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<font size="4"><b>Schenectady Civic Players</b></font><b><br>12 South
Church Street, Schenectady, NY 12305<br><br><font size="4">Open
auditions for . . .</font><br><font size="5">The EXPLORERS Club</font><br>By
Nell Benjamin<br>Directed by Mark Stephens<br><br><font size="4">--
Tuesday, November 10, and Thursday, November 12 –</font><br><br>At
7:30 pm at Schenectady Civic Players, 12 S. Church St., Schenectady.
Sign-up beginning at 7 pm. </b>
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<b>Roles for 8 men and 1 woman.<br><br><i>(Performance dates ---
January 29 through February 7, 2016)</i><br><br>London, 1879. The
prestigious Explorers Club is in crisis: their acting president wants
to admit a woman, and their bartender is terrible. True, this female
candidate is brilliant, beautiful, and has discovered a legendary Lost
City, but the decision to let in a woman could shake the very
foundation of the British Empire. Grab your safety goggles for some
very mad science involving deadly cobras, irate Irishmen and the
occasional airship.<br><br><font size="4">Cast:</font> These
characters can be cast from any age range between 20 and 60. The Irish
Assassin has half a paragraph of dialog that will need an Irish
accent. The rest of the cast, except Luigi, will require an English
accent.<br><br><font size="4">Lucius Fretway:</font> botanist/man of
science, president pro tempore of Explorers<br>Club, second banana to
Harry Percy , timid in life but passionate about plants<br>and
Phyllida Spotte-Hume. He pines for her romantically. Will he end up her<br>best
friend instead?<br><br><font size="4">Phyllida Spotte</font>—Hume:
daring explorer and anthropologist, the object of desire<br>of both
Lucius Fretway and Harry Percy. This actress will also portray Countess<br>Glamorgan,
Phyllida’s twin.<br><br>Harry Percy: intrepid explorer, robust
and manly, full of himself (sees himself<br>as the group’s alpha
male), president of Explorers club, more surface than depth<br>to his
character<br><br><font size="4">Luigi: </font>tribesman from lost city
of Pahatlabong, ideally shirtless and painted<br>blue, speaks
Pahatalabong and broken English, physical comedy required.<br><br><font size="4">Professor
Cope:</font> herpetologist, carries a (fake) snake during the show,<br>unassuming,
best friends with Professor Walling, methodical and linear in his<br>thought
process.<br><br><font size="4">Professor Sloane:</font>
archeo-theologist, sarcastic and prim in manner, the oldest of<br>the
five club members, disdainful of women<br><br><font size="4">Professor
Walling:</font> zoologist, carries a (fake) guinea pig for much of the
show,</b><br><b>bumbling and good natured, best friends with Professor
Cope, becomes emotional<br>when misfortune befalls his guinea pig<br><br><font size="4">Sir
Bernard Humphries:</font> private secretary to Queen Victoria, career
politician,<br>puffed up and officious.<br><br><font size="4">Beebe: </font>explorer,
‘lost’ companion of Percy, tells a hellish tale of his<br>abandonment
among angry Tibetan monks (also plays Irish Assassin)<br><br># # # # #
# # # # # # # # # #</b><br>
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