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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt;">PRESENTS AUDITIONS FOR A STUDENT PRODUCTION OF:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Co-Directed/Co-Choreographed By:<span>
</span>Eric Shovah and Heather D’Arcy</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Produced By:<span>
</span>Marlene Countermine<span> </span>Musical Direction By:<span>
</span>Linda Zannitto<span> </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Stage Managed By: Regina Baker<span>
</span>Designed By: Eric Shovah</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Audition Dates/Times:</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wednesday, May 25<sup>th</sup> (Sign-in at 6:00pm, Auditions from 6:30-9:30pm) or</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thursday, May 26<sup>th</sup> (Sign-in at 6:00pm, Auditions from 6:30-9:30pm)</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Audition/Performance Location:</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Heatly High School (171 Hudson Ave., Green Island, NY 12183)</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rehearsal Location:</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">TBA – Schenectady, NY Area</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Performance Dates:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span>
</span>August 5-7, 2016</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">THERE IS NO TUITION ASSOCIATED WITH THIS PRODUCTION!</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Auditions are open to students currently in 3<sup>rd</sup>-12<sup>th</sup> grade.<span>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">If cast, anyone under the age of 18 will be requested to have a parent/guardian consent form signed to participate.
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Please prepare 16-32 bars of music from a Broadway Musical (bring sheet music – in the correct key). No a capella singing or singing with an MP3/CD!<span>
</span>Also, come prepared to dance and/or engage in some physical movement.<span>
</span>Some auditioners may be asked to read from the script or sing from the show.<span>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Please bring a calendar of conflicts to the auditions.<span>
</span>Rehearsals will begin immediately after Memorial Day.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Show Synopsis:<span>
</span>This swashbuckling prequel to <i>Peter Pan </i>will have you “hooked” from the moment you let your imagination take flight.<span>
</span>A young orphan and his mates are shipped off from Victorian England to a distant island ruled by the evil King Zarboff.<span>
</span>They know nothing of the mysterious trunk in the captain’s cabin, containing a precious, otherworldly cargo.<span>
</span>At sea, the boys are discovered by a precocious young girl named Molly, a Starcatcher-in-training, who realizes that the trunk’s cargo is starstuff, a celestial substance so powerful it must never fall into the wrong hands.<span>
</span>When the ship is taken over by pirates – led by the fearsome Black Stache, a villain determined to claim the trunk and its treasure for his own – the journey quickly becomes a thrilling adventure.<span>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">No roles are precast and the show provides an opportunity for students across the Capital Region!<span>
</span><i>Peter and the Starcatcher </i>is a play with musical numbers, and relies on a strong group of actors who can hold their own on stage as well as work with a group.<span>
</span>Students who have special talents such as musical abilities, dance, gymnastics, physical comedy, and much more are encouraged to audition.<span>
</span>As the show is an ensemble piece, many of the roles will feature gender blind casting (except for Molly and Peter) and feature every actor likely playing multiple roles.<span>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Cast of Characters:</b></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Black Stache –
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</b>a notorious pirate, terrorizing the seven seas in search of a worthy adversary.<span>
</span>Heatless, suspiciously well-read, and partial to the theatrical and poetic – Stache is flamboyant, broad and dangerous.</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Molly Aster –
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">(female actor) a Starcatcher apprentice who is taken aboard the Neverland as precious cargo.<span>
</span>Curious and intelligent, she is only beginning to understand the confusing romantic longings that come with her age.<span>
</span>She will risk anything for the sake of what is right.</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Boy/Peter –
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">(male actor) a lonely and hardened orphan who doesn’t miss much.<span>
</span>Nameless, homeless, and friendless at the beginning of the play and a hero by the end.<span>
</span>He wants a home and a family more than anything, and dreams of a life of being free.<span>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Grempkin –
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">(male or female actor) the schoolmaster of St. Norbert’s Orphanage for Lost Boys.<span>
</span>Mean and malodorous, Grempkin revels in keeping the boys in the dark and malnourished.<span>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mrs. Bumbrake –
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">(male or female actor) Molly’s nanny, a stereotypical British cad and outfitted with the duty of teaching Molly about womanhood.<span>
</span>She still has enough charm in her age to attract a sailor or two.<span> </span>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bill Slank
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">– (male or female actor) the vicious orphaned captain of the Neverland.<span>
</span>Does not possess the capacity to lead anyone but himself, which puts him in constant disaster.<span>
</span>Greedy enough to send boys to their doom for the chance of gaining starstuff.
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Smee – </span>
</b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">(male or female actor) Black Stache’s first mate.<span>
</span>He is single-mindedly dedicated to the captain’s every whim. </span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Prentiss –
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">(male or female actor) – an orphan – ambitious, hyper articulate, and logical.<span>
</span>He yearns to be a leader, even when he knows in his heart that he’ll never be one.<span>
</span>A bit of a blowhard with a touch of cowardice.</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Alf – </span>
</b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">(male or female actor) a seafarer, an old sea dog proud of his tenure.<span>
</span>His kind heart gives him an appeal to the feminine sensibility.<span> </span>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lord Leonard Aster –
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">(male of female actor) Molly’s father, a loyal subject to the Queen.<span>
</span>The very model of a Victorian English gentleman, he is a faithful friend and a secret Starcatcher.</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Captain Robert Falcon Scott –
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">(male or female actor) Lord Aster’s old school friend, the captain of the Wasp, Britain’s fast frigate.<span>
</span>Lives with nautical bravura and heroic patriotism.</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ted – </span>
</b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">(male or female) An orphan obsessed with food.<span>
</span>A natural performer with easy wit and quite poetic language.</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ensemble –
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sailors, Seafarers, Orphans, Pirates, Mermaids, Mollusks, Narrators, and much more – the magic behind the show!</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">The director welcomes any questions. If you cannot attend the audition dates listed but would still like to be in the production and need
to arrange an alternate audition date, please contact the director, Eric Shovah by email at
<a>ericshovah@performingsmarts.com</a>, by phone at (518) 526-1300 or through the website at
<a href="http://www.performingsmarts.com/"><font color="#0000ff">www.performingsmarts.com</font></a>.<span>
</span>If you need to set up an alternate time for auditions, please contact the director PRIOR to auditions.<span>
</span>Thanks and we hope to see you there!</span></p>
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