<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-22ae92e4-7fff-0167-4001-6ea04a5a58b7" style=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Announcing auditions for Bunbury Players’ production</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:20pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">The Heidi Chronicles</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Written by Wendy Wassterstein</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Directed by Amy Hausknecht</font></span></p><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">All roles are open to performers of all ages, ethnicities and gender identities.</font></span></p><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Heidi Holland: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We see her from her late teens to her late 30s; an art historian and writer, highly articulate, intelligent, thoughtful; we see her journey over almost 25 years from a high school student to an accomplished writer and new mother; throughout this time, Heidi maintains her values, ideals, and loyalties while many of her friends adjust theirs to fit the social and political climate of the times; she is a serious and good person with an ironic sense of humor, who struggles to understand her place and identity in a changing world.</span></font></p><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Scoop Rosenbaum: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Heidi’s sometime lover, a charismatic, Jewish journalist with irresistible charm and sex appeal; he’s an insightful, successful, well-educated overachiever who is attractive and self-centered; incredibly smart, with an ability to think on his feet and an uncanny understanding of the way the world works, he knows exactly how to make it work for him; self-confident and warm, he loves Heidi deeply but knows that she’s not the right match for him.</span></font></p><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Peter Patrone: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We see him from his late teens through his late 30s; Heidi’s best friend, a fiercely clever and literate pediatrician; he is by turns both sensitive and cynical; charming and witty, he and Heidi meet at a h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different roles.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Chris Boxer is a prep-school student council president at a school dance in 1964; Mark is a nice young man who has been watching Nixon’s resignation; Ray is an anesthesiologist, kind and intelligent.</span></font></p><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Auditions</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Saturday, September 10th at 1PM</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Saratoga Springs Public Library</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Dutcher Community Room</font></span></p><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">No preparation needed – you will asked to do cold readings from the script</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Proof of vaccination REQUIRED to audition!</font></span></p><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Rehearsals</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Tuesdays & Thursdays from 7PM-9PM</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Saturdays from 1PM-5PM</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Beginning Saturday, September 17th</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Prince of Peace Lutheran Church</font></span></p><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-s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ariant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you have any questions, please contact the director via email at </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:amychausknecht@gmail.com">amychausknecht@gmail.com</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></font></p><br></span></div></div>