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<i><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Auditions for Troy Civic Theater's “City of Angels” will take place Sunday. Aug. 28, sign-in at 3 p.m., and Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 30 and 31, sign-in at 7 p.m. , at the Arst Center
for the Capital Region on River Street in Troy. </span></u></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; font-weight:normal">Roles will be cast for at least 12 men and 6 women. Call-backs will be scheduled only if needed.</span>
<h2><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; font-weight:normal">The Tony Best Musical with a book by Larry Gelbart (TV's “MASH”, “Mastergate”) and score by Cy Coleman (“Sweet Charity,” “Barnum”) and David Zipfel, follows Stine, a novelist-turned-Hollywood
screenwriter of the 1950's as he struggles to hang on to his love life and his sanity while adapting his witty detective story into a film under the heavy-handed “collaboration” of a pushy producer. Stine's film-noir private-eye Stone teases out a mystery
amid the intrigue of 1940's L.A. that plays out in parallel with – and sometimes interacts with – the travails of its screenwriter creator.
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<h2><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; font-weight:normal">Performances Nov. 17-20 at the Meader Little Theater on the campus of Russell Sage College in Troy. Rehearsals start after Labor Day. The show is directed by Joe Phillips,
with Frank Leavitt as musical director. </span></h2>
<h2><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; font-weight:normal">Auditioners should prepare a brief musical piece, preferably traditional-Broadway or American songbook (Cole Porter?) or upbeat vocal light-jazz; and should be prepared
to read from the script and participate in a brief movement audition. Please bring detailed schedule conflicts to auditions!
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<h2><i><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Principals</span></u></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></h2>
<h2 style="margin-left:.25in; text-indent:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Stine</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; font-weight:normal">, the novelist turned screenwriter, spends more
time on his work than his life, and isn't quite sure what he's gotten into ”selling out” to Hollywood. Has a certain something, a leading-man quality, but perhaps a bit on the naïve and nebbishy side. Needs to have solid baritone-tenor,
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<h2 style="margin-left:.25in; text-indent:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Stone</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; font-weight:normal">, a film-noir man's-man private gumshoe and Stine's
fictional creation and perhaps alter ego. Should bear a resemblance to Stine but clearly he's the more macho, hunky, hard-fisted and hard-bitten version, smart-alecky and streetwise. A baritone who sings quite a bit in the show.
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<h2><i><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">All other characters double, in Stone's film noir but also an opposite number in Stine's world:</span></u></i><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
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<h2 style="margin-left:.25in; text-indent:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Buddy</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; font-weight:normal">, the malapropping, pushy, overbearing, funny but
crass producer of Stine's movie; and </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Irwin Irving</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; font-weight:normal">, the sleazeball Hollywood mogul in the film.
Has a key character song – about himself, naturally – and needs to be able to sell it.
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<h2 style="margin-left:.25in; text-indent:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gaby</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; font-weight:normal">, Stine's long-suffering, whip-smart, patient but
brassy wife, longing for his attention but prepared to walk out if she can't have it; also plays
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Bobbi</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; font-weight:normal">, a needy chanteuse, Stone's lost-soul love interest. Lots of singing over a broad range
of styles reflecting this split personality: ballads and also up-tempo; needs a strong vocal range built on a very solid mezzo-soprano low end.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></h2>
<h2 style="margin-left:.25in; text-indent:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Donna</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; font-weight:normal">, Buddy's sharp-tongued, sharp-witted, alluring
assistant; and </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Oolie</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; font-weight:normal">, Stone's smart-ass, plucky gal-Friday-with-a-heart-of-gold; sings several
sassy songs; similar vocal range to Gaby/Bobbi. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></h2>
<h2 style="margin-left:.25in; text-indent:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Carla</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; font-weight:normal">, Buddy's movie-star-glamorous wife, plays
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Alaura Kingsley</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; font-weight:normal">, rich, glamorous femme fatale in the movie. Shares a double-entendre duet with
Stone.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></h2>
<h2 style="margin-left:.25in; text-indent:0in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Avril</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; font-weight:normal">, a young and ripe casting-couch starlet, is
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mallory Kingsley</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; font-weight:normal">, the randy ingenue bad girl of the film, with a vampy solo to match.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></h2>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:.25in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Pancho Vargas</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">, the flamboyant
Latin movie star, plays <b>Munoz</b>, a vengeful flatfoot cop and Stone's bitter rival. Has a gleefully peppy bossa nova number.</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If not already cast, the roles of
<b>Jimmy Powers</b>, a handsomely reedy little baritone crooner (think a young Sinatra), and his backup act, the
<b>Angel City Four</b>, a mixed male-female quartet of singers (a la Manhattan Transfer) may be drawn from this audition. A ton of singing, including the Overture.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For more specific information on vocal ranges, contact Frank Leavitt at 915-5890 or leavitt.frank@gmail.com.<i><u></u></i></span></p>
<h2><i><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Other roles all sing a little in the finale and one other scene but are primarily non-musical:
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<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:.25in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gerald Pierce</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">, the actor who
plays <b>Peter Kingsley</b>, Alaura's boy-toy stud stepson. <b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:.25in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Werner Krieger</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">, the character
actor who plays iron-lung-bound billionaire <b>Luther Kingsley</b>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A mismatched pair of
<b>studio cops</b> who double as in-the-movie goofball gangsters <b>Big Six</b>, a giant thug, and his little weaselly partner
<b>Sonny</b>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">An
<b>ensemble</b> of probably four more men and two women who play a plethora of other parts, including several key speaking parts in the film –
<b>Yamato</b> the coroner, <b>Pasco</b> the cop and <b>Mahoney</b> the studio flack (these three sing comic backup to Munoz at one point);
<b>Mandrill</b> the guru; <b>Margie</b> the brothel-keeper; <b>Margaret</b> the maid.</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">An onstage
<b>piano-player</b> who is also film score-writer <b>Del D'Acost</b>a – may be cast from the pit orchestra.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Contact Joe Phillips (at 464-2698 or
</span><a href="mailto:joepdrew@aol.com"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">joepdrew@aol.com</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">) for more information.<i><u></u></i></span></p>
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