[Capdist-auditions] Audition for ACT's The Colored Museum

[Karen Christina Jones]

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*Albany Civic Theater announces auditions for *
*George C. Wolfe's*
*The Colored Museum*

directed by Karen Christina Jones
choreography by Gregory Theodore Marsh

*The Colored Museum* presents 11 hilarious “exhibits” of African-American
culture — from the depths of the Celebrity Slaveship to the spinning
heights of Harlem. Tony Award winner *George C. Wolfe’s* groundbreaking
comedy has electrified, discomforted, and delighted audiences of all
colors, skewering stereotypes and redefining what it means to be Black in
contemporary America.

*Breakdown of Scenes*

*Git on Board:* Miss Pat, a flight attendant, welcomes the audience aboard
the fictional “celebrity slaveship,” whose Savannah-bound journey from the
Ivory Coast demands that passengers (audience) are to obey the “Fasten
Shackles” sign and are not to rebel. The sketch explores and critiques the
history of African Americans, from slavery to the regency of the basketball
star.

*Cooking' with Aunt Ethel:* Mammy Aunt Ethel host a cooking show in which
she sings the recipe on how to “bake yourself a batch of Negros.”

*The Photo Session:* A glamorous Black couple wearing “the best of
everything and perfect smiles,” retreat from their past/history into a
superficial world of narcissistic glamour.*The Photo Session* is Wolfe’s
critique on the images and models of Ebony magazine.

*Soldier with a Secret:* In a monologue, deranged African American soldier
sees his peer’s painful future and chooses to spare them the inevitable by
killing them before they are forced to endure what their future holds.

*The Gospel According to Miss Roj:* Transgendered Miss Roj “looks beneath
the surface of his glittery nocturnal existence to find maggot-laced
visions of ‘a whole race trashed and debaed’” while in a nightclub.

 *The Hairpiece:* A woman getting ready for a date is faced with an
identity crisis when her two wigs, one a 1960’s afro wig, the other a “long
flowing wig,” come to life and “debate the ideological identity conflicts
they represented in their owner’s life for 20 years.

*The Last Mama-on-the-Couch Play:* Presented by a “Masterpiece
Theater”-type announcer, this exhibit explores and satirizes Black drama
formula used in theater and film. Some characters include a “well worn”
mama on her “well worn” couch who fights with her son
Walter-Lee-Beau-Willie-Jones whose “brow is heavy from three hundred years
of oppression.”The Last Mama-on-the-Couch is Wolfe’s parody of *Raisin in
the Sun* and goes from overacted melodrama to an all-black broadway musical
number.

*Symbiosis:* A man is confronted by his former childhood self while trying
to throwing away his past, “only to discover that his rebellious younger
self refuses to be trashed without a fight.”

*Lala's Opening:* Singer Lala Lamazing Grace is haunted by her former
childhood self. An identity she thought she disposed of.

*Permutations:* A monologue in which Normal Jean, a young southern girl,
explains to the audience how she laid a giant egg which is filled with
babies.

*The Party:* Topsy Washington imagines a huge party in which “Nat Turner
sips champagne out of Earth Kit’s slipper” and “Aunt Jemima and Angela
Davis was in the kitchen sharing a plate of greens and just goin’ off about
South Africa.”This exhibit merges the past and present to create Topsy’s
fantasy party which defies logic and limitations.


*Auditions will be Monday, April 20th and Wednesday, April 22nd *
*7.00pm-10.00pm at*
*Albany Civic Theater 235 Second Avenue, Albany.*

*Production dates are Thursday, June 18th; Friday, June 19th; Saturday,
June 20th; and Sunday, June 21st.*

*All actors must have a two-minute monologue prepared.  Please note that
there will be singing and dance *
*sections as part of the audition so dress appropriately.*

*For more information, call 518.227.0154 <518.227.0154> or email
statestreet2424 at gmail.com <statestreet2424 at gmail.com>*
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