<html><body><p><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:24.0pt;line-height:115%"> OPEN AUDITIONS FOR</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:28.0pt;line-height:
115%"> <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>SCHENECTADY CIVIC
PLAYERS’</span></b><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:28.0pt;line-height:115%"></span></b></p>
<h1 style="mso-line-height-alt:15.0pt"><span lang="EN" style='font-size:24.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:windowtext;mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style="mso-tab-count:2"> </span></span><span><span lang="EN" style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:
EN'><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";'><font color="#ff0000"><u>THE CAKE</u></font></span></h1>
<h1 style="mso-line-height-alt:15.0pt"><span><span lang="EN" style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-ansi-language:
EN'><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>by Becca
Brunstetter</span></span><span lang="EN" style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:windowtext;
mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN'> </span></h1>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:18.0pt"><span lang="EN" style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'><span style="mso-tab-count:2"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Directed by Sara Paupini</span></p>
<p align="center" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;text-align:center;line-height:18.6pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'> <font color="#ff0000">Auditions: Tuesday, March 3 & Thursday,
March 5</font></span></b><span lang="EN" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'><font color="#ff0000"> </font><span style="mso-tab-count:2"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><font color="#333333"> </font><font color="#0000ff">(Performance dates: May
8 thru 17)</font></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:18.6pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:#4F81BD;mso-themecolor:accent1'>Auditions at 7:30 pm at
Schenectady Civic Players, 12 S. Church St., Schenectady.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Sign-up beginning at 7:15 pm.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Roles for 3 women and 1 man (Reading from the
script)</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:#4F81BD;mso-themecolor:accent1'><span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span></span></i></b><span lang="EN" style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#4F81BD;mso-themecolor:accent1;
mso-ansi-language:EN'></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:18.6pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN" style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>Della makes cakes, not judgment calls –
those she leaves to her husband, Tim. But when the girl she helped raise comes
back home to North Carolina to get married, and the fiancé is actually a
fiancée, Della’s life gets turned upside down. She can’t really make a cake for
such a wedding, can she? For the first time in her life, Della has to think for
herself</span></b><br></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-line-height-alt:13.7pt;mso-outline-level:2"><b><span lang="EN" style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";text-transform:uppercase;mso-ansi-language:EN'>AUDITION INFO</span></b><b><span lang="EN" style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'></span></b></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:18.6pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN" style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>For small-town baker Della, the
creation of sweet and sumptuous cakes is a rapturous experience. Her love of
baking is matched by the intense affection she feels for Jen, the young woman
she helped to raise and views as a surrogate daughter. But when Jen asks that
Della bake a cake for her wedding to another woman, Della’s religious beliefs
stop her cold. With immense heart and humor, Brunstetter’s play navigates the
messy collision of the personal and the political, while illuminating the
humanity of all involved.</span></b></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:18.6pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN" style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>(All ages are approximate)</span></b></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:18.6pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span lang="EN" style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>Della- late 40s-60s</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN" style='font-size:7.5pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN'>. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>North
Carolinian, born and raised. A religious and socially conservative woman. Warm,
genuine, caring; she has a maternal instinct despite the fact that she has no
children of her own. An old friend of Jen’s family. Married to Tim. She sees
herself as openminded, but her life hasn’t brought her into contact with many
people who challenge the world-view she grew up with. A prolific and
enthusiastic baker, she has been chosen as a contestant for The Great American
Baking Show.</span></b></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:18.6pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span lang="EN" style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>Jen- late 20s-early 30s</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN" style='font-size:7.5pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN'>. Born and raised in North Carolina, she has brought her
southern manners with her to Brooklyn, where she has made a home with her
fiancée, Macy. An experienced event planner with a compulsive attention to detail.
Considerate, kind, and enthusiastic, she wants to see the best in people,
though she doesn’t always see it in herself. Her traditional upbringing is
often at odds with her newfound liberal lifestyle, and planning her lesbian
wedding in her hometown brings that tension to a crisis point.</span></b></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:18.6pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span lang="EN" style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>Macy- late 20s- early 30s</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN" style='font-size:7.5pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN'>. Born and raised in New York. Progressive, sharp,
outspoken. Very confident in her belief system, and she doesn’t hesitate to
challenge those who think differently. Innately curious and inquisitive. She
has a deep love for Jen, although she is impatient with Jen’s willingness to
make allowances for her conservative southern friends and family. She is who
she is, and she won’t make compromises to coddle people’s feelings. African
American.</span></b></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:18.6pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u><span lang="EN" style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN'>Tim- late 40s-60. Della’s husband</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN" style='font-size:7.5pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN'>. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>A good southern
boy. He’s a plumber with a great work ethic, who takes pride in providing for
his household. He is comfortable in his traditional values, and has never seen
any need to question his beliefs. He is loving and loved, though perhaps not
completely in touch with his emotions.</span></b></p>
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