister Arry in the
house. </span></p>
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<p class=""><b style><span style="font-size:11pt">Aaronetta (Arry) Gibbs-60s</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt">- She has lived with Cora and Thor her entire adult
life. She is a gossip and a snoop and tends to be high strung.</span></p>
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<p class=""><b style><span style="font-size:11pt">Ida Bolton-60s</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt">-Wife
of Carl and mother of 40-year-old Homer, still living at home. She is a little
slow to grasp everything.</span></p>
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<p class=""><b style><span style="font-size:11pt">Carl Bolton-60s</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt">-Regrets
not becoming a dentist and is prone to spells.</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-size:11pt">He is, to say the least, a little
odd</span></p>
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<p class=""><b style>Homer Bolton-40</b>-He
has been living at home all his life and has been dating Myrtle Brown for 12
years. He is unable or unwilling to make a commitment, although, at the opening
of the play, he is bringing Myrtle home to meet his parents.</p>
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<p class=""><b style>Myrtle Brown-39</b>-She
is pleasant, polite, gawky and awkward. After 12 years of dating Homer she is
finally going to meet the parents for the first time. Her arrival causes quite
a stir in the family</p>
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<p class=""><b style>Esther (Esty)
Crampton-60s</b>- Like many women of her generation, she has spent her married
life in submission to her arrogant and domineering husband David. She has a
calming influence on her sisters and has an innate understanding of human and
family interaction.</p>
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<p class=""><b style>David Crampton-60s</b>-He
is a retired professor and has an air of intellectual superiority. He refers to
his relatives as morons, but is capable of compassion and even
affection </p>
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<p class=""><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red"><span style> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:red">More
info and character descriptions at <a href="http://www.civicplayers.org/"><span style="color:black"><span style="color:black">www.civicplayers.org</span></span></a><span style> </span>or phone 372-5322</span></p>
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