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text-align:center;line-height:normal"><b class=""><font face="Arial" size="3" class="">THE GHENT PLAYHOUSE CONTINUES AUDITIONS<o:p class=""></o:p></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal"><b class=""><font face="Arial" size="3" class="">FOR “MIRACLE ON SOUTH DIVISION STREET"<o:p class=""></o:p></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal"><b class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial" class=""> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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font-family:Arial" class=""> </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" class="">The Ghent Playhouse continues auditions for its winter production of Tom Dudzick’s heartwarming
comedy, Miracle on South Division Street, to be directed by Cathy Lee-Visscher. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial" class=""> </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" class="">AUDITIONS</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial" class="">:
Monday, December 10 and Tuesday, December 11 2018<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" class="">Sign-in at 7:00 p.m. – Auditions
will begin at 7:15 p.m.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial" class=""> </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" class="">LOCATION</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial" class="">: The
Ghent Playhouse<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" class=""> 6
Town Hall Place (adjacent to the Ghent Firehouse off Route 66)<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" class=""> Ghent,
NY<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" class=""> </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" class="">PERFORMANCES</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial" class="">:
February 1-17, 2019 <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" class=""> Friday
and Saturday evenings at 8:00 p.m.<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" class=""> Sunday Matinees at 2:00 p.m.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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of those chosen for the production.
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conflicts.<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" class=""> </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" class="">THE STORY</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;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" 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" 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" 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" 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" 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" 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" class="">know,” a deathbed confession causes
the family legend to unravel. </span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial" class=""> </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" class="">THE CHARACTERS</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial" class="">:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;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><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial" class="">(ALL OF THE CHILDREN ARE IN THEIR 30’S)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial" class=""> </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" class="">BEVERLY (late 30’s) – Clara’s
eldest daughter. Works in a salad
dressing bottling plant. <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" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;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><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial" class="">JIMMY (30’ish) – The
baby of the family. He works as a
garbageman.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;" class=""> </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" 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" class="">CASTING INFO</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;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" class=""> but feel you
can portray that age, please do not hesitate to audition.<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" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 1.5in; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial" class="">Those auditioning will be asked to
read specific scenes from the script.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b class=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
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" 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" class=""> <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" class=""> </span></p>
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