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Arial" class=""> Sunday Matinees at 2:00 p.m.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
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normal"><u class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial" class="">REHEARSALS</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" class="">: Rehearsals
will begin in early December and will be based on the<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial" class=""> availability
of those chosen for the production.
Those interested in<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial" class=""> auditioning
are asked to be as specific as possible in listing any <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial" class="">
and all conflicts.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><u class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial" class="">THE STORY</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" class="">: Clara Nowak,
of Buffalo, NY, and her three grown kids have <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" class="">always
known they were special, ever since the miraculous <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" class="">night in
1942, when the Blessed Mother appeared to their <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" class="">grandfather
in his barbershop! Since then the
neighborhood<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" class="">has
looked upon the Nowaks’ commemorative shrine as a <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" class="">beacon of
hope and faith amidst the urban rubble.
When <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1.5in; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" class="">daughter
Ruth announces her plans to write and star in a one-woman show about the family
miracle so the “whole world will<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1.5in; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" class="">know,” a
deathbed confession causes the family legend to unravel. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;" class=""> </span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><u class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial" class="">THE CHARACTERS</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" class="">: <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial" class="">CLARA – (late 60’s) – Mother of Beverly, Ruth and Jimmy. Born in Poland, Clara was brought to the
United States while she was an infant, and was raised in the thick of an
all-Polish neighborhood. Having had very
little schooling, she seems to still have one foot stuck in the “old
country”. There is a charmingly naïve
Old World Peasant air about her. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" class="">(ALL OF THE CHILDREN ARE IN THEIR
30’S)</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial" class="">BEVERLY (late 30’s) – Clara’s eldest daughter. Works in a salad dressing bottling
plant. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial" class="">RUTH (mid 30’s) – Clara’s middle child.
Ruth is gangly, awkward and not the type men throw themselves at, but
she has an appealing positive energy.
Beginning to question her faith, she has stopped attending mass. A writer, she has been encouraged by a
theater director to tell her story of the family statue of the Blessed Virgin
Mary, in the form of a staged production.
<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial" class="">JIMMY (30’ish) – The baby of the family.
He works as a garbageman.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><u class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial" class=""><br class=""></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><u class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial" class="">CASTING INFO</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" class="">: if you are younger or older than the ages
listed for the characters, <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial" class=""> but
feel you can portray that age, please do not hesitate to audition.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1.5in; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" class="">Those
auditioning will be asked to read specific scenes from the script.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" class="">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT
THE DIRECTOR AT (518) 755-9278.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1.5in; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" class=""> </span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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