[Capdist-auditions] Auditions TONIGHT! - ONCE ON THIS ISLAND - 7pm at SLOC

[LWAndruski at aol.com]

ONCE ON THIS ISLAND – Auditions! ! ! 

Auditions for this  vibrant,  timeless myth about the power of love over 
class 
will be held  at Schenectady  Light Opera Company, 826 State Street, 
Schenectady,  December 11th & 12th at  7pm. Any questions, contact the 
director at  (518) 
383-8277 or email her at _LWAndruski at  aol.com._ 
(_http://dx.ayw.org/mailman/listinfo/capdist-auditions_ 
(http://dx.ayw.org/mailman/listinfo/capdist-auditions) )  

AVAILABLE ROLES (Age 16 and up):
Ti Moune – a native  peasant  girl (Soprano II)
Daniel – a wealthy landowner’s son  (Tenor)
Erzulie  - Goddess of Love (Alto/Soprano II)
Asaka - Mother of the  Earth  (Alto/Soprano II)
Agwe - God of Water (Baritone/Tenor)
Papa Ge -   Demon of Death (Baritone)
Little Ti Moune* - Ti Moune as a young girl of  6-8  (Sorpano II)
Mama Euralie – Ti Moune’s foster mother  (Alto)
Tonton Julian  – Ti Moune’s foster father (Tenor)
Armand –  Daniel’s father  (Baritone)
Andrea – Daniel’s promised bride  (Alto/Soprano II)
Storytellers  – ensemble of dancers, singers and  actors who help tell the 
story of Ti  Moune

*No children will be  auditioned December 11 or 12th. Once adult  casting is 
complete, we  will hold auditions for the role of Little Ti Moune in  mid- to 
 
late-January

There will be one read through on Monday, December   18th. Rehearsals begin 
in 
earnest on January 2, 2007. Production dates are  March  9-11 and 15-18, 
2007. 

This joyous and bittersweet Broadway  folk tale is  by Lynn Ahrens and 
Stephen 
Flaherty, the writers of  Seussical and Ragtime. It  premiered on Broadway in 
1990 and received  eight Tony nominations, is a jubilant  musical set in the 
Caribbean  that will have you dancing in the aisles. Based on  Hans Christian 
 
Anderson's The Little Mermaid and adapted from Rosa Guy's novel  My  Love, My 
Love, the show tells the story of Ti Moune, a peasant girl on  a  mythical 
island 
in the French Antilles where the dark skinned  peasants are  oppressed by the 
wealthy class, the  Beauxhommes.

Eager for love, young Ti  Moune is constantly  daydreaming about what life 
has 
in store for her. When she  audaciously  demands to know her destiny, the 
Gods 
of water (Agwe), earth  (Asaka),  love (Erzulie) and death (Papa Ge) decide 
to 
"give her what she  wants."  They place Daniel, a mulatto son of the 
Beauxhomme, in her  path. Of course, he  has just been in a car crash, so she 
nurses him  
and falls in love. When he goes  back to his family, she defies her  parents 
and follows him, becoming his  mistress in the land of the  Beauxhommes. What 
happens next is not Disney sweet,  but it’s not as  bleak as Anderson's fairy 
tale either. Without giving too much  away,  we learn through music and dance 
that 
Ti Moune's spirit and love  reaches  farther than death.

The production staff consists of Laura  W. Andruski  (Director), Pat Douglass 
(Musical Director), Melissa  Lacijan (Choreographer),  Jodi Gilman and Donna 
Z. 
Baxter  (Co-Producers), Mary Kozlowski (Set Design), Ken  Zarnoch (Lighting  
Design) and Pat Casey (Costumes).

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