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[Laura W. Andruski]

RPI PLAYERS ANNOUNCE
AUDITIONS FOR "MAN OF LA MANCHA"
DATE & TIME: Jan. 23, 6-9pm; Jan. 24, 7-10pm at 
Mother's Wine Emporium, RPI Union
Performance dates: April 8, 9, 14-16 at 8:00pm and April 10 at 2:00pm.

Director: Laura W. Andruski
Musical Directror:  Pat Douglass

RPI auditions are open to all.  No experience necessary.
Prepare 16 bars of a Broadway show tune and bring sheet music.
No monologues.  We will read directly from the script.

Available Roles

Don Quixote (Cervantes) - Baritone (low B to E). 
A tall and charming author and tax collector.

Sancho Panza - Tenor (C to high G).  Don Quixote's pragmatic loyal servant.

Aldonza (Dulcinea) - Soprano (low bA to high bA). 
A wild, lusty woman whom Don Quixote takes a 
fancy to.

Innkeeper - Bass (low G to C#).  A strong but kind and sympathetic man.

Dr. Carrasco - Baritone. (low C to bD).  Loves money.

Padre - Tenor (F to high G).  Alonso Quijana's friend and confessor.

Barber - Tenor (D to high G).  A comic part.

Antonia - Mezzo (C to high F).  Alonso Quijana's 
self-centered niece who is about to be married to 
Dr. Carrasco.

Housekeeper - Mezzo (F to high F).  Alonso 
Quijana's strong housekeeper who is full of hope.

Pedro - Baritone (low D to D).  A rough, sturdy muleteer.

Anselmo - Tenor (A to high F#).  Another muleteer.

The Moor - Tenor (C to high bB)

Moorish Girl - Featured dancer.  Non-singing role.

Maria - Non-singing role.  The innkeeper's shrewish wife.

Fermina - Non-singing role.  A serving girl.

Captain of the Inquisition - Non-singing.  An imposing, cruel man.

Guards and Men of the Inquisition, prisoners, muleteers, gypsies, knights, etc.


For more info contact Laura Andruski at 383-8277 or LWAndruski at aol.com.


  About "MAN OF LAMANCHA"

"MAN OF LAMANCHA" is not, strictly speaking, an 
adaptation of "DON QUIXOTE" at all. It is an 
original work that deals with a crucial few hours 
in the life of Cervantes. "MAN OF LAMANCHA" might 
most conveniently be described as a musical 
within a play, but in truth its originality of 
form defies classification.

Miguel De Cervantes, aging and an utter failure 
in his varied careers as playwright, poet, and 
tax collector for the government, has been thrown 
into a dungeon in Seville to await trial by the 
Inquisition for an offense against the Church. 
There he is hailed before a kangaroo court of his 
fellow prisoners: thieves, cutthroats and 
trollops who propose to confiscate his meager 
possessions. One of these possessions is the 
uncompleted manuscript of a novel called "DON 
QUIXOTE", and Cervantes, seeking to save it, 
proposes to offer a defense in the form of an 
entertainment which will explain himself and his 
attitude toward life. The "Court" accedes, and 
before their eyes, donning makeup and costume, 
Cervantes and his faithful manservant transform 
themselves into Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, 
proceeding to play out the story with the 
involvement and participation of the prisoners as 
other characters.

Quixote and Sancho take to the road in a campaign 
to restore the Age of Chivalry, to battle evil 
and right all wrongs. While Quixote and his 
squire are en route to a distant roadside inn - 
which the Don insists to Sancho is really a 
castle - Aldonza, the inn's serving girl and part 
time trollop, is propositioned and taunted by a 
group of rough muleteers. Upon arrival at the 
inn, Quixote, in his splendid if lunatic vision, 
sees Aldonza as the dream-ideal whom he will 
worship and serve evermore. Aldonza is confused 
amp; angered by Quixote's refusal to recognize 
her for what she really is.

In the country home which Quixote left behind, 
his niece Antonia and his Housekeeper seek out 
the neighborhood padre to consider how this 
madness may best be dealt with. The Padre and Dr. 
Sanson Carrasco, Antonia's fiancé, are delegated 
to pursue the madman and bring him back home. 
Meanwhile, Quixote dispatches Sancho to Aldonza 
with a "Missive" declaring his everlasting 
devotion to Dulcinea and while Quixote is 
standing vigil in the courtyard of the inn in 
preparation for his official dubbing as a knight, 
Aldonza accosts him directly, asking "What do you 
want of me?".

The Padre and Dr. Carrasco, having failed in 
their mission, grimly plan a new attempt to bring 
Quixote to his senses. The Padre hopes that "the 
cure will not prove worse than the disease". At 
this point, replying to Aldonza's question about 
doing the things he does, Quixote explains he 
must follow his Quest. Aldonza then encounters 
the Muleteers loafing near the courtyard well, 
and they tease and taunt her. Following the 
Padre's and Dr. Carrasco's departure, Quixote 
defends Aldonza's honor in a successful battle 
with the Muleteers, and as his reward is formally 
knighted by the Innkeeper.

Now, having caught the fever of Quixote's 
idealism, Aldonza attempts to put into practice, 
but for her efforts she is cruelly beaten and 
carried off by the muleteers. Disillusioned, 
Aldonza passionately denounces Quixote and his 
dreams, which have brought her only anguish. Now 
appears "The Enchanter", fantastically costumed 
as the Knight of the Mirrors. He challenges 
Quixote to combat, forcing him to look into the 
Mirror of Reality where Quixote sees reflected a 
fool and a madman. Quixote is defeated. But 
Aldonza, a witness to his destruction, feels a 
deep sense of loss.

At home again, the old man who once called 
himself Don Quixote is dying. His faithful 
manservant, who has been his Sancho, attempts to 
cheer him up. Aldonza, having followed, forces 
her way into the room, pleads with him to become 
Don Quixote once more and restore the vision of 
glory she held so briefly. As she helps him 
recall the words, Quixote, stirred to the old 
fire, rises from his bed so that he, Sancho, and 
Aldonza may once more set out upon their mission. 
But in the moment of reaffirmation, he collapses, 
dying. Aldonza, having seen the vision once more, 
refuses to acknowledge Quixote's death. When 
Sancho questions her, she replies, "My name is 
Dulcinea". Quixote, having considered her 
throughout as individual of unique worth and 
value, has literally transformed her.

Back in Cervantes' dungeon, the prisoners, dregs 
of humanity though they are, have been deeply 
affected by his story and restore to him his 
precious manuscript, and as he leaves to face his 
real trial, they unite to sing the words of 
Cervantes - Quixote's "The Quest".

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