[Capdist-auditions] Auditions for ACT's "Mrs. Warren's Profession, " Monday/Tuesday, May 9-10, 7pm

[Charles Treadwell]

Auditions for Albany Civic Theater's first show of the 2011-2012 season,
 "Mrs. Warren's Profession" by George Bernard Shaw, directed by Juliet 
King, will be held Monday, May 9 and Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at Albany 
Civic Theater, 235 Second Avenue, Albany, NY, 462-1297, info at albanycivictheater.org.

"Mrs. Warren's Profession" runs September 2-18, 2011.

Sign-ins
 begin at 7pm both evenings and auditions begin at 7:30pm; there is no 
need to make an appointment. There is no need to prepare a monologue; 
auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. We are looking 
for 2 women (one able to play age 18-22, one able to play age 45-50) and
 4 men, ages 20-55. 

Synopsis:

Young Vivie Warren, 
emancipated, intelligent and self sufficient, is astounded to learn her 
mother rose from poverty to riches through prostitution-and also that 
she is now part owner and operator of a chain of brothels. Mrs. Warren 
ably justifies her past-attacking a hypocritical society that rewards 
vice and oppresses virtue. Mrs. Warren states that poverty and the 
society that fosters poverty are the real villains and that life in a 
brothel is preferable to life in a 19th century factory. Written in 
1893, this is Shaw's controversial attack on society's hypocrisy.

Available roles:

Miss
 Vivie Warren (18-22): An attractive specimen of the sensible, able, 
highly-educated young middle-class. Prompt, strong, confident, 
self-possessed. Plain business-like dress, but not dowdy.

Kitty 
Warren (45-50): Formerly pretty, showily dressed. Rather spoilt and 
domineering, and decidedly vulgar, but, on the whole, a genial and 
fairly presentable old blackguard of a woman.

Frank Gardner 
(20-25): Pleasant, pretty, smartly dressed, cleverly good-for-nothing, 
not long turned 20, with a charming voice and agreeably disrespectful 
manners.

Mr. Praed (42-47): (pronounced "prayed") Hardly past 
middle age, with something of the artist about him, with an eager 
susceptible face and very amiable and considerate manners.

Sir 
George Crofts (45-50): A tall powerfully-built man, a gentlemanly 
combination of the most brutal types of city man, sporting man, and man 
about town.

Rev. Samuel Gardner (50-55): Externally he is 
pretentious, booming, noisy, important. Really he is that obsolescent 
phenomenon the fool of the family, clamorously asserting himself as 
father and clergyman without being able to command respect in either 
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