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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal" class=ecxMsoNormal><B><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 18pt">The Importance of Being Earnest</SPAN></I></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></P><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal" class=ecxMsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Director Eric Shovah</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></P><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal" class=ecxMsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Producer Matthew Scorza</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></P><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal" class=ecxMsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">AUDITION DATES:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><SPAN> </SPAN>Tuesday, September 3 and Thursday, September 5, 2013</SPAN></P><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal" class=ecxMsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">AUDITION TIME:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><SPAN> </SPAN>Auditions will begin at 7pm.<SPAN> </SPAN>If you need to arrive late or set up an alternate time, please contact the director as soon as possible to make arrangements.</SPAN></P><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal" class=ecxMsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">AUDITION LOCATION:<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">RPI Campus, Ricketts Building, Room 203</SPAN></P><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal" class=ecxMsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">PRODUCTION DATES:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><SPAN> </SPAN>November 15-17 and 22-23, 2013</SPAN></P><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal" class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The production and most rehearsals will be held at the RPI Playhouse.</SPAN></P><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal" class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">All auditioners should come prepared to read from the script.<SPAN> </SPAN>No monologue is necessary.<SPAN> </SPAN>Familiarity with the characters and story is helpful.<SPAN> </SPAN>The play is public domain, so full copies are available to read online.<SPAN> </SPAN>All auditioners will be given the opportunity to read from desired roles.<SPAN> </SPAN>After an initial round of readings, some auditioners may be called back or asked to stay for additional readings.<SPAN> </SPAN>Auditioners are encouraged to try British (RP) accents, though this is not a necessity as dialects will be taught.<SPAN> </SPAN>Please bring a headshot and resume if available, as well as a list of conflicts.<SPAN> </SPAN>The staff will do its best to accommodate cast conflicts presented at the auditions.<SPAN> </SPAN>All roles are available.<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></P><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal" class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The subtitle for <I>The Importance of Being Earnest </I>is “a trivial comedy for serious people.”<SPAN> </SPAN>The play is a comical farce in which the protagonists maintain double lives to escape burdensome social obligations. </SPAN></P><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal" class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Whenever Jack Worthing slips away to London from his Hertfordshire estate he says he is going to see his (fictitious) wayward brother Ernest.<SPAN> </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> </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> </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> </SPAN></SPAN></P><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal" class=ecxMsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Jack Worthing (male) – </SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">a young gentleman from the country; in love with Gwendolen Fairfax.<SPAN> </SPAN>He is seemingly a responsible, respectable man who is very dashing and self-assured (as well as living a double life).</SPAN></P><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal" class=ecxMsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Algernon Moncrieff (male) – </SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">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.</SPAN></P><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal" class=ecxMsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Gwendolen Fairfax (female) – </SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">a young lady in London society, loved by Jack Worthing. She is sophisticated, intellectual, cosmopolitan, and utterly pretentious.</SPAN></P><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal" class=ecxMsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Cecily Cardew (female) – </SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">a young lady, the ward of Jack Worthing.<SPAN> </SPAN>She is young, impulsive, and vibrant.</SPAN></P><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal" class=ecxMsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Miss Prism (female) – </SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Cecily’s governess.<SPAN> </SPAN>She is rigid in her beliefs though seemingly has a soft side.</SPAN></P><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal" class=ecxMsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The Reverend Canon Chasuble (male) - </SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">the vicar of Jack’s parish.<SPAN> </SPAN>He entertains secret romantic feelings for Miss Prism.<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></P><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal" class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">* 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.</SPAN></P><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal" class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">If you have any additional questions regarding auditions, please contact director Eric Shovah at bialystockandbloom@nycap.rr.com or (518) 526-1300.<SPAN> </SPAN>Thank you and we hope to see you at auditions!<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></P><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT>
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