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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Alabama Story<span></span></span></u></b></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">By Kenneth Jones<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Directed by Barbara Davis<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><span></span></span><b><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Audition Dates & Times:<span></span></span></u></b>

</p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Monday, Monday, September 9
and Tuesday, September 10, 2019<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">6:30PM sign in; 7:00PM
audition start??<span></span></span></p>

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</p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Albany Civic Theater<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">235 Second Avenue<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Albany NY<span>  </span>12206<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><span> </span></span><b><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Performance Dates:<span></span></span></u></b>

</p><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Friday, November 1-Sunday, November
17, 2019<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><span> </span></span><b><u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">About the show:</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><span>  </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">In 1959 Alabama, segregationist Senator E.W.
Higgins wants a controversial children’s picture book — about a white rabbit
who marries a black rabbit — purged from the state library, but librarian Emily
Wheelock Reed refuses, putting both of their worlds at risk in a time of
extraordinary social change. While Reed spars with Higgins, a parallel story of
childhood friends reunited in adulthood reflects the political and personal
tensions swirling in Montgomery, a city known as both the Cradle of the
Confederacy and the Cradle of Civil Rights. Famed illustrator Garth Williams
(“Little House on the Prairie,” “Charlotte’s Web”) is conjured as narrator and
participant in the fact-inspired, highly theatrical drama about tests of
character in “the Deep South of the Imagination.”</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><span></span></span>

</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><span> </span></span><b><u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Available Roles<span></span><span></span></span></u></b>

</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Garth
Williams, 40s to 60s, white narrator.<span>  </span>A
famous American illustrator of children’s books.<span>  </span>Humane storyteller at ease with sincerity and
sentiment, yet capable of a waspish comic remark.<span>  </span>He also assumes the role of OTHERS, including
an 80 year old “Old School” Southern politician, a liberal Montgomery reporter,
a Florida newspaper columnist and a menacing local citizen.<span>  </span><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Senator E.W. Higgins, 40s to 60s, a white Alabama State
Senator.<span>  </span>Implacable in his belief in the
traditions of the South.<span>  </span>A charismatic
bully given to speechifying and posturing but can be a cool and calculating
game player when on the attack.<span> 
</span>Passionate and desperate but rarely showing the latter.<span>  </span>Welcomes the spotlight.<br>
<br>
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Emily Wheelock Reed, 50s, white State Librarian of Alabama.<span>  </span>Raised in Indiana and more Midwestern than
Southern.<span>  </span>Businesslike, unsentimental,
excellent at her job and rare to show her weaknesses in public.<span>  </span>Also 98 percent unflappable.<span>  </span>Prefers to avoid the spotlight.<span></span></span>

</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Thomas Franklin, mid 20s to early 30s, white reference librarian,
assistant to Emily Reed.<span>  </span>An Alabama
native.<span>  </span>Fiercely loyal.<span>  </span>Type-A personality at work, but hiding a
secret or two.<span>  </span>Dryly funny.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Lily Whitfield, 30s, a white woman from small-town Alabama
privilege.<span>  </span>A<span>  </span>Southern belle, with some wear around the
edges.<span>  </span>Sheltered, still living in her
ancestral home.<span>  </span>Impulsive.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Joshua Moore, 30s, a middle-class African American man who left
Alabama when he was following a childhood trauma that involved Lily’s
family.<span>  </span>Upwardly mobile and confident,
but aware of the limits of the Jim Crow South.<span style="background:rgb(248,248,248) none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span></span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Auditions will involve cold
readings from the script.<span>  </span>Any questions,
contact Barbara Davis at <a href="http://bdd1101gmail.com">bdd1101gmail.com</a> or 518-573-0980.<span></span></span></p>





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