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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%">Auditions January 9 & 11, 2024 for<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">Schenectady Civic Players will be
holding open auditions for<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%">AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">Directed by Michael McDermott<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">Auditions:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">Tuesday,
January 9 & Thursday, January 11, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">Sign-ups
begin at 7:15 pm, auditions begin at 7:30 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">Location:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">Schenectady
Civic Players is located at 12 S. Church St, Schenectady, NY, 12305.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">Performances
Dates: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">March
15 – 17 & 20 - 24, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">Friday
/ Saturday at 8:00 pm, Sunday at 2:30 pm, Wednesday/Thursday at 7:30 pm <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">Rehearsals:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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will be 3-4 rehearsals per week, days/times depending on cast availability.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">Please,
bring lists of conflicts to auditions. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">Synopsis:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.5pt;background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=4ed473f648e0736dJmltdHM9MTcwMTIxNjAwMCZpZ3VpZD0zOTE5ODUyNS01MmIzLTYzYjQtMTZlYy05NTZjNTMzYjYyYWImaW5zaWQ9NTg4NQ&ptn=3&ver=2&hsh=3&fclid=39198525-52b3-63b4-16ec-956c533b62ab&psq=august+osage+county+play+synopsis&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW1kYi5jb20vdGl0bGUvdHQxMzIyMjY5L3Bsb3RzdW1tYXJ5Lw&ntb=1" target="_blank"><span style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;text-decoration:
none;text-underline:none">August: Osage County, the 2008 winner of the Pulitzer
Prize for Drama, centers around the Weston family, who reunite after their
father, Beverly Weston, a poet and alcoholic, disappears and is later found
dead</span></a>. As the family gathers in their grief, <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=8ee8b45f7522a3d5JmltdHM9MTcwMTIxNjAwMCZpZ3VpZD0zOTE5ODUyNS01MmIzLTYzYjQtMTZlYy05NTZjNTMzYjYyYWImaW5zaWQ9NTg5Mw&ptn=3&ver=2&hsh=3&fclid=39198525-52b3-63b4-16ec-956c533b62ab&psq=august+osage+county+play+synopsis&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucm9nZXJlYmVydC5jb20vcmV2aWV3cy9hdWd1c3Qtb3NhZ2UtY291bnR5LTIwMTM&ntb=1" target="_blank"><span style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;text-decoration:
none;text-underline:none">the conflict between Violet, the drug-addicted
mother, and Barbara, the eldest daughter</span></a> explodes when the family’s
horrifying secrets are exposed. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">Available
Roles:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="ydp34bd72e6yiv3000153790ydp7e49091bmsonormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN">Ages listed are for reference points only. Characters
can easily skew younger or older, based on the best mix of talent. Casting may
be determined by the mix of actors auditioning for the three sisters —Barbara, Ivy,
and Karen -- and adjustments made based on that group.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ydp34bd72e6yiv3000153790ydp7e49091bmsonormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN">Violet Weston, </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN">65 years old, is Beverly's wife and is addicted to
prescription drugs. Violet is a sharp-tongued woman who has raised three
daughters, Barbara, Ivy, and Karen. A lifelong smoker, at the start of the play
she is suffering from mouth cancer and has become addicted to prescription
drugs, not for the first time. She prides herself on telling the often-unkind
truth, but she never talked to her husband about his love affair or the child
he fathered, Little Charles. Must have no fear of heights in climbing a multi-level
set several times a performance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ydp34bd72e6yiv3000153790ydp7e49091bmsonormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN">Beverly Weston</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN"> is a 69-year-old poet and university
teacher. He is an alcoholic who takes his own life at the start of the
play, leaving his wife, three grown daughters, and extended family to deal with
the consequences. Beverly grew up poor and was homeless for a time. He becomes
a successful poet and professor, although he never liked teaching and
eventually his talent for writing dries up. Must have no fear of heights,
possibly climbing a multi-level set.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ydp34bd72e6yiv3000153790ydp7e49091bmsonormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN">Barbara Fordham</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN">, 46-year-old, is the oldest daughter of Violet and
Beverly Weston. Barbara lives in Boulder, Colorado, with her teenaged daughter,
Jean. She is in the process of separating from her unfaithful husband, Bill, a
university professor who is having an affair with one of his students. Barbara
