<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="ydpfeecd295yahoo-style-wrap"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>What:</b> Auditions for <b>The Register</b>, a new original play written by Michael C. Mensching<br></span></div><div id="ydp49689515yahoo_quoted_4132913719" class="ydp49689515yahoo_quoted"><div><div id="ydp49689515yiv8050521451"><div class="ydp49689515yiv8050521451ydp1d0842d0yahoo-style-wrap"><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>When:</b> <b><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" style="text-decoration-color: rgba(38, 40, 42, 0.258824);">August 5</a> and 6</b>, sign-in <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="text-decoration-color: rgba(38, 40, 42, 0.258824);">at 6:30</a> and readings <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="text-decoration-color: rgba(38, 40, 42, 0.258824);">at 7:00</a> for performances <b><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://3" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3" style="text-decoration-color: rgba(38, 40, 42, 0.258824);">October 4-6</a> and 10-13.</b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Where:</b> The Arts Center of the Capital Region, <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://4" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="address" x-apple-data-detectors-result="4" style="text-decoration-color: rgba(38, 40, 42, 0.258824);">265 River Street, Troy NY 12180</a></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Setting: An apartment building in New York City in 1985 before iPads, Cell Phones and Netflix. A blizzard hits NYC taking out all forms of wired communication. Stranded by the blizzard and with little to do to amuse themselves, Frank and Marjorie Balanchine, a married couple, resort to eavesdropping on the couple downstairs through the register vent in the floor of their NYC walk-up apartment building. Hilarity, thieving and murder ensue in this madcap two-act comedic farce written by Michael C. Mensching and directed by <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://5" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="misc" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5" style="text-decoration-color: rgba(38, 40, 42, 0.258824);">Michael McDermott</a>, as the action progresses and builds floor-to-floor in the overlapping flats of the apartment building.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>The Register</b> had a debut as a one-act play during the Playwright's Showcase at Albany Civic Theater in 2018. After a successful series of workshop reviews it has been expanded to a two-act comedy by Michael C. Mensching, former President of Schenectady Light Opera Company and former Artistic Director of Albany Civic Theater. The play will be produced in a fully staged production by Troy Civic Theater, <b>October 4,5,6 and 10, 11, 12, 13 </b>at the Arts Center of the Capital District under the direction and design of <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://6" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="misc" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6" style="text-decoration-color: rgba(38, 40, 42, 0.258824);">Michael McDermott</a>.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rehearsals will be held Monday, Thursday and Fridays with allowances made for actor conflicts. Some parts have been precast with the following parts open for actors of all types:</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Pam Jeffries: A struggling actress in her early 20’s with a flair for the dramatic. She and her boyfriend Dennis live in the first floor apartment of a NYC apartment building.</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);">Faith: Anthony’s dim witted girlfriend and daughter of a NYC mobster. She is in her early 30’s. She is a 1930’s caricature of a gun moll dumped into 1985.</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);">Big Tony: Male in his 60’s. One of the last remaining mob kingpins left over from earlier times.</span></div></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Parties interested in viewing sections of the script may contact <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://10" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="misc" x-apple-data-detectors-result="10" style="text-decoration-color: rgba(38, 40, 42, 0.258824);">Michael McDermott</a> at <b><a href="mailto:irishmike518@yahoo.com" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="11">irishmike518@yahoo.com</a></b> or by call/texting <b><a href="tel:(518)669-5414" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="12">(518)669-5414</a></b>.</span></div><div class="ydp49689515yiv8050521451ydp1d0842d0signature"><p><span style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://13" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="misc" x-apple-data-detectors-result="13" style="text-decoration-color: rgba(68, 0, 98, 0.258824);">Michael McDermott</a></font></span><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>