<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Confetti Stage is excited to announce auditions for the eighteenth iteration of the Capital District's longest running festival of locally written one act plays.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This year's festival features...</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">"Custody" by Anthony Pezzula and Prudence Theriault</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Directed by Vincent Lounello</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A recently divorced couple meet to deal with a custody issue. During the course of the meeting, old grievances and feelings arise threatening a satisfactory agreement.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">She - Age flexible. Recently divorced from HE. Strong willed, independent. Can be sarcastic or biting, but also caring and reasonable.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">He - Age flexible. Recently divorced from SHE. Easy going, somewhat oblivious to his surroundings. Likes to have a good time, doesn’t like confrontations, but when pushed, will react.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">"Very Mundane Government Meeting" by Matt Reichel</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Directed by Laura Darling</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The discovery of a massive oil reserve in a backwater banana republic sends two bureaucrats scrambling to replace their aging dictator and take power for themselves.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Oslo Kapulkin -  man in his 50s, pencil-pushing bureaucrat. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Jory Hildenburg - man in his 50s, another government drone. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Malthus de los Santos - man in his 40s, hopelessly unqualified military leader. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Prime Minister - man in his 70s, elderly dictator near death. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">"Musical Chairs" by Dan Smirlock</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Directed by Tony Pallone, assisted by Dmitriy Kogan</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A widow and widower meet at a restaurant for a pseudonymous blind date. Both are lonely, and both are hoping to establish a connection, though they’re not sure they want it to be with each other. As they exchange their opinions and share their experiences of love and marriage, they find themselves questioning their own views on these subjects.  </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Basil - (M, 50s or older): A member of the professional middle class who prefers working with numbers to working with people. He considers himself hard-headed, practical, and unsentimental, and understands that he lacks social intelligence but doesn’t know what to do about it.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Maria - (F, 50s or older): Likewise a member of the professional middle class. Something of a romantic. A compassionate and empathetic person who is suffering a bit of compassion fatigue. Sneakily witty.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ashley - (F, 20s): An aspiring actor, now working, she hopes temporarily, as a server in an upscale restaurant. Tries to do her job well despite wishing she were elsewhere. Something of a smartass. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“Echo” by Laura Darling</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Directed by Kathryn Capalbo</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Two college students follow a mysterious map to an old cave where they accidentally discover a crack through space and time. An ancient guardian affords two young women a chance at changing their past to erase a traumatic event.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Jova - (f) College aged student. Incredibly smart, fearless, but troubled by past trauma. A loyal friend and knowledge seeker.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Melanie - (f) College aged student. Witty and sarcastic, but sharp and wary. She is a steadfast friend and highly intelligent, but does not easily open up.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Echo - (f/nb)Any age. The bodily apparition of what magic remains from the Oracle of Delphi. Guardian of the secret and the last of a dying memory.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Auditions will be held on August 15 and 16 at 7 PM at the Albany Masonic Temple, 67 Corning Place, Albany, NY 12207.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Those interested in auditioning should prepare a 1 minute monologue of their choice. Actors will also be asked to read from sides from the scripts.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Confetti Fest XVIII will be performed October 7-9 and 13-16. Mandatory tech is October 1-6.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Any questions may be directed to <a href="mailto:confettistageinc@gmail.com" style="color:blue" target="_blank">confettistageinc@gmail.com</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We hope to see you there!</span></p><font color="#888888"><div><div><span style="line-height:13.91px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:13.91px"><br></p></font></span></div></div></font></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Confetti Stage, Inc<br></div><div><a href="http://www.confettistage.org" target="_blank">www.confettistage.org</a></div><div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ConfettiStageInc" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/ConfettiStageInc</a></div><div>Twitter: @StageConfetti</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir=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