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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">The
Ghent Playhouse announces AUDITIONS for <u>BOEING, BOEING</u><b>, </b></font><font color="#000000">a comedy written by French
playwright, Marc Camoletti, translated by Beverley Cross and Francis Evans
Directed by Cathy Lee-Visscher</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><u><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">Auditions</font></span></u><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">:<span> </span></font><font color="#000000">Tuesday and Thursday, January 5 and 7, 2016</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">Sign-in at 7:00 p.m. - Auditions
will begin at 7:30 p.m. </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000"><span> </span><span> </span></font><font color="#000000">THE GHENT PLAYHOUSE</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">6 Townhall
Place (Off of Route 66)</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">Ghent, New
York</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><u><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">Production
Dates</font></span></u><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">:<span> </span></font><font color="#000000">March 18 – April
3, 2016</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;text-indent:0.5in"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">Fridays and Saturdays – 8:00 p.m.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;text-indent:0.5in"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">* Sundays – 2:00 p.m.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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There will be no performance on Easter Sunday, March<span> </span></font><font color="#000000">27, 2016</font><span><font color="#000000">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><u><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">Casting
Information</font></span></u><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">:<span> </span></font><font color="#000000">A
cast of six bold actors, 2 men and 4 women, are needed for this production.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">This is a fun, fast-paced, wacky farce that
relies on strong physical comedy.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">We are
looking for actors willing to completely give themselves over to the silliness
of</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">this play.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">Those auditioning will be asked to read
specific scenes from the script.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">Accents
</font><u><font color="#000000">are</font></u><font color="#000000"> required for the roles of Berthe, Gabriella and Gretchen.</font><font color="#000000"><span> </span><span> </span></font><font color="#000000">Please
see the character breakdown below for more information.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><u><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">The
Story</font></span></u><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">:<span> </span></font><font color="#000000">It’s the
swinging ‘60’s.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">Playboy Bernard juggles
his three fiancées, all flight attendants, with careful planning and the
reluctant assistance of his housekeeper.</font><span><font color="#000000">
</font></span><font color="#000000">But weather delays, the invention of the faster Boeing jet, and an
unexpected visit from an old school chum, suddenly send Bernard’s elaborate
love life into complete chaos.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font color="#000000"><u><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">The
Characters</span></u><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">:</span></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">Bernard
– (early to late 40’s)<span> </span></font><font color="#000000">An American
architect living in Paris.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">He is
handsome, well-educated and charming; a lothario, who thinks he has the
opposite sex completely figured out.</font><span><font color="#000000">
</font></span><font color="#000000">Believes it better to be engaged rather than married - “you have all the
advantages of married life with none of the drawbacks.”</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">A combination of Don Draper (Mad Men) and
Jack Tripper (Three’s Company).</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">.</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">Berthe
– (40’s – 60’s)<span> </span></font><font color="#000000">Bernard’s longtime French
housekeeper and cook.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">Very devoted to
Bernard, but wearying of his revolving door lifestyle; by play’s end she has
been pushed as far as she will go.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">She
is very dry and fantastically sarcastic; never afraid to say exactly what is on
her mind.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">FRENCH ACCENT</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">Gloria
– (25 – 35) Bernard’s American fiancée – A stewardess employed by TransWorld
Airlines (TWA).<span> </span></font><font color="#000000">She is a very passionate
woman with an upbeat disposition.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">She has
a vigorous appetite for both food and love.</font><span><font color="#000000">
</font></span><font color="#000000">She is completely adorable and supremely confident.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">Gabriella
– (25 – 35)<span> </span></font><font color="#000000">Bernard’s Italian fiancée –
A stewardess employed by Alitalia.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">She
possesses the fiery passion of an Italian female, along with a casual
sensuality.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">She is much smarter and
self-reliant that she first appears </font><font color="#000000"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></font><font color="#000000">ITALIAN
ACCENT </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">Gretchen
– (25 -35)<span> </span></font><font color="#000000">Bernard’s German fiancée – A
stewardess employed by Lufthansa. She is both sexy and aggressive, possessing
an intense Teutonic passion that can turn on a dime.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">At any moment, she could make love to you or
fight you.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">She arouses equal amounts of
lust and fear in those around her.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">GERMAN
ACCENT</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">Robert
- (early to late 40’s) – Bernard’s school chum from Wisconsin.<span> </span></font><font color="#000000">He hasn’t seen Bernard in close to 20
years.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">He is shy, small-town, moral and
sweet – somewhat of a nerd by today’s standards.</font><span><font color="#000000"> </font></span><font color="#000000">He views Bernard’s whirlwind juggling of
three fiancées with awe and admiration until he finds himself wrapped up in it
and his anxiety suddenly spins out of control.</font><span><font color="#000000">
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</font><u><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">Additional
Information</font></span></u><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">:<span> </span></font><font color="#000000">For
further information you may contact the director at (518) 755-9278 or by email
at </font></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Kingthings Christmas","serif";font-size:11pt"><a href="mailto:cathyleevisscher@gmail.com"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#0000ff">cathyleevisscher@gmail.com</font></span></a></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">. </font></span><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="4">Linda Murawski, <font size="2">Office Manager & Publicity person</font></font> for The Ghent Playhouse </font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">6 Town Hall Place, Ghent, NY 12075 (518) 392-6264</font></div></div></div></div>
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