<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial">Confetti Stage announces auditions for </p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial">WATER BY THE SPOONFUL</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial">by Quiara Alegría Hudes</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial">directed by Amanda Brinke</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial">Auditions Dates & Times:</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial">Sunday, March 1st & Monday, March 2nd</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial">6:30pm sign-in; 7:00pm audition start</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)">Location:</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)">The Albany Masonic Hall</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)">67 Corning Place</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)">Albany, NY 12207</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)">Performance Dates: </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)">April 24, 25, 30 & May 1, 2 @ 7:30pm</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)">April 26 and May 3 @ 2:00pm</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)">(Tech week April 18-23; specific schedule to be determined in rehearsal)</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial">Somewhere in
Philadelphia, Elliot has returned from Iraq and is struggling to find
his place in the world. Somewhere in a chat room, recovering addicts
keep each other alive, hour by hour, day by day. The boundaries of
family and community are stretched across continents and cyberspace as
birth families splinter and online families collide. ‘Water by the
Spoonful’ is a heartfelt meditation on lives on the brink of redemption.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial">Quiara Alegría
Hudes is perhaps best-known for writing the book for the musical ‘In the
Heights’. She won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for ‘Water by the
Spoonful.’ </p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial">CHARACTERS</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial">Odessa Ortiz, 39, a.k.a. Haikumom, founder of <a href="http://www.recovertogether.com" target="_blank">www.recovertogether.com</a>, works odd janitorial jobs, lives one notch above squalor.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial">Elliot Ortiz, 24,
an Iraq vet with a slight limp, works at Subway Hoagies, scores an
occasional job as a model or actor, Yazmin’s cousin, Odessa’s birth son.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial">Yazmin Ortiz, 31, adjunct professor of music, Odessa’s niece and Elliot’s cousin.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial">Fountainhead, 38, a.k.a. John, a computer programmer and entrepreneur, lives on Philadelphia’s Main Line, white.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial">Chutes&Ladders,
56, lives in San Diego, has worked a low-level job at the IRS since the
Reagan years, African-American, his real name is Clayton “Buddy”
Wilkie.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial">Orangutan, 31, a
recent community college graduate, Japanese by birth, her real name is
Madeleine Mays and before that Yoshiko Sakai.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial">A Ghost, also plays Professor Aman, an Arabic professor at Swarthmore; also plays a Policeman in Japan.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial">Actors of all ethnicities and ages are encouraged to audition. </p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial">Actors will be
asked to read directly from the script (sides will be provided).
Headshots and resumes accepted if available, but not required.
Rehearsals will begin in March. Please bring any scheduling conflict
info to the audition.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(35,35,35)">For further information, please contact Amanda Brinke, director, at <a href="mailto:Abrinke@yahoo.com" target="_blank">Abrinke@yahoo.com</a>.<br></p><div class=""><div id=":1or" class="" tabindex="0"><br></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Confetti Stage, Inc<br></div><div><a href="http://www.confettistage.org" target="_blank">www.confettistage.org</a></div><div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ConfettiStageInc" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/ConfettiStageInc</a><br></div><div>Please join us for our upcoming production of <font color="#0b5394"><b>Samuel Beckett's</b></font> <b><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#0b5394" size="4">Waiting for Godot</font></b>, February 27- March 8, 2015. <br><img src="cid:ii_i6je6q181_14bbc00a5ec59561" height="530" width="410"><br><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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