<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab c1et5uql kvgmc6g5 hcukyx3x" style="word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px;">Not So Common Players announces auditions for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Sondheim's joyous, musical romp through Rome has desperate lovers, scheming neighbors and secrets behind every toga!</div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab c1et5uql kvgmc6g5 hcukyx3x" style="word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px;"><br class="">Audition Dates: Wednesday, March 30 and Thursday, March 31. Sign-in at 6:30, Auditions at 7:00<br class="">Audition Location: Not So Common Players Storefront, 19 Clifton Country Rd, Clifton Park (2 Doors down from Joanne’s Fabrics)<br class="">Read Through: Sunday, April 3rd<br class="">Rehearsals: Sunday 2-5, Monday, Wednesday and Friday 6:30-9:30<br class="">Production Dates: June 3-5 and 9-12<br class="">Production Location: The Clifton Common Stage (outdoors)<br class="">Director: Gary H. Hoffmann (Contact: <a href="mailto:ghoffma1@nycap.rr.com" class="">ghoffma1@nycap.rr.com</a>, 518 859-7657)<br class="">Assistant Director: Debbie Paniccia </div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab c1et5uql kvgmc6g5 hcukyx3x" style="word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px;"><br class="">Please prepare 32 bars of a musical theater standard. Bring sheet music in the correct key. An accompanist will be provided. Be prepared to dance as well.<br class="">Please bring proof of vaccination to auditions.<br class="">Mask rules are subject to change as per CDC guidelines.</div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab o9v6fnle c1et5uql hcukyx3x" style="word-wrap: break-word; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px;">All roles are available and are open to actors of all ethnicities and gender identities<br class="">Prologus<br class="">Introduces the audience to the comedy they are about to see. (Same actor who portrays Pseudolus in Act 1 and Senex in Act 2).<br class="">Gender: Male<br class="">Age: 30 to 50<br class="">Vocal range top: A4<br class="">Vocal range bottom: A2<br class="">Senex<br class="">An old man and father to Hero and husband to Domina.<br class="">Gender: Male<br class="">Age: 45 to 70<br class="">Vocal range top: G4<br class="">Vocal range bottom: B2<br class="">Domina<br class="">Senex's wife. A shrewish woman who dominates to the point of answering herself the questions she asks of others. Loves her husband deep down, but is outwardly controlling, demanding, and manipulative.<br class="">Gender: Female<br class="">Age: 40 to 50<br class="">Vocal range top: F5<br class="">Vocal range bottom: B3<br class="">Hero<br class="">The young son of Senex and Domina. He falls in love with Philia and agrees to give Pseudolus his freedom if he can help Hero woo her. Practical, privileged, romantic.<br class="">Gender: Male<br class="">Age: 20 to 30<br class="">Vocal range top: G4<br class="">Vocal range bottom: B2<br class="">Hysterium<br class="">The chief slave in the House of Senex. Believes he is in control, but is actually Pseudolus' puppet to carry out his schemes. Anxious, conservative, loyal. He desperately wants everything to be in order.<br class="">Gender: Male<br class="">Age: 40 to 55<br class="">Vocal range top: G5<br class="">Vocal range bottom: D4<br class="">Pseudolus<br class="">A Roman slave, owned by Hero, who seeks to win his freedom by helping his young master win the heart of Philia. Quick-witted, scheming, childlike spirit.<br class="">Gender: Male<br class="">Age: 30 to 50<br class="">Vocal range top: A4<br class="">Vocal range bottom: A2<br class="">Erronius<br class="">An old man, searching for his lost children.<br class="">Gender: Male<br class="">Age: 45 to 70<br class="">Vocal range top: G4<br class="">Vocal range bottom: B2<br class="">Miles Gloriosus<br class="">The archetype of the braggart soldier. A captain in the Roman army to whom Marcus Lycus has promised Philia. Commanding, boastful, manly and strong.<br class="">Gender: Male<br class="">Age: 25 to 35<br class="">Vocal range top: F5<br class="">Vocal range bottom: B3<br class="">Lycus<br class="">The owner of the house of Courtesans. Always out to make a profit, but also wants to provide good on what his business offers.<br class="">Gender: Male<br class="">Age: 40 to 50<br class="">Vocal range top: F5<br class="">Vocal range bottom: A3<br class="">Philia<br class="">A virgin in the House of Lycus whom we also find out is Erronius' daughter. She is promised to Miles and vows to give him bodily what he has paid for, but loves Hero and promises he will always have her heart. Young, pretty, devoted. An archetypal ingénue.<br class="">Gender: Female<br class="">Age: 18 to 21<br class="">Vocal range top: G5<br class="">Vocal range bottom: B3<br class="">Ensemble<br class="">Courtesans, Proteans, Soldiers</div></body></html>