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<div dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Schenectady Light Opera Company is pleased to announce auditions for the opening production of our 90th Anniversary season: Irving Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun. </span><br style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Director: Sky Vogel</span><br style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Music Director: by Catherine Schane-Lydon</span><br style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Auditions: June 20, 21, 2016 at 7pm</span><br style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sign-in starts: 6:30pm</span><br style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Callbacks: June 22, 2016 6:30pm</span><br style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Telling the romantic tale of true-life wild-west performing artists Annie Oakley and Frank Butler, this Tony Award-winning fable features some of Berlin’s best known work, including “Anything You Can Do,” “Doin’ What Comes Natur’lly,” and “There’s No Business Like Show Business.”</span><br style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(75, 79, 86); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Please prepare 16 bars of a Broadway show tune or similar standard (accompanist provided). Readings will be from the scr</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(75, 79, 86); font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ipt. Open to all ethnicities.<br><br>Rehearsals will commence June 27, leading up to performances September 23 through October 2. <br><br>Available roles:<br>Annie Oakley (20s) – Spirited and fun. A gifted trigger finger, though all thumbs with romance.<br>Frank Butler (30s) – Handsome, self-assured, man’s man. A decent fellow if a little cocksure.<br>Buffalo Bill (50s-60s) – Larger than life, old west celebrity. Gentlemanly, kind, eyes full of twinkle. <br>Charlie Davenport (40s) – Manager of the traveling Wild West show. Quick witted, on the ball.<br>Dolly Tate (30s) – Frank’s lovely assistant. A little stuck on herself, a little dismissive of others.<br>Winnie Tate (late teens) – A happy, vibrant young performer in the show.<br>Tommy Keeler (20s) – Half native-American, half white, all in love with Winnie. <br>Chief Sitting Bull (50s-60s, non-singing) – Grand old figurehead of the frontier. Warm and wise.<br>Jessie (14) – Annie’s little sister<br>Nellie (12) – Annie’s other little sister<br>Little Jake (10) – The man of the Oakley family.<br>Foster Wilson (50s) – Grizzled hotelier who first discovers Annie.<br>Pawnee Bill (50s-60s) – Buffalo Bill’s good-natured rival on the western show circuit.<br>Cowboys & girls, Indians, Socialites, Kings and Queens of Europe, Waiters, Porters, Messengers<br><br>Questions may be directed to the director: Sky Vogel – skyvogel@aol.com</span><div><br></div><div><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(75, 79, 86); font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">See our Facebook Event <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1548270742136448/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/events/1548270742136448/</a></span></div></div>
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