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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">
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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";'>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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