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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>RPI Players Present Auditions for </span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>The Importance of Being
Earnest</span></i></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Director Eric Shovah</span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Producer Matthew Scorza</span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>AUDITION DATES:</span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tuesday, September 3
and Thursday, September 5, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>AUDITION TIME:</span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Auditions will begin at 7pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you need to arrive late or set up an
alternate time, please contact the director as soon as possible to make
arrangements.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>AUDITION LOCATION:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>RPI Campus, Ricketts Building, Room 203<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>PRODUCTION DATES:</span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>November 15-17 and
22-23, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>The production and most
rehearsals will be held at the RPI Playhouse.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>All auditioners should
come prepared to read from the script.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No monologue is necessary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Familiarity with the characters and story is helpful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The play is public domain, so full copies are
available to read online.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All
auditioners will be given the opportunity to read from desired roles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After an initial round of readings, some
auditioners may be called back or asked to stay for additional readings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Auditioners are encouraged to try British
(RP) accents, though this is not a necessity as dialects will be taught.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please bring a headshot and resume if
available, as well as a list of conflicts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The staff will do its best to accommodate cast conflicts presented at
the auditions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All roles are
available.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>PLAY SYNOPSIS:</span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>The subtitle for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Importance of Being Earnest </i>is �a
trivial comedy for serious people.�<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
play is a comical farce in which the protagonists maintain double lives to
escape burdensome social obligations. <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Whenever Jack Worthing
slips away to London from his Hertfordshire estate he says he is going to see
his (fictitious) wayward brother Ernest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Once there he keeps his privacy by calling himself Ernest which is
fortunate as his beloved Gwendolen declares she could only love an Ernest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her cousin Algy is one person who knows
Jack�s secret and one day he travels to Jack�s estate, announcing himself to
Jack�s attractive ward Cecily as bad brother Ernest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cecily is much taken with him and with his
name, so on Jack�s return home and Gwendolen�s unexpected arrival it becomes
clear there are both too many and too few Ernests earnestly courting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>CHARACTERS:</span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Jack Worthing (male) � </span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>a young gentleman from the country; in love with Gwendolen
Fairfax.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is seemingly a responsible,
respectable man who is very dashing and self-assured (as well as living a
double life).<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Algernon Moncrieff (male) � </span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>a young gentleman from London, the nephew of Lady Bracknell; in
love with Cecily Cardew. He is a charming and idle bachelor who enjoys a good
time and loves leisure.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Gwendolen Fairfax (female) � </span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>a young lady in London society, loved by Jack Worthing. She is
sophisticated, intellectual, cosmopolitan, and utterly pretentious.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Lady Bracknell (male or female) </span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>� a society lady and Gwendolen�s mother. She is snobbish,
mercenary, domineering, cunning, narrow-minded and authoritarian.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Cecily Cardew (female) � </span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>a young lady, the ward of Jack Worthing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is young, impulsive, and vibrant.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Miss Prism (female) � </span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Cecily�s governess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is
rigid in her beliefs though seemingly has a soft side.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>The Reverend Canon Chasuble (male) - </span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>the vicar of Jack�s parish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He entertains secret romantic feelings for
Miss Prism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Lane (male) � </span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Algernon�s
butler.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Merriman (male) � </span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Jack�s butler/servant at the Manor House.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>* Lane and Merriman may
be played by the same actor as Lane is only in Act I and Merriman is in Acts II
and III.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>If you have any
additional questions regarding auditions, please contact director Eric Shovah
at bialystockandbloom@nycap.rr.com or (518) 526-1300.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you and we hope to see you at
auditions!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
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