<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Theater Voices announces auditions for a staged reading of "<a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="misc" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">The Subject Was Roses</a>" by Frank D. Gilroy, directed by Brian Sheldon. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Audition dates: </span></div><div><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://1" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">Tuesday, February 26 from 7-9pm</font></a></div><div><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://2" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">Saturday, March 2 from 4-6pm</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Location:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Auditions will be held at Steamer No. 10 Theatre, <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://3" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="address" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">500 Western Avenue in Albany</a>. Please arrive at the start and be prepared to stay. Actors will be asked to read sides from the play. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Performance dates:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Open rehearsal, <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://4" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="4" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">April 7 at 3pm</a></span></div><div><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://5" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">Friday, April 12 at 8 pm</font></a></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://6" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">Saturday, April 13 at 3 pm</a> and <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://7" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="7" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">8 pm</a></span></font></div><div><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://8" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="8" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">Sunday, April 14 at 3 pm</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rehearsals begin <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://9" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="9" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">March 18.</a></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Synopsis:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning drama by Frank D. Gilroy tells the story of Timmy Cleary, a young, idealistic soldier who returns from World War II to his parents’ New York apartment to find their marriage in shambles. Reminiscing, the family attempts to recapture the past and return to a life that never really was. Instead, Timmy discovers that he's left the battlefields of Europe only to become a prisoner of his parents' war of regret and recrimination.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeking:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">John Cleary: 50s. A coffee merchant. Looks at his life as financial failure. Tends take his frustrations out on his family and is unable to communicate on a deeper level. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nettie Cleary: 40-50. John’s wife. A stay-at-home mother. Dreams of simpler times full of love, compassion and understanding. Having Timmy out of the house has left her lost with no real purpose. His return serves as the only happiness she’s been supplied in a long while. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Timmy: 20s. Has returned home after serving in World War II. In his younger years was a “momma's boy.” Now that he has returned he can relate to his father more, which he could never do as a child. Witty and charming.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For more info, contact <a href="mailto:info@theatervoices.org">info@theatervoices.org</a>.</span></div></div></div></body></html>