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</font><p style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0pt" align="center"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";font-size:20pt">Audition
Announcement for:</span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0pt" align="center"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";font-size:22pt">Drop
Dead Disco: A Dancing Mystery</span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0pt" align="center"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";font-size:18pt">Auditions</span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0pt" align="center"><font color="#000000"><u><span style="font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";font-size:18pt">Wednesday,
September 10<sup>th</sup> </span></u><u><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></u></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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</span><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0pt" align="center"><font color="#000000"><u><span style="font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";font-size:18pt">Thursday
September 11<sup>th</sup> </span></u><u><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></u></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0pt" align="center"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";font-size:20pt">At</span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0pt" align="center"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif""><img border="0" name="148550476d8e36ac_14853c33fa8f0f10_graphics2" align="BOTTOM" src="http://www.rocks77.com/images/rockslogo_blk.jpg" width="491" height="119"></span></font></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><div style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0pt" align="center"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";font-size:14pt">Rocks Albany</span></div><div style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0pt" align="center"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";font-size:14pt">77 Central Ave, Albany, NY </span><span style="font-size:14pt"></span></div><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0pt" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";font-size:20pt"><font color="#000000">6 to 8 pm</font></span></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0pt" align="center"><u><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif"">Show Date and Location: </span></font></font></u></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0pt" align="center"><font color="#000000"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif""><font size="3">October 18</font><font><sup>th</sup></font><font size="3">, 2014</font></span></b><font size="3"><span style="font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif""> at the <b>Watervilet Ancient
Order of the Hibernians Lodge</b> </span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0pt" align="center"><b><font size="3"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif"">1021 9th Ave, Watervliet, NY</span></font></b></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";font-size:13.5pt">Auditioners are asked to bring theater
resmues and (if possible) a recent photo.</span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";font-size:13.5pt"> Improv experience desired, but
not required! Due to restrictions from the venue, all Auditioners are asked to
be <b><u>21 or over</u></b>.</span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";font-size:13.5pt">Auditions will consist of cold readings
from the script and a minor improv exercise.</span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";font-size:13.5pt"><font color="#000000">The audition packet with all
information is attached as a PDF</font><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">.</span></span></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";font-size:13.5pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";font-size:13.5pt">Any
Questions Please email: </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";font-size:13.5pt"><a href="mailto:damonhyper@gmail.com" target="_blank">damonhyper@gmail.com</a></span></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Scenario:</span></u></b></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dust off your disco duds, poof up your pompadour and</span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">get ready to get down at the hottest spot this side of
the seventies -- </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">it's opening night at the Drop Dead Disco. </span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Putting aside personal differences, club owners Paulie,
Esther & Cotton Blend </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">are pulling out all the stops to put a glow in your mood
ring and a song in your heart. </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Their inheritance depends on it. </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Persuaded by their adopted parents to abandon previous
occupations, the </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Blend Siblings have decided to operate a discotheque.
>From inception to completion, </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">the only thing the three agreed on was the name: DROP
DEAD. </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paulie has hired a blind person to be the DJ - 'blind
people have great </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">hearing' was his rationale. Cotton got the doorman
through a friend for a favour and </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Esther is contributing a contest idea - she's even picked
up a few prizes. Don't ask if </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">they were paid for. Paulie's a little worried about a
rumour that an undercover </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">investigator from the IRS will be in the club - he knows
that, at the end of the </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">night, the money and the receipts won't match up. Esther
is keeping crooked company, </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">and this is Cotton's first public appearance since he got
out of jail. They are all taking a chance on the nightlife.</span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Characters:</span></u></b></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paulie Blend </span></u></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">*</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> is a neat freak extraordinaire, and his life is going
from bad to worse. </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The DJ is blind, his girlfriend left him, the Doorman
isn’t what he seems, the Mob is moving </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">in, his siblings are slobs, the disco is dirty and he
wants everything cleaned up.</span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Esther Blend</span></u></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> has a secret source of income, a
secret skill and a secret relationship. </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">She wishes her bothersome brothers, especially Paulie,
would drop dead. </span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Cotton Blend</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">*</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> hired the blind DJ and the suspicious Doorman. When not
in jail, </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Cotton is working to turn the disco into a casino. He
likes to gamble and wants to be the </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">house because the house always wins. </span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Donna O’Shea</span></u></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">, Disco Dance Queen and Paulie’s angry
ex-girlfriend. Donna will do </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">anything to win the dance contest. She’s a paranoid
walking arsenal and extremely moody. </span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Johnny Fever</span></u></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">, a mobster and a loan shark and proud
of it; with a secret obsession </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">for auctions. Johnny loves Elvis, hates disco and is
frequently outbid by Paulie on Ebay.</span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Stevie Awesome</span></u></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">, the blind DJ who wants to keep her
job and is quick to yell </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">discrimination if anyone interrupts her continuous play
and suggests being blind is a </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">handicap to scratching vinyl.</span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hugo Grommet</span></u></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">, the doorman, is supposed to be hot
for Esther but seems to have a </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">little something going on with Donna. He’s very
interested in people’s financial information.</span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font> </p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:0pt" align="center"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">**Please Note: <b>Paulie Blend </b>&<b>
Cotton</b> <b>Blend</b> are played by the same actor**</span></font></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
</font><p style="margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";font-size:13.5pt">Thanks for your interest!</span></font></p><font color="#000000" size="3" face="Times New Roman">
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