once had ambitions of being a writer, ambitions her father thought she had the
talent to realize. But instead, she became a faculty wife, like her mother.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ydp34bd72e6yiv3000153790ydp7e49091bmsonormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN">Ivy Weston</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN">, 44 years old, is the Weston’s middle
daughter. Ivy is the daughter who dutifully remains unmarried and at home
while her sisters, Barbara and Karen, go on to build new lives far away. Taking
care of the aging Beverly and Violet has fallen to Ivy, and she is bitter about
it. She hopes to find happiness in New York with Little Charles, who turns out
to be her half-brother.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="ydp34bd72e6yiv3000153790ydp7e49091bmsonormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN">Karen Weston</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN">, 40 years old, is the Westons' youngest daughter. Karen
has a new relationship every year, and she is unreasonably optimistic about her
prospects with her latest fiancé, the sleazy, unworthy Steve, who has already
been married three times. She is self-absorbed, prattling about her honeymoon
while the family gathers to bury her father, Beverly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt">Mattie Fae Aiken</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt">, 57 years old, is the younger sister of
Violet Weston. Mattie Fae seems devoted to her sister, Violet, but she
once had an affair with Violet's husband, Beverly. Her only son, Little
Charles, is Beverly's child. Some combination of anger or sorrow over the
affair seems to have left her permanently disappointed in her son, Little
Charles, whom she treats with scorn.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt">Little Charles</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt">, 37-year-old, is the son of Violet's sister
Mattie Fae and is named for his purported father, Charlie Aiken. Bumbling
and inept, Little Charles has never learned to drive and can't hold down a job
for long. His nickname shows the low regard in which most of the family holds
him, as if he were a permanent child. Little Charles's lack of confidence seems
to come from the scorn with which his mother, Mattie Fae, treats him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt">Charlie Aiken</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt">, 60-year-old, is an upholsterer. He was a
close friend of his brother-in-law, Beverly Weston. Bill is a dutiful father to
Little Charles and has a moment where he confronts his wife over her neglect of
him. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt">Bill Fordham</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt">, 49 years old, is a professor of English and
is separated from his wife, Barbara.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt">Jean Fordham</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt">, 14-year-old daughter of Barbara and Bill, is
precociously experimenting with cigarettes, pot, and vegetarianism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt">Sheriff Deon
Gilbeau</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt">, 47 years old, used
to date Barbara in high school. He delivers the news that Beverly has been
found dead.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt">Steve Heidebrecht</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt">, 50 years old, a former Oklahoman and current
Florida businessman, is engaged to Karen and is creepy and inappropriate with
Jean.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt">The role of Johnna
Monevata a Native American of the Cheyenne tribe who works as a housekeeper for
the Westons will be pre-cast.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt">Notes from the Director,
Michael McDermott: Rehearsals will start January 29. Dates will be based around
cast conflicts, but the current plan is to rehearse Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday. Individual conflicts will be considered at casting time. Please
bring all possible recurring or individual dates to the auditions to enable us
to ascertain your availability.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt">All Actors must be
available for all performances, including rehearsals March 13 and 14.
Actors must be available all day for Tech Run on March 9 and are expected to
stay for the entirety of strike March 24. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt">Please email the
director with questions: Irishmike518@yahoo.com <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">Schenectady Civic Players promotes inclusive casting, and encourages
individuals, regardless of gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, or
disability, to participate in the audition process.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">Schenectady
Civic Players<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">Playhouse:
12 S Church St, Schenectady, NY 12305<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%">Phone:
(518) 382-2081<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">For more information about the theater, please visit our website at </span><span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.civicplayers.org/"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
line-height:115%">www.civicplayers.org</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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